Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Leon’s library lends 4.4 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Leon-Saxeville Township Library serves 2,889 people in and around Leon. Last year it lent 13K print books and media and drew 1,616 people to its programs.
What stands out about Leon-Saxeville Township Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Leon’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Leon is ahead of 28% of U.S. towns. Its library’s 2024 visits weren’t reported, so Leon is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; Leon’s count of community nonprofits pulls it down.
The survey’s stand-in for Leon’s 2024 visits is its own estimate, so it is left out.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($51K–$85K) 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 →
Leon has few registered community nonprofits
0.9 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 (0 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
8.9%
8.9% of Leon’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 8.6% in the typical Wisconsin 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 Leon’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Leon-Saxeville Township Library serves 2,889 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 8 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Leon-Saxeville Township Library system. The library’s own count.
Not reported for 2024: visits. The survey fills a missing figure with its own estimate; we leave estimates out rather than show them as the library’s count.
Books and media off the shelf
13K print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
110 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
Leon-Saxeville Township Library, N4715 County Rd. E, Pine River.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Leon-Saxeville Township Library branch.
New in Leon? 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 $2.80 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Leon cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $80K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $225K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $80K 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 394 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redgranite | Redgranite Public Library | 5.8 | 44 | B+ |
| Poy Sippi | Poy Sippi Public Library fine-free | 3.9 | 22 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Leon | Leon-Saxeville Township Library fine-free | — | 32 | C |
| Pine River | Leon-Saxeville Township Library fine-free | — | 32 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Saxeville | None of its own | — | — | A |
| Warren | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Bloomfield | None of its own | — | — | B+ |
| Mount Morris | None of its own | — | — | B+ |
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.
- Not reported for 2024: visits. Leon-Saxeville Township Library didn’t report visits; the survey’s estimate is its own, so we leave it out and never rank it.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
- System-wide. Leon-Saxeville Township Library serves 2,889 people in and around Leon, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Leon.
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 Leon
Does Leon have a public library?
Yes. Leon-Saxeville Township Library, N4715 County Rd. E, serves 2,889 people in and around Leon (the survey’s count) and is open about 32 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Leon-Saxeville Township 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 Leon’s library?
It lent 4.4 items per resident in 2024 (print) and ran 110 programs that drew 1,616 people. Visits weren’t reported for 2024.
What is Leon’s civic life grade?
C Leon is ahead of 28% 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 Leon.
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.