Photo: CaffeineCataloger · CC BY-SA 4.0Tarrytown’s library runs 89 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Warner Library serves Tarrytown’s 11,860 residents. Last year it lent 171K books, movies and e-books and logged 120K visits.
What Tarrytown’s library is like
Four times the programs of a typical library its size
Warner Library ran 1,059 programs last year, about 20 a week. That’s 89 per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24. People show up: 12,000 attended. Kids & programs ↓
Tarrytown uses its library more than almost any town its size
Warner Library logs 10 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people, and lends 8.8 print items per resident against a typical 3.9. On both counts it beats 87% of similar-size libraries across the U.S. How it compares ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 5.6 e-items per resident, against a typical 1.1, higher than at 98% of similar-size libraries. It’s 39% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
Top 10% in New York for library use
Tarrytown ranks #10 of 241 New York towns with a library of their own for visits per resident. That’s 10 visits per resident, more than at 97% of similar-size libraries nationwide. How it compares ↓
Tarrytown invests in its library
Warner Library spends $147 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.
What’s behind Tarrytown’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Tarrytown is ahead of 77% of U.S. towns, #154 of 751 in New York. Library visits hold 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 →
65 community nonprofits are registered in Tarrytown
5.5 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 (10 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.
6.4%
6.4% of Tarrytown’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 Tarrytown’s residents live; 2022.
About 6 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 Tarrytown last year.
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.
Warner Library serves 11,860 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 81 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
171K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 84K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.3 time last year, on average.
65,990 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Warner Library, 121 North Broadway, Tarrytown.
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 Tarrytown? 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 $1.54 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Tarrytown cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.7M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2.7M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.7M 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 8,718 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Tarrytown ranks 2nd of 3 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irvington | Irvington Public Library Guiteau Foundation | 16.4 | 48 | A+ |
| Tarrytown | Warner Library fine-free | 14.4 | 41 | A− |
| Mount Pleasant | Mount Pleasant Public Library fine-free | 7.6 | 53 | B+ |
| Greenburgh | Greenburgh Public Library fine-free | — | 53 | B+ |
| Orangetown | Pearl River Public Library | — | 61 | B+ |
| Sleepy Hollow | 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.
- 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 Tarrytown
Does Tarrytown have a public library?
Yes. Warner Library, 121 North Broadway, serves Tarrytown’s 11,860 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 41 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Warner 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 Tarrytown’s library?
It logged 10.1 visits and lent 14.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Tarrytown’s civic life grade?
A− Tarrytown is ahead of 77% of U.S. towns on civic life, #154 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 Tarrytown.
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.