Photo: User:karthik_sripal · CC BY-SA 3.0Tredyffrin Township’s library runs 35 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 14 for libraries its size
Tredyffrin Public Library serves 37,563 people in and around Tredyffrin Township from 2 locations. Last year it lent 353K books, movies and e-books and logged 153K visits.
What stands out about Tredyffrin Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Tredyffrin Township’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Tredyffrin Township is ahead of 67% of U.S. towns, #166 of 1,029 in Pennsylvania. Tredyffrin Township’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 →
192 community nonprofits are registered in Tredyffrin Township
6.0 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: education.
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 (20 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 8 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.0%
7.0% of Tredyffrin 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 Tredyffrin Township’s residents live; 2022.
About 11 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 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Tredyffrin Public Library serves 37,563 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 70 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Tredyffrin Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
353K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
99,325 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
2 places to borrow in Tredyffrin Township
Tredyffrin Public Library, 582 Upper Gulph Rd, Wayne.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Tredyffrin Public Library branch.
New in Tredyffrin Township? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Other Tredyffrin Public Library branches in Tredyffrin Township
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $2.79 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Tredyffrin Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $2M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $5.6M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $2M 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 14,625 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easttown Township | Easttown Library | 32.3 | 58 | A− |
| Berwyn | Easttown Library | 32.3 | 58 | — graded as part of its town |
| Radnor Township | Memorial Library of Radnor Township | 10.0 | 69 | B+ |
| Upper Merion Township | Upper Merion Township Library fine-free | 7.3 | 47 | C+ |
| King of Prussia | Upper Merion Township Library fine-free | 7.3 | 47 | — graded as part of its town |
| Tredyffrin Township | Tredyffrin Public Library | — | 53 | B+ |
| Paoli | Paoli Library | — | 44 | — graded as part of its town |
| Willistown Township | None of its own | — | — | B+ |
| Schuylkill Township | None of its own | — | — | C+ |
| East Whiteland Township | None of its own | — | — | B |
| Devon | 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.
- System-wide. Tredyffrin Public Library serves 37,563 people in and around Tredyffrin Township, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Tredyffrin 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 Tredyffrin Township
Does Tredyffrin Township have a public library?
Yes. Tredyffrin Public Library, 582 Upper Gulph Rd, serves 37,563 people in and around Tredyffrin Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 53 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Tredyffrin 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 Tredyffrin Township’s library?
It logged 4.1 visits and lent 9.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Tredyffrin Township’s civic life grade?
B+ Tredyffrin Township is ahead of 67% of U.S. towns on civic life, #166 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 Tredyffrin 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.