Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0Security-Widefield’s library runs 19 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 14 for libraries its size
Security Public Library serves 61,858 people in and around Security-Widefield. Last year it lent 199K books, movies and e-books and logged 94K visits.
What stands out about Security Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Security-Widefield’s civic life grade
Security-Widefield isn’t graded on civic life: it’s unincorporated, so its nonprofits can’t be counted reliably (mailing addresses don’t follow its boundary) and its library is a branch of Security Public Library, so there is no town figure for visits.
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 →
Volunteering in Security-Widefield
Security-Widefield is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
5.5%
5.5% of Security-Widefield’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 6.8% in the typical Colorado 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 Security-Widefield’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Security Public Library serves 61,858 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
A year at Security Public Library
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Security Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
199K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
The survey has no count of children’s loans for Security-Widefield’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
27,991 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 12 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
Find it
Security Public Library, 715 Aspen Drive, Security.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Security Public Library branch.
New in Security-Widefield? 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 $2.41 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Security-Widefield cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.6M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $3.9M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.6M 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 15,441 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security-Widefield | Security Public Library fine-free | — | 56 | — unincorporated |
| Fountain | Fountain Library fine-free | — | 56 | D |
| Colorado Springs | Penrose Public Library fine-free | — | 54 | C− |
| Stratmoor | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
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. Security Public Library serves 61,858 people in and around Security-Widefield, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Security-Widefield.
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 Security-Widefield
Does Security-Widefield have a public library?
Yes. Security Public Library, 715 Aspen Drive, serves 61,858 people in and around Security-Widefield (the survey’s count) and is open about 56 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Security 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 Security-Widefield’s library?
It logged 1.5 visits and lent 3.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Security-Widefield’s civic life grade?
Security-Widefield isn’t graded on civic life: it’s unincorporated, so its nonprofits can’t be counted reliably (mailing addresses don’t follow its boundary) and its library is a branch of Security Public Library, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Security-Widefield.
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.