Clarkfield’s library lends 7.5 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Clarkfield Public Library serves 832 people in and around Clarkfield. Last year it lent 6,220 books, movies and e-books and logged 5,118 visits.
What stands out about Clarkfield Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Clarkfield’s civic life grade
Clarkfield 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 →
19 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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Clarkfield Public Library serves 832 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 4 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Clarkfield Public Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
6,220 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Find it
Clarkfield Public Library, 812 10th Avenue, Clarkfield.
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 $1.41 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Clarkfield cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $64K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $91K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $64K 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 681 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarkfield | Clarkfield Public Library | — | 32 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Friendship Township | 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. Clarkfield Public Library serves 832 people in and around Clarkfield, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Clarkfield.
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 Clarkfield
Does Clarkfield have a public library?
Yes. Clarkfield Public Library, 812 10th Avenue, serves 832 people in and around Clarkfield (the survey’s count) and is open about 32 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Clarkfield Public Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Clarkfield’s library?
It logged 6.2 visits and lent 7.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Clarkfield’s civic life grade?
Clarkfield 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 Clarkfield.
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.