Pleasant Hill Residential Historic District · Photo: Jeff the quiet · CC0Marshfield’s library lends 7.8 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library serves 29,035 people in and around Marshfield. Last year it lent 287K books, movies and e-books and logged 100K visits.
What Marshfield’s library is like
Above typical on every measure
Against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people, Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library is above the middle on all seven per-resident measures we compare, with three in the top 30%. No single number stands out, and none lags far behind. How it compares ↓
Open about 64 hours a week
The Marshfield branch is open about 64 hours a week, averaged over the year. The building ↓
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; Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library serves 29,035 people in and around Marshfield, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Marshfield’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Marshfield is ahead of 66% of U.S. towns, #166 of 358 in Wisconsin. Marshfield is graded on two of the three inputs. Marshfield’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls 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 →
116 community nonprofits are registered in Marshfield
6.2 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 (18 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 3 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
6.9%
6.9% of Marshfield’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 Marshfield’s residents live; 2022.
About 4 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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library serves 29,035 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 86 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
287K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
61,465 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library, 105 S. Maple Ave., Marshfield.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library branch.
New in Marshfield? 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 $2.55 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Marshfield cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.7M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $4.4M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.7M 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 11,934 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.
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. Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library serves 29,035 people in and around Marshfield, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Marshfield.
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 Marshfield
Does Marshfield have a public library?
Yes. Everett Roehl Marshfield Public Library, 105 S. Maple Ave., serves 29,035 people in and around Marshfield (the survey’s count) and is open about 64 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Everett Roehl Marshfield 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 Marshfield’s library?
It logged 3.5 visits and lent 9.9 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Marshfield’s civic life grade?
B+ Marshfield is ahead of 66% of U.S. towns on civic life, #166 of 358 in Wisconsin. 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 Marshfield.
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.