Photo: The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0Blooming Grove’s library lends 2.8 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Moffat Library of Washingtonville serves 25,789 people in and around Blooming Grove. Last year it lent 112K books, movies and e-books and logged 69K visits.
What stands out about Moffat Library of Washingtonville
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Blooming Grove’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Blooming Grove is ahead of 36% of U.S. towns, #490 of 751 in New York. Blooming Grove is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs sit below most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups comes closest to the middle.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($72K–$120K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 →
62 community nonprofits are registered in Blooming Grove
3.3 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
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 (44 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
7.1%
7.1% of Blooming Grove’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 7.4% in the typical New York 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 Blooming Grove’s residents live; 2022.
A National Register landmark since 1994
Moffat Library of Washingtonville, 6 West Main Street, Washingtonville.
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 Moffat Library of Washingtonville branch.
New in Blooming Grove? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Moffat Library
Moffat Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Aug 19, 1994. It is significant for its architecture at the local level. Its architecture is described as Late Victorian and Queen Anne.
The Moffat Library, officially Moffat Library of Washingtonville, serves a population of 25,000 people in the village of that name in Orange County, New York, as well as the surrounding towns of Blooming Grove, Hamptonburgh and New Windsor. It is located in the center of town, at the intersection of NY 208 and NY 94.
More about the building →Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Moffat Library of Washingtonville serves 25,789 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 36 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Moffat Library of Washingtonville system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
112K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
40,732 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 3 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.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $1.37 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Blooming Grove cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.5M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2M 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 9,517 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chester | Chester Public Library fine-free | 4.7 | 54 | C |
| Monroe | Monroe Free Library fine-free | 3.8 | 59 | C− |
| Woodbury | Woodbury Public Library fine-free | 3.7 | 51 | C |
| Woodbury | Woodbury Public Library fine-free | 3.7 | 51 | — graded with its twin city |
| Blooming Grove | Moffat Library of Washingtonville fine-free | — | 60 | C+ |
| Cornwall | Cornwall Public Library fine-free | — | 47 | A |
| Goshen | Goshen Public Library and Historical Society fine-free | — | 62 | A |
| Mountain Lodge Park | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| South Blooming Grove | None of its own | — | — | C− |
| New Windsor | None of its own | — | — | C |
| Hamptonburgh | 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.
- System-wide. Moffat Library of Washingtonville serves 25,789 people in and around Blooming Grove, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Blooming Grove.
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 Blooming Grove
Does Blooming Grove have a public library?
Yes. Moffat Library of Washingtonville, 6 West Main Street, serves 25,789 people in and around Blooming Grove (the survey’s count) and is open about 60 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Moffat Library of Washingtonville 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 Blooming Grove’s library?
It logged 2.7 visits and lent 4.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Blooming Grove’s civic life grade?
C+ Blooming Grove is ahead of 36% of U.S. towns on civic life, #490 of 751 in New York. 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 Blooming Grove.
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. Building history: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places; photo via Wikimedia Commons. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.