Tripp’s library logs 0.3 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Tripp Public Library serves Tripp’s 564 residents. Last year it lent 877 books, movies and e-books and logged 182 visits.
What Tripp’s library is like
Tripp Public Library is used less than most libraries its size
Tripp Public Library records 0.3 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people. Borrowing is 0.6 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9. It also spends less than most: $12 per resident, against a typical $54. How it compares ↓
Open only about 6 hours a week
Tripp Public Library keeps short hours: about 6 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Tripp Public Library offered 0 programs last year, 0 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
Most of Tripp’s borrowing is digital
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 60% of loans. That’s partly because print borrowing is low: digital loans per resident are below typical too. What people borrow ↓
A small-town library
Tripp Public Library serves 564 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 Tripp’s civic life grade
Tripp 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 →
60% of borrowing is digital
877 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 8,597 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0 time last year, on average.
527 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Tripp Public Library serves 564 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 3 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
What kids borrow
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Tripp last year.
Find it
Tripp Public Library, 105 S Sloan Street, Tripp.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Tripp? 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 $2.10 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Tripp cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $6,952.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $15K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $6,952 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 197 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. Tripp 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 Tripp
Does Tripp have a public library?
Yes. Tripp Public Library, 105 S Sloan Street, serves Tripp’s 564 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 6 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Tripp 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 Tripp’s library?
It logged 0.3 visits and lent 1.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Tripp’s civic life grade?
Tripp 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 Tripp.
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.