Photo: Jack Pearce from Boardman, OH, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Howland Township’s library is a branch of Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, which lends more per resident than 61% of systems its size
Howland Township’s library is the Howland Branch Library, a branch of Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, which serves 142,591 people and lent 666K items last year.
What stands out about Howland Branch Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Howland Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Howland Township is ahead of 23% of U.S. towns, #788 of 914 in Ohio. Howland Township is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs sit below most U.S. towns; Howland Township’s count of community nonprofits comes closest to the middle.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($55K–$92K) 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 →
65 community nonprofits are registered in Howland Township
3.4 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 (21 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 3 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
5.6%
5.6% of Howland 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 Howland Township’s residents live; 2022.
About 24 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 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 100,000+ people across the U.S.
Warren-Trumbull County Public Library serves 142,591 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.
Every hour the doors are open, about 38 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Warren-Trumbull County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
666K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
104,352 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Howland Branch Library, 9095 E. Market St., Warren.
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 Warren-Trumbull County Public Library branch.
New in Howland Township? 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 $1.45 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Howland Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $7.9M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $11M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $7.9M 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 53,592 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howland Township | Howland Branch Library fine-free | — | 60 | C− |
| Warren | Warren-Trumbull County Public Library fine-free | — | 60 | C |
| Weathersfield Township | Mckinley Memorial Library fine-free | — | 56 | C− |
| Niles | Mckinley Memorial Library fine-free | — | 56 | C |
| Morgandale | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Howland Center | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Bolindale | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Warren Township | None of its own | — | — | C |
| Bazetta Township | None of its own | — | — | B |
| Vienna Township | None of its own | — | — | A− |
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. Howland Branch Library is one branch of Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 142,591 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 Howland Township
Does Howland Township have a public library?
Yes: Howland Branch Library, 9095 E. Market St., is a branch of Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, which serves 142,591 people. The branch is open about 60 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Warren-Trumbull County 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 Howland Township’s library?
It logged 3.0 visits and lent 4.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.
What is Howland Township’s civic life grade?
C− Howland Township is ahead of 23% of U.S. towns on civic life, #788 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 Howland 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.