Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Williamstown’s library logs 6.3 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Monroe Twp Public Library/Gloucester serves 37,117 people in and around Williamstown. Last year it lent 86K books, movies and e-books and logged 235K visits.
The short version on Williamstown’s library
More of a place to be than a place to borrow
Visits per resident beat 94% of similar-size libraries, while borrowing beats only 27%. The building also logs about 41 Wi-Fi sessions a day. A year at the library ↓
Monroe Twp Public Library/Gloucester serves more than Williamstown
The library’s service area covers 37,117 people in and around Williamstown, 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 Williamstown’s civic life grade
Williamstown 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 →
Every hour the doors are open, about 33 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Monroe Twp Public Library/Gloucester serves 37,117 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
86K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 82K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.9 time last year, on average.
14,004 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
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.
Find it
Monroe Township Free Public Library, 713 Marsha Avenue, Williamstown.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Williamstown? 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 $1.04 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Williamstown cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.4M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.4M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.4M 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 18,224 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williamstown | Monroe Township Free Public Library | 2.3 | 50 | — graded as part of its town |
| Monroe Township | Monroe Township Free Public Library | 2.3 | 50 | C+ |
| Winslow Township | South County Regional Branch Library fine-free | — | 58 | D |
| Sicklerville | 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 Williamstown
Does Williamstown have a public library?
Yes. Monroe Twp Public Library/Gloucester, 713 Marsha Avenue, serves 37,117 people in and around Williamstown (the survey’s count) and is open about 50 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Monroe Twp Public Library/Gloucester 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 Williamstown’s library?
It logged 6.3 visits and lent 2.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Williamstown’s civic life grade?
Williamstown 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 Williamstown.
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.