Photo: Nyttend · Public domainLogansport’s library logs 4.6 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Logansport-Cass County Public Library serves 34,161 people in and around Logansport. Last year it lent 167K books, movies and e-books and logged 158K visits.
What Logansport’s library is like
Programs are almost all for children
82% of the 366 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 2.6 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
Open about 75 hours a week
The Logansport branch is open about 75 hours a week, averaged over the year. The building ↓
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; Logansport-Cass County Public Library serves 34,161 people in and around Logansport, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Logansport’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Logansport is ahead of 49% of U.S. towns, #340 of 571 in Indiana. Logansport is graded on two of the three inputs. Logansport’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups 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 →
100 community nonprofits are registered in Logansport
5.6 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 (31 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
5.7%
5.7% of Logansport’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 Logansport’s residents live; 2022.
Every hour the doors are open, about 29 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Logansport-Cass County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Logansport-Cass County Public Library serves 34,161 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
167K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
28,234 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 6 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
Logansport-Cass County Public Library, 616 East Broadway, Logansport.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Logansport-Cass County Public Library branch.
New in Logansport? 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 $1.72 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Logansport cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.6M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2.7M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.6M 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 10,158 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logansport | Logansport-Cass County Public Library fine-free | — | 75 | B− |
| Eel Township | Logansport-Cass County Public Library fine-free | — | 75 | C+ |
| Noble Township | None of its own | — | — | D |
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. Logansport-Cass County Public Library serves 34,161 people in and around Logansport, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Logansport.
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 Logansport
Does Logansport have a public library?
Yes. Logansport-Cass County Public Library, 616 East Broadway, serves 34,161 people in and around Logansport (the survey’s count) and is open about 75 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Logansport-Cass County 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 Logansport’s library?
It logged 4.6 visits and lent 4.9 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Logansport’s civic life grade?
B− Logansport is ahead of 49% of U.S. towns on civic life, #340 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 Logansport.
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.