Photo: Adam Moss · CC BY-SA 2.0Tinley Park’s library lends 9.2 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Tinley Park Public Library serves Tinley Park’s 55,971 residents. Last year it lent 512K print books and media and logged 235K visits.
Tinley Park’s library, in brief
Open about 70 hours a week
Tinley Park Public Library is open about 70 hours a week, averaged over the year. Every hour the doors are open, about 130 items go out. The building ↓
A place to get online
Tinley Park Public Library logs about 765 Wi-Fi sessions a day and has 62 public computers. That’s 5 sessions per resident a year. A year at the library ↓
Tinley Park invests in its library
Tinley Park Public Library spends $89 per resident a year, about twice the typical $40 for a library its size. What your card is worth ↓
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 Tinley Park’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Tinley Park is ahead of 44% of U.S. towns, #376 of 754 in Illinois. Library visits hold the grade up; Tinley Park’s count of community nonprofits 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 →
152 community nonprofits are registered in Tinley Park
2.8 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 (36 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 8 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.5%
7.5% of Tinley 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 Tinley Park’s residents live; 2022.
About 13 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 all 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Tinley Park Public Library serves 55,971 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 130 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
512K 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 Tinley Park’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
Each of the 184K books and other items on the shelves went out about 2.8 times last year, on average.
Find it
Tinley Park Public Library, 7851 Timber Drive, Tinley 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 $1.98 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Tinley Park cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $5M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $9.9M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $5M 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 29,540 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Tinley Park ranks 2nd of 5 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rich Township | Flossmoor Public Library | 9.7 | 65 | C+ |
| Tinley Park | Tinley Park Public Library | 9.2 | 70 | C+ |
| Frankfort | Frankfort Public Library District | 7.7 | 67 | B+ |
| Orland Park | Orland Park Public Library | 6.6 | 72 | C+ |
| Mokena | Mokena Community Public Library District fine-free | 4.2 | 65 | B |
| Bremen Township | Acorn Public Library District fine-free | — | 64 | D |
| Frankfort Square | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
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 Tinley Park
Does Tinley Park have a public library?
Yes. Tinley Park Public Library, 7851 Timber Drive, serves Tinley Park’s 55,971 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 70 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Tinley Park Public Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Tinley Park’s library?
It logged 4.2 visits and lent 9.2 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Tinley Park’s civic life grade?
C+ Tinley Park is ahead of 44% of U.S. towns on civic life, #376 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 Tinley 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.