Photo: Nicholas · CC BY 2.0East Drumore Township’s library lends 5.6 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Quarryville Library Center serves 38,191 people in and around East Drumore Township. Last year it lent 228K books, movies and e-books and logged 66K visits.
What East Drumore Township’s library is like
Mostly paid for by gifts, not taxes
68% of the system’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 13%. What your card is worth ↓
Few residents carry a card
Only 16% of the people the system serves have a library card, against a typical 39% for its size. How it compares ↓
Kids’ books are most of what goes out
Children’s books and media make up 65% of print loans. Per resident, kids’ borrowing is higher than at 81% of similar-size libraries. What people borrow ↓
Runs on less money than most
Quarryville Library Center spends $9 per resident, less than 97% of similar-size libraries (typical: $40). What your card is worth ↓
Almost all the borrowing is off the shelf
Only 7% of loans are e-books, audiobooks or streaming, fewer per resident than at 82% 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; Quarryville Library Center serves 38,191 people in and around East Drumore Township, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind East Drumore Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, East Drumore Township is ahead of 46% of U.S. towns, #394 of 1,029 in Pennsylvania. East Drumore Township is graded on two of the three inputs. East Drumore 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 →
16 community nonprofits are registered in East Drumore Township
4.0 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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 (4 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
7.1%
7.1% of East Drumore 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 East Drumore Township’s residents live; 2022.
About 5 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 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Quarryville Library Center serves 38,191 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 102 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Quarryville Library Center system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
228K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
15,205 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Quarryville Library Center, 357 Buck Road, Quarryville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Quarryville Library Center branch.
New in East Drumore 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 $9.71 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average East Drumore Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $337K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $3.3M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $337K 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 6,066 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Drumore Township | Quarryville Library Center | — | 43 | B− |
| Colerain Township | None of its own | — | — | C− |
| Drumore Township | None of its own | — | — | D |
| Quarryville | None of its own | — | — | B− |
| Providence Township | None of its own | — | — | D |
| Eden 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. Quarryville Library Center serves 38,191 people in and around East Drumore Township, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just East Drumore 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 East Drumore Township
Does East Drumore Township have a public library?
Yes. Quarryville Library Center, 357 Buck Road, serves 38,191 people in and around East Drumore Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 43 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Quarryville Library Center 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 East Drumore Township’s library?
It logged 1.7 visits and lent 6.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is East Drumore Township’s civic life grade?
B− East Drumore Township is ahead of 46% of U.S. towns on civic life, #394 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 East Drumore 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.