Photo: Original by Patrick Hull, modifications by Kbh3rd · CC BY-SA 3.0Grant City’s library logs 0.4 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Worth County Library serves 1,973 people in and around Grant City. Last year it lent 6,568 books, movies and e-books and logged 867 visits.
Grant City’s library, in brief
Open only about 20 hours a week
The Grant City branch keeps short hours: about 20 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Worth County Library offered 15 programs last year, 7.6 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
Fewer visits than most libraries its size
Worth County Library records 0.4 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people, below 98% of similar-size libraries. Borrowing holds up better, at 2.7 print items per resident. How it compares ↓
Few residents carry a card
Only 17% of the people the system serves have a library card, against a typical 54% for its size. How it compares ↓
Federal money pays a real share
4% of the budget comes from federal grants, and 68% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. 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; Worth County Library serves 1,973 people in and around Grant City, and its numbers cover all of them; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Grant City’s civic life grade
Grant City 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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Worth County Library serves 1,973 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 6 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Worth County Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
6,568 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
1,183 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
15 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
Worth County Library, 510 East Ave, Grant City.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Worth County Library branch.
New in Grant City? 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 $2.62 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Grant City cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $37K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $98K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $37K 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 327 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Worth County Library serves 1,973 people in and around Grant City, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Grant City.
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 Grant City
Does Grant City have a public library?
Yes. Worth County Library, 510 East Ave, serves 1,973 people in and around Grant City (the survey’s count) and is open about 20 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Worth County 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 Grant City’s library?
It logged 0.4 visits and lent 3.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Grant City’s civic life grade?
Grant City 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 Grant City.
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.