Crescent’s library logs 0.7 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Crescent Community Library serves Crescent’s 1,372 residents. Last year it lent 630 print books and media and logged 1,016 visits.
Crescent’s library, in brief
Crescent Community Library is used less than most libraries its size
Crescent Community Library records 0.7 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people. Borrowing is 0.5 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9. It also spends less than most: $32 per resident, against a typical $54. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Crescent Community Library offered 4 programs last year, 2.9 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
A small-town library
Crescent Community Library serves 1,372 residents with about one full-time staff, open about 32 hours a week. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Crescent’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Crescent is ahead of 38% of U.S. towns. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; library visits pull it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($47K–$79K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 →
4 community nonprofits are registered in Crescent
2.9 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: education.
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.
13.5%
13.5% of Crescent’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 9.7% in the typical Oklahoma 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 Crescent’s residents live; 2022.
Below most similar-size libraries on all 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Crescent Community Library serves 1,372 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
A year at Crescent Community Library
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
630 print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
The survey has no count of children’s loans for Crescent’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
Each of the 4,766 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
4 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, 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
Crescent Community Library, 403 East Monroe Street, Crescent.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Crescent? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Crescent cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $44K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $14K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $44K 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 423 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Crescent Community Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
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 Crescent
Does Crescent have a public library?
Yes. Crescent Community Library, 403 East Monroe Street, serves Crescent’s 1,372 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 32 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Crescent Community 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 Crescent’s library?
It logged 0.7 visits and lent 0.5 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Crescent’s civic life grade?
C+ Crescent is ahead of 38% 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 Crescent.
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.