Photo: RaboKarbakian · CC BY-SA 1.0Fowlerville’s library runs 30 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Fowlerville District Library serves 17,796 people in and around Fowlerville. Last year it lent 47K print books and media and logged 56K visits.
What stands out about Fowlerville District Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Fowlerville’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Fowlerville is ahead of 63% of U.S. towns, #336 of 697 in Michigan. Fowlerville is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; Fowlerville’s count of community nonprofits pulls it down.
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 →
8 community nonprofits are registered in Fowlerville
2.6 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
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 (1 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
12.4%
12.4% of Fowlerville’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 12.4% in the typical Michigan 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 Fowlerville’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Fowlerville District Library serves 17,796 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 17 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Fowlerville District Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
47K print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 5 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.
Find it
Fowlerville District Library, 130 S Grand Ave, Fowlerville.
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 Fowlerville District Library branch.
New in Fowlerville? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Fowlerville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $814K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $767K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $814K 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 3,805 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
- System-wide. Fowlerville District Library serves 17,796 people in and around Fowlerville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Fowlerville.
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 Fowlerville
Does Fowlerville have a public library?
Yes. Fowlerville District Library, 130 S Grand Ave, serves 17,796 people in and around Fowlerville (the survey’s count) and is open about 53 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Fowlerville District 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 Fowlerville’s library?
It logged 3.1 visits and lent 2.7 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Fowlerville’s civic life grade?
B Fowlerville is ahead of 63% of U.S. towns on civic life, #336 of 697 in Michigan. 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 Fowlerville.
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.