Photo: David Wilson · CC BY 2.0Waveland’s library logs 5.7 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Waveland-Brown Township Public Library serves 1,617 people in and around Waveland. Last year it lent 11K books, movies and e-books and logged 9,239 visits.
What stands out about Waveland-Brown Township Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Waveland’s civic life grade
Waveland 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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Waveland-Brown Township Public Library serves 1,617 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 5 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Waveland-Brown Township Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
11K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
2,144 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 1 kids’ program 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
Waveland-Brown Township Public Library, 115 East Green Street, Waveland.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Waveland-Brown Township Public Library branch.
New in Waveland? 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 $1.30 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Waveland cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $141K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $184K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $141K 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 423 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Waveland-Brown Township Public Library serves 1,617 people in and around Waveland, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Waveland.
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 Waveland
Does Waveland have a public library?
Yes. Waveland-Brown Township Public Library, 115 East Green Street, serves 1,617 people in and around Waveland (the survey’s count) and is open about 40 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Waveland-Brown Township 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 Waveland’s library?
It logged 5.7 visits and lent 6.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Waveland’s civic life grade?
Waveland 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 Waveland.
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.