Konawa Armory · Photo: kennethaw88 · CC BY 4.0Konawa’s library logs 12 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Konawa Kennedy Library of Konawa serves Konawa’s 1,268 residents. Last year it lent 19K books, movies and e-books and logged 16K visits.
The short version on Konawa’s library
More library cards than residents
2,581 cards for 1,268 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
More than half the print loans are for kids
Children’s books and media are 89% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 98% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 50 items per child in Konawa last year. Kids & programs ↓
Konawa uses its library more than almost any town its size
Konawa Kennedy Library of Konawa logs 12 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people, and lends 14 print items per resident against a typical 3.9. On both counts it beats 93% of similar-size libraries across the U.S. How it compares ↓
Open only about 15 hours a week
Konawa Kennedy Library of Konawa keeps short hours: about 15 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
A small-town library
Konawa Kennedy Library of Konawa serves 1,268 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 ↓
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 Konawa’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Konawa is ahead of 69% of U.S. towns. Library visits hold the grade up; Konawa’s count of community nonprofits pulls it down.
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 →
2 community nonprofits are registered in Konawa
2.1 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.
9.4%
9.4% of Konawa’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 Konawa’s residents live; 2022.
11 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 Konawa last year.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Konawa Kennedy Library of Konawa serves 1,268 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 27 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
19K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 20K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.9 time last year, on average.
2,000 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Konawa Kennedy Library of Konawa, 701 West South Street, Konawa.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Konawa? 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 $2.67 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Konawa cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $98K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $263K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $98K 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 2,581 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. Konawa Kennedy Library of Konawa 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 Konawa
Does Konawa have a public library?
Yes. Konawa Kennedy Library of Konawa, 701 West South Street, serves Konawa’s 1,268 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 15 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Konawa Kennedy Library of Konawa 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 Konawa’s library?
It logged 12.5 visits and lent 15.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Konawa’s civic life grade?
B+ Konawa is ahead of 69% 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 Konawa.
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.