Coraopolis Railroad Station · Photo: Crolinson · CC BY-SA 4.0Coraopolis’ library logs 2 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Coraopolis Memorial Library serves 6,667 people in and around Coraopolis. Last year it lent 42K books, movies and e-books and logged 13K visits.
What stands out about Coraopolis Memorial Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Coraopolis’ civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Coraopolis is ahead of 17% of U.S. towns, #862 of 1,029 in Pennsylvania. All three inputs sit below most U.S. towns; Coraopolis’ count of community nonprofits comes closest to the middle.
Coraopolis Memorial Library spends $22 per resident, against a typical $43 for libraries its size, and its 2024 visits are an estimate from one typical week (the survey’s method for libraries that don’t count every visit).
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($48K–$80K) 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 →
17 community nonprofits are registered in Coraopolis
3.1 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 (3 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
5.6%
5.6% of Coraopolis’ Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 7.0% in the typical Pennsylvania 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 Coraopolis’ residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Coraopolis Memorial Library serves 6,667 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 30 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Coraopolis Memorial Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
42K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
15,940 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 2 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.
Find it
Coraopolis Memorial Library, 601 School St., Coraopolis.
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 Coraopolis Memorial Library branch.
New in Coraopolis? 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 $4.38 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Coraopolis cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $145K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $635K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $145K 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 2,514 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon Township | Moon Township Public Library | 10.9 | 53 | C− |
| Coraopolis | Coraopolis Memorial Library fine-free | — | 45 | C− |
| Robinson Township | Robinson Township Library fine-free | — | 53 | C− |
| Neville 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. Coraopolis Memorial Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
- System-wide. Coraopolis Memorial Library serves 6,667 people in and around Coraopolis, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Coraopolis.
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 Coraopolis
Does Coraopolis have a public library?
Yes. Coraopolis Memorial Library, 601 School St., serves 6,667 people in and around Coraopolis (the survey’s count) and is open about 45 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Coraopolis Memorial 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 Coraopolis’ library?
It logged 2.0 visits and lent 6.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Coraopolis’ civic life grade?
C− Coraopolis is ahead of 17% of U.S. towns on civic life, #862 of 1,029 in Pennsylvania. 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 Coraopolis.
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.