St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church Complex · Photo: DanielPenfield · CC BY-SA 4.0East Bloomfield’s library runs 60 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34 for libraries its size
Bloomfield Public Library serves 6,708 people in and around East Bloomfield. Last year it lent 35K books, movies and e-books and logged 19K visits.
What stands out about Bloomfield Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind East Bloomfield’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, East Bloomfield is ahead of 43% of U.S. towns, #437 of 751 in New York. East Bloomfield is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; East Bloomfield’s count of community nonprofits pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($68K–$113K) 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 →
8 community nonprofits are registered in East Bloomfield
2.3 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 (1 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
9.4%
9.4% of East Bloomfield’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 East Bloomfield’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Bloomfield Public Library serves 6,708 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 14 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Bloomfield Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
35K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
10,777 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.
Find it
Bloomfield Public Library, 9 Church Street, Bloomfield.
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 Bloomfield Public Library branch.
New in East Bloomfield? 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 $2.58 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average East Bloomfield cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $221K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $570K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $221K 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 1,912 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol | Bristol Library | 4.3 | 20 | B− |
| East Bloomfield | Bloomfield Public Library fine-free | — | 50 | C+ |
| Victor | Victor Farmington Library fine-free | — | 63 | C |
| West Bloomfield | None of its own | — | — | B |
| Canandaigua | None of its own | — | — | — graded with its twin city |
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. Bloomfield Public Library serves 6,708 people in and around East Bloomfield, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just East Bloomfield.
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 East Bloomfield
Does East Bloomfield have a public library?
Yes. Bloomfield Public Library, 9 Church Street, serves 6,708 people in and around East Bloomfield (the survey’s count) and is open about 50 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Bloomfield 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 East Bloomfield’s library?
It logged 2.9 visits and lent 5.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is East Bloomfield’s civic life grade?
C+ East Bloomfield is ahead of 43% of U.S. towns on civic life, #437 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 East Bloomfield.
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.