Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Sheboygan Falls’ library lends 7.2 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Sheboygan Falls Memorial Library serves Sheboygan Falls’s 13,800 residents. Last year it lent 117K books, movies and e-books and logged 51K visits.
What Sheboygan Falls’s library is like
Programs are almost all for children
92% of the 130 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 2.2 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Sheboygan Falls Memorial Library offered 130 programs last year, 9.4 per 1,000 residents against a typical 24. Kids & programs ↓
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 Sheboygan Falls’ civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Sheboygan Falls is ahead of 90% of U.S. towns, #35 of 358 in Wisconsin. Sheboygan Falls 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 →
41 community nonprofits are registered in Sheboygan Falls
4.8 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
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 (4 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
13.1%
13.1% of Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan Falls’ residents live; 2022.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
117K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 47K books and other items on the shelves went out about 2.1 times last year, on average.
17,150 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 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Sheboygan Falls Memorial Library serves 13,800 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 41 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
About 2 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 Sheboygan Falls last year.
Find it
Sheboygan Falls Memorial Library, 330 Buffalo St., Sheboygan Falls.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Sheboygan 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 $4.13 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Sheboygan Falls cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $435K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.8M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $435K 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 3,900 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.
- 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 Sheboygan Falls
Does Sheboygan Falls have a public library?
Yes. Sheboygan Falls Memorial Library, 330 Buffalo St., serves Sheboygan Falls’ 13,800 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 54 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Sheboygan Falls Memorial 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 Sheboygan Falls’ library?
It logged 3.7 visits and lent 8.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Sheboygan Falls’ civic life grade?
A Sheboygan Falls is ahead of 90% of U.S. towns on civic life, #35 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 Sheboygan 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.