Photo: Nick81aku at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5Timpson’s library lends 0.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Timpson Public Library serves 3,576 people in and around Timpson. Last year it lent 1,304 books, movies and e-books and logged 6,142 visits.
Timpson’s library, in brief
People visit, but borrow less than most
Timpson Public Library lends 0.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, fewer than 98% of similar-size libraries, though visits are closer to typical. What people borrow ↓
Runs on less money than most
Timpson Public Library spends $9 per resident, less than 96% of similar-size libraries (typical: $43). 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; Timpson Public Library serves 3,576 people in and around Timpson, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Timpson’s civic life grade
Timpson 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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Timpson Public Library serves 3,576 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
A year at Timpson Public Library
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Timpson Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
1,304 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
80 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card.
What kids borrow
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Find it
Timpson Public Library, 520 Austin St., Timpson.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Good at every Timpson Public Library branch.
New in Timpson? 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 Timpson cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $33K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $21K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $33K 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 2,805 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Timpson Public Library serves 3,576 people in and around Timpson, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Timpson.
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 Timpson
Does Timpson have a public library?
Yes. Timpson Public Library, 520 Austin St., serves 3,576 people in and around Timpson (the survey’s count) and is open about 31 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Timpson 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 Timpson’s library?
It logged 1.7 visits and lent 0.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Timpson’s civic life grade?
Timpson 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 Timpson.
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.