Photo: Leifern · CC BY-SA 3.0Florham Park’s library logs 11 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries its size
Florham Park Free Public Library serves Florham Park’s 12,585 residents. Last year it lent 152K books, movies and e-books and logged 143K visits.
Florham Park’s library, in brief
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 4.6 e-items per resident, against a typical 1.1, higher than at 96% of similar-size libraries. It’s 38% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
Top 10% in New Jersey for library use
Florham Park ranks #11 of 234 New Jersey towns with a library of their own for visits per resident. That’s 11 visits per resident, more than at 98% of similar-size libraries nationwide. How it compares ↓
Florham Park invests in its library
Florham Park Free Public Library spends $93 per resident a year, about twice the typical $43 for a library its size. All of it comes from local taxes. 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 Florham Park’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Florham Park is ahead of 80% of U.S. towns, #75 of 466 in New Jersey. Library visits hold the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls 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 →
86 community nonprofits are registered in Florham Park
6.4 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 (9 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.4%
6.4% of Florham Park’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 Florham Park’s residents live; 2022.
Every hour the doors are open, about 49 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Florham Park Free Public Library serves 12,585 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
152K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 56K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.7 times last year, on average.
58,136 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 4 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 Florham Park last year.
Find it
Florham Park Free Public Library, 107 Ridgedale Avenue, Florham Park.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Florham Park? 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 $2.07 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Florham Park cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.2M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2.4M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.2M budget.
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 6,538 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Florham Park ranks 4th of 6 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millburn Township | Millburn Free Public Library fine-free | 19.7 | 63 | A− |
| Chatham | Chatham Joint Free Public Library fine-free | 19.3 | 59 | A |
| Livingston Township | Livingston Free Public Library fine-free | 15.5 | 60 | A |
| Florham Park | Florham Park Free Public Library | 12.1 | 61 | A− |
| Madison | Madison Public Library fine-free | 8.0 | 60 | B+ |
| East Hanover Township | East Hanover Twsp. Public Library | 4.6 | 65 | 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 Florham Park
Does Florham Park have a public library?
Yes. Florham Park Free Public Library, 107 Ridgedale Avenue, serves Florham Park’s 12,585 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 61 hours a week, averaged over the year.
How busy is Florham Park’s library?
It logged 11.4 visits and lent 12.1 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Florham Park’s civic life grade?
A− Florham Park is ahead of 80% of U.S. towns on civic life, #75 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 Florham Park.
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.