Crandall’s library logs 1.1 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Crandall-Combine Community Library serves 25,696 people in and around Crandall. Last year it lent 11K books, movies and e-books and logged 29K visits.
What Crandall’s library is like
Crandall-Combine Community Library is used less than most libraries its size
Crandall-Combine Community Library records 1.1 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people. Borrowing is 0.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7. It also spends less than most: $7 per resident, against a typical $40. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Crandall-Combine Community Library offered 65 programs last year, 2.5 per 1,000 residents against a typical 14. Kids & programs ↓
Runs on less money than most
Crandall-Combine Community Library spends $7 per resident, less than 99% of similar-size libraries (typical: $40). What your card is worth ↓
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; Crandall-Combine Community Library serves 25,696 people in and around Crandall, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Crandall’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Crandall is ahead of 42% of U.S. towns, #182 of 539 in Texas. Crandall is graded on two of the three inputs. Crandall’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($67K–$111K) 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 →
31 community nonprofits are registered in Crandall
6.5 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: education.
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 (6 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 2 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
4.1%
4.1% of Crandall’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 Crandall’s residents live; 2022.
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Crandall-Combine Community Library serves 25,696 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 6 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Crandall-Combine Community Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
11K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
1,936 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
65 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
Crandall-Combine Community Library, 500 W Lewis St., Crandall.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Crandall-Combine Community Library branch.
New in Crandall? 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 Crandall cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $169K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $166K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $169K 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 5,733 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Crandall-Combine Community Library serves 25,696 people in and around Crandall, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Crandall.
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 Crandall
Does Crandall have a public library?
Yes. Crandall-Combine Community Library, 500 W Lewis St., serves 25,696 people in and around Crandall (the survey’s count) and is open about 42 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Crandall-Combine Community 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 Crandall’s library?
It logged 1.1 visits and lent 0.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Crandall’s civic life grade?
C+ Crandall is ahead of 42% of U.S. towns on civic life, #182 of 539 in Texas. 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 Crandall.
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.