Photo: Nyttend · Public domainBoonville’s library runs 68 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Boonville-Warrick County Public Library serves 22,660 people in and around Boonville. Last year it lent 108K books, movies and e-books and logged 59K visits.
The short version on Boonville’s library
More library cards than residents
23,249 cards for 22,660 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving 10,000 to 25,000 people, it’s 40%. How it compares ↓
Three times the programs of a typical library its size
Boonville-Warrick County Public Library ran 1,530 programs last year, about 29 a week. That’s 68 per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24. People show up: 23,000 attended. 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; Boonville-Warrick County Public Library serves 22,660 people in and around Boonville, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Boonville’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Boonville is ahead of 68% of U.S. towns, #197 of 571 in Indiana. Boonville is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; Boonville’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 →
23 community nonprofits are registered in Boonville
3.5 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 (7 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
10.1%
10.1% of Boonville’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 9.1% in the typical Indiana 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 Boonville’s residents live; 2022.
About 14 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, 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 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Boonville-Warrick County Public Library serves 22,660 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 16 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Boonville-Warrick County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
108K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
24,908 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Boonville-Warrick County Public Library, 611 West Main Street, Boonville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Boonville-Warrick County Public Library branch.
New in Boonville? The Handbook →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 $1.73 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Boonville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.8M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1M 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 23,249 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Boonville-Warrick County Public Library serves 22,660 people in and around Boonville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Boonville.
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 Boonville
Does Boonville have a public library?
Yes. Boonville-Warrick County Public Library, 611 West Main Street, serves 22,660 people in and around Boonville (the survey’s count) and is open about 52 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Boonville-Warrick County Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Boonville’s library?
It logged 2.6 visits and lent 4.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Boonville’s civic life grade?
B+ Boonville is ahead of 68% of U.S. towns on civic life, #197 of 571 in Indiana. 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 Boonville.
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.