Photo: stu_spivack · CC BY-SA 2.0Euclid’s library lends 9.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Euclid Public Library serves 49,708 people in and around Euclid. Last year it lent 600K books, movies and e-books and logged 212K visits.
Euclid’s library, in brief
Ohio pays a big share
30% of the budget comes from the state, and 58% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Most programs are for young children
73% of the 741 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 7.8 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
A system of heavy borrowers
Euclid Public Library lends 9.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people, more than 88% of similar-size libraries. What people borrow ↓
A well-funded system
Euclid Public Library spends $107 per resident a year, about twice the typical $40 for a library its size. What your card is worth ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 2.8 e-items per resident, against a typical 1.2, higher than at 85% of similar-size libraries. It’s 23% 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; Euclid Public Library serves 49,708 people in and around Euclid, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Euclid’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Euclid is ahead of 34% of U.S. towns, #678 of 914 in Ohio. Library visits hold the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($38K–$63K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 →
193 community nonprofits are registered in Euclid
4.0 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
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 (33 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 10 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
3.6%
3.6% of Euclid’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 Euclid’s residents live; 2022.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
600K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
139,607 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Euclid Public Library serves 49,708 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 187 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Euclid Public Library system. The library’s own count.
About 10 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
Euclid Public Library, 631 E. 222nd St., Euclid.
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 Euclid Public Library branch.
New in Euclid? 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 $1.82 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Euclid cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $5.3M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $9.7M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $5.3M 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 26,719 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euclid | Euclid Public Library fine-free | — | 62 | C |
| Richmond Heights | Richmond Heights Branch Library fine-free | — | 67 | C |
| Cleveland | Cleveland Public Library fine-free | — | 48 | C+ |
| Wickliffe | Wickliffe Public Library | — | 64 | B |
| Willowick | Willowick Branch Library fine-free | — | 68 | 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. Euclid Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
- System-wide. Euclid Public Library serves 49,708 people in and around Euclid, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Euclid.
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 Euclid
Does Euclid have a public library?
Yes. Euclid Public Library, 631 E. 222nd St., serves 49,708 people in and around Euclid (the survey’s count) and is open about 62 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Euclid 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 Euclid’s library?
It logged 4.3 visits and lent 12.1 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Euclid’s civic life grade?
C Euclid is ahead of 34% of U.S. towns on civic life, #678 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 Euclid.
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.