Benajah Wolcott House · Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Danbury Township’s library is a branch of Ida Rupp Public Library, which lends more per resident than 80% of systems its size
Danbury Township’s library is the Marblehead Peninsula Branch Library, a branch of Ida Rupp Public Library, which serves 18,955 people and lent 189K items last year.
What Danbury Township’s library is like
Ohio pays a big share
36% of the budget comes from the state, and 52% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
A well-funded system
The Ida Rupp Public Library system spends $145 per resident a year, about three times the typical $43 for a library its size. What your card is worth ↓
Programs lean toward adults
55% of the 627 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 164 were for children. Kids & programs ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 2.7 e-items per resident, against a typical 1.1, higher than at 85% of similar-size libraries. It’s 27% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
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; Danbury Township’s library is a branch of Ida Rupp Public Library, so they cover the whole system (18,955 people), not just the Danbury Township branch.
What’s behind Danbury Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Danbury Township is ahead of 56% of U.S. towns, #486 of 914 in Ohio. Danbury Township is graded on two of the three inputs. Danbury Township’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls 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 →
26 community nonprofits are registered in Danbury Township
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 (8 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 2 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
6.6%
6.6% of Danbury Township’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 Danbury Township’s residents live; 2022.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $1.10 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Danbury Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $2.8M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $3M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $2.8M 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 8,866 cardholders ÷ 12.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Ida Rupp Public Library serves 18,955 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 35 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Ida Rupp Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
189K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
51,245 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
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.
Find it
Marblehead Peninsula Branch Library, 710 W. Main Street, Marblehead.
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 Ida Rupp Public Library branch.
New in Danbury Township? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danbury Township | Marblehead Peninsula Branch Library fine-free | — | 23 | B |
| Sandusky | Sandusky Library fine-free | — | 60 | A− |
| Catawba Island Township | None of its own | — | — | B+ |
| Margaretta Township | None of its own | — | — | B |
| Portage Township | None of its own | — | — | B |
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.
- System-wide. Marblehead Peninsula Branch Library is one branch of Ida Rupp Public Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 18,955 people it serves.
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 Danbury Township
Does Danbury Township have a public library?
Yes: Marblehead Peninsula Branch Library, 710 W. Main Street, is a branch of Ida Rupp Public Library, which serves 18,955 people. The branch is open about 23 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Ida Rupp Public 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 Danbury Township’s library?
It logged 4.2 visits and lent 9.9 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Danbury Township’s civic life grade?
B Danbury Township is ahead of 56% of U.S. towns on civic life, #486 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 Danbury Township.
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.