Photo: ajay_suresh · CC BY 2.0Bronxville’s library logs 21 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Bronxville Public Library serves Bronxville’s 6,656 residents. Last year it lent 166K books, movies and e-books and logged 143K visits.
Bronxville’s library, in brief
Bronxville ranks 2nd in New York for library use
Out of 241 New York towns with a library of their own, Bronxville comes 2nd for visits per resident. It’s also #2 for borrowing and #15 for kids’ borrowing. How it compares ↓
Bronxville uses its library more than almost any town its size
Bronxville Public Library logs 21 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, and lends 19 print items per resident against a typical 3.8. On both counts it beats 99% of similar-size libraries across the U.S. How it compares ↓
Bronxville out-borrows every town next door
At 25 loans per resident, Bronxville leads the four towns here. The closest is Eastchester, at 8.2. Libraries next door ↓
Kids borrow more here than almost anywhere
Children’s books and media are 45% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 98% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 28 items per child in Bronxville last year. Kids & programs ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 5.9 e-items per resident, against a typical 1, higher than at 98% of similar-size libraries. It’s 24% 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 Bronxville’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Bronxville is ahead of 68% of U.S. towns, #227 of 751 in New York. Library visits hold the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Bronxville Public Library logged 21.4 visits per resident in FY2024, #22 of the 3,790 town libraries we compare. The survey counts every visit, residents or not, and libraries don’t report how many come from out of town.
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 →
30 community nonprofits are registered in Bronxville
4.6 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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 (3 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.
5.5%
5.5% of Bronxville’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 Bronxville’s residents live; 2022.
Every hour the doors are open, about 66 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 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Bronxville Public Library serves 6,656 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
166K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 76K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.7 times last year, on average.
39,126 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
553 programs a year
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 Bronxville last year.
Find it
Bronxville Public Library, 201 Pondfield Road, Bronxville.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Bronxville? 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 $1.74 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Bronxville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.5M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2.6M 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 2,848 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Bronxville borrows the most per resident of the 4 towns here. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronxville | Bronxville Public Library fine-free | 25.0 | 49 | B+ |
| Eastchester | Eastchester Public Library fine-free | 8.2 | 55 | C+ |
| Tuckahoe | Tuckahoe Public Library fine-free | 5.3 | 37 | B− |
| Yonkers | Riverfront Library fine-free | 3.0 | 58 | D |
| Mount Vernon | Mount Vernon Public Library | — | — | 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.
- Visits count everyone. Bronxville’s 142,674 visits include people from nearby towns and summer visitors; the survey has no resident share.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Bronxville Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Bronxville
Does Bronxville have a public library?
Yes. Bronxville Public Library, 201 Pondfield Road, serves Bronxville’s 6,656 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 49 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Bronxville Public 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 Bronxville’s library?
It logged 21.4 visits and lent 25.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people. Its visits per resident rank #22 of the 3,790 town libraries we compare.
What is Bronxville’s civic life grade?
B+ Bronxville is ahead of 68% of U.S. towns on civic life, #227 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 Bronxville.
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.