Fairwood, Spokane County, Washington
Fairwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Spokane County, Washington, United States. The population was 10,541 at the 2020 census. Based on per capita income, one of the more reliable measures of affluence, Fairwood ranks 73rd of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked. Geography Fairwood is located at (47.764591, -117.413924). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.6 square miles (9.3 km2), of which, 3.6 square miles (9.3 km2) of it is land and 0.28% is water. Fairwood is located in a lowland setting along the banks and wetlands of the Little Spokane River. The terrain falls from around 1,900 feet above sea level in the southeast to around 1,580 feet along the Little Spokane. Five Mile Prairie rises to the southwest, with a bluff climbing from the valley floor along basalt, rising almost vertically in places above Fairwood and the Little Spokane Valley before cresting at the elevation of the Columbia Plateau. To the north of Fairwood rise foothills of the Selkirk Range of the Columbia Mountains. To the south the city of Spokane sprawls into Fairwood, with the terrain sloping up as it heads into the city.