Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Hooker’s library lends 12 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Hooker Olive Warner Memorial Library serves Hooker’s 1,715 residents. Last year it lent 21K books, movies and e-books and logged 2,080 visits.
The short version on Hooker’s library
People borrow more than they stay
Borrowing per resident is higher than at 91% of similar-size libraries, but visits are lower than at 88%. People come in, pick up their books and go. How it compares ↓
Open only about 18 hours a week
Hooker Olive Warner Memorial Library keeps short hours: about 18 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
A small-town library
Hooker Olive Warner Memorial Library serves 1,715 residents with about one full-time staff. 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 ↓
Nearly everyone in Hooker has a card
1,670 cards for 1,715 people, or 97%. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
Kids borrow more here than almost anywhere
Children’s books and media are 41% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 89% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 16 items per child in Hooker last year. 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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Hooker’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Hooker is ahead of 44% of U.S. towns. Hooker’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; library visits pull it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($36K–$61K) 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 →
12 community nonprofits are registered in Hooker
6.7 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. 1 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.4%
7.4% of Hooker’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 Hooker’s residents live; 2022.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
21K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 30K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.7 time last year, on average.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Hooker Olive Warner Memorial Library serves 1,715 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 22 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
18 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.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Hooker last year.
Find it
Hooker Olive Warner Memorial Library, 111 S Broadway, Hooker.
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 $5.61 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Hooker cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $57K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $322K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $57K 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 1,670 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. Hooker Olive Warner Memorial Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Hooker
Does Hooker have a public library?
Yes. Hooker Olive Warner Memorial Library, 111 S Broadway, serves Hooker’s 1,715 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 18 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Hooker Olive Warner Memorial Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Hooker’s library?
It logged 1.2 visits and lent 12.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Hooker’s civic life grade?
C+ Hooker is ahead of 44% 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 Hooker.
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.