Photo: Huw Williams (Huwmanbeing) · Public domainCissna Park’s library lends 10 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Cissna Park Community Library District serves 1,687 people in and around Cissna Park. Last year it lent 18K print books and media and logged 7,542 visits.
What Cissna Park’s library is like
Programs are almost all for children
85% of the 207 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including 27 for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
Programs draw a crowd
5,959 people came to the system’s 207 programs last year: 3.5 per resident, against a typical 0.7, more than at 95% of similar-size libraries. Kids & programs ↓
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; Cissna Park Community Library District serves 1,687 people in and around Cissna Park, and its numbers cover all of them; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Cissna Park’s civic life grade
Cissna Park 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 →
About 3 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 5 of 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Cissna Park Community Library District serves 1,687 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 8 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Cissna Park Community Library District system. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
18K 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 Cissna Park’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
Find it
Cissna Park Community Library District, 511 North Second Street, Cissna Park.
No late fees. Good at every Cissna Park Community Library District branch.
New in Cissna Park? 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 $3.74 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Cissna Park cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $96K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $358K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $96K 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 631 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cissna Park | Cissna Park Community Library District fine-free | — | 46 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Pigeon Grove Township | Cissna Park Community Library District fine-free | — | 46 | B− |
| Fountain Creek Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Ash Grove Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
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.
- Digital loans not reported. Illinois libraries often don’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
- System-wide. Cissna Park Community Library District serves 1,687 people in and around Cissna Park, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Cissna Park.
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 Cissna Park
Does Cissna Park have a public library?
Yes. Cissna Park Community Library District, 511 North Second Street, serves 1,687 people in and around Cissna Park (the survey’s count) and is open about 46 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Cissna Park Community Library District fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Cissna Park’s library?
It logged 4.5 visits and lent 10.4 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Cissna Park’s civic life grade?
Cissna Park 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 Cissna Park.
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.