Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 4.0Tuxedo’s library logs 5 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Tuxedo Park Library serves Tuxedo’s 3,811 residents. Last year it lent 38K books, movies and e-books and logged 19K visits.
The short version on Tuxedo’s library
Most of Tuxedo’s borrowing is digital
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 50% of loans, more per resident than at 96% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 50%. What people borrow ↓
Tuxedo out-borrows every town next door
At 10 loans per resident, Tuxedo leads the five towns here. The closest is Sloatsburg, at 8.6. Libraries next door ↓
Still charges late fines, unlike its neighbors
Tuxedo Park Library charges late fines on some overdue items. Four of the six libraries in neighboring towns have dropped them. What your card is worth ↓
Tuxedo invests in its library
Tuxedo Park Library spends $173 per resident a year, about four times the typical $43 for a library its size. Almost all of it (92%) comes from local taxes. What your card is worth ↓
A place to get online
Tuxedo Park Library logs about 58 Wi-Fi sessions a day and has 6 public computers. That’s 5.6 sessions per resident a year. A year at the library ↓
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 Tuxedo’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Tuxedo is ahead of 62% of U.S. towns, #274 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 →
17 community nonprofits are registered in Tuxedo
4.6 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
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 (3 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.6%
6.6% of Tuxedo’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 Tuxedo’s residents live; 2022.
50% of borrowing is digital
38K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 29K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.7 time last year, on average.
19,141 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 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Tuxedo Park Library serves 3,811 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 12 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
169 programs a year
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 Tuxedo last year.
Find it
Tuxedo Park Library, 227 Route 17, Tuxedo Park.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Tuxedo? 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 Tuxedo cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $660K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $656K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $660K 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 2,179 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Tuxedo borrows the most per resident of the 5 towns here. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuxedo | Tuxedo Park Library | 10.0 | 60 | B |
| Sloatsburg | Sloatsburg Public Library | 8.6 | 54 | C+ |
| Monroe | Monroe Free Library fine-free | 3.8 | 59 | C− |
| Woodbury | Woodbury Public Library fine-free | 3.7 | 51 | C |
| Woodbury | Woodbury Public Library fine-free | 3.7 | 51 | — graded with its twin city |
| Warwick | Albert Wisner Public Library fine-free | — | 62 | A |
| Ramapo | Finkelstein Memorial Library | — | 65 | D |
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. Tuxedo Park 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 Tuxedo
Does Tuxedo have a public library?
Yes. Tuxedo Park Library, 227 Route 17, serves Tuxedo’s 3,811 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 60 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Tuxedo Park 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 Tuxedo’s library?
It logged 5.0 visits and lent 10.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Tuxedo’s civic life grade?
B Tuxedo is ahead of 62% of U.S. towns on civic life, #274 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 Tuxedo.
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.