Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMetamora’s library lends 2 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Evergreen Community Library serves 5,790 people in and around Metamora. Last year it lent 17K books, movies and e-books and logged 12K visits.
What Metamora’s library is like
Ohio pays a big share
70% of the budget comes from the state, and 15% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
More library cards than residents
7,052 cards for 5,790 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, it’s 42%. How it compares ↓
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; Evergreen Community Library serves 5,790 people in and around Metamora, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Metamora’s civic life grade
Metamora 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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Evergreen Community Library serves 5,790 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 9 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Evergreen Community Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
17K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
5,648 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 2 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
Evergreen Community Library, 253 Maple St., Metamora.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Evergreen Community Library branch.
New in Metamora? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Metamora cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $366K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $299K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $366K 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 7,052 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Evergreen Community Library serves 5,790 people in and around Metamora, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Metamora.
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 Metamora
Does Metamora have a public library?
Yes. Evergreen Community Library, 253 Maple St., serves 5,790 people in and around Metamora (the survey’s count) and is open about 37 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Evergreen Community 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 Metamora’s library?
It logged 2.2 visits and lent 3.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Metamora’s civic life grade?
Metamora 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 Metamora.
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.