Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Eaton’s library runs 54 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34 for libraries its size
Morrisville Public Library serves 5,579 people in and around Eaton. Last year it lent 19K books, movies and e-books and logged 9,600 visits.
Eaton’s library, in brief
The branch is a National Register landmark
Morrisville Public Library has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2005. Today’s library there has 4,884 square feet. The building ↓
Programs draw a crowd
8,690 people came to the system’s 304 programs last year: 1.6 per resident, against a typical 0.5, more than at 91% of similar-size libraries. 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; Morrisville Public Library serves 5,579 people in and around Eaton, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Eaton’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Eaton is ahead of 59% of U.S. towns, #294 of 751 in New York. Eaton is graded on two of the three inputs. Eaton’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups 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 →
20 community nonprofits are registered in Eaton
5.0 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: education.
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 (2 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
7.0%
7.0% of Eaton’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 Eaton’s residents live; 2022.
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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Morrisville Public Library serves 5,579 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 9 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Morrisville Public Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
19K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
3,511 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
A National Register landmark since 2005
Morrisville Public Library, 83 East Main Street, Morrisville.
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 Morrisville Public Library branch.
New in Eaton? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Morrisville Public Library
Morrisville Public Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Oct 5, 2005. It is significant for its architecture at the local level. Its architecture is described as Gothic Revival.
Morrisville Public Library is a historic library building located at Morrisville in Madison County, New York. It was built about 1850 and is a 2+1⁄2-story frame picturesque cottage with Gothic Revival–style detailing. It became a library in December 1903 with 760 volumes on its shelves.
More about the building →For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $2.37 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Eaton cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $150K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $355K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $150K 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 1,791 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eaton | Morrisville Public Library fine-free | — | 38 | B |
| Lebanon | None of its own | — | — | C− |
| Madison | None of its own | — | — | D |
| Nelson | None of its own | — | — | A− |
| Stockbridge | None of its own | — | — | B |
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. Morrisville Public Library serves 5,579 people in and around Eaton, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Eaton.
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 Eaton
Does Eaton have a public library?
Yes. Morrisville Public Library, 83 East Main Street, serves 5,579 people in and around Eaton (the survey’s count) and is open about 38 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Morrisville 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 Eaton’s library?
It logged 1.7 visits and lent 3.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Eaton’s civic life grade?
B Eaton is ahead of 59% of U.S. towns on civic life, #294 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 Eaton.
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.