Photo: Legimet · CC BY-SA 4.0Monee Township’s library logs 1.6 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
University Park Public Library District serves 7,145 people in and around Monee Township. Last year it lent 10K print books and media and logged 12K visits.
What Monee Township’s library is like
Still charges late fines, unlike its neighbors
University Park Public Library District charges late fines on some overdue items. All three libraries in neighboring towns have dropped them. What your card is worth ↓
A big collection for the borrowing it gets
University Park Public Library District holds 29,000 books and other items, but the average item went out less than once last year. What people borrow ↓
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 Monee Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Monee Township is ahead of 19% of U.S. towns, #596 of 754 in Illinois. Monee Township is graded on two of the three inputs. Monee Township’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($64K–$106K) 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 →
57 community nonprofits are registered in Monee Township
3.7 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. 4 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
4.3%
4.3% of Monee Township’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 Monee Township’s 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.
University Park Public Library District serves 7,145 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 4 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
10K 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 Monee Township’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
Each of the 29K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.4 time last year, on average.
94 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
University Park Public Library District, 1100 Blackhawk Drive, University Park.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Monee Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $513K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $190K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $513K 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 3,920 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Monee Township ranks 3rd of 3 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park Forest | Park Forest Public Library fine-free | 2.3 | 48 | C− |
| Richton Park | Richton Park Public Library District fine-free | 2.2 | 54 | C+ |
| Monee Township | University Park Public Library District | 1.5 | 52 | C− |
| Crete Township | Crete Public Library District fine-free | — | 56 | C− |
| Will Township | None of its own | — | — | C |
| Green Garden Township | 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.
- 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 Monee Township
Does Monee Township have a public library?
Yes. University Park Public Library District, 1100 Blackhawk Drive, serves 7,145 people in and around Monee Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 52 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is University Park Public Library District fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Monee Township’s library?
It logged 1.6 visits and lent 1.5 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Monee Township’s civic life grade?
C− Monee Township is ahead of 19% of U.S. towns on civic life, #596 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 Monee Township.
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.