Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 4.0Wyckoff Township’s library logs 8.8 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries its size
Wyckoff Free Public Library serves Wyckoff Township’s 16,585 residents. Last year it lent 240K books, movies and e-books and logged 146K visits.
What Wyckoff Township’s library is like
Wyckoff Township uses its library more than almost any town its size
Wyckoff Free Public Library logs 8.8 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people, and lends 11 print items per resident against a typical 3.9. On both counts it beats 93% of similar-size libraries across the U.S. How it compares ↓
Top 10% in New Jersey for borrowing
Wyckoff Township ranks #11 of 234 New Jersey towns with a library of their own for items borrowed per resident. Print borrowing alone runs 11 items per resident, more than at 93% of similar-size libraries nationwide. How it compares ↓
Kids borrow more here than almost anywhere
Children’s books and media are 52% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 93% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 23 items per child in Wyckoff Township last year. Kids & programs ↓
Wyckoff Township out-borrows every town next door
At 14.5 loans per resident, Wyckoff Township leads the nine towns here. The closest is Ridgewood, at 13.6. Libraries next door ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 3.4 e-items per resident, against a typical 1.1, higher than at 91% of similar-size libraries. It’s 23% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
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 Wyckoff Township’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Wyckoff Township is ahead of 85% of U.S. towns, #60 of 466 in New Jersey. All three inputs are above most U.S. towns; library visits rank highest.
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 →
67 community nonprofits are registered in Wyckoff Township
3.9 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 (15 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
9.9%
9.9% of Wyckoff 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 Wyckoff Township’s residents live; 2022.
Every hour the doors are open, about 71 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
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.
Wyckoff Free Public Library serves 16,585 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
240K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 73K books and other items on the shelves went out about 2.5 times last year, on average.
55,843 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
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 Wyckoff Township last year.
Find it
Wyckoff Free Public Library, 200 Woodland Avenue, Wyckoff.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Wyckoff 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 $2.10 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Wyckoff Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.8M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $3.7M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.8M budget.
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 10,250 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Wyckoff Township borrows the most per resident of the 9 towns here. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyckoff Township | Wyckoff Free Public Library | 14.5 | 66 | A |
| Ridgewood | Ridgewood Public Library | 13.6 | 69 | A |
| Allendale | Lee Memorial Library | 13.4 | 54 | A |
| Midland Park | Midland Park Memorial Lib. | 12.7 | 54 | A |
| Mahwah Township | Mahwah Free Public Library | 12.2 | 62 | B+ |
| Franklin Lakes | Franklin Lakes Free Public Library fine-free | 10.8 | 63 | A− |
| Waldwick | Waldwick Public Library | 9.8 | 58 | A− |
| Hawthorne | Louis Bay 2nd Library & Comm. Ctr. | 6.1 | 61 | C |
| North Haledon | No. Haledon Free Pub. Lib. fine-free | 5.0 | 59 | D |
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 Wyckoff Township
Does Wyckoff Township have a public library?
Yes. Wyckoff Free Public Library, 200 Woodland Avenue, serves Wyckoff Township’s 16,585 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 66 hours a week, averaged over the year.
How busy is Wyckoff Township’s library?
It logged 8.8 visits and lent 14.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Wyckoff Township’s civic life grade?
A Wyckoff Township is ahead of 85% of U.S. towns on civic life, #60 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 Wyckoff 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.