Photo: shannonpatrick17 · CC BY 2.0Marysville’s library runs 150 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34 for libraries its size
Marysville Public Library serves Marysville’s 3,405 residents. Last year it lent 34K books, movies and e-books and logged 17K visits.
The short version on Marysville’s library
Four times the programs of a typical library its size
Marysville Public Library ran 510 programs last year, about 10 a week. That’s 150 per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34. People show up: 5,973 attended. Kids & programs ↓
Nearly everyone in Marysville has a card
3,225 cards for 3,405 people, or 95%. At the typical library serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, it’s 42%. How it compares ↓
A place to get online
Marysville Public Library logs about 45 Wi-Fi sessions a day and has 8 public computers. That’s 4.8 sessions per resident a year. A year at the library ↓
Marysville invests in its library
Marysville Public Library spends $96 per resident a year, about twice the typical $43 for a library its size. What your card is worth ↓
This summary is written from the numbers on this page. Numbers are the library’s own report to the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
What’s behind Marysville’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Marysville is ahead of 90% of U.S. towns, #18 of 149 in Kansas. All three inputs are above most U.S. towns; Marysville’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 →
26 community nonprofits are registered in Marysville
7.6 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 (9 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
10.2%
10.2% of Marysville’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 8.7% in the typical Kansas 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 Marysville’s residents live; 2022.
About 6 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Marysville last year.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Marysville Public Library serves 3,405 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 14 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
34K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 21K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.3 time last year, on average.
6,477 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Marysville Public Library, 1009 Broadway, Marysville.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Marysville? 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 $1.86 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Marysville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $328K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $609K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $328K 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 3,225 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Marysville Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Marysville
Does Marysville have a public library?
Yes. Marysville Public Library, 1009 Broadway, serves Marysville’s 3,405 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 46 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Marysville 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 Marysville’s library?
It logged 5.0 visits and lent 10.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Marysville’s civic life grade?
A Marysville is ahead of 90% of U.S. towns on civic life, #18 of 149 in Kansas. 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 Marysville.
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.