Brown Township’s library logs 5.7 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Waveland-Brown Township Public Library serves 1,617 people in and around Brown Township. Last year it lent 11K books, movies and e-books and logged 9,239 visits.
What stands out about Waveland-Brown Township Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Brown Township’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Brown Township is ahead of 72% of U.S. towns. Library visits hold the grade up; Brown Township’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 →
6 community nonprofits are registered in Brown Township
3.3 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: education.
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 (2 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
9.5%
9.5% of Brown Township’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 Brown Township’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Waveland-Brown Township Public Library serves 1,617 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 5 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Waveland-Brown Township Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
11K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
2,144 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 1 kids’ program 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.
Find it
Waveland-Brown Township Public Library, 115 East Green Street, Waveland.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Waveland-Brown Township Public Library branch.
New in Brown Township? 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 $1.30 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Brown Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $141K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $184K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $141K 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 423 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Township | Waveland-Brown Township Public Library fine-free | — | 40 | B+ |
| Union Township | Crawfordsville District Public Library fine-free | — | 68 | B |
| Ripley Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Russell Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Scott Township | None of its own | — | — | — graded with its twin city |
| Greene Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Howard 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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Waveland-Brown Township Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
- System-wide. Waveland-Brown Township Public Library serves 1,617 people in and around Brown Township, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Brown Township.
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 Brown Township
Does Brown Township have a public library?
Yes. Waveland-Brown Township Public Library, 115 East Green Street, serves 1,617 people in and around Brown Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 40 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Waveland-Brown Township Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Brown Township’s library?
It logged 5.7 visits and lent 6.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Brown Township’s civic life grade?
B+ Brown Township is ahead of 72% 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 Brown 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.