Photo: Captain-tucker · CC BY-SA 3.0Ogunquit’s library lends 2.2 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Ogunquit Memorial Library serves Ogunquit’s 1,599 residents. Last year it lent 3,798 books, movies and e-books and logged 6,461 visits.
What Ogunquit’s library is like
Mostly paid for by gifts, not taxes
83% of the library’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 17%. What your card is worth ↓
More library cards than residents
1,894 cards for 1,599 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
A small-town library
Ogunquit Memorial Library serves 1,599 residents with about one full-time staff, open about 25 hours a week. 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 ↓
The library is a National Register landmark
Ogunquit Memorial Library has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983. Today’s library there has 2,376 square feet. The building ↓
Programs lean toward adults
87% of the 110 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 14 were for children. Kids & programs ↓
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 Ogunquit’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Ogunquit is ahead of 63% of U.S. towns. Ogunquit’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls 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 →
15 community nonprofits are registered in Ogunquit
10.9 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: arts & culture.
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.
5.3%
5.3% of Ogunquit’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 9.0% in the typical Maine 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 Ogunquit’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Ogunquit Memorial Library serves 1,599 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 3 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
3,798 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 7,811 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.5 time last year, on average.
206 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
110 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
A National Register landmark since 1983
Ogunquit Memorial Library, 166 Shore Road, Ogunquit.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Ogunquit? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Ogunquit Memorial Library
Ogunquit Memorial Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Dec 29, 1983. It is significant for its architecture at the local level. Its architecture is described as Richardsonian Romanesque.
The Ogunquit Memorial Library is the public library of Ogunquit, Maine. It is located at 166 Shore Road, in an architecturally distinguished Romanesque Revival building built in 1897 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was a gift to the town by Mrs. George Conarroe in honor of her husband.
More about the building →What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Ogunquit cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $124K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $76K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $124K 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 1,894 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Ogunquit ranks 3rd of 3 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.
- 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 Ogunquit
Does Ogunquit have a public library?
Yes. Ogunquit Memorial Library, 166 Shore Road, serves Ogunquit’s 1,599 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 25 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Ogunquit Memorial 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 Ogunquit’s library?
It logged 4.0 visits and lent 2.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Ogunquit’s civic life grade?
B Ogunquit is ahead of 63% 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 Ogunquit.
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.