Photo: The original uploader was Phmalo at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5Skaneateles’ library logs 7.1 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
The Skaneateles Library Association serves 7,112 people in and around Skaneateles. Last year it lent 76K books, movies and e-books and logged 51K visits.
What Skaneateles’s library is like
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 4 e-items per resident, against a typical 1, higher than at 94% of similar-size libraries. It’s 37% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
The Skaneateles Library Association serves more than Skaneateles
The library’s service area covers 7,112 people in and around Skaneateles, so its per-resident numbers are measured against that wider population. 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 Skaneateles’ civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Skaneateles is ahead of 73% of U.S. towns, #189 of 751 in New York. Skaneateles is graded on two of the three inputs. Skaneateles’ count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups 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 →
20 community nonprofits are registered in Skaneateles
7.8 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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.
6.9%
6.9% of Skaneateles’ 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 Skaneateles’ residents live; 2022.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
76K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 22K books and other items on the shelves went out about 2.2 times last year, on average.
28,232 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.
The Skaneateles Library Association serves 7,112 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 23 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
About 5 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
The Skaneateles Library Association, 49 East Genesee Street, Skaneateles.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Skaneateles? 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 $2.41 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Skaneateles cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $516K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.2M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $516K 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 5,055 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 Skaneateles
Does Skaneateles have a public library?
Yes. The Skaneateles Library Association, 49 East Genesee Street, serves 7,112 people in and around Skaneateles (the survey’s count) and is open about 63 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is The Skaneateles Library Association 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 Skaneateles’ library?
It logged 7.1 visits and lent 10.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Skaneateles’ civic life grade?
B+ Skaneateles is ahead of 73% of U.S. towns on civic life, #189 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 Skaneateles.
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.