Photo: Natalie Fee · CC BY-SA 4.0Creve Coeur’s library logs 6.5 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Creve Coeur Public Library District serves Creve Coeur’s 4,940 residents. Last year it lent 29K print books and media and logged 32K visits.
What stands out about Creve Coeur’s library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Creve Coeur’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Creve Coeur is ahead of 46% of U.S. towns, #359 of 754 in Illinois. Library visits hold the grade up; Creve Coeur’s count of community nonprofits 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 →
7 community nonprofits are registered in Creve Coeur
1.5 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 (5 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
7.7%
7.7% of Creve Coeur’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 Creve Coeur’s residents live; 2022.
Every hour the doors are open, about 14 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Creve Coeur Public Library District serves 4,940 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Books and media off the shelf
29K 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 Creve Coeur’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
Each of the 22K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.4 time last year, on average.
66 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
Creve Coeur Public Library District, 311 North Highland Street, Creve Coeur.
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 $2.87 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Creve Coeur cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $180K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $517K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $180K 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 1,023 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Creve Coeur ranks 2nd of 7 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Peoria | Fondulac Public Library District fine-free | 7.5 | 61 | B− |
| Creve Coeur | Creve Coeur Public Library District | 6.0 | 41 | B− |
| Groveland Township | Creve Coeur Public Library District | 6.0 | 41 | C |
| Pekin Township | Pekin Public Library | 5.0 | 61 | — graded with its twin city |
| Peoria City Township | Peoria Public Library fine-free | 4.7 | 52 | B− |
| Peoria | Peoria Public Library fine-free | 4.7 | 52 | C+ |
| Marquette Heights | Marquette Heights Public Library fine-free | 2.2 | 36 | D |
| Limestone Township | Alpha Park Public Library District fine-free | — | 61 | D |
| North Pekin | None of its own | — | — | 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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Creve Coeur Public Library District counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
- Digital loans not reported. Illinois libraries often don’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 Creve Coeur
Does Creve Coeur have a public library?
Yes. Creve Coeur Public Library District, 311 North Highland Street, serves Creve Coeur’s 4,940 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 41 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Creve Coeur Public Library District fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Creve Coeur’s library?
It logged 6.5 visits and lent 6.0 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Creve Coeur’s civic life grade?
B− Creve Coeur is ahead of 46% of U.S. towns on civic life, #359 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 Creve Coeur.
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.