Beaver Crossing’s library logs 0.8 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Beaver Crossing Community Library serves Beaver Crossing’s 370 residents. Last year it lent 700 books, movies and e-books and logged 300 visits.
What Beaver Crossing’s library is like
More library cards than residents
410 cards for 370 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
A small-town library
Beaver Crossing Community Library serves 370 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 ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Beaver Crossing Community Library offered 2 programs last year, 5.4 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
Runs on less money than most
Beaver Crossing Community Library spends $8 per resident, less than 98% of similar-size libraries (typical: $54). What your card is worth ↓
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 Beaver Crossing’s civic life grade
Beaver Crossing 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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Beaver Crossing Community Library serves 370 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 3 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
700 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 5,450 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
2 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
Find it
Beaver Crossing Community Library, 721 Dimery Avenue, Beaver Crossing.
No late fees. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Beaver Crossing? 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 $3.68 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Beaver Crossing cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $3,086.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $11K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $3,086 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 410 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Beaver Crossing 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 Beaver Crossing
Does Beaver Crossing have a public library?
Yes. Beaver Crossing Community Library, 721 Dimery Avenue, serves Beaver Crossing’s 370 residents (the survey’s count).
Is Beaver Crossing Community Library fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Beaver Crossing’s library?
It logged 0.8 visits and lent 1.9 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Beaver Crossing’s civic life grade?
Beaver Crossing 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 Beaver Crossing.
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.