Swayzee’s library lends 8.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Swayzee Public Library serves 1,692 people in and around Swayzee. Last year it lent 14K print books and media and logged 5,600 visits.
What stands out about Swayzee Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Swayzee’s civic life grade
Swayzee 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 →
25 programs a year
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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Swayzee Public Library serves 1,692 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 11 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Swayzee Public Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
14K print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Swayzee Public Library, 301 South Washington Street, Swayzee.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Swayzee Public Library branch.
New in Swayzee? 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 $2.72 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Swayzee cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $75K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $204K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $75K 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 405 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
- System-wide. Swayzee Public Library serves 1,692 people in and around Swayzee, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Swayzee.
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 Swayzee
Does Swayzee have a public library?
Yes. Swayzee Public Library, 301 South Washington Street, serves 1,692 people in and around Swayzee (the survey’s count) and is open about 24 hours a week, averaged over the year.
How busy is Swayzee’s library?
It logged 3.3 visits and lent 8.3 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Swayzee’s civic life grade?
Swayzee 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 Swayzee.
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.