Deal, J.J., and Son Carriage Factory · Photo: Everts & Abbott · Public domainJonesville’s library logs 2.5 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Jonesville District Library serves 5,134 people in and around Jonesville. Last year it lent 26K books, movies and e-books and logged 13K visits.
What Jonesville’s library is like
Gifts and endowments pay a real share
26% of the system’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 71%. What your card is worth ↓
Most programs are for young children
72% of the 148 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 1.2 a week for ages 0–5. 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; Jonesville District Library serves 5,134 people in and around Jonesville, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Jonesville’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Jonesville is ahead of 73% of U.S. towns. Jonesville is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; Jonesville’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 →
7 community nonprofits are registered in Jonesville
3.0 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 (2 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
15.8%
15.8% of Jonesville’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 Jonesville’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Jonesville District Library serves 5,134 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 11 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Jonesville District Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
26K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
6,803 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, 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
Jonesville District Library, 310 Church Street, Jonesville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Jonesville District Library branch.
New in Jonesville? 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 $2.43 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Jonesville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $174K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $424K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $174K 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 1,934 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Jonesville District Library serves 5,134 people in and around Jonesville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Jonesville.
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 Jonesville
Does Jonesville have a public library?
Yes. Jonesville District Library, 310 Church Street, serves 5,134 people in and around Jonesville (the survey’s count) and is open about 46 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Jonesville District 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 Jonesville’s library?
It logged 2.5 visits and lent 5.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Jonesville’s civic life grade?
B+ Jonesville is ahead of 73% of U.S. towns on civic life. 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 Jonesville.
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.