Winter Park Public Library
Winter Park Public Library is a municipal public library based in Winter Park (Orange County), Florida, serving a legal service area of 30,507 residents from a single building. Among profiled systems in Florida, it ranks first for physical checkouts per resident, first for weekly open hours per outlet, second for operating spending per resident and second for paid staff per resident.
By population served it is the 53rd-largest of the 62 profiled systems in Florida. Against the median system of its size class, it records 3.7 times the program attendance per resident and 3.4 times the public computers per resident.
Winter Park against the 964 systems of its size class
Winter Park since FY 2019
Visits were 4% below the FY 2019 count of 190,022 (size-class median: −28%). Physical checkouts moved 48% up over the same span.
- Visits
- Physical checkouts
Who comes to Winter Park programs
Programs for children up to age 11 drew 40% of all program attendance, and sessions averaged 29 people each.
Winter Park in numbers, FY 2024
- Visits
- 183,043
- Physical checkouts
- 529,456
- Registered users
- 22,944
- Program sessions
- 1,413
- Program attendance
- 40,297
- Print volumes
- 60,571
- Audio items (physical)
- 1,906
- Video items (physical)
- 7,238
- Public computers
- 68
- Public service hours, all outlets
- 3,744
- Paid staff (full-time equivalent)
- 39.0
- Operating spending
- $4.4 million
- …on books and other materials
- $364,785
- Overdue fines on print items
- not charged
Where Winter Park gets its operating money
Operating revenue came to $4.9 million, or $159.64 per resident. The local-government share sits 20 percentage points below the combined share for the 62 profiled systems in Florida. No federal operating revenue was reported.
- Local government
- State
- Federal
- Other (fines, fees, gifts, grants)
The Winter Park building
The single building covers 35,000 square feet, 1.15 square feet per resident against a median of 0.74 for the size class. It is open 72 hours a week.
| Building | Type | Town | Hours a week | Floor area, sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Park Public Library | Central library | Winter Park | 72 | 35,000 |
Municipal libraries of similar size in other states
Of these six systems, two record more visits per resident than this one. The highest checkout rate in the group belongs to Wellesley Free Library in Massachusetts.
| System | Based in | Residents | Visits per resident | Checkouts per resident | Spending per resident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsford Community Library | Pittsford, NY | 30,617 | 10.28 | 13.52 | $53.49 |
| Rockville Public Library, Inc. | Vernon, CT | 30,596 | 2.24 | 3.14 | $27.39 |
| Sergeant Fernando de la Rosa Memorial Library | Alamo, TX | 30,586 | 0.96 | 0.21 | $11.51 |
| Wellesley Free Library | Wellesley, MA | 30,524 | 11.19 | 18.15 | $129.89 |
| Albert Lea Public Library | Albert Lea, MN | 30,513 | 3.15 | 4.01 | $36.66 |
| Lafayette Public Library | Lafayette, CO | 30,471 | 4.85 | 10.10 | $62.18 |
Nearest in size within Florida
- Washington County Public Library · Chipley · 24,234 residents
- Gadsden County Public Library · Quincy · 41,762 residents
- Lake Worth Beach Public Library · Lake Worth · 43,472 residents
- North Miami Beach Public Library · North Miami Beach · 43,575 residents