Biever House · Photo: Smallbones · CC0Annville Township’s library runs 53 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Annville Free Library serves 12,477 people in and around Annville Township. Last year it lent 84K books, movies and e-books and logged 43K visits.
What Annville Township’s library is like
Gifts and endowments pay a real share
47% of the system’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 32%. What your card is worth ↓
Programs lean toward adults
58% of the 662 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 216 were for children. Kids & programs ↓
Almost all the borrowing is off the shelf
Only 5% of loans are e-books, audiobooks or streaming, fewer per resident than at 85% 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; Annville Free Library serves 12,477 people in and around Annville Township, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Annville Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Annville Township is ahead of 68% of U.S. towns, #156 of 1,029 in Pennsylvania. Annville Township is graded on two of the three inputs. Annville Township’s count of community nonprofits holds 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 →
26 community nonprofits are registered in Annville Township
5.3 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 (6 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 2 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.5%
7.5% of Annville Township’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 7.0% in the typical Pennsylvania 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 Annville Township’s residents live; 2022.
About 4 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 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Annville Free Library serves 12,477 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 30 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Annville Free Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
84K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
3,866 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Annville Free Library, 216 E Main St., Annville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Annville Free Library branch.
New in Annville Township? 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 $4.84 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Annville Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $266K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.3M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $266K 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 8,473 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annville Township | Annville Free Library | — | 54 | B+ |
| South Annville Township | None of its own | — | — | B− |
| North Annville 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.
- System-wide. Annville Free Library serves 12,477 people in and around Annville Township, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Annville Township.
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 Annville Township
Does Annville Township have a public library?
Yes. Annville Free Library, 216 E Main St., serves 12,477 people in and around Annville Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 54 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Annville Free 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 Annville Township’s library?
It logged 3.4 visits and lent 6.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Annville Township’s civic life grade?
B+ Annville Township is ahead of 68% of U.S. towns on civic life, #156 of 1,029 in Pennsylvania. 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 Annville Township.
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.