Richardson-Jakway House · Photo: Kevin Schuchmann · CC BY-SA 3.0Aurora’s library logs 1.4 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Aurora Public Library serves Aurora’s 1,533 residents. Last year it lent 3,450 print books and media and logged 2,070 visits.
What Aurora’s library is like
Open only about 10 hours a week
Aurora Public Library keeps short hours: about 10 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
Programs are almost all for children
90% of the 61 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 1 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
Below typical on every measure
Against libraries serving under 2,500 people, Aurora Public Library sits below the middle on all five per-resident measures we compare, and in the bottom 30% on four. How it compares ↓
A small-town library
Aurora Public Library serves 1,533 residents with about one full-time staff. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
Few residents carry a card
Only 20% of the people Aurora Public Library serves have a library card, against a typical 54% for its size. How it compares ↓
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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Aurora’s civic life grade
Aurora isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
Below most similar-size libraries on all 5 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Aurora Public Library serves 1,533 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 7 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Not reported for 2024: spending. The survey fills a missing figure with its own estimate; we leave estimates out rather than show them as the library’s count.
Books and media off the shelf
3,450 print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
The survey has no count of children’s loans for Aurora’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
Each of the 4,005 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.9 time last year, on average.
About 1 kids’ program a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, 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
Aurora Public Library, 401 Woodruff St., Aurora.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Aurora cardholder borrows.
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 312 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Not reported for 2024: spending. The survey filled the figure with its own estimate, so it is left out.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
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 Aurora
Does Aurora have a public library?
Yes. Aurora Public Library, 401 Woodruff St., serves Aurora’s 1,533 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 10 hours a week, averaged over the year.
How busy is Aurora’s library?
It logged 1.4 visits and lent 2.3 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Aurora’s civic life grade?
Aurora isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Aurora.
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.