Photo: Dwight Burdette · CC BY 3.0Blissfield Township’s library logs 4.3 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Schultz-Holmes Memorial Library serves Blissfield Township’s 7,020 residents. Last year it lent 23K books, movies and e-books and logged 30K visits.
What stands out about Blissfield Township’s library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Blissfield Township’s civic life grade
Blissfield Township 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 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Schultz-Holmes Memorial Library serves 7,020 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 12 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
23K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 29K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.6 time last year, on average.
5,521 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 2 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 Blissfield Township last year.
Find it
Schultz-Holmes Memorial Library, 407 South Lane Street, Blissfield.
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 Blissfield Township? 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 $1.28 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Blissfield Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $321K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $412K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $321K 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 3,617 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blissfield Township | Schultz-Holmes Memorial Library fine-free | 3.3 | 39 | — graded with its twin city |
| Blissfield | Schultz-Holmes Memorial Library fine-free | 3.3 | 39 | A+ |
| Deerfield Township | Deerfield Branch Library | — | 22 | A |
| Ridgeway Township | Britton Branch Library | — | 21 | B− |
| Palmyra Township | None of its own | — | — | B |
| Riga Township | None of its own | — | — | A− |
| Ogden Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
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.
- 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 Blissfield Township
Does Blissfield Township have a public library?
Yes. Schultz-Holmes Memorial Library, 407 South Lane Street, serves Blissfield Township’s 7,020 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 39 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Schultz-Holmes Memorial 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 Blissfield Township’s library?
It logged 4.3 visits and lent 3.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Blissfield Township’s civic life grade?
Blissfield Township 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 Blissfield Township.
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.