Photo: Asdfghjkl929 · Public domainTobyhanna Township’s library runs 49 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Clymer Library Association serves 15,352 people in and around Tobyhanna Township. Last year it lent 38K books, movies and e-books and logged 18K visits.
What stands out about Clymer Library Association
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Tobyhanna Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Tobyhanna Township is ahead of 31% of U.S. towns, #612 of 1,029 in Pennsylvania. Tobyhanna Township is graded on two of the three inputs. Both 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 ($68K–$113K) 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 →
24 community nonprofits are registered in Tobyhanna Township
2.9 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 (6 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
7.3%
7.3% of Tobyhanna 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 Tobyhanna Township’s residents live; 2022.
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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Clymer Library Association serves 15,352 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 14 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Clymer Library Association system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
38K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
7,426 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Clymer Library Association, 115 Firehouse Rd., Pocono Pines.
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 Clymer Library Association branch.
New in Tobyhanna 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 $1.87 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Tobyhanna Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $385K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $722K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $385K 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 3,662 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolbaugh Township | Pocono Mountain Public Library fine-free | 0.9 | 39 | D− |
| Tobyhanna Township | Clymer Library Association fine-free | — | 51 | C |
| Pocono Township | Pocono Township Branch fine-free | — | 43 | C+ |
| Kidder Township | None of its own | — | — | B− |
| Buck Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Thornhurst Township | None of its own | — | — | C+ |
| Tunkhannock Township | None of its own | — | — | D |
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. Clymer Library Association serves 15,352 people in and around Tobyhanna Township, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Tobyhanna 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 Tobyhanna Township
Does Tobyhanna Township have a public library?
Yes. Clymer Library Association, 115 Firehouse Rd., serves 15,352 people in and around Tobyhanna Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 51 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Clymer Library Association 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 Tobyhanna Township’s library?
It logged 1.2 visits and lent 2.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Tobyhanna Township’s civic life grade?
C Tobyhanna Township is ahead of 31% of U.S. towns on civic life, #612 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 Tobyhanna 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.