Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Monmouth Junction’s library lends 6.8 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
South Brunswick Public Library serves 47,043 people in and around Monmouth Junction. Last year it lent 387K books, movies and e-books and logged 151K visits.
Monmouth Junction’s library, in brief
Open about 83 hours a week
South Brunswick Public Library is open about 83 hours a week, averaged over the year. The building ↓
South Brunswick Public Library serves more than Monmouth Junction
The library’s service area covers 47,043 people in and around Monmouth Junction, so its per-resident numbers are measured against that wider population. How it compares ↓
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 Monmouth Junction’s civic life grade
Monmouth Junction isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
South Brunswick Public Library serves 47,043 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
A year at So. Brunswick Pub. Lib.
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
387K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 114K books and other items on the shelves went out about 2.8 times last year, on average.
65,273 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
So. Brunswick Pub. Lib., 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junt..
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Monmouth Junction? 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 $1.56 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Monmouth Junction cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $3.7M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $5.8M 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 14,321 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Monmouth Junction ranks 2nd of 3 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plainsboro Township | Plainsboro Free Pub. Lib. | 11.7 | 56 | B |
| Monmouth Junction | So. Brunswick Pub. Lib. | 8.2 | 83 | — graded as part of its town |
| South Brunswick Township | So. Brunswick Pub. Lib. | 8.2 | 83 | C+ |
| Dayton | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Deans | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Heathcote | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
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 Monmouth Junction
Does Monmouth Junction have a public library?
Yes. South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, serves 47,043 people in and around Monmouth Junction (the survey’s count) and is open about 83 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is South Brunswick 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 Monmouth Junction’s library?
It logged 3.2 visits and lent 8.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Monmouth Junction’s civic life grade?
Monmouth Junction isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Monmouth Junction.
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.