Fairfield is a Western Sydney suburb, located 30 kilometres west of the CBD, in the middle of the Cumberland Plain,

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Fairfield, NSW, was established in 1807.

The town’s population, as of 2021, was 18,596.

The postcode of Fairfield is 2165.

It is spread across an area of 4.4 km2, with a density of 4,230/km2.

Fairfield is the administrative centre of the Fairfield City Council LGA.

In terms of development, the suburb features a mix of commercial and residential buildings, including some high-rise apartments.

The City of Fairfield is highly culturally diverse with most of its residents born overseas and speaking a non-English language at home. It is also sometimes called Little Iraq or Little Assyria due to its vast Iraqi and Assyrian population.

The Fairfield Forum, Neeta City (Fairfield City Central) and Fairfield Chase are three major shopping centres in the region.

The town of Fairfield and surrounding regions have been home to Aboriginal people from the Cabrogal-Gandangara tribe for over 30,000 years.

The earliest European settlement in the Fairfield area began during the 1780s with the arrival of a French soldier named Breton Gabriel Louis Marie Huon de Kerrileau in 1794. He was the first to receive a grant of 100 acres in the Fairfield area. He named his estate Castel Paul after his hometown in France.

This, along with other smaller grants in the area, was combined to form a 700-acre estate and purchased by John Horsley, who named it Mark Lodge.

Fairfield House, a large mansion, was built by Thomas Ware Smart on this estate in the 1860s.

Fairfield railway station opened in 1856 and continues to operate in the oldest railway building in New South Wales.

Electricity in the suburb was introduced in 1921.

Fairfield Hospital was opened in September 1956.

Ware Street is one of the oldest main streets in Fairfield and once featured a major market.

Fairfield Forum, the largest shopping mall in the city, was opened in the early 1980s.

The first cinema theatre in Fairfield, called 'Hoyts Forum Twin', was opened on 17 March 1983 at Fairfield Forum. It was closed in 2010.

The first high-rise apartment building in Fairfield was constructed in the mid-2000s. It featured around 9 to 11 storeys.

Fairfield is a broadly culturally diverse city in Australia, with a major part of the city’s population being immigrants from non-English speaking countries.

It became the most popular settlement for Assyrians who fled from Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s.

Fairfield is hugely influenced by the Assyrian culture due to its vast population of Iraqi and Assyrian migrants. The town is filled with businesses, including retail shops, restaurants and cafes, influenced by Assyrian, Iraqi, Italian, Chinese, Lebanese, Vietnamese, South American and Thai cultures, depicting the suburb’s multicultural diversity.

According to the 2021 census, Fairfield had a population of 18,596 people, over 67% of which were born outside of Australia, including Iraq (22.6%), Vietnam (9.8%), Syria (8.3%), China (2.7%) and Cambodia (2.1%). The most common languages spoken by the residents include English (16%), Arabic (16.7%), Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (15.2%), Vietnamese (12.0%), Chaldean Neo-Aramaic (5.9%) and Mandarin (3.0%).

Fairfield has a number of tourist spots and attractions, including Fairfield City Central, The Crescent Plaza, Thomas Ware Plaza, Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, The International Monument and a 1,000 sqm public library on Hamilton Road.

There are also several heritage-listed sites in the city, including The School of Arts Building, The Uniting Church, the Fire Station on William Street, the Federation weatherboard cottage, Honour Avenue and Fairfield railway station.