Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Westampton Township’s library logs 1.8 visits per resident, against a typical 2.1 for libraries its size
Burlington County Library serves 363,983 people in and around Westampton Township. Last year it lent 1.4M books, movies and e-books and logged 640K visits.
What Westampton Township’s library is like
Few residents carry a card
Only 15% of the people the system serves have a library card, against a typical 41% for its size. How it compares ↓
Open about 68 hours a week
The Westampton Township branch is open about 68 hours a week, averaged over the year. The building ↓
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; Burlington County Library serves 363,983 people in and around Westampton Township, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Westampton Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Westampton Township is ahead of 53% of U.S. towns, #187 of 466 in New Jersey. Westampton Township is graded on two of the three inputs. Westampton Township’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 →
64 community nonprofits are registered in Westampton Township
7.0 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
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 (20 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 3 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
5.4%
5.4% of Westampton 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 Westampton Township’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 100,000+ people across the U.S.
Burlington County Library serves 363,983 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.
Every hour the doors are open, about 57 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Burlington County Library system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
1.4M loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
415,628 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 30 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
Find it
Burlington County Library, 5 Pioneer Blvd, Mount Holly.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Burlington County Library branch.
New in Westampton 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 $1.79 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Westampton Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $13M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $22M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $13M 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 55,195 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Laurel Township | Mount Laurel Free Public Library fine-free | 9.3 | 68 | C+ |
| Willingboro Township | Willingboro Public Library | 1.2 | 60 | C− |
| Westampton Township | Burlington County Library fine-free | — | 68 | B− |
| Mount Holly Township | Mount Holly Library & Lyceum | — | — | B− |
| Hainesport Township | None of its own | — | — | A− |
| Burlington Township | None of its own | — | — | C− |
| Eastampton Township | None of its own | — | — | B− |
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.
- System-wide. Burlington County Library serves 363,983 people in and around Westampton Township, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Westampton Township.
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 Westampton Township
Does Westampton Township have a public library?
Yes. Burlington County Library, 5 Pioneer Blvd, serves 363,983 people in and around Westampton Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 68 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Burlington County 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 Westampton Township’s library?
It logged 1.8 visits and lent 4.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.
What is Westampton Township’s civic life grade?
B− Westampton Township is ahead of 53% of U.S. towns on civic life, #187 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 Westampton 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.