Photo: Alainmoscoso · CC BY-SA 3.0Piedmont’s library logs 5 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Piedmont Public Library serves 1,119 people in and around Piedmont. Last year it lent 676 books, movies and e-books and logged 5,649 visits.
Piedmont’s library, in brief
Gifts and endowments pay a real share
30% of the system’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 48%. What your card is worth ↓
People visit, but borrow less than most
Piedmont Public Library lends 0.6 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries serving under 2,500 people, fewer than 95% of similar-size libraries, though visits are closer to typical. 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; Piedmont Public Library serves 1,119 people in and around Piedmont, 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 Piedmont’s civic life grade
Piedmont 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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Piedmont Public Library serves 1,119 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
A year at Piedmont Public Library
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Piedmont Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
676 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
The survey has no count of children’s loans for Piedmont’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
10 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
Find it
Piedmont Public Library, 1 Childs Avenue, Piedmont.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Piedmont Public Library branch.
New in Piedmont? 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 Piedmont cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $34K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $21K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $34K 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 486 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piedmont | Piedmont Public Library fine-free | — | 33 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Westernport | Westernport Public Library | — | 28 | B+ |
| Luke | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
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. Piedmont Public Library serves 1,119 people in and around Piedmont, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Piedmont.
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 Piedmont
Does Piedmont have a public library?
Yes. Piedmont Public Library, 1 Childs Avenue, serves 1,119 people in and around Piedmont (the survey’s count) and is open about 33 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Piedmont Public Library 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 Piedmont’s library?
It logged 5.0 visits and lent 0.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Piedmont’s civic life grade?
Piedmont 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 Piedmont.
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.