Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 4.0Contoocook’s library lends 11 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Hopkinton Town Library serves 5,992 people in and around Contoocook. Last year it lent 89K books, movies and e-books and logged 21K visits.
What Contoocook’s library is like
More than half the print loans are for kids
Children’s books and media are 57% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 95% of similar-size libraries. Kids & programs ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 3.9 e-items per resident, against a typical 1, higher than at 94% of similar-size libraries. It’s 26% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
Contoocook is a town of borrowers
Hopkinton Town Library lends 11 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, more than 93% of similar-size libraries. What people borrow ↓
Hopkinton Town Library serves more than Contoocook
The library’s service area covers 5,992 people in and around Contoocook, so its per-resident numbers are measured against that wider population. How it compares ↓
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 Contoocook’s civic life grade
Contoocook 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 →
About 2 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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Hopkinton Town Library serves 5,992 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 45 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
89K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 38K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.7 times last year, on average.
23,508 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Hopkinton Town Library, 61 Houston Drive, Contoocook.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Contoocook? 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 $3.87 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Contoocook cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $346K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.3M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $346K 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 3,396 cardholders ÷ 12.
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 Contoocook
Does Contoocook have a public library?
Yes. Hopkinton Town Library, 61 Houston Drive, serves 5,992 people in and around Contoocook (the survey’s count) and is open about 38 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Hopkinton Town 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 Contoocook’s library?
It logged 3.5 visits and lent 14.9 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Contoocook’s civic life grade?
Contoocook 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 Contoocook.
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.