Wertz's Covered Bridge · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Spring Township’s library logs 2.4 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Spring Township Library serves Spring Township’s 28,407 residents from 2 locations. Last year it lent 130K books, movies and e-books and logged 67K visits.
What stands out about Spring Township’s library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Spring Township’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Spring Township is ahead of 28% of U.S. towns, #653 of 1,029 in Pennsylvania. All three inputs sit below most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups comes closest to the middle.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($71K–$119K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 →
82 community nonprofits are registered in Spring Township
2.9 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 (17 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
7.3%
7.3% of Spring 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 Spring Township’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.
Spring Township Library serves 28,407 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 27 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
130K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 42K books and other items on the shelves went out about 2.5 times last year, on average.
24,501 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 4 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 Spring Township last year.
2 places to borrow in Spring Township
Spring Township Library, 78-C Commerce Drive, Wyomissing.
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 Spring Township? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Other libraries in Spring Township
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $4.66 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Spring Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $427K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $427K 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 5,986 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Spring Township ranks 3rd of 3 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinking Spring | Sinking Spring Public Library fine-free | 14.8 | 46 | B |
| Wyomissing | Wyomissing Public Library fine-free | 5.4 | 47 | B+ |
| Spring Township | Spring Township Library fine-free | 4.6 | 46 | C |
| Bern Township | Schuylkill Valley Community Library fine-free | — | 43 | C+ |
| Lower Heidelberg Township | None of its own | — | — | C− |
| South Heidelberg Township | None of its own | — | — | C |
| Whitfield | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| West Wyomissing | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Cumru Township | None of its own | — | — | C− |
| Greenfields | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Springmont | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
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.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Spring Township
Does Spring Township have a public library?
Yes. Spring Township Library, 78-C Commerce Drive, serves Spring Township’s 28,407 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 46 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Spring Township 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 Spring Township’s library?
It logged 2.4 visits and lent 4.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Spring Township’s civic life grade?
C Spring Township is ahead of 28% of U.S. towns on civic life, #653 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 Spring 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.