Photo: Nyttend · Public domainRush Township’s library is a branch of Champaign County Library, which lends more per resident than 61% of systems its size
Rush Township’s library is the North Lewisburg Branch, a branch of Champaign County Library, which serves 28,349 people and lent 194K items last year.
What Rush Township’s library is like
Ohio pays a big share
62% of the budget comes from the state, and 30% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Open only about 20 hours a week
The Rush Township branch keeps short hours: about 20 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. 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; Rush Township’s library is a branch of Champaign County Library, so they cover the whole system (28,349 people), not just the Rush Township branch.
What’s behind Rush Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Rush Township is ahead of 68% of U.S. towns, #364 of 914 in Ohio. Rush Township is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; Rush Township’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 →
13 community nonprofits are registered in Rush Township
4.7 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 (1 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
8.1%
8.1% of Rush 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 Rush Township’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Champaign County Library serves 28,349 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 47 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Champaign County Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
194K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
56,457 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 4 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
North Lewisburg Branch, 161 Winder St., North Lewisburg.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Champaign County Library branch.
New in Rush 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 $2.29 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Rush Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.3M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $3M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.3M 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 15,542 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rush Township | North Lewisburg Branch fine-free | — | 20 | B+ |
| Goshen Township | Mechanicsburg Public Library | — | 49 | A |
| Wayne Township | None of its own | — | — | A |
| Allen Township | None of its own | — | — | C |
| Union 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. North Lewisburg Branch is one branch of Champaign County Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 28,349 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 Rush Township
Does Rush Township have a public library?
Yes: North Lewisburg Branch, 161 Winder St., is a branch of Champaign County Library, which serves 28,349 people. The branch is open about 20 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Champaign County 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 Rush Township’s library?
It logged 1.6 visits and lent 6.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Rush Township’s civic life grade?
B+ Rush Township is ahead of 68% of U.S. towns on civic life, #364 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 Rush 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.