Photo: DanTD · CC BY-SA 4.0Franklin Square’s library runs 25 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 14 for libraries its size
Franklin Square Public Library serves 25,901 people in and around Franklin Square. Last year it lent 203K books, movies and e-books and logged 89K visits.
What stands out about Franklin Square Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Franklin Square’s civic life grade
Franklin Square 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 →
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $1.23 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Franklin Square cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $2.6M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $3.3M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $2.6M 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 8,757 cardholders ÷ 12.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Franklin Square Public Library serves 25,901 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 70 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Franklin Square Public Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
203K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
69,358 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 6 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
Franklin Square Public Library, 19 Lincoln Road, Franklin Square.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Franklin Square Public Library branch.
New in Franklin Square? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garden City | Garden City Public Library | 9.2 | 62 | B+ |
| Franklin Square | Franklin Square Public Library | — | 56 | — graded as part of its town |
| Elmont | Elmont Public Library | — | 60 | — graded as part of its town |
| West Hempstead | West Hempstead Public Library | — | 66 | — graded as part of its town |
| Stewart Manor | None of its own | — | — | B |
| Garden City South | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Malverne Park Oaks | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| North Valley Stream | 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. Franklin Square Public Library serves 25,901 people in and around Franklin Square, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Franklin Square.
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 Franklin Square
Does Franklin Square have a public library?
Yes. Franklin Square Public Library, 19 Lincoln Road, serves 25,901 people in and around Franklin Square (the survey’s count) and is open about 56 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Franklin Square 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 Franklin Square’s library?
It logged 3.4 visits and lent 7.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Franklin Square’s civic life grade?
Franklin Square 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 Franklin Square.
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.