Photo: Chris Green:Chrisg21090 (Uploads) / Chrisg21090 at English Wikipedia · Public domainVenice Township’s library logs 8 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Seneca East Public Library serves 4,977 people in and around Venice Township. Last year it lent 26K books, movies and e-books and logged 40K visits.
What Venice Township’s library is like
Ohio pays a big share
56% of the budget comes from the state, and 35% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Visits are the system’s strong suit
Seneca East Public Library logs 8 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, more than 89% of similar-size libraries. Borrowing is above typical too, at 4.2 print items per resident. How it compares ↓
Programs draw a crowd
7,389 people came to the system’s 330 programs last year: 1.5 per resident, against a typical 0.5, more than at 90% of similar-size libraries. Kids & programs ↓
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; Seneca East Public Library serves 4,977 people in and around Venice Township, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Venice Township’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Venice Township is ahead of 97% of U.S. towns. Venice Township is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; Venice 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 →
18 community nonprofits are registered in Venice Township
10.0 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
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 (4 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
10.7%
10.7% of Venice 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 Venice Township’s residents live; 2022.
About 3 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 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Seneca East Public Library serves 4,977 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 8 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Seneca East Public Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
26K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
5,292 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Seneca East Public Library, 14 N Main St., Attica.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Seneca East Public Library branch.
New in Venice 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 Venice Township cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $323K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $468K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $323K 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 1,515 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venice Township | Seneca East Public Library fine-free | — | 60 | A+ |
| Cranberry Township | New Washington Branch Library | — | 27 | A+ |
| Bloom Township | Bliss Memorial Public Library fine-free | — | 34 | A |
| Richmond Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Reed Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
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. Seneca East Public Library serves 4,977 people in and around Venice Township, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Venice Township.
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 Venice Township
Does Venice Township have a public library?
Yes. Seneca East Public Library, 14 N Main St., serves 4,977 people in and around Venice Township (the survey’s count) and is open about 60 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Seneca East 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 Venice Township’s library?
It logged 8.0 visits and lent 5.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Venice Township’s civic life grade?
A+ Venice Township is ahead of 97% of U.S. towns on civic life. 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 Venice 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.