Photo: Jared Kofsky/PlaceNJ.com · CC BY-SA 4.0Sloatsburg’s library runs 110 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34 for libraries its size
Sloatsburg Public Library serves Sloatsburg’s 3,036 residents. Last year it lent 26K books, movies and e-books and logged 12K visits.
The short version on Sloatsburg’s library
Three times the programs of a typical library its size
Sloatsburg Public Library ran 335 programs last year, about 6 a week. That’s 110 per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34. Kids & programs ↓
Sloatsburg invests in its library
Sloatsburg Public Library spends $157 per resident a year, about four times the typical $43 for a library its size. Almost all of it (97%) comes from local taxes. What your card is worth ↓
A place to get online
Sloatsburg Public Library logs about 49 Wi-Fi sessions a day and has 6 public computers. That’s 5.9 sessions per resident a year. A year at the library ↓
A big collection for the borrowing it gets
Sloatsburg Public Library holds 45,000 books and other items, but the average item went out less than once last year. What people borrow ↓
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 Sloatsburg’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Sloatsburg is ahead of 39% of U.S. towns, #468 of 751 in New York. Sloatsburg’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($81K–$135K) 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 →
13 community nonprofits are registered in Sloatsburg
4.3 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: arts & culture.
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 (5 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
5.0%
5.0% of Sloatsburg’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 Sloatsburg’s residents live; 2022.
About 3 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 Sloatsburg last year.
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.
Sloatsburg Public Library serves 3,036 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 9 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
26K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 45K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.4 time last year, on average.
7,403 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Sloatsburg Public Library, 1 Liberty Rock Road, Sloatsburg.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Sloatsburg? 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 Sloatsburg cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $477K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $464K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $477K 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 1,651 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Sloatsburg ranks 3rd of 3 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Sloatsburg Public 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 Sloatsburg
Does Sloatsburg have a public library?
Yes. Sloatsburg Public Library, 1 Liberty Rock Road, serves Sloatsburg’s 3,036 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 54 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Sloatsburg 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 Sloatsburg’s library?
It logged 3.9 visits and lent 8.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Sloatsburg’s civic life grade?
C+ Sloatsburg is ahead of 39% of U.S. towns on civic life, #468 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 Sloatsburg.
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.