Photo: Ken Lund from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Evergreen Park’s library runs 47 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Evergreen Park Public Library serves Evergreen Park’s 19,943 residents. Last year it lent 73K print books and media and logged 98K visits.
Evergreen Park’s library, in brief
Above typical on nearly every measure
Against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people, Evergreen Park Public Library is above the middle on four of the five per-resident measures we compare, and close to it on the other, with four in the top 30%. No single number stands out, and none lags far behind. How it compares ↓
Open about 65 hours a week
Evergreen Park Public Library is open about 65 hours a week, averaged over the year. Every hour the doors are open, about 22 items go out. The building ↓
A place to get online
Evergreen Park Public Library logs about 219 Wi-Fi sessions a day and has 42 public computers. That’s 4 sessions per resident a year. 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.
What’s behind Evergreen Park’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Evergreen Park is ahead of 54% of U.S. towns, #300 of 754 in Illinois. Library visits hold 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 →
75 community nonprofits are registered in Evergreen Park
3.9 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
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 (22 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 1 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
6.6%
6.6% of Evergreen Park’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 Evergreen Park’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Evergreen Park Public Library serves 19,943 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 22 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
73K 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 Evergreen Park’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
Each of the 69K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.1 time last year, on average.
About 8 kids’ programs 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
Evergreen Park Public Library, 9400 South Troy Avenue, Evergreen Park.
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 $1.26 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Evergreen Park cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.3M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.7M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.3M 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 11,673 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago | Chicago Public Library fine-free | 3.9 | 72 | C− |
| Evergreen Park | Evergreen Park Public Library | 3.7 | 65 | B− |
| Worth Township | Alsip-Merrionette Park Library District fine-free | — | 68 | 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.
- 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 Evergreen Park
Does Evergreen Park have a public library?
Yes. Evergreen Park Public Library, 9400 South Troy Avenue, serves Evergreen Park’s 19,943 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 65 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Evergreen Park Public Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Evergreen Park’s library?
It logged 4.9 visits and lent 3.7 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Evergreen Park’s civic life grade?
B− Evergreen Park is ahead of 54% of U.S. towns on civic life, #300 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 Evergreen 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.