Maryland Library Districts Ranked by Expenditures
Normalized from state-comptroller audits and annual financial reports. Every agency is a live report card — click through for peer percentiles, fund balance, and distress indicators.
Cohort size 25
Median expenditures $4.9M
25th–75th percentile $2.5M – $24.2M
Total spend $356.4M
- #1Enoch Pratt FREE LibraryExpenditures $59.0MRevenue $57.5M
- #2Baltimore County Public LibraryExpenditures $46.8MRevenue $50.4M
- #3Montgomery County Public LibrariesExpenditures $42.8MRevenue $41.6M
- #4Prince George`s County Memorial Library SysteExpenditures $36.6MRevenue $37.5M
- #5ANNE Arundel County Public LibraryExpenditures $32.5MRevenue $32.5M
- #6Howard County Library SystemExpenditures $29.6MRevenue $29.0M
- #7Harford County Public LibraryExpenditures $24.2MRevenue $25.1M
- #8Frederick County Public LibrariesExpenditures $17.5MRevenue $15.7M
- #9Carroll County Public LibraryExpenditures $12.3MRevenue $13.5M
- #10Cecil County Public LibraryExpenditures $8.2MRevenue $8.6M
- #11Calvert LibraryExpenditures $7.1MRevenue $7.1M
- #12Charles County Public LibraryExpenditures $7.0MRevenue $6.5M
- #13Washington County FREE LibraryExpenditures $4.9MRevenue $5.8M
- #14ST. Mary`s County LibraryExpenditures $4.7MRevenue $4.8M
- #15Worcester County LibraryExpenditures $4.0MRevenue $4.1M
- #16Wicomico County FREE LibraryExpenditures $2.9MRevenue $3.3M
- #17Queen Anne`s County FREE LibraryExpenditures $2.9MRevenue $3.1M
- #18Caroline County Public LibraryExpenditures $2.7MRevenue $2.0M
- #19Allegany County Library SystemExpenditures $2.5MRevenue $2.5M
- #20Talbot County FREE LibraryExpenditures $2.3MRevenue $2.4M
- #21RUTH Enlow Library OF Garrett CountyExpenditures $1.5MRevenue $1.6M
- #22Takoma PARK Maryland LibraryExpenditures $1.4MRevenue $1.4M
- #23Somerset County LibraryExpenditures $1.1MRevenue $1.1M
- #24KENT County Public LibraryExpenditures $1.1MRevenue $1.1M
- #25Dorchester County Public LibraryExpenditures $1.1MRevenue $1.2M