#1Camden
Knox County · 5,204 peopleVisits per resident a year·Camden Public Library, FY 2024
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Camden, #1 on this list · Photo: King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0Camden has the most-used library of Maine’s 97 towns of 2,500+ with a library of their own: 37.4 visits per resident a year at Camden Public Library (IMLS Public Libraries Survey). The typical library here counts 2.6.
IMLS Public Libraries Survey: a year’s visits divided by the people the library serves. Only a library that serves one town (80–125% of its population) and reported its own count is ranked; IMLS estimates never are. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1Visits per resident a year·Camden Public Library, FY 2024
#2Visits per resident a year·Belfast Free Library, FY 2024
#3Visits per resident a year·Louis T. Graves Memorial Library, FY 2024
Visits per resident, highest first.
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Camden (Knox County): Camden Public Library counts 37.4 visits per resident a year. Belfast (17.6) and Kennebunkport (14.1) follow.
By library visits per resident in the IMLS Public Libraries Survey: the visits a town’s own library reported, divided by the population it serves, highest first. It is the same rank as on each town’s Library & civic life page. How grades work.
The list covers towns of 2,500+ with a library of their own that reported its visits (97 in Maine). Towns served by a county or regional system share its figure and aren’t ranked one by one; figures IMLS estimated for a library that didn’t report aren’t ranked; in states with strong townships the township, not a village inside it, is ranked. Every town is on the Maine page.
Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.