Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Hayti’s library logs 1.2 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Hayti Conran Memorial Library serves Hayti’s 2,493 residents. Last year it lent 1,594 books, movies and e-books and logged 2,906 visits.
What Hayti’s library is like
Hayti Conran Memorial Library is used less than most libraries its size
Hayti Conran Memorial Library records 1.2 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people. Borrowing is 0.6 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9. It also spends less than most: $15 per resident, against a typical $54. How it compares ↓
A small-town library
Hayti Conran Memorial Library serves 2,493 residents with about one full-time staff, open about 35 hours a week. 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 18% of the people Hayti Conran Memorial Library serves have a library card, against a typical 54% for its size. How it compares ↓
Runs on less money than most
Hayti Conran Memorial Library spends $15 per resident, less than 95% of similar-size libraries (typical: $54). 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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Hayti’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Hayti is ahead of 18% of U.S. towns. Hayti’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Hayti Conran Memorial Library spends $15 per resident, against a typical $54 for libraries its size.
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 →
11 community nonprofits are registered in Hayti
5.3 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
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 (11 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
2.6%
2.6% of Hayti’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 9.3% in the typical Missouri 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 Hayti’s residents live; 2022.
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Hayti Conran Memorial Library serves 2,493 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
A year at Hayti Conran Memorial Library
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
1,594 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 16K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
28 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Hayti last year.
Find it
Hayti Conran Memorial Library, 302 E Main St., Hayti.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Hayti cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $37K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $35K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $37K 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 441 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hayti | Hayti Conran Memorial Library | 0.6 | 35 | C− |
| Hayti Heights | 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.
- 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 Hayti
Does Hayti have a public library?
Yes. Hayti Conran Memorial Library, 302 E Main St., serves Hayti’s 2,493 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 35 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Hayti Conran Memorial Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Hayti’s library?
It logged 1.2 visits and lent 0.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Hayti’s civic life grade?
C− Hayti is ahead of 18% 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 Hayti.
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.