Photo: Generic1139 · CC BY-SA 3.0Green Tree’s library lends 13 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Green Tree Public Library serves Green Tree’s 4,941 residents. Last year it lent 78K books, movies and e-books and logged 32K visits.
What Green Tree’s library is like
Green Tree is a town of borrowers
Green Tree Public Library lends 13 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, more than 96% of similar-size libraries. Each item on the shelves went out about 2.3 times last year. What people borrow ↓
Kids borrow more here than almost anywhere
Children’s books and media are 50% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 96% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 44 items per child in Green Tree last year. Kids & programs ↓
Top 10% in Pennsylvania for kids’ borrowing
Green Tree ranks #6 of 107 Pennsylvania towns with a library of their own for children’s items borrowed per child. How it compares ↓
Nearly everyone in Green Tree has a card
4,360 cards for 4,941 people, or 88%. At the typical library serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, it’s 42%. How it compares ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 2.9 e-items per resident, against a typical 1, higher than at 88% of similar-size libraries. It’s 18% of all loans. 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 Green Tree’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Green Tree is ahead of 54% of U.S. towns, #303 of 1,029 in Pennsylvania. Library visits hold 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 →
18 community nonprofits are registered in Green Tree
3.7 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
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 (2 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.0%
6.0% of Green Tree’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 Green Tree’s residents live; 2022.
About 3 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.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Green Tree last year.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Green Tree Public Library serves 4,941 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 34 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
78K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 27K books and other items on the shelves went out about 2.3 times last year, on average.
14,095 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Green Tree Public Library, 10 W Manilla Ave, Pittsburgh.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Green Tree? 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 $3.23 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Green Tree cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $378K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.2M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $378K 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 4,360 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Green Tree borrows the most per resident of the 3 towns here. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Tree | Green Tree Public Library fine-free | 15.8 | 44 | B− |
| Pittsburgh | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh fine-free | 9.6 | 62 | A− |
| Scott Township | Scott Township Public Library fine-free | 4.7 | 47 | 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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Green Tree Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Green Tree
Does Green Tree have a public library?
Yes. Green Tree Public Library, 10 W Manilla Ave, serves Green Tree’s 4,941 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 44 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Green Tree 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 Green Tree’s library?
It logged 6.4 visits and lent 15.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Green Tree’s civic life grade?
B− Green Tree is ahead of 54% of U.S. towns on civic life, #303 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 Green Tree.
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.