Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Roxbury Township’s library runs 63 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Roxbury Public Library serves Roxbury Township’s 22,950 residents. Last year it lent 149K books, movies and e-books and logged 122K visits.
Roxbury Township’s library, in brief
Twice the programs of a typical library its size
Roxbury Public Library ran 1,454 programs last year, about 28 a week. That’s 63 per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24. People show up: 36,000 attended. Kids & programs ↓
Programs lean toward adults
67% of the 1,454 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 437 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 Roxbury Township’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Roxbury Township is ahead of 58% of U.S. towns, #174 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 →
84 community nonprofits are registered in Roxbury Township
3.6 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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 (10 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 4 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.1%
7.1% of Roxbury 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 Roxbury Township’s residents live; 2022.
About 8 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 Roxbury 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.
Roxbury Public Library serves 22,950 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 50 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
149K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 55K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.9 times last year, on average.
45,858 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Roxbury Public Library, 103 Main Street, Succasunna.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Roxbury 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 $1.71 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Roxbury Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.5M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2.6M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.5M budget.
Fine-free. No late fees on books returned late.
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 16,032 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Roxbury Township ranks 2nd of 5 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randolph Township | Randolph Twsp. Free Pub. Lib. fine-free | 9.1 | 64 | C |
| Roxbury Township | Roxbury Public Library fine-free | 6.5 | 57 | B |
| Succasunna | Roxbury Public Library fine-free | 6.5 | 57 | — graded as part of its town |
| Jefferson Township | Jefferson Twsp. Pub. Lib. | 5.4 | 72 | C |
| Mount Arlington | Mount Arlington Pub. Lib. | 4.1 | 44 | D |
| Landing | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Hopatcong | None of its own | — | — | C+ |
| Mine Hill Township | None of its own | — | — | C− |
| Port Morris | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Kenvil | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Byram 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 Roxbury Township
Does Roxbury Township have a public library?
Yes. Roxbury Public Library, 103 Main Street, serves Roxbury Township’s 22,950 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 57 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Roxbury Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Roxbury Township’s library?
It logged 5.3 visits and lent 6.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Roxbury Township’s civic life grade?
B Roxbury Township is ahead of 58% of U.S. towns on civic life, #174 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 Roxbury 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.