Photo: Dough4872 · CC BY-SA 4.0Camp Hill’s library lends 6.7 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Cleve J. Fredricksen Library serves 89,602 people in and around Camp Hill. Last year it lent 686K books, movies and e-books and logged 232K visits.
What Camp Hill’s library is like
Gifts and endowments pay a real share
29% of the system’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 56%. What your card is worth ↓
Open about 64 hours a week
The Camp Hill branch is open about 64 hours a week, averaged over the year. The building ↓
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; Cleve J. Fredricksen Library serves 89,602 people in and around Camp Hill, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Camp Hill’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Camp Hill is ahead of 80% of U.S. towns, #72 of 1,029 in Pennsylvania. Camp Hill is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; Camp Hill’s count of community nonprofits 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 →
61 community nonprofits are registered in Camp Hill
7.4 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 (7 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.
7.7%
7.7% of Camp Hill’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 Camp Hill’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Cleve J. Fredricksen Library serves 89,602 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 126 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Cleve J. Fredricksen Library system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
686K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
81,267 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 17 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.
Find it
Cleve J Fredricksen Library, 100 North 19th Street, Camp Hill.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Cleve J. Fredricksen Library branch.
New in Camp Hill? 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 $6.25 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Camp Hill cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.7M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.7M 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 26,671 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Hill | Cleve J Fredricksen Library | — | 64 | A− |
| East Pennsboro Township | East Pennsboro Library | — | 41 | C+ |
| Lower Allen Township | None of its own | — | — | B− |
| Lemoyne | None of its own | — | — | B+ |
| Hampden Township | 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. Cleve J. Fredricksen Library serves 89,602 people in and around Camp Hill, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Camp Hill.
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 Camp Hill
Does Camp Hill have a public library?
Yes. Cleve J. Fredricksen Library, 100 North 19th Street, serves 89,602 people in and around Camp Hill (the survey’s count) and is open about 64 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Cleve J. Fredricksen 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 Camp Hill’s library?
It logged 2.6 visits and lent 7.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Camp Hill’s civic life grade?
A− Camp Hill is ahead of 80% of U.S. towns on civic life, #72 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 Camp Hill.
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.