Photo: Sixflashphoto · CC BY-SA 4.0Violet Township’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 Violet Township from 2 locations. Last year it lent 586K books, movies and e-books and logged 209K visits.
The short version on Violet Township’s library
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 Violet Township branch is open about 66 hours a week, averaged over the year. The buildings ↓
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 Violet Township, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Violet Township’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Violet Township is ahead of 60% of U.S. towns, #465 of 914 in Ohio. All three 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 →
192 community nonprofits are registered in Violet Township
4.0 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 (53 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 17 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
8.2%
8.2% of Violet 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 Violet Township’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.
2 places to borrow in Violet Township
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 Violet Township? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Other Pickerington Public Library branches in Violet Township
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 Violet Township 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloom Township | Wagnalls Memorial Library fine-free | 65.0 | 38 | C |
| Violet Township | Pickerington Public Library fine-free | — | 66 | B |
| Columbus | Columbus Metropolitan Library fine-free | — | 70 | B |
| Pickerington | Pickerington Public Library fine-free | — | 66 | A− |
| Madison Township | Canal Winchester Branch Library fine-free | — | 62 | D |
| Truro Township | Reynoldsburg Branch Library fine-free | — | 70 | C+ |
| Liberty Township | Baltimore Branch Library fine-free | — | 43 | A− |
| Reynoldsburg | Reynoldsburg Branch Library fine-free | — | 70 | C+ |
| Canal Winchester | Canal Winchester Branch Library fine-free | — | 62 | C− |
| Etna Township | None of its own | — | — | 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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Pickerington Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
- System-wide. Pickerington Public Library serves 55,517 people in and around Violet Township, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Violet 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 Violet Township
Does Violet Township have a public library?
Yes. Pickerington Public Library, 201 Opportunity Way, serves 55,517 people in and around Violet Township (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 Violet Township’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 Violet Township’s civic life grade?
B Violet Township is ahead of 60% of U.S. towns on civic life, #465 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 Violet 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.