Photo: GerritR · CC BY-SA 4.0Coldwater’s library lends 2.9 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Coldwater-Wilmore Regional Library serves 1,019 people in and around Coldwater. Last year it lent 2,975 books, movies and e-books and logged 3,709 visits.
What stands out about Coldwater-Wilmore Regional Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Coldwater’s civic life grade
Coldwater 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 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Coldwater-Wilmore Regional Library serves 1,019 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 1 item goes out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Coldwater-Wilmore Regional Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
2,975 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
37 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
43 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.
Find it
Coldwater-Wilmore Regional Library, 221 E.Main, Coldwater.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Coldwater-Wilmore Regional Library branch.
New in Coldwater? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Coldwater cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $86K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $51K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $86K 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 942 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Coldwater-Wilmore Regional Library serves 1,019 people in and around Coldwater, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Coldwater.
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 Coldwater
Does Coldwater have a public library?
Yes. Coldwater-Wilmore Regional Library, 221 E.Main, serves 1,019 people in and around Coldwater (the survey’s count) and is open about 35 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Coldwater-Wilmore Regional 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 Coldwater’s library?
It logged 3.6 visits and lent 2.9 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Coldwater’s civic life grade?
Coldwater 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 Coldwater.
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.