Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Montville Township’s library lends 7.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Montville Township Public Library serves Montville Township’s 22,450 residents. Last year it lent 210K books, movies and e-books and logged 99K visits.
What Montville Township’s library is like
Above typical on every measure
Against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people, Montville Township Public Library is above the middle on all seven per-resident measures we compare, with seven in the top 30%. No single number stands out, and none lags far behind. How it compares ↓
Programs lean toward adults
51% of the 897 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 368 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 Montville Township’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Montville Township is ahead of 55% of U.S. towns, #179 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 →
87 community nonprofits are registered in Montville Township
3.8 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 (17 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 10 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.2%
7.2% of Montville Township’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 Montville Township’s residents live; 2022.
About 7 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 Montville Township last year.
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.
Montville Township Public Library serves 22,450 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 71 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
210K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 81K books and other items on the shelves went out about 2 times last year, on average.
47,600 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Montville Twsp. Pub. Lib., 90 Horseneck Road, Montville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Montville Township? 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 $1.78 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Montville Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.8M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $3.2M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.8M 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 13,878 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Montville Township ranks 2nd of 8 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinnelon | Kinnelon Public Library | 9.5 | 51 | A− |
| Montville Township | Montville Twsp. Pub. Lib. | 9.4 | 57 | B |
| Parsippany-Troy Hills Township | Parsippany-Troy Hills P.L. fine-free | 7.2 | 66 | C+ |
| Lake Hiawatha | Lake Hiawatha Branch fine-free | 7.2 | 58 | — graded as part of its town |
| Lincoln Park | Lincoln Park Public Library | 4.7 | 52 | C− |
| East Hanover Township | East Hanover Twsp. Public Library | 4.6 | 65 | B− |
| Fairfield Township | Fairfield Free Public Library | 4.2 | 60 | B− |
| Boonton | The Holmes Library | 3.8 | 55 | B |
| Pine Brook | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Towaco | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Boonton Township | 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 Montville Township
Does Montville Township have a public library?
Yes. Montville Township Public Library, 90 Horseneck Road, serves Montville Township’s 22,450 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 57 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Montville Township 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 Montville Township’s library?
It logged 4.4 visits and lent 9.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Montville Township’s civic life grade?
B Montville Township is ahead of 55% of U.S. towns on civic life, #179 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 Montville Township.
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.