Photo: Nyttend · Public domainPinckneyville’s library lends 1.1 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Pinckneyville Public Library serves Pinckneyville’s 5,066 residents. Last year it lent 5,450 print books and media and logged 8,893 visits.
What Pinckneyville’s library is like
Few programs for a library this size
Pinckneyville Public Library offered 51 programs last year, 10 per 1,000 residents against a typical 34. Kids & programs ↓
Runs on less money than most
Pinckneyville Public Library spends $15 per resident, less than 90% of similar-size libraries (typical: $43). What your card is worth ↓
People visit, but borrow less than most
Pinckneyville Public Library lends 1.1 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, fewer than 89% of similar-size libraries, though visits are closer to typical. 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 Pinckneyville’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Pinckneyville is ahead of 66% of U.S. towns, #222 of 754 in Illinois. Pinckneyville’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; library visits pull 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 →
31 community nonprofits are registered in Pinckneyville
6.2 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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 (12 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.
10.1%
10.1% of Pinckneyville’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 Pinckneyville’s residents live; 2022.
Below most similar-size libraries on all 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Pinckneyville Public Library serves 5,066 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
5,450 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 Pinckneyville’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
Each of the 11K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.5 time last year, on average.
51 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
Pinckneyville Public Library, 312 South Walnut Street, Pinckneyville.
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 $1.28 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Pinckneyville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $78K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $99K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $78K 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 243 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Pinckneyville 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 Pinckneyville
Does Pinckneyville have a public library?
Yes. Pinckneyville Public Library, 312 South Walnut Street, serves Pinckneyville’s 5,066 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 29 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pinckneyville Public Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Pinckneyville’s library?
It logged 1.8 visits and lent 1.1 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Pinckneyville’s civic life grade?
B+ Pinckneyville is ahead of 66% of U.S. towns on civic life, #222 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 Pinckneyville.
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.