Photo: ToddC4176 · CC BY-SA 3.0Tyringham’s library lends 2.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Tyringham Free Public Library serves Tyringham’s 421 residents. Last year it lent 986 print books and media and logged 1,067 visits.
What Tyringham’s library is like
Open only about 10 hours a week
Tyringham Free Public Library keeps short hours: about 10 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. Lee Library Association in Lee, next door, is open about 43 hours a week. The building ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Tyringham Free Public Library offered 0 programs last year, 0 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
Every town next door borrows more
Tyringham’s library lends 2.3 items per resident. Each of the four neighboring towns with a library of its own lends more, led by Monterey at 14. Libraries next door ↓
Below typical on every measure
Against libraries serving under 2,500 people, Tyringham Free Public Library sits below the middle on all six per-resident measures we compare, and in the bottom 30% on four. How it compares ↓
A small-town library
Tyringham Free Public Library serves 421 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 Tyringham’s civic life grade
Tyringham 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 →
A National Register landmark since 2018
Tyringham Free Public Library, 118 Main Road, Tyringham.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Tyringham Library
Tyringham Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Jan 11, 2018. It is significant for its architecture, education and social history at the local level.
The Tyringham Library is a historic public building at 118 Main Road in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Completed in 1905, it is one of the small town's few buildings exhibiting architectural sophistication, in this case the Arts and Crafts style. The building currently houses both the library and the town post office. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
More about the building →Below most similar-size libraries on all 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Tyringham Free Public Library serves 421 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 2 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
986 print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Each of the 6,843 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
What kids borrow
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
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 Tyringham cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $9,444.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $15K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $9,444 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 83 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Tyringham ranks 5th of 5 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
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.
- Digital loans not reported. Massachusetts libraries often don’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
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 Tyringham
Does Tyringham have a public library?
Yes. Tyringham Free Public Library, 118 Main Road, serves Tyringham’s 421 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 10 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Tyringham Free Public Library fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Tyringham’s library?
It logged 2.5 visits and lent 2.3 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Tyringham’s civic life grade?
Tyringham 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 Tyringham.
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. Building history: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places; photo via Wikimedia Commons. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.