Cooleemee’s library is a branch of Davie County Public Library, which lends less per resident than 79% of systems its size
Cooleemee’s library is the Cooleemee Branch Library, a branch of Davie County Public Library, which serves 44,249 people and lent 95K items last year.
What stands out about Cooleemee Branch Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Cooleemee’s civic life grade
Cooleemee isn’t graded on civic life: its library is a branch of Davie County Public Library, so there is no town figure for visits and the volunteering estimate doesn’t cover enough of 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 →
8 community nonprofits are registered in Cooleemee
7.5 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 (3 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Davie County Public Library serves 44,249 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 19 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Davie County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
95K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
24,487 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 7 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.
Find it
Cooleemee Branch Library, 7796 Hwy 801 S, Cooleemee.
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 Davie County Public Library branch.
New in Cooleemee? 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 $2.19 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Cooleemee cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $762K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.7M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $762K 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 17,161 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Cooleemee Branch Library is one branch of Davie County Public Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 44,249 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 Cooleemee
Does Cooleemee have a public library?
Yes: Cooleemee Branch Library, 7796 Hwy 801 S, is a branch of Davie County Public Library, which serves 44,249 people. The branch is open about 30 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Davie County Public 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 Cooleemee’s library?
It logged 1.3 visits and lent 2.1 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Cooleemee’s civic life grade?
Cooleemee isn’t graded on civic life: its library is a branch of Davie County Public Library, so there is no town figure for visits and the volunteering estimate doesn’t cover enough of it. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Cooleemee.
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.