Photo: NatFee · CC BY-SA 4.0Bartonville’s library logs 2.6 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries its size
Alpha Park Public Library District serves 24,397 people in and around Bartonville. Last year it lent 105K print books and media and logged 63K visits.
What stands out about Alpha Park Public Library District
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Bartonville’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Bartonville is ahead of 46% of U.S. towns, #355 of 754 in Illinois. Bartonville is graded on two of the three inputs. Bartonville’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
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 →
29 community nonprofits are registered in Bartonville
4.9 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
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 (11 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.1%
6.1% of Bartonville’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 8.1% in the typical Illinois 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 Bartonville’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Alpha Park Public Library District serves 24,397 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 33 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Alpha Park Public Library District system. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
105K 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 Bartonville’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
About 4 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
Alpha Park Public Library District, 3527 South Airport Road, Bartonville.
No late fees. Good at every Alpha Park Public Library District branch.
New in Bartonville? 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 $1.34 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Bartonville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.5M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.5M 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 7,046 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Digital loans not reported. Illinois libraries often don’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
- System-wide. Alpha Park Public Library District serves 24,397 people in and around Bartonville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Bartonville.
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 Bartonville
Does Bartonville have a public library?
Yes. Alpha Park Public Library District, 3527 South Airport Road, serves 24,397 people in and around Bartonville (the survey’s count) and is open about 61 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Alpha Park Public Library District fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Bartonville’s library?
It logged 2.6 visits and lent 4.3 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Bartonville’s civic life grade?
B− Bartonville is ahead of 46% of U.S. towns on civic life, #355 of 754 in Illinois. 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 Bartonville.
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.