Photo: Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0Ogden Township’s library runs 226 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 60 for libraries its size
Ogden Rose Public Library serves 729 people in and around Ogden Township. Last year it lent 6,677 books, movies and e-books and logged 6,352 visits.
What Ogden Township’s library is like
Open only about 13 hours a week
Ogden Rose Public Library keeps short hours: about 13 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. Oakwood Public Library District in Oakwood Township, next door, is open about 48 hours a week. The building ↓
Four times the programs of a typical library its size
Ogden Rose Public Library ran 165 programs last year, about 3 a week. That’s 226 per 1,000 residents, against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
A small-town library
Ogden Rose Public Library serves 729 residents with about one full-time staff. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
More than half the print loans are for kids
Children’s books and media are 68% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 85% 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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Ogden Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Ogden Township is ahead of 17% of U.S. towns. Ogden Township is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; Ogden Township’s count of community nonprofits pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($73K–$121K) 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 →
Ogden Township has few registered community nonprofits
0.0 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: arts & culture.
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.
8.0%
8.0% of Ogden 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 Ogden Township’s residents live; 2022.
About 2 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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Ogden Rose Public Library serves 729 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 10 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
6,677 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 15K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.3 time last year, on average.
2,011 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card.
Find it
Ogden Rose Public Library, 103 West Main Street, Ogden.
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 $2.66 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Ogden Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $43K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $114K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $43K 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 249 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Ogden Township ranks 2nd of 3 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Homer Township | Homer Community Library | 10.9 | 29 | A− |
| Ogden Township | Ogden Rose Public Library fine-free | 9.2 | 13 | C− |
| St. Joseph Township | Saint Joseph Township-Swearingen Memorial Library | 3.9 | 42 | C+ |
| Oakwood Township | Oakwood Public Library District fine-free | — | 48 | B+ |
| Compromise Township | None of its own | — | — | B+ |
| Stanton Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Pilot 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.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Ogden Township
Does Ogden Township have a public library?
Yes. Ogden Rose Public Library, 103 West Main Street, serves 729 people in and around Ogden Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 13 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Ogden Rose Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Ogden Township’s library?
It logged 8.7 visits and lent 9.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Ogden Township’s civic life grade?
C− Ogden Township is ahead of 17% 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 Ogden 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.