Photo: Indiana Mosaic · CC BY-SA 4.0Yorktown’s library lends 7.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Yorktown Public Library serves 11,806 people in and around Yorktown. Last year it lent 121K books, movies and e-books and logged 15K visits.
What Yorktown’s library is like
People borrow more than they stay
Borrowing per resident is higher than at 81% of similar-size libraries, but visits are lower than at 83%. People come in, pick up their books and go. How it compares ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 3 e-items per resident, against a typical 1.1, higher than at 88% of similar-size libraries. It’s 29% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
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; Yorktown Public Library serves 11,806 people in and around Yorktown, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Yorktown’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Yorktown is ahead of 52% of U.S. towns, #313 of 571 in Indiana. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; library visits pull it down.
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 →
46 community nonprofits are registered in Yorktown
3.9 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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 (7 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
12.9%
12.9% of Yorktown’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 9.1% in the typical Indiana 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 Yorktown’s residents live; 2022.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
121K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
34,912 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Yorktown Public Library serves 11,806 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 53 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Yorktown Public Library system. The library’s own count.
About 3 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
Yorktown Public Library, 8920 West Adaline Street, Yorktown.
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 Yorktown Public Library branch.
New in Yorktown? 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 $2.85 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Yorktown cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $660K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.9M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $660K 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 6,071 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorktown | Yorktown Public Library fine-free | — | 44 | B− |
| Muncie | Muncie-Center Township Public Library | — | 49 | A− |
| Center Township | Muncie-Center Township Public Library | — | 49 | B+ |
| Harrison Township | None of its own | — | — | B− |
| Salem Township | None of its own | — | — | A− |
| Richland Township | None of its own | — | — | C |
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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Yorktown Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
- System-wide. Yorktown Public Library serves 11,806 people in and around Yorktown, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Yorktown.
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 Yorktown
Does Yorktown have a public library?
Yes. Yorktown Public Library, 8920 West Adaline Street, serves 11,806 people in and around Yorktown (the survey’s count) and is open about 44 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Yorktown 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 Yorktown’s library?
It logged 1.3 visits and lent 10.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Yorktown’s civic life grade?
B− Yorktown is ahead of 52% of U.S. towns on civic life, #313 of 571 in Indiana. 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 Yorktown.
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.