Photo: Shadowe · CC BY-SA 3.0Menomonee Falls’ library lends 9.1 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Menomonee Falls Public Library serves Menomonee Falls’s 41,266 residents. Last year it lent 460K books, movies and e-books and logged 169K visits.
What Menomonee Falls’s library is like
Kids borrow more here than almost anywhere
Children’s books and media are 54% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 90% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 23 items per child in Menomonee Falls last year. Kids & programs ↓
Open about 64 hours a week
Menomonee Falls Public Library is open about 64 hours a week, averaged over the year. Every hour the doors are open, about 138 items go out. 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.
What’s behind Menomonee Falls’ civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Menomonee Falls is ahead of 58% of U.S. towns, #196 of 358 in Wisconsin. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; Menomonee Falls’ count of community nonprofits 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 →
115 community nonprofits are registered in Menomonee Falls
2.9 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 (20 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 6 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
9.4%
9.4% of Menomonee Falls’ 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 Menomonee Falls’ residents live; 2022.
About 7 kids’ programs a week
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 Menomonee Falls last year.
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.
Menomonee Falls Public Library serves 41,266 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 138 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
460K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 137K books and other items on the shelves went out about 2.7 times last year, on average.
86,139 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Menomonee Falls Public Library, W156n8436 Pilgrim Rd., Menomonee Falls.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Menomonee Falls? 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 $2.88 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Menomonee Falls cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $2.4M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $6.9M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $2.4M 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 16,806 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Menomonee Falls ranks 3rd of 5 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butler | Butler Public Library | 17.5 | 38 | A |
| Brookfield | Brookfield Public Library | 14.4 | 66 | A− |
| Menomonee Falls | Menomonee Falls Public Library | 11.2 | 64 | B |
| Germantown | Germantown Community Library | 10.3 | 53 | B− |
| Milwaukee | Milwaukee Public Library | 2.8 | 56 | C+ |
| Lannon | None of its own | — | — | A− |
| Lisbon | None of its own | — | — | — too few inputs |
| Brookfield | None of its own | — | — | C− |
| Pewaukee | 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.
- 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 Menomonee Falls
Does Menomonee Falls have a public library?
Yes. Menomonee Falls Public Library, W156n8436 Pilgrim Rd., serves Menomonee Falls’ 41,266 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 64 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Menomonee Falls 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 Menomonee Falls’ library?
It logged 4.1 visits and lent 11.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Menomonee Falls’ civic life grade?
B Menomonee Falls is ahead of 58% of U.S. towns on civic life, #196 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 Menomonee Falls.
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.