Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Chapmanville’s library logs 1.2 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Chapmanville Public Library serves 9,807 people in and around Chapmanville. Last year it lent 14K books, movies and e-books and logged 12K visits.
What Chapmanville’s library is like
Chapmanville Public Library is used less than most libraries its size
Chapmanville Public Library records 1.2 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people. Borrowing is 1.2 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8. It also spends less than most: $14 per resident, against a typical $43. How it compares ↓
West Virginia pays a big share
39% of the budget comes from the state, and 60% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Nearly everyone the system serves has a card
8,345 cards for 9,807 people, or 85%. At the typical library serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, it’s 42%. How it compares ↓
Most programs are for young children
69% of the 123 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including 38 for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
Runs on less money than most
Chapmanville Public Library spends $14 per resident, less than 92% of similar-size libraries (typical: $43). What your card is worth ↓
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; Chapmanville Public Library serves 9,807 people in and around Chapmanville, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Chapmanville’s civic life grade
Chapmanville isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Chapmanville Public Library serves 9,807 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 7 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Chapmanville Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
14K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
The survey has no count of children’s loans for Chapmanville’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
1,379 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 2 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.
Find it
Chapmanville Public Library, 740 Crawley Creek Road, Chapmanville.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Chapmanville Public Library branch.
New in Chapmanville? 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 $1.74 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Chapmanville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $136K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $238K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $136K 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 8,345 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Chapmanville Public Library serves 9,807 people in and around Chapmanville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Chapmanville.
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 Chapmanville
Does Chapmanville have a public library?
Yes. Chapmanville Public Library, 740 Crawley Creek Road, serves 9,807 people in and around Chapmanville (the survey’s count) and is open about 40 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Chapmanville Public 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 Chapmanville’s library?
It logged 1.2 visits and lent 1.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Chapmanville’s civic life grade?
Chapmanville isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Chapmanville.
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.