Prosper’s library logs 1.7 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Prosper Community Library serves 41,660 people in and around Prosper. Last year it lent 166K books, movies and e-books and logged 69K visits.
The short version on Prosper’s library
Kids’ books are most of what goes out
Children’s books and media make up 89% of print loans. Per resident, kids’ borrowing is higher than at 75% of similar-size libraries. What people borrow ↓
Most programs are for young children
70% of the 593 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 6.4 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
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; Prosper Community Library serves 41,660 people in and around Prosper, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Prosper’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Prosper is ahead of 65% of U.S. towns, #84 of 539 in Texas. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; library visits pull it down.
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 →
187 community nonprofits are registered in Prosper
4.9 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 (56 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 11 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
12.6%
12.6% of Prosper’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 Prosper’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Prosper Community Library serves 41,660 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 65 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Prosper Community Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
166K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
22,021 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 8 kids’ programs 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
Prosper Community Library, 200 S Main St., Prosper.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Prosper Community Library branch.
New in Prosper? 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 $3.69 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Prosper cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $838K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $3.1M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $838K 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 11,326 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frisco | Frisco Public Library fine-free | 15.2 | 71 | B+ |
| McKinney | Mckinney Public Library System fine-free | 8.4 | 70 | C |
| Celina | Celina Public Library fine-free | 2.9 | 60 | B+ |
| Little Elm | Little Elm Public Library fine-free | 0.9 | 47 | B− |
| Prosper | Prosper Community Library fine-free | — | 49 | B |
| Savannah | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
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. Prosper Community Library serves 41,660 people in and around Prosper, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Prosper.
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 Prosper
Does Prosper have a public library?
Yes. Prosper Community Library, 200 S Main St., serves 41,660 people in and around Prosper (the survey’s count) and is open about 49 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Prosper 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 Prosper’s library?
It logged 1.7 visits and lent 4.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Prosper’s civic life grade?
B Prosper is ahead of 65% of U.S. towns on civic life, #84 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 Prosper.
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.