Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0Nineveh Township’s library is a branch of Brown County Public Library, which lends more per resident than 67% of systems its size
Nineveh Township’s library is the Cordry-Sweetwater, a branch of Brown County Public Library, which serves 15,475 people and lent 122K items last year.
What stands out about Cordry-Sweetwater
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Nineveh Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Nineveh Township is ahead of 54% of U.S. towns, #292 of 571 in Indiana. Nineveh Township is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; Nineveh 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 →
12 community nonprofits are registered in Nineveh Township
2.8 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 (4 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
9.8%
9.8% of Nineveh 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 Nineveh Township’s residents live; 2022.
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.
Brown County Public Library serves 15,475 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 38 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Brown County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
122K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
36,495 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 3 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
Cordry-Sweetwater, 8451 Nineveh Road, Nineveh.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Brown County Public Library branch.
New in Nineveh 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 $2.94 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Nineveh Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $655K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.9M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $655K 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 5,443 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue River Township | Edinburgh Wright-Hageman Public Library fine-free | 3.8 | 48 | C+ |
| Nineveh Township | Cordry-Sweetwater fine-free | — | 9 | B− |
| Hensley Township | Trafalgar Branch fine-free | — | 61 | B+ |
| Franklin Township | Franklin Branch fine-free | — | 65 | A− |
| Hamblen Township | None of its own | — | — | A |
| Prince's Lakes | None of its own | — | — | B+ |
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. Cordry-Sweetwater is one branch of Brown County Public Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 15,475 people it serves.
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 Nineveh Township
Does Nineveh Township have a public library?
Yes: Cordry-Sweetwater, 8451 Nineveh Road, is a branch of Brown County Public Library, which serves 15,475 people. The branch is open about 9 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Brown 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 Nineveh Township’s library?
It logged 4.0 visits and lent 7.9 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Nineveh Township’s civic life grade?
B− Nineveh Township is ahead of 54% of U.S. towns on civic life, #292 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 Nineveh 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.