Photo: Andrew Bain · CC BY-SA 3.0Moorefield’s library runs 8.3 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Hardy County Public Library serves 14,299 people in and around Moorefield. Last year it lent 29K books, movies and e-books and logged 28K visits.
What Moorefield’s library is like
West Virginia pays a big share
34% of the budget comes from the state, and 54% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Hardy County Public Library offered 119 programs last year, 8.3 per 1,000 residents against a typical 24. Kids & programs ↓
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; Hardy County Public Library serves 14,299 people in and around Moorefield, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Moorefield’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Moorefield is ahead of 97% of U.S. towns, #6 of 48 in West Virginia. Moorefield is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; Moorefield’s count of community nonprofits ranks highest.
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 →
22 community nonprofits are registered in Moorefield
8.7 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 (3 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
11.7%
11.7% of Moorefield’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 8.9% in the typical West Virginia 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 Moorefield’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Hardy County Public Library serves 14,299 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 12 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Hardy County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
29K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
The survey has no count of children’s loans for Moorefield’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
4,344 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. 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
Hardy County Public Library, 102 N. Main St., Moorefield.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Hardy County Public Library branch.
New in Moorefield? 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 $2.18 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Moorefield cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $227K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $494K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $227K 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 8,205 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Hardy County Public Library serves 14,299 people in and around Moorefield, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Moorefield.
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 Moorefield
Does Moorefield have a public library?
Yes. Hardy County Public Library, 102 N. Main St., serves 14,299 people in and around Moorefield (the survey’s count) and is open about 46 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Hardy County Public 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 Moorefield’s library?
It logged 2.0 visits and lent 2.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Moorefield’s civic life grade?
A+ Moorefield is ahead of 97% of U.S. towns on civic life, #6 of 48 in West Virginia. 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 Moorefield.
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.