James Caldwell House · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainCampbellsville’s library runs 45 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 14 for libraries its size
Taylor County Public Library serves 26,443 people in and around Campbellsville. Last year it lent 143K books, movies and e-books and logged 62K visits.
What Campbellsville’s library is like
Three times the programs of a typical library its size
Taylor County Public Library ran 1,202 programs last year, about 23 a week. That’s 45 per 1,000 residents, against a typical 14. People show up: 39,000 attended. Kids & programs ↓
Open about 89 hours a week
The Campbellsville branch is open about 89 hours a week, averaged over the year. The building ↓
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; Taylor County Public Library serves 26,443 people in and around Campbellsville, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Campbellsville’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Campbellsville is ahead of 8% of U.S. towns, #115 of 126 in Kentucky. Campbellsville is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs sit below most U.S. towns; Campbellsville’s count of community nonprofits comes closest to the middle.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($37K–$62K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 →
29 community nonprofits are registered in Campbellsville
2.5 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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 (8 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
4.5%
4.5% of Campbellsville’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 6.6% in the typical Kentucky 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 Campbellsville’s residents live; 2022.
About 11 kids’ programs 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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Taylor County Public Library serves 26,443 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 21 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Taylor County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
143K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
52,128 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Taylor County Public Library, 1316 East Broadway Street, Campbellsville.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Taylor County Public Library branch.
New in Campbellsville? 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 $2.93 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Campbellsville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $853K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2.5M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $853K 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 18,408 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Taylor County Public Library serves 26,443 people in and around Campbellsville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Campbellsville.
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 Campbellsville
Does Campbellsville have a public library?
Yes. Taylor County Public Library, 1316 East Broadway Street, serves 26,443 people in and around Campbellsville (the survey’s count) and is open about 89 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Taylor County 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 Campbellsville’s library?
It logged 2.4 visits and lent 5.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Campbellsville’s civic life grade?
D Campbellsville is ahead of 8% of U.S. towns on civic life, #115 of 126 in Kentucky. 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 Campbellsville.
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.