Marantette Bridge · Photo: rossograph · CC BY-SA 4.0Mendon Township’s library logs 0.9 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Mendon Township Library serves 5,676 people in and around Mendon Township. Last year it lent 8,524 print books and media and logged 5,175 visits.
What Mendon Township’s library is like
Mendon Township Library is used less than most libraries its size
Mendon Township Library records 0.9 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people. Borrowing is 1.5 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8. It also spends less than most: $15 per resident, against a typical $43. How it compares ↓
Programs lean toward adults
92% of the 65 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 5 were for children. Kids & programs ↓
Runs on less money than most
Mendon Township Library spends $15 per resident, less than 91% of similar-size libraries (typical: $43). 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; Mendon Township Library serves 5,676 people in and around Mendon Township, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Mendon Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Mendon Township is ahead of 74% of U.S. towns, #226 of 697 in Michigan. Mendon Township is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; Mendon Township’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 Mendon Township
3.0 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.
17.2%
17.2% of Mendon 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 Mendon Township’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Mendon Township Library serves 5,676 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 5 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Mendon Township Library system. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
8,524 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.
65 programs a year
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
Mendon Township Library, 314 West Main Street, Mendon.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Mendon Township Library branch.
New in Mendon 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 $1.64 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Mendon Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $84K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $138K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $84K 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 3,927 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mendon Township | Mendon Township Library fine-free | — | 35 | B+ |
| Nottawa Township | Nottawa Township Library fine-free | — | 42 | A |
| Park Township | None of its own | — | — | B |
| Leonidas Township | None of its own | — | — | — too few inputs |
| Brady Township | None of its own | — | — | B+ |
| Wakeshma Township | None of its own | — | — | B− |
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.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
- System-wide. Mendon Township Library serves 5,676 people in and around Mendon Township, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Mendon 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 Mendon Township
Does Mendon Township have a public library?
Yes. Mendon Township Library, 314 West Main Street, serves 5,676 people in and around Mendon Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 35 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Mendon Township 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 Mendon Township’s library?
It logged 0.9 visits and lent 1.5 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Mendon Township’s civic life grade?
B+ Mendon Township is ahead of 74% of U.S. towns on civic life, #226 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 Mendon 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.