Pearl Street Branch Library
Enfield Public Library serves 40,792 people in and around Thompsonville. Last year it lent 200K books, movies and e-books and logged 95K visits.
Thompsonville’s library, in brief
The library is a National Register landmark
Enfield Carnegie Library has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2025. Today’s library there has 2,000 square feet. The building ↓
Enfield Public Library serves more than Thompsonville
The library’s service area covers 40,792 people in and around Thompsonville, so its per-resident numbers are measured against that wider population. How it compares ↓
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.
A National Register landmark since 2025
Pearl Street Branch Library, 159 Pearl Street, Enfield.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Thompsonville? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Enfield Carnegie Library
Enfield Carnegie Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Feb 12, 2025. It is significant for its architecture and social history at the local level.
More about the building →For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $1.67 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Thompsonville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.9M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $3.2M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.9M 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 12,689 cardholders ÷ 12.
Every hour the doors are open, about 36 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Close to typical for its size
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S. A tiny town’s library always looks busier per person, so it’s only compared with its own size.
library systems for visits per resident.
Enfield Public Library serves 40,792 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
200K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 122K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.3 time last year, on average.
37,330 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 6 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
Libraries next door
Thompsonville ranks 2nd of 3 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suffield | Kent Memorial Library | 6.3 | 52 |
| Thompsonville | Pearl Street Branch Library fine-free | 4.9 | 46 |
| Enfield | Enfield Public Library fine-free | 4.9 | 60 |
| Southwood Acres | None of its own | — | — |
| Sherwood Manor | None of its own | — | — |
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.
About these numbers
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Hours are an average. The survey reports a building’s public hours for the whole year. We divide by the weeks it was open, so check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
- Compared by size. “Similar-size” means libraries serving about as many people, nationwide. Per-resident numbers always flatter the smallest towns, so they’re never compared with big cities.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Thompsonville.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Building history: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.