Honeoye’s library lends 8.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Honeoye Public Library serves 3,360 people in and around Honeoye. Last year it lent 35K books, movies and e-books and logged 23K visits.
What Honeoye’s library is like
Honeoye uses its library more than almost any town its size
Honeoye Public Library logs 6.8 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, and lends 8.3 print items per resident against a typical 3.8. On both counts it beats 85% of similar-size libraries across the U.S. How it compares ↓
Honeoye Public Library serves more than Honeoye
The library’s service area covers 3,360 people in and around Honeoye, so its per-resident numbers are measured against that wider population. How it compares ↓
Programs lean toward adults
56% of the 189 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 84 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.
What’s behind Honeoye’s civic life grade
Honeoye 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 24 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Honeoye Public Library serves 3,360 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
35K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 16K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.7 times last year, on average.
6,996 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 2 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.
Find it
Honeoye Public Library, 8708 Main St., Honeoye.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Honeoye? 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 $3.50 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Honeoye cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $154K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $537K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $154K 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 1,519 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Honeoye
Does Honeoye have a public library?
Yes. Honeoye Public Library, 8708 Main St., serves 3,360 people in and around Honeoye (the survey’s count) and is open about 28 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Honeoye 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 Honeoye’s library?
It logged 6.8 visits and lent 10.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Honeoye’s civic life grade?
Honeoye 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 Honeoye.
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.