Cold Spring’s library runs 31 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 14 for libraries its size
Campbell County Public Library District serves 93,702 people in and around Cold Spring. Last year it lent 951K books, movies and e-books and logged 375K visits.
The short version on Cold Spring’s library
Open about 70 hours a week
The Cold Spring branch is open about 70 hours a week, averaged over the year. The building ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 3.4 e-items per resident, against a typical 1.2, higher than at 90% of similar-size libraries. It’s 33% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
Programs draw a crowd
76,000 people came to the system’s 2,916 programs last year: 0.8 per resident, against a typical 0.3, more than at 91% of similar-size libraries. Kids & programs ↓
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; Campbell County Public Library District serves 93,702 people in and around Cold Spring, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Cold Spring’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Cold Spring is ahead of 24% of U.S. towns, #84 of 126 in Kentucky. Cold Spring is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs sit below most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups comes closest to the middle.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($56K–$94K) 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 →
16 community nonprofits are registered in Cold Spring
2.6 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: education.
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 (3 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.9%
6.9% of Cold Spring’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 Cold Spring’s residents live; 2022.
About 36 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 all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Campbell County Public Library District serves 93,702 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 70 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Campbell County Public Library District system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
951K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
316,562 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Campbell County Public Library District, 3920 Alexandria Pike, Cold Spring.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Campbell County Public Library District branch.
New in Cold Spring? 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 $3.02 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Cold Spring cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $5.1M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $15M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $5.1M 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 38,535 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Spring | Campbell County Public Library District fine-free | — | 70 | C− |
| Alexandria | Alexandria Branch fine-free | — | 50 | A− |
| Highland Heights | None of its own | — | — | C+ |
| Crestview | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Silver Grove | None of its own | — | — | — too few inputs |
| Wilder | None of its own | — | — | D |
Loans = print + digital items borrowed in the library’s fiscal year, per person it serves. — = no library of its own, a county or regional system (its numbers cover many towns), or no report. Civic life: — = not graded (unincorporated places, whose nonprofits can’t be placed by mailing address, or towns with fewer than two of the three inputs).
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Campbell County Public Library District serves 93,702 people in and around Cold Spring, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Cold Spring.
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 Cold Spring
Does Cold Spring have a public library?
Yes. Campbell County Public Library District, 3920 Alexandria Pike, serves 93,702 people in and around Cold Spring (the survey’s count) and is open about 70 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Campbell County Public Library District 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 Cold Spring’s library?
It logged 4.0 visits and lent 10.1 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Cold Spring’s civic life grade?
C− Cold Spring is ahead of 24% of U.S. towns on civic life, #84 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 Cold Spring.
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.