Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 4.0Warwick’s library runs 50 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Albert Wisner Public Library serves 23,453 people in and around Warwick. Last year it lent 225K books, movies and e-books and logged 118K visits.
What stands out about Albert Wisner Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Warwick’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Warwick is ahead of 91% of U.S. towns, #63 of 751 in New York. All three inputs are above most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups ranks highest.
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 →
162 community nonprofits are registered in Warwick
5.1 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 (34 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 4 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
13.1%
13.1% of Warwick’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 Warwick’s residents live; 2022.
About 9 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.
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.
Albert Wisner Public Library serves 23,453 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 70 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Albert Wisner Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
225K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
61,744 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
3 places to borrow in Warwick
Albert Wisner Public Library, 1 Mcfarland Drive, Warwick.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Albert Wisner Public Library branch.
New in Warwick? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Other Albert Wisner Public Library branches in Warwick
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $2.16 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Warwick cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.7M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $3.6M 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 11,457 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuxedo | Tuxedo Park Library | 10.0 | 60 | B |
| Tuxedo | Tuxedo Park Library | 10.0 | 60 | — too few inputs |
| Ringwood | Ringwood Public Library fine-free | 7.4 | 55 | A |
| West Milford Township | West Milford Twsp. Library | 5.7 | 59 | A− |
| Chester | Chester Public Library fine-free | 4.7 | 54 | C |
| Warwick | Albert Wisner Public Library fine-free | — | 62 | A |
| Goshen | Goshen Public Library and Historical Society fine-free | — | 62 | A |
| Florida | Florida Public Library | — | 55 | A |
| Vernon Township | Dorothy Henry Branch fine-free | — | 54 | B+ |
| Minisink | None of its own | — | — | C+ |
| Wawayanda | None of its own | — | — | C− |
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. Albert Wisner Public Library serves 23,453 people in and around Warwick, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Warwick.
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 Warwick
Does Warwick have a public library?
Yes. Albert Wisner Public Library, 1 Mcfarland Drive, serves 23,453 people in and around Warwick (the survey’s count) and is open about 62 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Albert Wisner Public 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 Warwick’s library?
It logged 5.0 visits and lent 9.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Warwick’s civic life grade?
A Warwick is ahead of 91% of U.S. towns on civic life, #63 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 Warwick.
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.