Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY-SA 4.0Piermont’s library lends 5.4 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Piermont Public Library serves Piermont’s 787 residents. Last year it lent 6,232 books, movies and e-books and logged 3,335 visits.
Piermont’s library, in brief
Piermont out-borrows every town next door
At 7.9 loans per resident, Piermont leads the six towns here. The closest is Wentworth, at 4.7. Libraries next door ↓
Open only about 16 hours a week
Piermont Public Library keeps short hours: about 16 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
Gifts and endowments pay a real share
36% of the library’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 64%. What your card is worth ↓
A small-town library
Piermont Public Library serves 787 residents with about one full-time staff. 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 ↓
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 Piermont’s civic life grade
Piermont 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 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Piermont Public Library serves 787 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 7 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
6,232 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 17K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.2 time last year, on average.
1,978 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
30 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.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Piermont last year.
Find it
Piermont Public Library, 130 Route 10, Piermont.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Piermont? 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 $2.54 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Piermont cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $41K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $103K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $41K 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 627 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Piermont 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piermont | Piermont Public Library fine-free | 7.9 | 16 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Wentworth | Webster Memorial Library fine-free | 4.7 | 15 | — graded with its twin city |
| Bradford | Bradford Public fine-free | 4.3 | 28 | A− |
| Orford | Orford Free Library fine-free | 3.8 | 14 | A |
| Warren | Joseph Patch Library fine-free | 2.6 | 15 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Haverhill | Haverhill Library Association fine-free | 1.4 | 16 | B |
| Benton | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
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 Piermont
Does Piermont have a public library?
Yes. Piermont Public Library, 130 Route 10, serves Piermont’s 787 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 16 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Piermont Public 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 Piermont’s library?
It logged 4.2 visits and lent 7.9 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Piermont’s civic life grade?
Piermont 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 Piermont.
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.