Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0Camp Wood’s library lends 1.7 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Camp Wood Public Library serves 1,392 people in and around Camp Wood. Last year it lent 2,648 books, movies and e-books and logged 4,184 visits.
What Camp Wood’s library is like
Mostly paid for by gifts, not taxes
66% of the system’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 34%. What your card is worth ↓
Below typical on every measure
Against libraries serving under 2,500 people, Camp Wood Public Library sits below the middle on all seven per-resident measures we compare, and in the bottom 30% on four. How it compares ↓
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; Camp Wood Public Library serves 1,392 people in and around Camp Wood, and its numbers cover all of them; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Camp Wood’s civic life grade
Camp Wood 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 →
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Camp Wood Public Library serves 1,392 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 2 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Camp Wood Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
2,648 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
280 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
30 programs a year
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
Camp Wood Public Library, 106 S Nueces St., Camp Wood.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Camp Wood Public Library branch.
New in Camp Wood? 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 $1.51 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Camp Wood cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $33K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $50K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $33K 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 651 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Camp Wood Public Library serves 1,392 people in and around Camp Wood, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Camp Wood.
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 Camp Wood
Does Camp Wood have a public library?
Yes. Camp Wood Public Library, 106 S Nueces St., serves 1,392 people in and around Camp Wood (the survey’s count) and is open about 24 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Camp Wood 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 Camp Wood’s library?
It logged 3.0 visits and lent 1.9 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Camp Wood’s civic life grade?
Camp Wood 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 Camp Wood.
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.