Photo: TimSPC at English Wikipedia · Public domainHasbrouck Heights’ library lends 6.5 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Hasbrouck Heights Free Public Library serves Hasbrouck Heights’s 12,125 residents. Last year it lent 93K books, movies and e-books and logged 56K visits.
The short version on Hasbrouck Heights’s library
Above typical on every measure
Against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people, Hasbrouck Heights Free Public Library is above the middle on all seven per-resident measures we compare, with four in the top 30%. No single number stands out, and none lags far behind. How it compares ↓
Hasbrouck Heights out-borrows every town next door
At 7.7 loans per resident, Hasbrouck Heights leads the four towns here. The closest is Wood-Ridge, at 6.2. Libraries next door ↓
Still charges late fines, unlike its neighbors
Hasbrouck Heights Free 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 ↓
A big collection for the borrowing it gets
Hasbrouck Heights Free Public Library holds 551,000 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 Hasbrouck Heights’ civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Hasbrouck Heights is ahead of 38% of U.S. towns, #264 of 466 in New Jersey. Library visits hold the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($93K–$155K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 →
37 community nonprofits are registered in Hasbrouck Heights
3.1 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 (15 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 2 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
6.1%
6.1% of Hasbrouck 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 Hasbrouck Heights’ residents live; 2022.
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.
Hasbrouck Heights Free Public Library serves 12,125 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
A year at Hasbrouck Heights Free Public Library
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Not reported for 2024: hours open. The survey fills a missing figure with its own estimate; we leave estimates out rather than show them as the library’s count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
93K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 551K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
14,608 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 Hasbrouck Heights last year.
Find it
Hasbrouck Heights Free Public Library, 320 Boulevard, Hasbrouck Heights.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Hasbrouck 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 $1.59 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Hasbrouck Heights cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $895K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.4M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $895K 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 5,345 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Hasbrouck Heights borrows the most per resident of the 4 towns here. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hasbrouck Heights | Hasbrouck Heights Free Public Library | 7.7 | — | C+ |
| Wood-Ridge | Wood-Ridge Memorial Library fine-free | 6.2 | 52 | C |
| Lodi | Lodi Memorial Library | 2.7 | 52 | D |
| Hackensack | Johnson Free Public Library fine-free | 2.6 | 64 | C− |
| Teterboro | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Moonachie | None of its own | — | — | D− |
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.
- Not reported for 2024: hours open. The survey filled the figure with its own estimate, so it is left out.
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 Hasbrouck Heights
Does Hasbrouck Heights have a public library?
Yes. Hasbrouck Heights Free Public Library, 320 Boulevard, serves Hasbrouck Heights’ 12,125 residents (the survey’s count).
Is Hasbrouck Heights 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 Hasbrouck Heights’ library?
It logged 4.6 visits and lent 7.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Hasbrouck Heights’ civic life grade?
C+ Hasbrouck Heights is ahead of 38% of U.S. towns on civic life, #264 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 Hasbrouck 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.