Photo: Aesopposea · CC BY-SA 3.0Paint Township’s library is a branch of Highland County District Library, which lends more per resident than 59% of systems its size
Paint Township’s library is the Rocky Fork Branch, a branch of Highland County District Library, which serves 42,139 people and lent 258K items last year.
What stands out about Rocky Fork Branch
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Paint Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Paint Township is ahead of 83% of U.S. towns, #171 of 914 in Ohio. Paint Township is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups ranks highest.
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 →
22 community nonprofits are registered in Paint Township
4.5 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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 (6 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
10.6%
10.6% of Paint 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 Paint Township’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Highland County District Library serves 42,139 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 23 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Highland County District Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
258K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
60,963 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 11 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
Rocky Fork Branch, 11125 North Shore Drive, Hillsboro.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Highland County District Library branch.
New in Paint 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 $2.56 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Paint Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.6M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $4.2M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.6M 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 17,975 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paint Township | Rocky Fork Branch | — | 34 | A− |
| Madison Township | Greenfield Branch | — | 48 | B− |
| Fairfield Township | Leesburg Branch | — | 44 | B |
| Liberty Township | Highland County District Library | — | 48 | A− |
| Paxton Township | Paxton Branch Library fine-free | — | 26 | A |
| Marshall Township | None of its own | — | — | A |
| Highland Holiday | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Rocky Fork Point | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Brushcreek Township | None of its own | — | — | A |
| Penn 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. Rocky Fork Branch is one branch of Highland County District Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 42,139 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 Paint Township
Does Paint Township have a public library?
Yes: Rocky Fork Branch, 11125 North Shore Drive, is a branch of Highland County District Library, which serves 42,139 people. The branch is open about 34 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Highland County District 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 Paint Township’s library?
It logged 2.7 visits and lent 6.1 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Paint Township’s civic life grade?
A− Paint Township is ahead of 83% of U.S. towns on civic life, #171 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 Paint 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.