Minoa’s library lends 9.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Minoa Library serves Minoa’s 3,657 residents. Last year it lent 896K books, movies and e-books and logged 19K visits.
Minoa’s library, in brief
Most of Minoa’s borrowing is digital
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 96% of loans, more per resident than at 99% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 4%. What people borrow ↓
Minoa borrows more library books per person than any town in New York
Out of 241 New York towns with a library of their own, Minoa comes first for items borrowed per resident. How it compares ↓
Nearly everyone in Minoa has a card
3,383 cards for 3,657 people, or 93%. At the typical library serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, it’s 42%. How it compares ↓
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 Minoa’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Minoa is ahead of 56% of U.S. towns, #325 of 751 in New York. Library visits hold the grade up; Minoa’s count of community nonprofits 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 →
8 community nonprofits are registered in Minoa
2.2 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 (1 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 1 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
9.0%
9.0% of Minoa’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 Minoa’s residents live; 2022.
96% of borrowing is digital
896K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 34K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1 time last year, on average.
862,382 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Minoa Library serves 3,657 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 382 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
About 1 kids’ program 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 Minoa last year.
Find it
Minoa Library, 242 N. Main Street, Minoa.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Minoa? 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 $62.11 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Minoa cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $217K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $13M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $217K budget.
Fine-free. No late fees on books returned late.
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 3,383 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Minoa 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 Minoa
Does Minoa have a public library?
Yes. Minoa Library, 242 N. Main Street, serves Minoa’s 3,657 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 45 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Minoa Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Minoa’s library?
It logged 5.3 visits and lent 245.1 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Minoa’s civic life grade?
B Minoa is ahead of 56% of U.S. towns on civic life, #325 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 Minoa.
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.