Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0Taylors Falls’ library logs 0.3 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Taylors Falls Public Library serves Taylors Falls’s 1,102 residents. Last year it lent 917 books, movies and e-books and logged 369 visits.
What Taylors Falls’s library is like
Taylors Falls Public Library is used less than most libraries its size
Taylors Falls Public Library records 0.3 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people. Borrowing is 0.8 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9. It also spends less than most: $10 per resident, against a typical $54. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Taylors Falls Public Library offered 0 programs last year, 0 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
The library is a National Register landmark
Taylors Falls Public Library has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1970. Today’s library there has 532 square feet. The building ↓
A small-town library
Taylors Falls Public Library serves 1,102 residents with about one full-time staff. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
Few residents carry a card
Only 4% of the people Taylors Falls Public Library serves have a library card, against a typical 54% for its size. How it compares ↓
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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Taylors Falls’ civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Taylors Falls is ahead of 63% of U.S. towns. Taylors Falls’ count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; library visits pull 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 →
10 community nonprofits are registered in Taylors Falls
8.6 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.
10.8%
10.8% of Taylors Falls’ Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 7.4% in the typical Minnesota 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 Taylors Falls’ residents live; 2022.
A National Register landmark since 1970
Taylors Falls Public Library, 473 Bench Street, Taylors Falls.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Taylors Falls Public Library
Taylors Falls Public Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Oct 15, 1970. It is significant for its education and architecture at the local level. Its architecture is described as Carpenter Gothic and Stick and Shingle. It was listed as part of Chisago County MRA (AD); Chisago County MRA.
Taylors Falls Public Library is the public library of Taylors Falls, Minnesota, United States, still operating in its original 19th-century building. Originally constructed as a tailor shop in 1854, the building was remodeled and converted into a library in 1887.
More about the building →Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Taylors Falls Public Library serves 1,102 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 3 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
917 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 9,596 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
What kids borrow
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Taylors Falls last year.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $1.42 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Taylors Falls cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $11K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $15K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $11K 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 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Croix Falls | St. Croix Falls Public Library fine-free | 9.7 | 49 | A+ |
| Taylors Falls | Taylors Falls Public Library fine-free | 0.8 | — | B |
| Shafer Township | None of its own | — | — | — graded with its twin city |
| St. Croix Falls | None of its own | — | — | A+ |
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.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Taylors Falls
Does Taylors Falls have a public library?
Yes. Taylors Falls Public Library, 473 Bench Street, serves Taylors Falls’ 1,102 residents (the survey’s count).
Is Taylors Falls Public Library fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Taylors Falls’ library?
It logged 0.3 visits and lent 0.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Taylors Falls’ civic life grade?
B Taylors Falls is ahead of 63% 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 Taylors Falls.
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. Building history: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places; photo via Wikimedia Commons. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.