Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0Windsor’s library runs 39 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 14 for libraries its size
Clearview Library District serves 42,823 people in and around Windsor. Last year it lent 497K books, movies and e-books and logged 191K visits.
The short version on Windsor’s library
More than half the print loans are for kids
Children’s books and media are 61% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 92% of similar-size libraries. Kids & programs ↓
Most programs are for young children
78% of the 1,665 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 17 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
Still charges late fines, unlike its neighbors
Clearview Library District charges late fines on some overdue items. Three of the four libraries in neighboring towns have dropped them. What your card is worth ↓
Three times the programs of a typical library its size
Clearview Library District ran 1,665 programs last year, about 32 a week. That’s 39 per 1,000 residents, against a typical 14. People show up: 42,000 attended. Kids & programs ↓
A well-funded system
Clearview Library District spends $143 per resident a year, about four times the typical $40 for a library its size. Almost all of it (95%) comes from local taxes. What your card is worth ↓
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; Clearview Library District serves 42,823 people in and around Windsor, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Windsor’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Windsor is ahead of 28% of U.S. towns, #75 of 104 in Colorado. Windsor is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs sit below most U.S. towns; Windsor’s count of community nonprofits comes closest to the middle.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($95K–$159K) 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 →
125 community nonprofits are registered in Windsor
3.3 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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 (33 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 6 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
6.5%
6.5% of Windsor’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 Windsor’s residents live; 2022.
About 25 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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Clearview Library District serves 42,823 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 91 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Clearview Library District system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
497K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
116,413 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Clearview Library District, 720 Third Street, Windsor.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Clearview Library District branch.
New in Windsor? 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 $1.23 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Windsor cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $6.1M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $7.5M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $6.1M budget.
Late fines apply to some overdue items.
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 27,467 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loveland | Loveland Public Library fine-free | 12.3 | 49 | B− |
| Windsor | Clearview Library District | — | 62 | C |
| Severance | Severance Library | — | 48 | D |
| Fort Collins | Council Tree Library fine-free | — | 71 | B |
| Greeley | Farr Branch Library fine-free | — | 62 | D |
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. Clearview Library District serves 42,823 people in and around Windsor, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Windsor.
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 Windsor
Does Windsor have a public library?
Yes. Clearview Library District, 720 Third Street, serves 42,823 people in and around Windsor (the survey’s count) and is open about 62 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Clearview Library District fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Windsor’s library?
It logged 4.5 visits and lent 11.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Windsor’s civic life grade?
C Windsor is ahead of 28% of U.S. towns on civic life, #75 of 104 in Colorado. 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 Windsor.
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.