Photo: Infrastorian · CC BY-SA 4.0Lynbrook’s library logs 3.6 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries its size
Lynbrook Public Library serves Lynbrook’s 20,438 residents. Last year it lent 125K books, movies and e-books and logged 75K visits.
What Lynbrook’s library is like
The library is a National Register landmark
Lynbrook Public Library has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2025. Today’s library there has 18,000 square feet. The building ↓
Lynbrook invests in its library
Lynbrook Public Library spends $86 per resident a year, about twice the typical $43 for a library its size. All of it 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 Lynbrook’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Lynbrook is ahead of 44% of U.S. towns, #418 of 751 in New York. Library visits hold the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($103K–$171K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 →
72 community nonprofits are registered in Lynbrook
3.5 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
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 (14 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 2 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.0%
7.0% of Lynbrook’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 Lynbrook’s residents live; 2022.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $1.12 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Lynbrook cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.8M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.8M 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 10,238 cardholders ÷ 12.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Lynbrook Public Library serves 20,438 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 44 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
125K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 64K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.3 time last year, on average.
41,098 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 Lynbrook last year.
A National Register landmark since 2025
Lynbrook Public Library, 56 Eldert Street, Lynbrook.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Lynbrook? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Lynbrook Public Library
Lynbrook Public Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Aug 27, 2025. It is significant for its architecture at the local level.
More about the building →Libraries next door
Lynbrook ranks 3rd of 4 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Rockaway | East Rockaway Public Library | 7.3 | 55 | B+ |
| Malverne | Malverne Public Library | 7.3 | 51 | B |
| Lynbrook | Lynbrook Public Library | 6.1 | 55 | C+ |
| Valley Stream | Henry Waldinger Memorial Library | 2.4 | 55 | C− |
| Hewlett | Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library | — | 69 | — graded as part of its town |
| Rockville Centre | Rockville Centre Public Library | — | 64 | B+ |
| Lakeview | Lakeview Public Library fine-free | — | 54 | — graded as part of its town |
| North Lynbrook | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
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.
- 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 Lynbrook
Does Lynbrook have a public library?
Yes. Lynbrook Public Library, 56 Eldert Street, serves Lynbrook’s 20,438 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 55 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Lynbrook 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 Lynbrook’s library?
It logged 3.6 visits and lent 6.1 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Lynbrook’s civic life grade?
C+ Lynbrook is ahead of 44% of U.S. towns on civic life, #418 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 Lynbrook.
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. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.