Fillmore’s library lends 8.5 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Wide Awake Club Library serves 5,071 people in and around Fillmore. Last year it lent 50K books, movies and e-books and logged 20K visits.
Fillmore’s library, in brief
More than half the print loans are for kids
Children’s books and media are 64% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 93% of similar-size libraries. Kids & programs ↓
Busy on a lean budget
Wide Awake Club Library spends $27 per resident, less than 75% of similar-size libraries (typical: $43). It’s still borrowed from more than 75% of them. 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; Wide Awake Club Library serves 5,071 people in and around Fillmore, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Fillmore’s civic life grade
Fillmore 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 →
About 3 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Wide Awake Club Library serves 5,071 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 24 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Wide Awake Club Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
50K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
6,441 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Wide Awake Club Library, 22 N. Genesee St., Fillmore.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Wide Awake Club Library branch.
New in Fillmore? 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 $5.49 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Fillmore cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $136K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $749K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $136K 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 2,002 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Wide Awake Club Library serves 5,071 people in and around Fillmore, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Fillmore.
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 Fillmore
Does Fillmore have a public library?
Yes. Wide Awake Club Library, 22 N. Genesee St., serves 5,071 people in and around Fillmore (the survey’s count) and is open about 40 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Wide Awake Club 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 Fillmore’s library?
It logged 3.9 visits and lent 9.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Fillmore’s civic life grade?
Fillmore 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 Fillmore.
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.