Lewisville’s library lends 5.7 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Lewisville Legacy Public serves 440 people in and around Lewisville. Last year it lent 2,512 books, movies and e-books and logged 1,217 visits.
What Lewisville’s library is like
Open only about 10 hours a week
Lewisville Legacy Public keeps short hours: about 10 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
A small-town library
Lewisville Legacy Public serves 440 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 ↓
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 Lewisville’s civic life grade
Lewisville 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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Lewisville Legacy Public serves 440 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 5 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
2,512 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 9,153 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.3 time last year, on average.
7 programs a year
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
Lewisville Legacy, 3453 E 480 N, Lewisville.
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 $2.38 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Lewisville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $16K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $38K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $16K 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 165 cardholders ÷ 12.
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 Lewisville
Does Lewisville have a public library?
Yes. Lewisville Legacy Public, 3453 E 480 N, serves 440 people in and around Lewisville (the survey’s count) and is open about 10 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Lewisville Legacy Public fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Lewisville’s library?
It logged 2.8 visits and lent 5.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Lewisville’s civic life grade?
Lewisville 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 Lewisville.
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.