Woonsocket’s library logs 29 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Woonsocket Community Library serves 1,235 people in and around Woonsocket. Last year it lent 6,553 books, movies and e-books and logged 35K visits.
The short version on Woonsocket’s library
Visits are the system’s strong suit
Woonsocket Community Library logs 29 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people, more than 99% of similar-size libraries. Borrowing is above typical too, at 5.3 print items per resident. How it compares ↓
Almost all the borrowing is off the shelf
Only 0% of loans are e-books, audiobooks or streaming, fewer per resident than at 99% 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; Woonsocket Community Library serves 1,235 people in and around Woonsocket, and its numbers cover all of them; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Woonsocket’s civic life grade
Woonsocket 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 →
Every hour the doors are open, about 4 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Woonsocket Community Library system. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Woonsocket Community Library serves 1,235 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
6,553 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 1 kids’ program 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
Woonsocket Community Library, 101 N 2nd, Woonsocket.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Woonsocket Community Library branch.
New in Woonsocket? 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 $2.05 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Woonsocket cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $59K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $121K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $59K 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 533 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits count everyone. Woonsocket’s 35,200 visits include people from nearby towns and summer visitors; the survey has no resident share.
- System-wide. Woonsocket Community Library serves 1,235 people in and around Woonsocket, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Woonsocket.
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 Woonsocket
Does Woonsocket have a public library?
Yes. Woonsocket Community Library, 101 N 2nd, serves 1,235 people in and around Woonsocket (the survey’s count) and is open about 30 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Woonsocket Community 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 Woonsocket’s library?
It logged 28.5 visits and lent 5.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Woonsocket’s civic life grade?
Woonsocket 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 Woonsocket.
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.