Photo: Erik Drost on Flickr · CC BY 2.0Murrysville’s library lends 3.5 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Murrysville Community Library serves 28,783 people in and around Murrysville. Last year it lent 121K books, movies and e-books and logged 74K visits.
What stands out about Murrysville Community Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Murrysville’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Murrysville is ahead of 53% of U.S. towns, #311 of 1,029 in Pennsylvania. Murrysville is graded on two of the three inputs. Murrysville’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 →
100 community nonprofits are registered in Murrysville
4.8 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 (13 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 1 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
6.7%
6.7% of Murrysville’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 Murrysville’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Murrysville Community Library serves 28,783 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 47 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Murrysville Community Library system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
121K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
21,069 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 3 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
Murrysville Community Library, 4130 Sardis Rd, Murrysville.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Murrysville Community Library branch.
New in Murrysville? 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 $1.25 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Murrysville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.5M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.9M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.5M 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 6,901 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plum | Plum Borough Community Library fine-free | 5.9 | 51 | D |
| Penn Township | Penn Area Library fine-free | 4.8 | 49 | C+ |
| Murrysville | Murrysville Community Library fine-free | — | 49 | B− |
| Monroeville | Monroeville Public Library fine-free | — | 60 | B |
| Delmont | Delmont Public Library fine-free | — | 44 | B+ |
| Washington Township | None of its own | — | — | C |
| Upper Burrell Township | None of its own | — | — | C− |
| Level Green | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Salem 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. Murrysville Community Library serves 28,783 people in and around Murrysville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Murrysville.
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 Murrysville
Does Murrysville have a public library?
Yes. Murrysville Community Library, 4130 Sardis Rd, serves 28,783 people in and around Murrysville (the survey’s count) and is open about 49 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Murrysville Community 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 Murrysville’s library?
It logged 2.6 visits and lent 4.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Murrysville’s civic life grade?
B− Murrysville is ahead of 53% of U.S. towns on civic life, #311 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 Murrysville.
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.