Fairfield-Black Rock Metro-North Station: Tickets, Destinations & On-Time Data

How busy is Fairfield-Black Rock station?

Tickets, not riders: a monthly or weekly ticket counts once however many times it is used, and a round trip counts once.

About 1,174 tickets a day were sold for trips starting at Fairfield-Black Rock (Oct 2025 – Sep 2026), the #20 most of 112 Metro-North stations, and 10.9% fewer than in the 12 months before. Another 762 a day were sold for trips ending here.

Where do riders from Fairfield-Black Rock go?

The most common destinations on tickets sold from Fairfield-Black Rock, Oct 2025 – Sep 2026.

• Grand Central
  69% of tickets810 a day
• Stamford
  11% of tickets126 a day
• Harlem-125 St
  4% of tickets44 a day
• South Norwalk
  2% of tickets29 a day
• Yankees-E 153 St
  2% of tickets23 a day
• New Haven
  2% of tickets20 a day
• Greenwich
  2% of tickets18 a day
• Fordham
  1% of tickets15 a day

What tickets do Fairfield-Black Rock riders buy?

Oct 2025 – Sep 2026, all ways of buying (TrainTime app, ticket machines and ticket windows).

26% of peak and off-peak tickets from Fairfield-Black Rock were peak fares.

• One-way
  274,451 sold64%
• Day pass
  67,900 sold15.8%
• Round trip
  50,596 sold11.8%
• 10-trip
  17,110 sold4%
• Monthly
  9,352 sold2.2%
• Other
  6,121 sold1.4%
• Weekly
  3,109 sold0.7%

Are Fairfield-Black Rock trains on time?

On time means arriving within 5 minutes 59 seconds of schedule. The railroad reports this by branch, not by station.

From Oct 2025 – Sep 2026, 97.3% of New Haven trains were on time (97.8% the year before). Every Metro-North branch compared →

Elevators and escalators

The railroad reports elevator and escalator availability by branch, not by station.

Fairfield-Black Rock is listed as accessible. Across the New Haven Branch, elevators worked 99.7% of the time over the last 12 months.

Other stations on the New Haven Branch

• Bridgeport 1,790 tickets a day
• Cos Cob 307 tickets a day
• Darien 815 tickets a day
• East Norwalk 233 tickets a day
• Fairfield 1,064 tickets a day
• Green's Farms 245 tickets a day
• Greenwich 1,536 tickets a day
• Harrison 972 tickets a day
• Larchmont 1,331 tickets a day
• Mamaroneck 1,009 tickets a day
• Milford 640 tickets a day
• Mt Vernon East 1,320 tickets a day
• New Haven 3,425 tickets a day
• New Haven-State St 53 tickets a day
• New Rochelle 2,673 tickets a day
• Noroton Heights 478 tickets a day
• Old Greenwich 397 tickets a day
• Pelham 1,068 tickets a day
• Port Chester 1,221 tickets a day
• Riverside 250 tickets a day
• Rowayton 202 tickets a day
• Rye 871 tickets a day
• South Norwalk 1,374 tickets a day
• Southport 122 tickets a day
• Stamford 4,558 tickets a day
• Stratford 662 tickets a day
• West Haven 820 tickets a day
• Westport 1,166 tickets a day