Silver Creek’s library logs 1.7 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Silver Creek Township Library serves 536 people in and around Silver Creek. Last year it lent 1,325 books, movies and e-books and logged 919 visits.
The short version on Silver Creek’s library
Open only about 15 hours a week
Silver Creek Township Library keeps short hours: about 15 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
A small-town library
Silver Creek Township Library serves 536 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 ↓
Silver Creek Township Library serves more than Silver Creek
The library’s service area covers 536 people in and around Silver Creek, so its per-resident numbers are measured against that wider population. 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 Silver Creek’s civic life grade
Silver Creek 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 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Silver Creek Township Library serves 536 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 2 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
1,325 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 9,133 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
14 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
Find it
Silver Creek Township Library, 309 Vine Street, Silver Creek.
No late fees. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Silver Creek? 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 $1.13 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Silver Creek cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $18K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $20K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $18K 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 319 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 Silver Creek
Does Silver Creek have a public library?
Yes. Silver Creek Township Library, 309 Vine Street, serves 536 people in and around Silver Creek (the survey’s count) and is open about 15 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Silver Creek Township Library fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Silver Creek’s library?
It logged 1.7 visits and lent 2.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Silver Creek’s civic life grade?
Silver Creek 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 Silver Creek.
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.