Best Neighborhoods for Schools in Fairfield, CA

Green Valley is where Fairfield's street grid gives way to oak hills and vineyards. It sits on the west side of the city, close to Cordelia, and the road toward Suisun Valley's wineries begins nearby. ... See Full Page

Rancho Solano is a gated, master-planned community in northwest Fairfield, set against the hills above Suisun Valley. Its centerpiece is the golf course, an 18-hole layout that opened in March 1990 and is known for putting surfaces that run unusually large for the region. Water comes into play on seven holes. ... See Full Page

Southbrook sits in Cordelia, the western edge of Fairfield, where Interstate 80 and Interstate 680 come together. It is a small residential area, and most of what happens here happens at home. ... See Full Page

Woodcreek sits in west-central Fairfield, with Rancho Solano to the north, West Texas to the south, and North Texas and Armijo to the east. Travis Boulevard runs through it as the commercial spine, and the Woodcreek Estates tracts fill in the streets behind. ... See Full Page

Travis Air Force Base fills the east side of Fairfield, and it works more like a small town behind a fence than a neighborhood. Entry is controlled, so much of what follows is open to people with a base connection or an approved visit. It is also the city's biggest employer, and it sits about an hour from both San Francisco and Sacramento. ... See Full Page

Gold Ridge sits on the Travis Air Force Base side of Fairfield, a residential area of tract houses on quiet streets, with One Lake just beyond its edge. The neighborhood has no shopping strip of its own, so its character comes from the housing, the park and the base next door. ... See Full Page

Cordelia anchors Fairfield's southwestern edge, right where Interstate 80, Highway 12 and the end of Interstate 680 come together. Captain Robert Waterman, a clipper ship master, laid the town out in the early 1850s and gave it his wife's name, which is why the place still sounds more like a person than a freeway exit. ... See Full Page

One Lake is a master-planned district at the northeast edge of Fairfield, built around a 21-acre lake known as Lake Park, within reach of the Travis base gates and of Hannigan Station, the Amtrak stop shared by Fairfield and Vacaville. It was once called Canon Station, and construction is still underway, with about 1,230 homes planned in total. ... See Full Page

Rolling Hills lives up to its name. Streets in this Fairfield neighborhood climb and curve through the slopes near Hillridge Drive and Glenwood Drive, so the layout feels more like a set of little loops than a grid. ... See Full Page

Oak trees and fairways give Paradise Valley its character. This Fairfield neighborhood wraps around Paradise Valley Golf Course, and its streets feel greener and more spread out than the denser parts of the city. ... See Full Page

Cement Hill sits in the northern part of Fairfield, wedged among Dover Terrace, North Texas, Paradise Valley and East Tabor. It reads as an everyday residential district, and its streets are calmer than the commercial corridors that border it. ... See Full Page

Armijo is a compact part of central Fairfield, a little over four tenths of a square mile, set just north and east of Downtown Fairfield. The Civic Center Library and Lee Bell Park both sit inside it, which gives the neighborhood a municipal feel. ... See Full Page

West Texas follows Texas Street out from downtown Fairfield, and it reads as a working corridor more than a quiet enclave. Fast-food stops, taquerias and small shops share the road with older houses on the side streets, all lined up along a single long stretch of pavement. ... See Full Page

North Texas is where Fairfield does its shopping. The enclosed Solano Town Center, a quick hop from the freeway on Travis Boulevard, has anchored the area since the early 1980s, and stores, theaters and restaurant rows have filled in around it. Dave & Buster's arrived in 2021, and the mall also holds an art gallery and a food court. ... See Full Page

Downtown Fairfield is organized around Texas Street, where the Solano County courthouse, two theaters and a run of independent restaurants share the blocks near the Civic Center. The courthouse building is more than a century old and gives the district its sense of age. ... See Full Page

East Tabor, in Fairfield, is a neighborhood people drive to for groceries and dinner. Travis Boulevard and Tabor Avenue carry markets and family restaurants side by side, with Vietnamese, Chinese, Mexican, Thai and Japanese kitchens all within a few storefronts of one another. ... See Full Page

Dover Terrace gives Fairfield a settled, older residential feel. Most homes here were built between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, a mix of single-family houses with three or four bedrooms and some townhomes, and the street trees have had decades to fill out. Houses run from about 1,000 to 2,000 square feet, which gives the blocks a consistent scale. ... See Full Page