Pulaski County Home · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMonroe Township’s library runs 68 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34 for libraries its size
Pulaski County Public Library serves 9,785 people in and around Monroe Township. Last year it lent 53K books, movies and e-books and logged 37K visits.
What stands out about Pulaski County Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Monroe Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Monroe Township is ahead of 95% of U.S. towns, #34 of 571 in Indiana. Monroe Township is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; Monroe Township’s count of community nonprofits ranks highest.
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 →
29 community nonprofits are registered in Monroe Township
7.6 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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.
10.8%
10.8% of Monroe 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 Monroe Township’s residents live; 2022.
41% of borrowing is digital
53K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
21,503 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Pulaski County Public Library serves 9,785 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 23 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Pulaski County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
About 7 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
Pulaski County Public Library, 121 South Riverside Drive, Winamac.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Pulaski County Public Library branch.
New in Monroe 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 $1.12 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Monroe Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $811K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $911K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $811K 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 6,077 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe Township | Pulaski County Public Library | — | 44 | A+ |
| Tippecanoe Township | Monterey-Tippecanoe Township Public Library | — | 36 | B+ |
| Harrison Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Indian Creek Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Jefferson Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Franklin 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. Pulaski County Public Library serves 9,785 people in and around Monroe Township, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Monroe 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 Monroe Township
Does Monroe Township have a public library?
Yes. Pulaski County Public Library, 121 South Riverside Drive, serves 9,785 people in and around Monroe Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 44 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pulaski 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 Monroe Township’s library?
It logged 3.7 visits and lent 5.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Monroe Township’s civic life grade?
A+ Monroe Township is ahead of 95% of U.S. towns on civic life, #34 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 Monroe 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.