Photo: Jake DeGroot · CC BY-SA 3.0Avon’s library logs 5.2 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Avon Public Library serves Avon’s 595 residents. Last year it lent 5,595 books, movies and e-books and logged 3,070 visits.
What Avon’s library is like
A small-town library
Avon Public Library serves 595 residents with about one full-time staff, open about 25 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 ↓
More than half the print loans are for kids
Children’s books and media are 73% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 85% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 9 items per child in Avon last year. Kids & programs ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 3.5 e-items per resident, against a typical 1, higher than at 90% of similar-size libraries. It’s 37% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
A big collection for the borrowing it gets
Avon Public Library holds 24,000 books and other items, but the average item went out less than once last year. What people borrow ↓
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 Avon’s civic life grade
Avon isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
5,595 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 24K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
2,067 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 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Avon Public Library serves 595 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 4 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
6 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Avon last year.
Find it
Avon Public Library, 116 N. Main Street, Avon.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Avon? 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 $2.48 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Avon cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $35K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $86K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $35K 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 270 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. Avon Public 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 Avon
Does Avon have a public library?
Yes. Avon Public Library, 116 N. Main Street, serves Avon’s 595 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 25 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Avon Public 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 Avon’s library?
It logged 5.2 visits and lent 9.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Avon’s civic life grade?
Avon isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Avon.
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.