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Mount Holly Library and Lyceum

Mount Holly Library and Lyceum serves Mount Holly Township’s 9,981 residents

Mount Holly Library and Lyceum serves Mount Holly Township’s 9,981 residents.

307 High Street, Mount Holly 08060
B−Civic lifeAhead of 50% of U.S. towns · #199 of 466 in New Jersey. Nonprofits and volunteering.
Borrowed a year
—
Not reported for 2024
Visits a year
—
Not reported for 2024
Civic life grade

What’s behind Mount Holly Township’s civic life grade

On community nonprofits and volunteering, Mount Holly Township is ahead of 50% of U.S. towns, #199 of 466 in New Jersey. Its library’s 2024 visits weren’t reported, so Mount Holly Township is graded on two of the three inputs. Mount Holly Township’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.

B−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Mount Holly Township’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (17,556)Ahead of 50%
FewerMore
New Jersey towns we grade (466)Ahead of 57%
U.S. towns with similar incomes, $62K–$103K (8,939)Ahead of 49%

The survey’s stand-in for Mount Holly Township’s 2024 visits is its own estimate, so it is left out.

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.

How sure. Graded on two inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. The volunteering share is a 2022 estimate from Facebook users aged 25–44.

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 →

Places to belong

64 community nonprofits are registered in Mount Holly Township

6.3 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.

Community nonprofits, by kind

Arts & culture40.43 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.24
Youth, sports & recreation70.67 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.52
Civic groups, clubs & veterans151.48 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.74
Human services141.40 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.59
Education80.75 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.43
Health40.35 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.16
Environment & animals30.27 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.17
Other100.97 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.47

Counted from the IRS list of tax-exempt organizations by mailing address (fractions where a ZIP code spans towns). Congregations are counted apart (14 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.

Volunteering

5.4%

5.4% of Mount Holly 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 Mount Holly Township’s residents live; 2022.

A year at the library

A year at Mount Holly Library & Lyceum

Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.

Not reported for 2024: visits and print loans. The survey fills a missing figure with its own estimate; we leave estimates out rather than show them as the library’s count.

The building

Find it

Mount Holly Library & Lyceum, 307 High Street, Mount Holly.

With a card

E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.

New in Mount Holly Township? The Handbook →

Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.

What your card is worth

What a library card is worth

Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Mount Holly Township resident borrows (the library didn’t report its card count for 2024).

In a month I’d use…
Books$17 each
1
Kids’ books$12 each
0
E-books & audio$15 each
0
Movies & music$4 each
0
Programs & classes$10 a program
0
Computer & Wi-Fi$3 a session
0
Your card saves you about
$204
a year at retail prices · $17 a month

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 resident’s month = the library’s yearly loans and Wi-Fi sessions ÷ the 9,981 people it serves ÷ 12.

Next door

Libraries next door

Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.

12+ loans per resident8–124–8Under 4No library / shared system
TownLibraryLoans per residentHoursCivic life
Mount Holly TownshipMount Holly Library & Lyceum——B−
Westampton TownshipBurlington County Library fine-free—68B−
Eastampton TownshipNone of its own——B−
Lumberton TownshipNone of its own——C
Hainesport TownshipNone of its own——A−

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).

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.

  • Not reported for 2024: visits. Mount Holly Library and Lyceum didn’t report visits; the survey’s estimate is its own, so we leave it out and never rank it.
  • Not reported for 2024: print loans. 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 Mount Holly Township

Does Mount Holly Township have a public library?

Yes. Mount Holly Library and Lyceum, 307 High Street, serves Mount Holly Township’s 9,981 residents (the survey’s count).

How busy is Mount Holly Township’s library?

It lent 0.0 items per resident in 2024 (print). Visits weren’t reported for 2024.

What is Mount Holly Township’s civic life grade?

B− Mount Holly Township is ahead of 50% of U.S. towns on civic life, #199 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 Mount Holly Township.

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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.