Allison Park’s library lends 5.6 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Hampton Community Library serves 18,479 people in and around Allison Park. Last year it lent 163K books, movies and e-books and logged 41K visits.
What Allison Park’s library is like
Still charges late fines, unlike its neighbors
Hampton Community Library charges late fines on some overdue items. Two of the three libraries in neighboring towns have dropped them. What your card is worth ↓
Gifts and endowments pay a real share
28% of the library’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 59%. What your card is worth ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 3.2 e-items per resident, against a typical 1.1, higher than at 90% of similar-size libraries. It’s 36% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
Kids’ books are most of what goes out
Children’s books and media make up 63% of print loans. Per resident, kids’ borrowing is higher than at 80% of similar-size libraries. 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 Allison Park’s civic life grade
Allison Park isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
163K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 29K books and other items on the shelves went out about 3.5 times last year, on average.
59,402 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 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Hampton Community Library serves 18,479 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 72 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
About 2 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
Hampton Community Library, 3101 Mccully Road, Allison Park.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Allison Park? 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 $6.81 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Allison Park cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $352K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2.4M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $352K 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 4,359 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Allison Park ranks 3rd of 4 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenshaw | Shaler North Hills Library fine-free | 17.1 | 50 | — graded as part of its town |
| Shaler Township | Shaler North Hills Library fine-free | 17.1 | 50 | B− |
| Allison Park | Hampton Community Library | 8.8 | 44 | — graded as part of its town |
| Hampton Township | Hampton Community Library | 8.8 | 44 | C |
| Indiana Township | 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 Allison Park
Does Allison Park have a public library?
Yes. Hampton Community Library, 3101 Mccully Road, serves 18,479 people in and around Allison Park (the survey’s count) and is open about 44 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Hampton Community 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 Allison Park’s library?
It logged 2.2 visits and lent 8.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Allison Park’s civic life grade?
Allison Park isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Allison Park.
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.