Photo: Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 4.0Grenada’s library logs 1.5 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries its size
Elizabeth Jones Library serves 21,065 people in and around Grenada. Last year it lent 48K books, movies and e-books and logged 31K visits.
The short version on Grenada’s library
Most of the library’s borrowing is digital
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 69% of loans, more per resident than at 65% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 31%. What people borrow ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Elizabeth Jones Library offered 6 programs last year, 0.3 per 1,000 residents against a typical 24. Kids & programs ↓
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; Elizabeth Jones Library serves 21,065 people in and around Grenada, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Grenada’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Grenada is ahead of 30% of U.S. towns, #32 of 85 in Mississippi. Grenada is graded on two of the three inputs. Grenada’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($35K–$58K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 →
62 community nonprofits are registered in Grenada
5.0 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 (26 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 2 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
3.7%
3.7% of Grenada’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 4.4% in the typical Mississippi 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 Grenada’s residents live; 2022.
69% of borrowing is digital
48K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
33,525 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Elizabeth Jones Library serves 21,065 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 25 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Elizabeth Jones Library system. The library’s own count.
6 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
Find it
Elizabeth Jones Library, 1050 Fairfield Avenue, Grenada.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Elizabeth Jones Library branch.
New in Grenada? 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 $2.45 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Grenada cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $342K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $837K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $342K 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 694 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Elizabeth Jones Library serves 21,065 people in and around Grenada, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Grenada.
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 Grenada
Does Grenada have a public library?
Yes. Elizabeth Jones Library, 1050 Fairfield Avenue, serves 21,065 people in and around Grenada (the survey’s count) and is open about 37 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Elizabeth Jones Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Grenada’s library?
It logged 1.5 visits and lent 2.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Grenada’s civic life grade?
C Grenada is ahead of 30% of U.S. towns on civic life, #32 of 85 in Mississippi. 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 Grenada.
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.