Photo: Freekee · Public domainMazomanie’s library lends 8.5 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Mazomanie Free Library serves Mazomanie’s 2,304 residents. Last year it lent 26K books, movies and e-books and logged 8,082 visits.
What Mazomanie’s library is like
A small-town library
Mazomanie Free Library serves 2,304 residents with about 2 full-time staff, open about 43 hours a week. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
A place to get online
Mazomanie Free Library logs about 109 Wi-Fi sessions a day and has 2 public computers. That’s 17 sessions per resident a year. A year at the library ↓
Programs lean toward adults
72% of the 54 programs last year were for adults: classes, talks, clubs and events. 12 were for children. Kids & programs ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 2.9 e-items per resident, against a typical 1, higher than at 86% of similar-size libraries. It’s 25% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Mazomanie’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Mazomanie is ahead of 98% of U.S. towns. Mazomanie is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups ranks highest.
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 →
12 community nonprofits are registered in Mazomanie
7.0 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: arts & culture.
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 (2 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
18.2%
18.2% of Mazomanie’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 Mazomanie’s residents live; 2022.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
26K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 20K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1 time last year, on average.
6,680 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Mazomanie Free Library serves 2,304 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 12 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
54 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Mazomanie last year.
Find it
Mazomanie Free Library, 102 Brodhead St., Mazomanie.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Mazomanie? 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 $3.89 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Mazomanie cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $135K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $524K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $135K 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 1,069 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Mazomanie
Does Mazomanie have a public library?
Yes. Mazomanie Free Library, 102 Brodhead St., serves Mazomanie’s 2,304 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 43 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Mazomanie Free 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 Mazomanie’s library?
It logged 3.5 visits and lent 11.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Mazomanie’s civic life grade?
A+ Mazomanie is ahead of 98% 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 Mazomanie.
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.