Photo: Spend A Day Touring, LLC · CC BY-SA 2.0Troy’s library is a branch of Lincoln County Public Libraries, which lends less per resident than 58% of systems its size
Troy’s library is the Troy Branch Library, a branch of Lincoln County Public Libraries, which serves 19,677 people and lent 76K items last year.
What stands out about Troy Branch Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Troy’s civic life grade
Troy 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 →
About 8 kids’ programs a week
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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Lincoln County Public Libraries serves 19,677 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 15 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Lincoln County Public Libraries system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
76K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
9,974 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card.
Find it
Troy Branch Library, 207 N 3rd Street, Troy.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Good at every Lincoln County Public Libraries branch.
New in Troy? 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 $2.74 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Troy cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $490K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.3M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $490K 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 6,004 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Troy Branch Library is one branch of Lincoln County Public Libraries, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 19,677 people it serves.
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 Troy
Does Troy have a public library?
Yes: Troy Branch Library, 207 N 3rd Street, is a branch of Lincoln County Public Libraries, which serves 19,677 people. The branch is open about 28 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Lincoln County Public Libraries fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Troy’s library?
It logged 2.7 visits and lent 3.9 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Troy’s civic life grade?
Troy 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 Troy.
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.