Photo: Richard Hurd from Green Bay, USA · CC BY 2.0Leland Township’s library logs 4.7 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Leland Township Public Library serves 6,034 people in and around Leland Township. Last year it lent 45K books, movies and e-books and logged 28K visits.
Leland Township’s library, in brief
More library cards than residents
6,256 cards for 6,034 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, it’s 42%. How it compares ↓
Gifts and endowments pay a real share
27% of the system’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 71%. What your card is worth ↓
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; Leland Township Public Library serves 6,034 people in and around Leland Township, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Leland Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Leland Township is among the top 1% of U.S. towns. Leland Township is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs put Leland Township near the top nationally; Leland Township’s count of community nonprofits ranks highest.
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 →
31 community nonprofits are registered in Leland Township
17.7 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.
16.4%
16.4% of Leland Township’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 Leland Township’s residents live; 2022.
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.
Leland Township Public Library serves 6,034 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 21 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Leland Township Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
45K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
13,904 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 1 kids’ program 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
Leland Township Public Library, 203 East Cedar Street, Leland.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Leland Township Public Library branch.
New in Leland 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 $3.15 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Leland Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $237K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $747K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $237K 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 6,256 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leelanau Township | Leelanau Township Library fine-free | 2.1 | 42 | A+ |
| Leland Township | Leland Township Public Library fine-free | — | 40 | A+ |
| Suttons Bay Township | Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library fine-free | — | 44 | A+ |
| Centerville Township | None of its own | — | — | A |
| Cleveland Township | None of its own | — | — | A |
| Lake Leelanau | 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.
- System-wide. Leland Township Public Library serves 6,034 people in and around Leland Township, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Leland Township.
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 Leland Township
Does Leland Township have a public library?
Yes. Leland Township Public Library, 203 East Cedar Street, serves 6,034 people in and around Leland Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 40 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Leland Township 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 Leland Township’s library?
It logged 4.7 visits and lent 7.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Leland Township’s civic life grade?
A+ Leland Township is among the top 1% 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 Leland 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.