Rogers Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase) · Photo: doug_wertman · CC BY 2.0Rogers’ library logs 1.3 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Rogers Public Library serves Rogers’s 74,327 residents. Last year it lent 260K books, movies and e-books and logged 98K visits.
What Rogers’s library is like
Open about 66 hours a week
Rogers Public Library is open about 66 hours a week, averaged over the year. Every hour the doors are open, about 84 items go out. The building ↓
42% of borrowing happens on a screen
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 42% of loans. Print still makes up 58%, much of it kids’ books. 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.
What’s behind Rogers’ civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Rogers is ahead of 20% of U.S. towns, #88 of 114 in Arkansas. All three inputs sit below most U.S. towns; Rogers’ count of community nonprofits comes closest to the middle.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($65K–$108K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 →
242 community nonprofits are registered in Rogers
3.3 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
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 (84 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 9 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
6.7%
6.7% of Rogers’ Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 7.2% in the typical Arkansas 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 Rogers’ residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Rogers Public Library serves 74,327 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 84 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
42% of borrowing is digital
260K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 172K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.9 time last year, on average.
108,106 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
What kids borrow
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Rogers last year.
Find it
Rogers Public Library, 711 S. Dixieland Road, Rogers.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Rogers? 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 $1.47 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Rogers cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $2.8M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $4.1M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $2.8M 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 14,673 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bentonville | Bentonville Public Library | 10.6 | 57 | B+ |
| Rogers | Rogers Public Library fine-free | 3.5 | 66 | C− |
| Little Flock | None of its own | — | — | D |
| Cave Springs | None of its own | — | — | C+ |
| Lowell | None of its own | — | — | C+ |
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.
- 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.
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 Rogers
Does Rogers have a public library?
Yes. Rogers Public Library, 711 S. Dixieland Road, serves Rogers’ 74,327 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 66 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Rogers 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 Rogers’ library?
It logged 1.3 visits and lent 3.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Rogers’ civic life grade?
C− Rogers is ahead of 20% of U.S. towns on civic life, #88 of 114 in Arkansas. 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 Rogers.
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.