Photo: Zeete · CC BY-SA 4.0Riegelsville’s library lends 5.7 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Riegelsville Public Library serves 1,941 people in and around Riegelsville. Last year it lent 16K books, movies and e-books and logged 5,755 visits.
What’s behind Riegelsville’s civic life grade
Riegelsville isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Riegelsville Public Library serves 1,941 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 10 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Riegelsville Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
16K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
4,831 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 2 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
Riegelsville Public Library, 615 Easton Road, Riegelsville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Riegelsville Public Library branch.
New in Riegelsville? 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 $2.85 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Riegelsville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $89K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $254K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $89K 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 997 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riegelsville | Riegelsville Public Library | — | 29 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Pohatcong Township | Southwest Branch fine-free | — | 57 | C |
| Holland Township | Holland Township Free Public Library | — | — | A− |
| Durham Township | None of its own | — | — | A− |
| Finesville | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
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. Riegelsville Public Library serves 1,941 people in and around Riegelsville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Riegelsville.
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 Riegelsville
Does Riegelsville have a public library?
Yes. Riegelsville Public Library, 615 Easton Road, serves 1,941 people in and around Riegelsville (the survey’s count) and is open about 29 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Riegelsville Public 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 Riegelsville’s library?
It logged 3.0 visits and lent 8.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Riegelsville’s civic life grade?
Riegelsville isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Riegelsville.
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.