Photo: AllenS · Public domainCorona’s library logs 12 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Village of Corona Public Library serves Corona’s 129 residents. Last year it lent 1,407 books, movies and e-books and logged 1,578 visits.
What Corona’s library is like
More library cards than residents
324 cards for 129 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 ↓
New Mexico pays a big share
98% of the budget comes from the state, and 0% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Corona uses its library more than almost any town its size
Village of Corona Public Library logs 12 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people, and lends 11 print items per resident against a typical 3.9. On both counts it beats 89% of similar-size libraries across the U.S. How it compares ↓
A small-town library
Village of Corona Public Library serves 129 residents with about one full-time staff, open about 26 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 ↓
Corona invests in its library
Village of Corona Public Library spends $169 per resident a year, about three times the typical $54 for a library its size. 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 Corona’s civic life grade
Corona 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 1 item goes out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Village of Corona Public Library serves 129 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
1,407 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 15K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
17 programs a year
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.
Find it
Village of Corona Public Library, 481 Corona Main Street, Corona.
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 $1.08 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Corona cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $22K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $23K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $22K 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 324 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 Corona
Does Corona have a public library?
Yes. Village of Corona Public Library, 481 Corona Main Street, serves Corona’s 129 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 26 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Village of Corona Public Library fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Corona’s library?
It logged 12.2 visits and lent 10.9 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Corona’s civic life grade?
Corona 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 Corona.
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.