Photo: Morrowlong · CC BY-SA 3.0Hartland’s library logs 0.3 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Hartland Public Library serves Hartland’s 1,912 residents. Last year it lent 4,281 books, movies and e-books and logged 654 visits.
The short version on Hartland’s library
Hartland Public Library is used less than most libraries its size
Hartland Public Library records 0.3 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people. Borrowing is 0.7 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9. It also spends less than most: $4 per resident, against a typical $54. How it compares ↓
Most of Hartland’s borrowing is digital
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 68% of loans, more per resident than at 64% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 32%, much of it kids’ books. What people borrow ↓
Open only about 10 hours a week
Hartland Public Library keeps short hours: about 10 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. Granby Public Library in Granby, next door, is open about 45 hours a week. The building ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Hartland Public Library offered 0 programs last year, 0 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
A small-town library
Hartland Public Library serves 1,912 residents with about one full-time staff. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
This summary is written from the numbers on this page. Numbers are the library’s own report to the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Hartland’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Hartland is ahead of 19% of U.S. towns. Hartland’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; library visits pull it down.
Hartland Public Library spends $4 per resident, against a typical $54 for libraries its size.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($85K–$142K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
Civic life counts registered nonprofits, library visits and online volunteering groups, so it can miss civic life that runs through congregations, mutual aid or neighbors looking out for each other.
Library visits: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024. Nonprofits: IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, October 2026. Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. How TownRatings grades civic life →
10 community nonprofits are registered in Hartland
5.3 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
Community nonprofits, by kind
Counted from the IRS list of tax-exempt organizations by mailing address (fractions where a ZIP code spans towns). Congregations are counted apart (0 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
4.7%
4.7% of Hartland’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 7.5% in the typical Connecticut town and 7.5% nationally.
Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. ZIP-code figures, weighted by where Hartland’s residents live; 2022.
68% of borrowing is digital
4,281 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 6,174 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.2 time last year, on average.
2,926 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Hartland Public Library serves 1,912 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 9 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
What kids borrow
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Hartland last year.
Find it
Hartland Public Library, 61 Center St., Hartland.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $8.01 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Hartland cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $7,804.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $63K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $7,804 budget.
Fine-free. No late fees on books returned late.
Retail prices are typical, rounded down: a new book $17, a kids’ book $12, an e-book or e-audiobook $15, a movie rental $4, a class or program $10, a computer or Wi-Fi session $3. The average cardholder’s month = the library’s yearly loans, attendance and Wi-Fi sessions ÷ its 790 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Hartland ranks 2nd of 3 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granby | Granby Public Library fine-free | 8.4 | 45 | B+ |
| Hartland | Hartland Public Library fine-free | 2.2 | 10 | C− |
| Granville | Granville Public Library | 1.7 | 18 | B− |
| North Granby | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Barkhamsted | None of its own | — | — | B |
| Colebrook | None of its own | — | — | — too few inputs |
Loans = print + digital items borrowed in the library’s fiscal year, per person it serves. — = no library of its own, a county or regional system (its numbers cover many towns), or no report. Civic life: — = not graded (unincorporated places, whose nonprofits can’t be placed by mailing address, or towns with fewer than two of the three inputs).
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average; libraries are compared with others serving about as many people. How TownRatings uses library figures →
Questions about the library and civic life in Hartland
Does Hartland have a public library?
Yes. Hartland Public Library, 61 Center St., serves Hartland’s 1,912 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 10 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Hartland Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Hartland’s library?
It logged 0.3 visits and lent 2.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Hartland’s civic life grade?
C− Hartland is ahead of 19% of U.S. towns on civic life. The grade combines library visits per resident, community nonprofits per 1,000 residents and the share of adults 25–44 in volunteering groups. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Hartland.
Libraries: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024. Each library reports its own numbers. Distances are straight-line from the town center. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.