Connersville Township’s library logs 6 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries its size
Fayette County Public Library serves 23,398 people in and around Connersville Township. Last year it lent 121K books, movies and e-books and logged 141K visits.
What stands out about Fayette County Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Connersville Township’s civic life grade
Connersville Township isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
Every hour the doors are open, about 33 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Fayette County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Fayette County Public Library serves 23,398 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
121K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
24,443 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 5 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.
Find it
Fayette County Public Library, 828 North Grand Avenue, Connersville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Fayette County Public Library branch.
New in Connersville 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 $1.62 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Connersville Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $1.1M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.8M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.1M budget.
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 6,631 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connersville Township | Fayette County Public Library | — | 53 | — graded with its twin city |
| Harrison Township | None of its own | — | — | A |
| Jennings Township | None of its own | — | — | — graded with its twin city |
| Columbia Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Jackson Township | None of its own | — | — | C+ |
| Fairview Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Orange Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Waterloo 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.
- System-wide. Fayette County Public Library serves 23,398 people in and around Connersville Township, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Connersville 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 Connersville Township
Does Connersville Township have a public library?
Yes. Fayette County Public Library, 828 North Grand Avenue, serves 23,398 people in and around Connersville Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 53 hours a week, averaged over the year.
How busy is Connersville Township’s library?
It logged 6.0 visits and lent 5.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Connersville Township’s civic life grade?
Connersville Township isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Connersville 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.