Photo: TulGuy · CC BY 4.0Pryor Creek’s library logs 5.3 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Pryor Thomas J Harrison Public Library serves Pryor Creek’s 9,636 residents. Last year it lent 69K books, movies and e-books and logged 51K visits.
What Pryor Creek’s library is like
More library cards than residents
10,213 cards for 9,636 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, it’s 42%. How it compares ↓
47% of borrowing happens on a screen
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 47% of loans, more per resident than at 91% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 53%, much of it kids’ books. What people borrow ↓
A place to get online
Pryor Thomas J Harrison Public Library logs about 379 Wi-Fi sessions a day and has 16 public computers. That’s 14 sessions per resident a year. A year at the library ↓
Programs lean toward adults
52% of the 267 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 104 were for children. 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.
What’s behind Pryor Creek’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Pryor Creek is ahead of 51% of U.S. towns, #77 of 128 in Oklahoma. Library visits hold the grade up; Pryor Creek’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 →
25 community nonprofits are registered in Pryor Creek
2.7 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
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 (10 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
7.7%
7.7% of Pryor Creek’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 Pryor Creek’s residents live; 2022.
47% of borrowing is digital
69K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 30K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.2 time last year, on average.
32,227 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
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.
Pryor Thomas J Harrison Public Library serves 9,636 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 26 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
About 2 kids’ programs a week
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 Pryor Creek last year.
Find it
Pryor Thomas J Harrison Public Library, 505 East Graham, Pryor.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Pryor Creek? 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 $2.74 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Pryor Creek cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $546K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.5M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $546K 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 10,213 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Pryor Creek
Does Pryor Creek have a public library?
Yes. Pryor Thomas J Harrison Public Library, 505 East Graham, serves Pryor Creek’s 9,636 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 51 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pryor Thomas J Harrison Public 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 Pryor Creek’s library?
It logged 5.3 visits and lent 7.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Pryor Creek’s civic life grade?
B− Pryor Creek is ahead of 51% of U.S. towns on civic life, #77 of 128 in Oklahoma. 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 Pryor Creek.
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.