Briarcliff Manor’s library lends 6.2 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Briarcliff Manor Public Library serves Briarcliff Manor’s 7,569 residents. Last year it lent 89K books, movies and e-books and logged 20K visits.
What Briarcliff Manor’s library is like
47% of borrowing happens on a screen
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 47% of loans, more per resident than at 97% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 53%, much of it kids’ books. What people borrow ↓
Top 10% in New York for borrowing
Briarcliff Manor ranks #23 of 241 New York towns with a library of their own for items borrowed per resident. Print borrowing alone runs 6.2 items per resident, more than at 74% of similar-size libraries nationwide. How it compares ↓
Still charges late fines, unlike its neighbors
Briarcliff Manor Public Library charges late fines on some overdue items. All four libraries in neighboring towns have dropped them. What your card is worth ↓
Briarcliff Manor invests in its library
Briarcliff Manor Public Library spends $92 per resident a year, about twice the typical $43 for a library its size. Almost all of it (95%) comes from local taxes. What your card is worth ↓
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 Briarcliff Manor’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Briarcliff Manor is ahead of 53% of U.S. towns, #353 of 751 in New York. Briarcliff Manor’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; library visits pull 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 →
45 community nonprofits are registered in Briarcliff Manor
6.0 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 (4 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 2 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.0%
7.0% of Briarcliff Manor’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 Briarcliff Manor’s residents live; 2022.
47% of borrowing is digital
89K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 38K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.2 time last year, on average.
41,690 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 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Briarcliff Manor Public Library serves 7,569 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 48 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
About 2 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 Briarcliff Manor last year.
Find it
Briarcliff Manor Public Library, 1 Library Road, Briarcliff Manor.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Briarcliff Manor? 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 $1.95 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Briarcliff Manor cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $695K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.4M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $695K 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 2,932 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Briarcliff Manor | Briarcliff Manor Public Library | 11.7 | 35 | B− |
| Mount Pleasant | Mount Pleasant Public Library fine-free | 7.6 | 53 | B+ |
| Ossining | Ossining Public Library fine-free | — | 58 | B− |
| Ossining | Ossining Public Library fine-free | — | 58 | C+ |
| Clarkstown | New City Free Library fine-free | — | 65 | B− |
| Upper Nyack | None of its own | — | — | A− |
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 Briarcliff Manor
Does Briarcliff Manor have a public library?
Yes. Briarcliff Manor Public Library, 1 Library Road, serves Briarcliff Manor’s 7,569 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 35 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Briarcliff Manor Public Library 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 Briarcliff Manor’s library?
It logged 2.6 visits and lent 11.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Briarcliff Manor’s civic life grade?
B− Briarcliff Manor is ahead of 53% of U.S. towns on civic life, #353 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 Briarcliff Manor.
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.