Photo: Shuvaev · CC BY-SA 4.0Wyomissing’s library runs 52 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Wyomissing Public Library serves Wyomissing’s 11,114 residents. Last year it lent 60K books, movies and e-books and logged 44K visits.
The short version on Wyomissing’s library
Gifts and endowments pay a real share
42% of the library’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 49%. What your card is worth ↓
Kids’ books are most of what goes out
Children’s books and media make up 60% of print loans. Per resident, kids’ borrowing is higher than at 62% of similar-size libraries. What people borrow ↓
This summary is written from the numbers on this page. Numbers are the library’s own report to the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
What’s behind Wyomissing’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Wyomissing is ahead of 71% of U.S. towns, #135 of 1,029 in Pennsylvania. Wyomissing’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 →
108 community nonprofits are registered in Wyomissing
9.6 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
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 (7 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 2 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
6.7%
6.7% of Wyomissing’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 Wyomissing’s residents live; 2022.
About 5 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 Wyomissing last year.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Wyomissing Public Library serves 11,114 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 24 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
60K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 36K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.2 time last year, on average.
16,410 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Wyomissing Public Library, 9 Reading Blvd, Wyomissing.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Wyomissing? 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 $2.44 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Wyomissing cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $401K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $979K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $401K 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 5,488 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Wyomissing borrows the most per resident of the 3 towns here. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyomissing | Wyomissing Public Library fine-free | 5.4 | 47 | B+ |
| Spring Township | Spring Township Library fine-free | 4.6 | 46 | C |
| Reading | Reading Public Library fine-free | 1.6 | 51 | D− |
| Bern Township | Schuylkill Valley Community Library fine-free | — | 43 | C+ |
| West Wyomissing | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Cumru Township | None of its own | — | — | C− |
| West Reading | None of its own | — | — | D |
| Lincoln Park | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Greenfields | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Colony Park | None of its own | — | — | — graded as part of its town |
| Whitfield | 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 Wyomissing
Does Wyomissing have a public library?
Yes. Wyomissing Public Library, 9 Reading Blvd, serves Wyomissing’s 11,114 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 47 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Wyomissing Public 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 Wyomissing’s library?
It logged 4.0 visits and lent 5.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Wyomissing’s civic life grade?
B+ Wyomissing is ahead of 71% of U.S. towns on civic life, #135 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 Wyomissing.
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.