Milnor’s library logs 8 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Satre Memorial Milnor School Library serves Milnor’s 624 residents. Last year it lent 3,220 books, movies and e-books and logged 4,982 visits.
What Milnor’s library is like
Busy on a lean budget
Satre Memorial Milnor School Library spends $32 per resident, less than 79% of similar-size libraries (typical: $54). It’s still busier than 72% of them. What your card is worth ↓
More than half the print loans are for kids
Children’s books and media are 100% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 88% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 27 items per child in Milnor last year. Kids & programs ↓
Open only about 18 hours a week
Satre Memorial Milnor School Library keeps short hours: about 18 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
A small-town library
Satre Memorial Milnor School Library serves 624 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 ↓
Nearly everyone in Milnor has a card
570 cards for 624 people, or 91%. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
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 Milnor’s civic life grade
Milnor 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 →
2 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Milnor last year.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Satre Memorial Milnor School Library serves 624 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 5 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
3,220 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 12K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.2 time last year, on average.
195 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Satre Memorial Library / Milnor Public School, 528 5th Street, Milnor.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Milnor? 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 $4.98 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Milnor cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $20K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $98K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $20K 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 570 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Milnor
Does Milnor have a public library?
Yes. Satre Memorial Milnor School Library, 528 5th Street, serves Milnor’s 624 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 18 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Satre Memorial Milnor School 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 Milnor’s library?
It logged 8.0 visits and lent 5.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Milnor’s civic life grade?
Milnor 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 Milnor.
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.