Photo: AITFFan1 · CC BY-SA 4.0New Hyde Park’s library runs 48 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Hillside Public Library of New Hyde Park serves 23,880 people in and around New Hyde Park. Last year it lent 149K books, movies and e-books and logged 116K visits.
New Hyde Park’s library, in brief
Programs draw a crowd
41,000 people came to the system’s 1,141 programs last year: 1.7 per resident, against a typical 0.4, more than at 97% of similar-size libraries. Kids & programs ↓
A well-funded system
Hillside Public Library of New Hyde Park spends $120 per resident a year, about three times the typical $43 for a library its size. Almost all of it (96%) 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; Hillside Public Library of New Hyde Park serves 23,880 people in and around New Hyde Park, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind New Hyde Park’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, New Hyde Park is ahead of 12% of U.S. towns, #692 of 751 in New York. New Hyde Park is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs sit below most U.S. towns; New Hyde Park’s count of community nonprofits comes closest to the middle.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($107K–$179K) 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 →
30 community nonprofits are registered in New Hyde Park
2.9 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 (14 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 5 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
4.6%
4.6% of New Hyde 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 New Hyde Park’s residents live; 2022.
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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Hillside Public Library of New Hyde Park serves 23,880 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 53 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Hillside Public Library of New Hyde Park system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
149K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
38,764 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Hillside Public Library of New Hyde Park, 155 Lakeville Road, New Hyde Park.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Hillside Public Library of New Hyde Park branch.
New in New Hyde Park? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average New Hyde Park cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $2.9M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2.6M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $2.9M 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 9,967 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garden City | Garden City Public Library | 9.2 | 62 | B+ |
| Floral Park | Floral Park Public Library | 5.5 | 49 | B |
| 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 |
| 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.
- System-wide. Hillside Public Library of New Hyde Park serves 23,880 people in and around New Hyde Park, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just New Hyde Park.
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 New Hyde Park
Does New Hyde Park have a public library?
Yes. Hillside Public Library of New Hyde Park, 155 Lakeville Road, serves 23,880 people in and around New Hyde Park (the survey’s count) and is open about 54 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Hillside Public Library of New Hyde Park 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 New Hyde Park’s library?
It logged 4.9 visits and lent 6.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is New Hyde Park’s civic life grade?
D New Hyde Park is ahead of 12% of U.S. towns on civic life, #692 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 New Hyde 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.