Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Lilbourn’s library logs 0.1 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Lilbourn Memorial Library serves Lilbourn’s 822 residents. Last year it lent 1,083 books, movies and e-books and logged 112 visits.
Lilbourn’s library, in brief
Lilbourn Memorial Library is used less than most libraries its size
Lilbourn Memorial Library records 0.1 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people. Borrowing is 1.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9. It also spends less than most: $23 per resident, against a typical $54. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Lilbourn Memorial Library offered 0 programs last year, 0 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
Open only about 16 hours a week
Lilbourn Memorial Library keeps short hours: about 16 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
A small-town library
Lilbourn Memorial Library serves 822 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 ↓
Missouri pays a big share
25% of the budget comes from the state, 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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Lilbourn’s civic life grade
Lilbourn 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 →
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Lilbourn Memorial Library serves 822 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 1 item goes out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
1,083 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 8,313 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 Lilbourn last year.
Find it
Lilbourn Memorial Library, 210 E Lewis Ave, Lilbourn.
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 Lilbourn cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $19K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $18K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $19K 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 257 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Lilbourn Memorial Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Lilbourn
Does Lilbourn have a public library?
Yes. Lilbourn Memorial Library, 210 E Lewis Ave, serves Lilbourn’s 822 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 16 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Lilbourn Memorial Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Lilbourn’s library?
It logged 0.1 visits and lent 1.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Lilbourn’s civic life grade?
Lilbourn 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 Lilbourn.
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.