Photo: DanTD · CC BY-SA 4.0Floral Park’s library logs 6.7 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries its size
Floral Park Public Library serves Floral Park’s 16,172 residents. Last year it lent 89K books, movies and e-books and logged 108K visits.
Floral Park’s library, in brief
More of a place to be than a place to borrow
Visits per resident beat 89% of similar-size libraries, while borrowing beats only 44%. The building also logs about 85 Wi-Fi sessions a day. A year at the library ↓
Programs lean toward adults
54% of the 471 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 183 were for children. Kids & programs ↓
Floral Park invests in its library
Floral Park Public Library spends $88 per resident a year, about twice the typical $43 for a library its size. Almost all of it (97%) comes from local taxes. What your card is worth ↓
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 Floral Park’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Floral Park is ahead of 64% of U.S. towns, #259 of 751 in New York. Library visits hold 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 →
84 community nonprofits are registered in Floral Park
5.2 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 (22 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 10 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
5.4%
5.4% of Floral Park’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 Floral Park’s residents live; 2022.
Every hour the doors are open, about 35 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Floral Park Public Library serves 16,172 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
89K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 44K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.3 time last year, on average.
32,703 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 4 kids’ programs a week
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 Floral Park last year.
Find it
Floral Park Public Library, 17 Caroline Place, Floral Park.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Floral Park? 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 $1.04 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Floral Park cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.4M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.5M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.4M 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 8,494 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 |
| New Hyde Park | Hillside Public Library of New Hyde Park | — | 54 | D |
| North New Hyde Park | Great Neck Library - Parkville Branch fine-free | — | 23 | — graded as part of its town |
| New York | Brooklyn Public Library fine-free | — | 64 | C− |
| South Floral Park | None of its own | — | — | D− |
| Bellerose | None of its own | — | — | D− |
| Stewart Manor | 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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Floral Park 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 Floral Park
Does Floral Park have a public library?
Yes. Floral Park Public Library, 17 Caroline Place, serves Floral Park’s 16,172 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 49 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Floral Park 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 Floral Park’s library?
It logged 6.7 visits and lent 5.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Floral Park’s civic life grade?
B Floral Park is ahead of 64% of U.S. towns on civic life, #259 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 Floral Park.
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.