Photo: User:KLOTZPLATE JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D. · CC BY-SA 4.0Haworth’s library runs 141 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34 for libraries its size
Haworth Municipal Library serves Haworth’s 3,343 residents. Last year it lent 48K books, movies and e-books and logged 21K visits.
Haworth’s library, in brief
Four times the programs of a typical library its size
Haworth Municipal Library ran 471 programs last year, about 9 a week. That’s 141 per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34. People show up: 6,034 attended. Kids & programs ↓
Kids borrow more here than almost anywhere
Children’s books and media are 51% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 94% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 18 items per child in Haworth last year. Kids & programs ↓
Top 10% in New Jersey for borrowing
Haworth ranks #12 of 234 New Jersey towns with a library of their own for items borrowed per resident. Print borrowing alone runs 11 items per resident, more than at 94% of similar-size libraries nationwide. How it compares ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 3 e-items per resident, against a typical 1, higher than at 89% of similar-size libraries. It’s 21% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
Programs lean toward adults
55% of the 471 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 199 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 Haworth’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Haworth is ahead of 74% of U.S. towns, #115 of 466 in New Jersey. Haworth’s count of community nonprofits holds 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 →
24 community nonprofits are registered in Haworth
7.1 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 (2 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.1%
6.1% of Haworth’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 Haworth’s residents live; 2022.
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 Haworth last year.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Haworth Municipal Library serves 3,343 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 20 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
48K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 29K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.3 time last year, on average.
10,063 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Haworth Municipal Library, 300 Haworth Avenue, Haworth.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Haworth? 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 $2.17 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Haworth cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $361K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $783K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $361K 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 2,001 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Haworth ranks 2nd of 6 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Haworth Municipal Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Haworth
Does Haworth have a public library?
Yes. Haworth Municipal Library, 300 Haworth Avenue, serves Haworth’s 3,343 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 46 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Haworth Municipal 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 Haworth’s library?
It logged 6.1 visits and lent 14.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Haworth’s civic life grade?
B+ Haworth is ahead of 74% of U.S. towns on civic life, #115 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 Haworth.
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.