Photo: The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0Crawford’s library runs 34 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Pine Bush Area Public Library District serves 14,571 people in and around Crawford. Last year it lent 47K books, movies and e-books and logged 26K visits.
The short version on Crawford’s library
Still charges late fines, unlike its neighbors
Pine Bush Area Public Library District charges late fines on some overdue items. Three of the four libraries in neighboring towns have dropped them. What your card is worth ↓
Programs lean toward adults
69% of the 499 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 89 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; Pine Bush Area Public Library District serves 14,571 people in and around Crawford, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Crawford’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Crawford is ahead of 54% of U.S. towns, #342 of 751 in New York. Crawford is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; Crawford’s count of community nonprofits pulls 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 →
33 community nonprofits are registered in Crawford
3.6 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 (10 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
8.2%
8.2% of Crawford’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 Crawford’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Pine Bush Area Public Library District serves 14,571 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 21 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Pine Bush Area Public Library District system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
47K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
17,606 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
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
Pine Bush Area Public Library District, 223-227 Maple Avenue, Pine Bush.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Pine Bush Area Public Library District branch.
New in Crawford? 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 $2.29 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Crawford cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $322K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $739K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $322K 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 3,900 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery | Josephine-Louise Public Library fine-free | 7.3 | 52 | C+ |
| Shawangunk | Wallkill Public Library fine-free | 3.4 | 50 | C |
| Mamakating | Mamakating Library fine-free | 3.2 | 45 | C− |
| Crawford | Pine Bush Area Public Library District | — | 42 | B− |
| Pine Bush | Pine Bush Area Public Library District | — | 42 | — graded as part of its town |
| Wallkill | None of its own | — | — | D− |
| Watchtower | 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. Pine Bush Area Public Library District serves 14,571 people in and around Crawford, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Crawford.
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 Crawford
Does Crawford have a public library?
Yes. Pine Bush Area Public Library District, 223-227 Maple Avenue, serves 14,571 people in and around Crawford (the survey’s count) and is open about 42 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pine Bush Area Public Library District 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 Crawford’s library?
It logged 1.8 visits and lent 3.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Crawford’s civic life grade?
B− Crawford is ahead of 54% of U.S. towns on civic life, #342 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 Crawford.
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.