Photo: NatFee · CC BY-SA 4.0Marquette Heights’ library runs 57 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34 for libraries its size
Marquette Heights Public Library serves Marquette Heights’s 2,541 residents. Last year it lent 5,703 print books and media and logged 3,825 visits.
What stands out about Marquette Heights’s library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Marquette Heights’ civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Marquette Heights is ahead of 8% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit below most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups comes closest to the middle.
Marquette Heights’ 2024 visits are an estimate from one typical week (the survey’s method for libraries that don’t count every visit).
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($57K–$95K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 →
Marquette Heights has few registered community nonprofits
0.3 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 (0 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.6%
6.6% of Marquette Heights’ 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 Marquette Heights’ residents live; 2022.
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.
Marquette Heights Public Library serves 2,541 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 3 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
5,703 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 Marquette Heights’ library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
Each of the 12K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.5 time last year, on average.
144 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
Marquette Heights Public Library, 715 Lincoln Road, Marquette Heights.
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 $1.06 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Marquette Heights cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $107K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $113K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $107K 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 354 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Marquette Heights ranks 3rd of 3 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creve Coeur | Creve Coeur Public Library District | 6.0 | 41 | B− |
| Pekin | Pekin Public Library | 5.0 | 61 | B− |
| Marquette Heights | Marquette Heights Public Library fine-free | 2.2 | 36 | 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. Marquette Heights Public Library 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 Marquette Heights
Does Marquette Heights have a public library?
Yes. Marquette Heights Public Library, 715 Lincoln Road, serves Marquette Heights’ 2,541 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 36 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Marquette Heights Public Library fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Marquette Heights’ library?
It logged 1.5 visits and lent 2.2 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Marquette Heights’ civic life grade?
D Marquette Heights is ahead of 8% of U.S. towns on civic life. 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 Marquette Heights.
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.