Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Haddon Heights’ library logs 1.1 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Haddon Heights Public Library serves Haddon Heights’s 7,495 residents. Last year it lent 25K books, movies and e-books and logged 8,450 visits.
Haddon Heights’s library, in brief
Still charges late fines, unlike its neighbors
Haddon Heights Public Library charges late fines on some overdue items. Two of the three libraries in neighboring towns have dropped them. What your card is worth ↓
Most programs are for young children
73% of the 161 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 1.6 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
A big collection for the borrowing it gets
Haddon Heights Public Library holds 48,000 books and other items, but the average item went out less than once last year. 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.
What’s behind Haddon Heights’ civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Haddon Heights is ahead of 50% of U.S. towns, #201 of 466 in New Jersey. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups 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 →
32 community nonprofits are registered in Haddon Heights
4.2 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
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 (5 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
11.1%
11.1% of Haddon Heights’ 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 Haddon Heights’ residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Haddon Heights Public Library serves 7,495 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 9 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
25K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 48K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.4 time last year, on average.
4,122 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
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.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Haddon Heights last year.
Find it
Haddon Heights Public Library, 608 Station Avenue, Haddon Heights.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Haddon Heights? 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 $1.19 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Haddon Heights cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $349K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $416K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $349K 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 3,653 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Haddon Heights 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+ |
| Audubon | Audubon Free Public Library fine-free | 3.8 | 41 | B |
| Haddon Heights | Haddon Heights Public Library | 3.4 | 54 | B− |
| Bellmawr | Bellmawr Branch Library fine-free | — | 58 | C |
| Barrington | None of its own | — | — | C |
| Mount Ephraim | None of its own | — | — | C+ |
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 Haddon Heights
Does Haddon Heights have a public library?
Yes. Haddon Heights Public Library, 608 Station Avenue, serves Haddon Heights’ 7,495 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 54 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Haddon Heights 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 Haddon Heights’ library?
It logged 1.1 visits and lent 3.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Haddon Heights’ civic life grade?
B− Haddon Heights is ahead of 50% of U.S. towns on civic life, #201 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 Haddon Heights.
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.