Tripp County Veteran's Memorial · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Winner’s library lends 7.1 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Tripp County Library - Grossenburg Memorial serves 5,621 people in and around Winner. Last year it lent 45K books, movies and e-books and logged 19K visits.
What stands out about Tripp County Library - Grossenburg Memorial
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Winner’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Winner is ahead of 95% of U.S. towns, #4 of 31 in South Dakota. Winner is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; Winner’s count of community nonprofits ranks highest.
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 →
48 community nonprofits are registered in Winner
16.6 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 (7 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
9.3%
9.3% of Winner’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 6.9% in the typical South Dakota 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 Winner’s residents live; 2022.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
45K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
5,295 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 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Tripp County Library - Grossenburg Memorial serves 5,621 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 21 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Tripp County Library - Grossenburg Memorial system. The library’s own count.
About 1 kids’ program 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
Tripp County Library - Grossenburg Memorial, 442 Monroe Street, Winner.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Tripp County Library - Grossenburg Memorial branch.
New in Winner? 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 $4.14 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Winner cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $175K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $726K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $175K 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 2,593 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Tripp County Library - Grossenburg Memorial fine-free | — | 42 | A |
| Lamro Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
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.
- System-wide. Tripp County Library - Grossenburg Memorial serves 5,621 people in and around Winner, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Winner.
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 Winner
Does Winner have a public library?
Yes. Tripp County Library - Grossenburg Memorial, 442 Monroe Street, serves 5,621 people in and around Winner (the survey’s count) and is open about 42 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Tripp County Library - Grossenburg Memorial 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 Winner’s library?
It logged 3.3 visits and lent 8.1 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Winner’s civic life grade?
A Winner is ahead of 95% of U.S. towns on civic life, #4 of 31 in South Dakota. 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 Winner.
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.