Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Jay5898 assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0Elmont’s library logs 10 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Elmont Public Library serves 52,853 people in and around Elmont. Last year it lent 222K books, movies and e-books and logged 538K visits.
The short version on Elmont’s library
More of a place to be than a place to borrow
Visits per resident beat 99% of similar-size libraries, while borrowing beats only 44%. The building also logs about 99 Wi-Fi sessions a day. Program attendance beats 93% of similar libraries. A year at the library ↓
Programs draw a crowd
46,000 people came to the system’s 1,410 programs last year: 0.9 per resident, against a typical 0.3, more than at 93% of similar-size libraries. Kids & programs ↓
Programs lean toward adults
54% of the 1,410 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 410 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; Elmont Public Library serves 52,853 people in and around Elmont, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Elmont’s civic life grade
Elmont isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
Every hour the doors are open, about 71 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Elmont Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Elmont Public Library serves 52,853 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
222K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
51,565 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 8 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
Elmont Public Library, 700 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Elmont Public Library branch.
New in Elmont? 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 $1.22 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Elmont cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $3.1M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $3.8M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $3.1M 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 29,082 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floral Park | Floral Park Public Library | 5.5 | 49 | B |
| Elmont | Elmont Public Library | — | 60 | — graded as part of its town |
| Franklin Square | Franklin Square Public Library | — | 56 | — graded as part of its town |
| Hempstead | Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library | — | 69 | C− |
| New York | Brooklyn Public Library fine-free | — | 64 | C− |
| North Valley Stream | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| South Floral Park | None of its own | — | — | 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.
- System-wide. Elmont Public Library serves 52,853 people in and around Elmont, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Elmont.
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 Elmont
Does Elmont have a public library?
Yes. Elmont Public Library, 700 Hempstead Turnpike, serves 52,853 people in and around Elmont (the survey’s count) and is open about 60 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Elmont 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 Elmont’s library?
It logged 10.2 visits and lent 4.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Elmont’s civic life grade?
Elmont isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Elmont.
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.