Photo: Gpwitteveen · CC BY-SA 3.0Suttons Bay’s library logs 5.3 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library serves 5,460 people in and around Suttons Bay. Last year it lent 37K books, movies and e-books and logged 29K visits.
What Suttons Bay’s library is like
41% of borrowing happens on a screen
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 41% of loans, more per resident than at 87% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 59%, much of it kids’ books. What people borrow ↓
Most programs are for young children
71% of the 90 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including 38 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; Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library serves 5,460 people in and around Suttons Bay, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Suttons Bay’s civic life grade
Suttons Bay 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 →
41% of borrowing is digital
37K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
15,388 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library serves 5,460 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 16 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library system. The library’s own count.
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
Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library, 416 Front Street, Suttons Bay.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library branch.
New in Suttons Bay? 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 $2.36 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Suttons Bay cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $261K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $618K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $261K 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 2,771 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library serves 5,460 people in and around Suttons Bay, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Suttons Bay.
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 Suttons Bay
Does Suttons Bay have a public library?
Yes. Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library, 416 Front Street, serves 5,460 people in and around Suttons Bay (the survey’s count) and is open about 44 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Suttons Bay-Bingham 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 Suttons Bay’s library?
It logged 5.3 visits and lent 6.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Suttons Bay’s civic life grade?
Suttons Bay 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 Suttons Bay.
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.