Photo: In memoriam afiler · CC BY-SA 2.0Maddock’s library logs 25 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Maddock Community Library serves Maddock’s 402 residents. Last year it lent 5,322 books, movies and e-books and logged 9,855 visits.
What Maddock’s library is like
Mostly paid for by gifts, not taxes
66% of the library’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 32%. What your card is worth ↓
Maddock uses its library more than almost any town its size
Maddock Community Library logs 25 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people, and lends 13 print items per resident against a typical 3.9. On both counts it beats 92% of similar-size libraries across the U.S. How it compares ↓
A small-town library
Maddock Community Library serves 402 residents with about one full-time staff, open about 28 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 ↓
A place to get online
Maddock Community Library logs about 206 Wi-Fi sessions a day and has 3 public computers. That’s 187 sessions per resident a year. A year at the library ↓
Most programs are for young children
66% of the 88 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 1 a week for ages 0–5. 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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Maddock’s civic life grade
Maddock 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 →
Every hour the doors are open, about 4 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Maddock Community Library serves 402 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
5,322 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 5,774 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.9 time last year, on average.
218 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card.
About 1 kids’ program a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Maddock last year.
Find it
Maddock Community Library, 114 Central Avenue, Maddock.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting.
New in Maddock? 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 $20.27 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Maddock cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $16K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $322K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $16K 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 100 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits count everyone. Maddock’s 9,855 visits include people from nearby towns and summer visitors; the survey has no resident share.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Maddock Community 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 Maddock
Does Maddock have a public library?
Yes. Maddock Community Library, 114 Central Avenue, serves Maddock’s 402 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 28 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Maddock Community Library 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 Maddock’s library?
It logged 24.5 visits and lent 13.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Maddock’s civic life grade?
Maddock 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 Maddock.
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.