Photo: Taken by-Roger Propst, Uploaded by-Dakota Laughlin · CC BY-SA 4.0Grantsville’s library logs 0.5 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Calhoun County Public Library serves 6,229 people in and around Grantsville. Last year it lent 7,330 books, movies and e-books and logged 3,380 visits.
What Grantsville’s library is like
Calhoun County Public Library is used less than most libraries its size
Calhoun County Public Library records 0.5 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people. Borrowing is 0.9 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8. It also spends less than most: $15 per resident, against a typical $43. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Calhoun County Public Library offered 24 programs last year, 3.9 per 1,000 residents against a typical 34. Kids & programs ↓
West Virginia pays a big share
23% of the budget comes from the state, and 70% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Runs on less money than most
Calhoun County Public Library spends $15 per resident, less than 90% 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; Calhoun County Public Library serves 6,229 people in and around Grantsville, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Grantsville’s civic life grade
Grantsville 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 →
Below most similar-size libraries on all 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Calhoun County Public Library serves 6,229 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 4 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Calhoun County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
7,330 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
The survey has no count of children’s loans for Grantsville’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
1,719 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
24 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
Find it
Calhoun County Public Library, 250 Mill Street, Grantsville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Calhoun County Public Library branch.
New in Grantsville? 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 $1.33 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Grantsville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $95K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $126K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $95K 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 1,934 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Calhoun County Public Library serves 6,229 people in and around Grantsville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Grantsville.
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 Grantsville
Does Grantsville have a public library?
Yes. Calhoun County Public Library, 250 Mill Street, serves 6,229 people in and around Grantsville (the survey’s count) and is open about 38 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Calhoun County 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 Grantsville’s library?
It logged 0.5 visits and lent 1.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Grantsville’s civic life grade?
Grantsville 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 Grantsville.
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.