Newburg’s library logs 0.9 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Newburg Public Library serves Newburg’s 333 residents. Last year it lent 177 books, movies and e-books and logged 300 visits.
The short version on Newburg’s library
Newburg Public Library is used less than most libraries its size
Newburg Public Library records 0.9 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people. Borrowing is 0.5 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9. It also spends less than most: $0 per resident, against a typical $54. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Newburg Public Library offered 0 programs last year, 0 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
The shelves work hard
Each of the 10 items on the shelves went out about 18 times last year, on average. What people borrow ↓
A small-town library
Newburg Public Library serves 333 residents with about one full-time staff, open about 40 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 ↓
Kids’ books are most of what goes out
Children’s books and media make up 58% of print loans. Per resident, kids’ borrowing is lower than at 85% of similar-size libraries, so the high share mostly reflects light borrowing by adults. 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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Newburg’s civic life grade
Newburg 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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Newburg Public Library serves 333 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
A year at Newburg Public Library
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
177 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 10 books and other items on the shelves went out about 17.7 times last year, on average.
What kids borrow
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Newburg last year.
Find it
Newburg Public Library, 191 Main St., Newburg.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Newburg cardholder borrows.
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 200 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Newburg Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Newburg
Does Newburg have a public library?
Yes. Newburg Public Library, 191 Main St., serves Newburg’s 333 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 40 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Newburg Public Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Newburg’s library?
It logged 0.9 visits and lent 0.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Newburg’s civic life grade?
Newburg 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 Newburg.
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.