Photo: The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0Pine Bush’s library runs 34 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Pine Bush Area Public Library District serves 14,571 people in and around Pine Bush. Last year it lent 47K books, movies and e-books and logged 26K visits.
What’s behind Pine Bush’s civic life grade
Pine Bush 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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Pine Bush Area Public Library District serves 14,571 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 21 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Pine Bush Area Public Library District system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
47K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
17,606 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, 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
Pine Bush Area Public Library District, 223-227 Maple Avenue, Pine Bush.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Pine Bush Area Public Library District branch.
New in Pine Bush? 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 $2.29 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Pine Bush cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $322K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $739K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $322K 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 3,900 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shawangunk | Wallkill Public Library fine-free | 3.4 | 50 | C |
| Pine Bush | Pine Bush Area Public Library District | — | 42 | — graded as part of its town |
| Crawford | Pine Bush Area Public Library District | — | 42 | 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. Pine Bush Area Public Library District serves 14,571 people in and around Pine Bush, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Pine Bush.
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 Pine Bush
Does Pine Bush have a public library?
Yes. Pine Bush Area Public Library District, 223-227 Maple Avenue, serves 14,571 people in and around Pine Bush (the survey’s count) and is open about 42 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pine Bush Area Public Library District 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 Pine Bush’s library?
It logged 1.8 visits and lent 3.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Pine Bush’s civic life grade?
Pine Bush 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 Pine Bush.
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.