Turon’s library runs 283 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 60 for libraries its size
Turon Community Library serves 307 people in and around Turon. Last year it lent 442 books, movies and e-books and logged 1,246 visits.
The short version on Turon’s library
Open only about 11 hours a week
Turon Community Library keeps short hours: about 11 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
Five times the programs of a typical library its size
Turon Community Library ran 87 programs last year, about 2 a week. That’s 283 per 1,000 residents, against a typical 60. People show up: 989 attended. Kids & programs ↓
A small-town library
Turon Community Library serves 307 residents with about one full-time staff. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
Kids’ books are most of what goes out
Children’s books and media make up 65% of print loans. Per resident, kids’ borrowing is lower than at 63% of similar-size libraries, so the high share mostly reflects light borrowing by adults. What people borrow ↓
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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Turon’s civic life grade
Turon 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 →
About 1 kids’ program 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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Turon Community Library serves 307 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
A year at Turon Community Library
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
442 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 5,503 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
14 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Turon Community Library, 501 E. Price, Turon.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Turon? 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 $1.26 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Turon cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $13K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $16K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $13K budget.
Late fines apply to some overdue items.
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 151 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Turon
Does Turon have a public library?
Yes. Turon Community Library, 501 E. Price, serves 307 people in and around Turon (the survey’s count) and is open about 11 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Turon Community Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Turon’s library?
It logged 4.1 visits and lent 1.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Turon’s civic life grade?
Turon 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 Turon.
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.