Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 4.0Narragansett Pier’s library lends 8.7 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Maury Loontjens Memorial Library (Narragansett) serves 14,532 people in and around Narragansett Pier. Last year it lent 169K books, movies and e-books and logged 62K visits.
The short version on Narragansett Pier’s library
Still charges late fines, unlike its neighbors
Maury Loontjens Memorial Library (Narragansett) charges late fines on some overdue items. Two of the three libraries in neighboring towns have dropped them. What your card is worth ↓
Narragansett Pier out-borrows every town next door
At 11.6 loans per resident, Narragansett Pier leads the four towns here. The closest is Narragansett, at 11.6. Libraries next door ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 3 e-items per resident, against a typical 1.1, higher than at 88% of similar-size libraries. It’s 26% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
Maury Loontjens Memorial Library (Narragansett) serves more than Narragansett Pier
The library’s service area covers 14,532 people in and around Narragansett Pier, so its per-resident numbers are measured against that wider population. How it compares ↓
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 Narragansett Pier’s civic life grade
Narragansett Pier 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 →
Mostly books and media off the shelf
169K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 61K books and other items on the shelves went out about 2.1 times last year, on average.
43,537 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Maury Loontjens Memorial Library (Narragansett) serves 14,532 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 58 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
About 2 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.
Find it
Maury Loontjens Memorial Library (Narragansett), 25 Pier Marketplace, Narragansett.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Narragansett Pier? 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 $2.42 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Narragansett Pier cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.1M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2.7M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.1M 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 7,433 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Narragansett Pier borrows the most per resident of the 4 towns here. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Narragansett Pier | Maury Loontjens Memorial Library (Narragansett) | 11.6 | 57 | — graded as part of its town |
| Narragansett | Maury Loontjens Memorial Library (Narragansett) | 11.6 | 57 | A− |
| South Kingstown | South Kingstown Public Library fine-free | 8.1 | 52 | B |
| Wakefield-Peace Dale | South Kingstown Public Library fine-free | 8.1 | 52 | — 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 Narragansett Pier
Does Narragansett Pier have a public library?
Yes. Maury Loontjens Memorial Library (Narragansett), 25 Pier Marketplace, serves 14,532 people in and around Narragansett Pier (the survey’s count) and is open about 57 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Maury Loontjens Memorial Library (Narragansett) 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 Narragansett Pier’s library?
It logged 4.3 visits and lent 11.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Narragansett Pier’s civic life grade?
Narragansett Pier 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 Narragansett Pier.
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.