Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Moncks Corner’s library is a branch of Berkeley County Library System, which lends less per resident than 58% of systems its size
Moncks Corner’s library is the Berkeley County Library: Moncks Corner, a branch of Berkeley County Library System, which serves 229,861 people and lent 636K items last year.
What stands out about Berkeley County Library: Moncks Corner
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Moncks Corner’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Moncks Corner is ahead of 12% of U.S. towns, #65 of 102 in South Carolina. Moncks Corner is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs sit below most U.S. towns; Moncks Corner’s count of community nonprofits comes closest to the middle.
Berkeley County Library System spends $19 per resident, against a typical $36 for libraries its size.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($69K–$114K) 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 →
40 community nonprofits are registered in Moncks Corner
2.6 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 (23 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.
5.3%
5.3% of Moncks Corner’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 4.4% in the typical South Carolina 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 Moncks Corner’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 100,000+ people across the U.S.
Berkeley County Library System serves 229,861 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.
Every hour the doors are open, about 31 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Berkeley County Library System system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
636K print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 9 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.
Find it
Berkeley County Library: Moncks Corner, 1003 Highway 52, Moncks Corner.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Berkeley County Library System branch.
New in Moncks Corner? 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 $2.02 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Moncks Corner cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $4.5M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $9.1M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $4.5M 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 98,579 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
- System-wide. Berkeley County Library: Moncks Corner is one branch of Berkeley County Library System, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 229,861 people it serves.
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 Moncks Corner
Does Moncks Corner have a public library?
Yes: Berkeley County Library: Moncks Corner, 1003 Highway 52, is a branch of Berkeley County Library System, which serves 229,861 people. The branch is open about 56 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Berkeley County Library System 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 Moncks Corner’s library?
It logged 1.5 visits and lent 2.8 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.
What is Moncks Corner’s civic life grade?
D Moncks Corner is ahead of 12% of U.S. towns on civic life, #65 of 102 in South Carolina. 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 Moncks Corner.
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.