Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Cherry Hill Township’s library runs 17 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 14 for libraries its size
Cherry Hill Free Public Library serves Cherry Hill Township’s 74,553 residents. Last year it lent 339K books, movies and e-books and logged 207K visits.
Cherry Hill Township’s library, in brief
Still charges late fines, unlike its neighbors
Cherry Hill Free Public Library charges late fines on some overdue items. Three of the four libraries in neighboring towns have dropped them. What your card is worth ↓
Programs lean toward adults
64% of the 1,238 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 320 were for children. Kids & programs ↓
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 Cherry Hill Township’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Cherry Hill Township is ahead of 44% of U.S. towns, #233 of 466 in New Jersey. Cherry Hill Township’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; library visits pull it down.
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 →
309 community nonprofits are registered in Cherry Hill Township
4.0 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
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 (75 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 18 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.3%
7.3% of Cherry Hill Township’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 7.2% in the typical New Jersey 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 Cherry Hill Township’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Cherry Hill Free Public Library serves 74,553 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 119 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
339K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 152K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.8 times last year, on average.
65,437 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 6 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 Cherry Hill Township last year.
Find it
Cherry Hill Free Public Library, 1100 Kings Highway North, Cherry Hill.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Cherry Hill 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 $1.45 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Cherry Hill Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $3.7M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $5.4M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $3.7M 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 23,300 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Cherry Hill Township ranks 3rd of 3 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haddonfield | Haddonfield Public Library | 9.4 | 53 | A+ |
| Mount Laurel Township | Mount Laurel Free Public Library fine-free | 9.3 | 68 | C+ |
| Cherry Hill Township | Cherry Hill Free Public Library | 4.5 | 55 | C+ |
| Maple Shade Township | Maple Shade Branch fine-free | — | 53 | C |
| Evesham Township | Evesham Branch Library fine-free | — | 56 | B− |
| Cherry Hill Mall | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Ashland | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Greentree | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Marlton | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Golden Triangle | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Lawnside | None of its own | — | — | B− |
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 Cherry Hill Township
Does Cherry Hill Township have a public library?
Yes. Cherry Hill Free Public Library, 1100 Kings Highway North, serves Cherry Hill Township’s 74,553 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 55 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Cherry Hill Free 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 Cherry Hill Township’s library?
It logged 2.8 visits and lent 4.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Cherry Hill Township’s civic life grade?
C+ Cherry Hill Township is ahead of 44% of U.S. towns on civic life, #233 of 466 in New Jersey. 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 Cherry Hill 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.