Photo: Freeholdman12 · CC BY 4.0Windermere’s library is a branch of Orange County Library District, which lends less per resident than 58% of systems its size
Windermere’s library is the Windermere Branch, a branch of Orange County Library District, which serves 1,457,330 people and lent 4M items last year.
What stands out about Windermere Branch
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Windermere’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Windermere is ahead of 32% of U.S. towns, #109 of 273 in Florida. Windermere is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs sit below most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups comes closest to the middle.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($133K–$222K) 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 Windermere
3.1 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 (2 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 1 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.1%
7.1% of Windermere’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 5.6% in the typical Florida 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 Windermere’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 100,000+ people across the U.S.
Orange County Library District serves 1,457,330 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.
Every hour the doors are open, about 103 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Orange County Library District system. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
4M print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
The survey has no count of children’s loans for Windermere’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
About 97 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
Find it
Windermere Branch, 530 Main Street, Windermere.
No late fees. Good at every Orange County Library District branch.
New in Windermere? The Handbook →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 $1.42 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Windermere cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $52M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $74M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $52M 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 356,440 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
- System-wide. Windermere Branch is one branch of Orange County Library District, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 1,457,330 people it serves.
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 Windermere
Does Windermere have a public library?
Yes: Windermere Branch, 530 Main Street, is a branch of Orange County Library District, which serves 1,457,330 people. The branch is open about 49 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Orange County Library District fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Windermere’s library?
It logged 1.5 visits and lent 2.8 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.
What is Windermere’s civic life grade?
C Windermere is ahead of 32% of U.S. towns on civic life, #109 of 273 in Florida. 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 Windermere.
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.