Amagansett’s library runs 185 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 60 for libraries its size
Amagansett Free Library serves 2,232 people in and around Amagansett. Last year it lent 39K books, movies and e-books and logged 12K visits.
What Amagansett’s library is like
Most of the library’s borrowing is digital
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 64% of loans, more per resident than at 98% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 36%. What people borrow ↓
A well-funded system
Amagansett Free Library spends $585 per resident a year, about 11 times the typical $54 for a library its size. Almost all of it (87%) comes from local taxes. What your card is worth ↓
Nearly everyone the system serves has a card
1,940 cards for 2,232 people, or 87%. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
Programs lean toward adults
58% of the 413 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 115 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; Amagansett Free Library serves 2,232 people in and around Amagansett, and its numbers cover all of them; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Amagansett’s civic life grade
Amagansett 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 →
64% of borrowing is digital
39K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
24,885 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Amagansett Free Library serves 2,232 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 15 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Amagansett Free Library system. The library’s own count.
About 2 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
Amagansett Free Library, 215 Main Street, Amagansett.
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 Amagansett Free Library branch.
New in Amagansett? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Amagansett cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $1.3M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $641K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.3M 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 1,940 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amagansett | Amagansett Free Library fine-free | — | 49 | — under 1,000 residents |
| East Hampton | East Hampton Library fine-free | — | 58 | B− |
| Springs | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Napeague | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| East Hampton North | 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.
- System-wide. Amagansett Free Library serves 2,232 people in and around Amagansett, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Amagansett.
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 Amagansett
Does Amagansett have a public library?
Yes. Amagansett Free Library, 215 Main Street, serves 2,232 people in and around Amagansett (the survey’s count) and is open about 49 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Amagansett Free 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 Amagansett’s library?
It logged 5.2 visits and lent 17.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Amagansett’s civic life grade?
Amagansett 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 Amagansett.
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.