Roachdale’s library runs 131 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 60 for libraries its size
Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library serves 1,609 people in and around Roachdale. Last year it lent 8,899 books, movies and e-books and logged 5,137 visits.
What stands out about Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Roachdale’s civic life grade
Roachdale isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
About 2 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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library serves 1,609 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 5 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
8,899 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
2,415 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library, 100 East Washington Street, Roachdale.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library branch.
New in Roachdale? 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 $1.62 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Roachdale cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $119K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $192K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $119K 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 530 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library serves 1,609 people in and around Roachdale, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Roachdale.
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 Roachdale
Does Roachdale have a public library?
Yes. Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library, 100 East Washington Street, serves 1,609 people in and around Roachdale (the survey’s count) and is open about 35 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Roachdale-Franklin Township Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Roachdale’s library?
It logged 3.2 visits and lent 5.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Roachdale’s civic life grade?
Roachdale isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Roachdale.
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.