Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Corrigan’s library runs 4.9 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 60 for libraries its size
Mickey Reily Public Library serves 1,435 people in and around Corrigan. Last year it lent 1,920 print books and media and logged 3,646 visits.
What Corrigan’s library is like
More library cards than residents
5,088 cards for 1,435 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
Well funded, but lightly used
Mickey Reily Public Library spends $111 per resident, more than 86% of similar-size libraries. Use doesn’t match: visits per resident are lower than at 65% of them. What your card is worth ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Mickey Reily Public Library offered 7 programs last year, 4.9 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
A small-town library
Mickey Reily Public Library serves 1,435 residents with about 2 full-time staff, open about 40 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 ↓
A big collection for the borrowing it gets
Mickey Reily 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 Corrigan’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Corrigan is ahead of 22% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit below most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups comes closest to the middle.
Corrigan’s 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 ($28K–$47K) 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 →
4 community nonprofits are registered in Corrigan
2.2 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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 (2 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.9%
6.9% of Corrigan’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 5.7% in the typical Texas 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 Corrigan’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Mickey Reily Public Library serves 1,435 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
A year at Mickey Reily Public Library
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
1,920 print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Each of the 24K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
7 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
Find it
Mickey Reily Public Library, 604 S Mathews St., Corrigan.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Corrigan? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Corrigan cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $159K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $33K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $159K budget.
Late fines apply to some overdue items.
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 5,088 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. Mickey Reily Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
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 Corrigan
Does Corrigan have a public library?
Yes. Mickey Reily Public Library, 604 S Mathews St., serves 1,435 people in and around Corrigan (the survey’s count) and is open about 40 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Mickey Reily Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Corrigan’s library?
It logged 2.5 visits and lent 1.3 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Corrigan’s civic life grade?
C− Corrigan is ahead of 22% of U.S. towns on civic life. 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 Corrigan.
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.