Photo: Ken Winters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Public domainConneaut’s library runs 32 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 24 for libraries its size
Conneaut Public Library serves 13,950 people in and around Conneaut. Last year it lent 79K books, movies and e-books and logged 35K visits.
What stands out about Conneaut Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Conneaut’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Conneaut is ahead of 46% of U.S. towns, #583 of 914 in Ohio. Conneaut’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; library visits pull it down.
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 →
66 community nonprofits are registered in Conneaut
5.3 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
Community nonprofits, by kind
Counted from the IRS list of tax-exempt organizations by mailing address (fractions where a ZIP code spans towns). Congregations are counted apart (15 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.7%
6.7% of Conneaut’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 8.5% in the typical Ohio town and 7.5% nationally.
Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. ZIP-code figures, weighted by where Conneaut’s residents live; 2022.
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 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Conneaut Public Library serves 13,950 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 38 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Conneaut Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
79K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
21,398 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Conneaut Public Library, 304 Buffalo Street, Conneaut.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Conneaut Public Library branch.
New in Conneaut? 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 $1.43 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Conneaut cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $973K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.4M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $973K budget.
Late fines apply to some overdue items.
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 7,117 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conneaut | Conneaut Public Library | — | 40 | B− |
| Springfield Township | None of its own | — | — | B |
| Monroe Township | None of its own | — | — | D |
| North Kingsville | None of its own | — | — | D |
Loans = print + digital items borrowed in the library’s fiscal year, per person it serves. — = no library of its own, a county or regional system (its numbers cover many towns), or no report. Civic life: — = not graded (unincorporated places, whose nonprofits can’t be placed by mailing address, or towns with fewer than two of the three inputs).
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Conneaut Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
- System-wide. Conneaut Public Library serves 13,950 people in and around Conneaut, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Conneaut.
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 Conneaut
Does Conneaut have a public library?
Yes. Conneaut Public Library, 304 Buffalo Street, serves 13,950 people in and around Conneaut (the survey’s count) and is open about 40 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Conneaut Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Conneaut’s library?
It logged 2.5 visits and lent 5.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Conneaut’s civic life grade?
B− Conneaut is ahead of 46% of U.S. towns on civic life, #583 of 914 in Ohio. The grade combines library visits per resident, community nonprofits per 1,000 residents and the share of adults 25–44 in volunteering groups. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Conneaut.
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.