Photo: ajay_suresh · CC BY 2.0Bloomfield Township’s library lends 14 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Bloomfield Township Public Library serves Bloomfield Township’s 44,253 residents. Last year it lent 820K books, movies and e-books and logged 220K visits.
What Bloomfield Township’s library is like
Bloomfield Township borrows more library books per person than any town in Michigan
Out of 88 Michigan towns with a library of their own, Bloomfield Township comes first for items borrowed per resident. It’s also #8 for library use. How it compares ↓
Bloomfield Township out-borrows every town next door
At 19 loans per resident, Bloomfield Township leads the six towns here. The closest is Troy, at 11. Libraries next door ↓
Bloomfield Township uses its library more than almost any town its size
Bloomfield Township Public Library logs 5 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people, and lends 14 print items per resident against a typical 3.7. On both counts it beats 87% of similar-size libraries across the U.S. How it compares ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 4.1 e-items per resident, against a typical 1.2, higher than at 94% of similar-size libraries. It’s 22% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
Still charges late fines, unlike its neighbors
Bloomfield Township Public Library charges late fines on some overdue items. Six of the eight libraries in neighboring towns have dropped them. What your card is worth ↓
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.
What’s behind Bloomfield Township’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Bloomfield Township is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns, #113 of 697 in Michigan. All three inputs are above most U.S. towns; Bloomfield Township’s count of community nonprofits ranks highest.
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 →
262 community nonprofits are registered in Bloomfield Township
5.9 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: education.
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 (37 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 13 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
9.4%
9.4% of Bloomfield Township’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 12.4% in the typical Michigan 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 Bloomfield Township’s residents live; 2022.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
820K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 240K books and other items on the shelves went out about 2.7 times last year, on average.
180,113 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 all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Bloomfield Township Public Library serves 44,253 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 238 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
About 7 kids’ programs a week
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.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Bloomfield Township last year.
Find it
Bloomfield Township Public Library, 1099 Lone Pine Road, Bloomfield Township.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Bloomfield Township? 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 $1.99 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Bloomfield Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $6.7M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $13M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $6.7M budget.
Late fines apply to some overdue items.
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 21,372 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Bloomfield Township borrows the most per resident of the 6 towns here. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomfield Township | Bloomfield Township Public Library | 18.5 | 66 | A |
| Troy | Troy Public Library fine-free | 11.3 | 65 | B |
| Southfield Township | Franklin Public Library fine-free | 8.7 | 46 | A+ |
| Franklin | Franklin Public Library fine-free | 8.7 | 46 | A |
| Auburn Hills | Auburn Hills Public Library fine-free | 7.0 | 59 | C |
| Pontiac | Pontiac Public Library | 0.6 | 52 | D |
| Birmingham | Baldwin Public Library fine-free | — | 65 | A− |
| West Bloomfield Township | West Bloomfield Township Public Library | — | 68 | B+ |
| Farmington Hills | Farmington Community Library fine-free | — | 65 | B− |
| Bloomfield Hills | None of its own | — | — | A− |
| Beverly Hills | None of its own | — | — | A+ |
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 Bloomfield Township
Does Bloomfield Township have a public library?
Yes. Bloomfield Township Public Library, 1099 Lone Pine Road, serves Bloomfield Township’s 44,253 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 66 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Bloomfield Township Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Bloomfield Township’s library?
It logged 5.0 visits and lent 18.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Bloomfield Township’s civic life grade?
A Bloomfield Township is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns on civic life, #113 of 697 in Michigan. 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 Bloomfield Township.
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.