Photo: Berniethomas68 at English Wikipedia · Public domainPickerington’s library lends 8 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Pickerington Public Library serves 55,517 people in and around Pickerington. Last year it lent 586K books, movies and e-books and logged 209K visits.
What Pickerington’s library is like
Ohio pays a big share
46% of the budget comes from the state, and 44% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Open about 66 hours a week
The Pickerington branch is open about 66 hours a week, averaged over the year. The building ↓
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; Pickerington Public Library serves 55,517 people in and around Pickerington, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Pickerington’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Pickerington is ahead of 85% of U.S. towns, #135 of 914 in Ohio. Pickerington is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; Pickerington’s count of community nonprofits 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 →
176 community nonprofits are registered in Pickerington
7.2 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 (47 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 16 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
8.4%
8.4% of Pickerington’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 Pickerington’s residents live; 2022.
About 7 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 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Pickerington Public Library serves 55,517 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 72 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Pickerington Public Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
586K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
141,004 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Pickerington Public Library, 201 Opportunity Way, Pickerington.
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 Pickerington Public Library branch.
New in Pickerington? 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 $2.80 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Pickerington cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $3.2M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $8.8M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $3.2M 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 23,200 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pickerington | Pickerington Public Library fine-free | — | 66 | A− |
| Columbus | Columbus Metropolitan Library fine-free | — | 70 | B |
| Violet Township | Pickerington Public Library fine-free | — | 66 | B |
| Madison Township | Canal Winchester Branch Library fine-free | — | 62 | D |
| Reynoldsburg | Reynoldsburg Branch Library fine-free | — | 70 | C+ |
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. Pickerington Public Library serves 55,517 people in and around Pickerington, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Pickerington.
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 Pickerington
Does Pickerington have a public library?
Yes. Pickerington Public Library, 201 Opportunity Way, serves 55,517 people in and around Pickerington (the survey’s count) and is open about 66 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pickerington 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 Pickerington’s library?
It logged 3.8 visits and lent 10.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Pickerington’s civic life grade?
A− Pickerington is ahead of 85% of U.S. towns on civic life, #135 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 Pickerington.
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.