Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Corinth’s library runs 70 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34 for libraries its size
Blake Memorial serves 2,740 people in and around Corinth. Last year it lent 10K books, movies and e-books and logged 5,093 visits.
What Corinth’s library is like
Mostly paid for by gifts, not taxes
97% of the system’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 2%. What your card is worth ↓
Open only about 18 hours a week
The Corinth branch keeps short hours: about 18 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
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; Blake Memorial serves 2,740 people in and around Corinth, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Corinth’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Corinth is ahead of 41% of U.S. towns. Corinth is graded on two of the three inputs. Corinth’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($67K–$111K) 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 →
9 community nonprofits are registered in Corinth
5.6 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: environment & animals.
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 (1 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
4.8%
4.8% of Corinth’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 8.5% in the typical Vermont 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 Corinth’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Blake Memorial serves 2,740 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 11 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Blake Memorial system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
10K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
2,416 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 2 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
Blake Memorial, 676 Village Rd., E. Corinth.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Blake Memorial branch.
New in Corinth? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Corinth cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $184K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $166K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $184K 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 793 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradford | Bradford Public fine-free | 4.3 | 28 | A− |
| Corinth | Blake Memorial fine-free | — | 18 | C+ |
| Washington | Calef Memorial | — | 24 | — too few inputs |
| Vershire | Vershire Community | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Topsham | None of its own | — | — | A |
| Orange | None of its own | — | — | D |
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. Blake Memorial serves 2,740 people in and around Corinth, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Corinth.
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 Corinth
Does Corinth have a public library?
Yes. Blake Memorial, 676 Village Rd., serves 2,740 people in and around Corinth (the survey’s count) and is open about 18 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Blake Memorial 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 Corinth’s library?
It logged 1.9 visits and lent 3.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Corinth’s civic life grade?
C+ Corinth is ahead of 41% of U.S. towns on civic life. 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 Corinth.
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.