Photo: Vasiliymeshko · CC BY-SA 4.0Cheyenne’s library logs 3.2 visits per resident, against a typical 2.1 for libraries its size
Laramie County Library System serves 100,984 people in and around Cheyenne. Last year it lent 679K books, movies and e-books and logged 320K visits.
What Cheyenne’s library is like
Most programs are for young children
80% of the 1,454 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 19 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
Open about 64 hours a week
The Cheyenne branch is open about 64 hours a week, averaged over the year. 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; Laramie County Library System serves 100,984 people in and around Cheyenne, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Cheyenne’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Cheyenne is ahead of 76% of U.S. towns, #14 of 24 in Wyoming. Cheyenne is graded on two of the three inputs. Cheyenne’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups 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 →
518 community nonprofits are registered in Cheyenne
7.9 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
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 (77 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 16 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.1%
7.1% of Cheyenne’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 8.3% in the typical Wyoming 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 Cheyenne’s residents live; 2022.
About 22 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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 100,000+ people across the U.S.
Laramie County Library System serves 100,984 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.
Every hour the doors are open, about 104 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Laramie County Library System system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
679K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
227,265 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Laramie County Library System, 2200 Pioneer Ave, Cheyenne.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Laramie County Library System branch.
New in Cheyenne? 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 $1.44 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Cheyenne cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $7.2M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $7.2M 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 68,968 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.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheyenne | Laramie County Library System fine-free | — | 64 | A− |
| Ranchettes | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Fox Farm-College | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| South Greeley | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Warren AFB | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
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.
- System-wide. Laramie County Library System serves 100,984 people in and around Cheyenne, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Cheyenne.
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 Cheyenne
Does Cheyenne have a public library?
Yes. Laramie County Library System, 2200 Pioneer Ave, serves 100,984 people in and around Cheyenne (the survey’s count) and is open about 64 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Laramie County Library System 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 Cheyenne’s library?
It logged 3.2 visits and lent 6.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.
What is Cheyenne’s civic life grade?
A− Cheyenne is ahead of 76% of U.S. towns on civic life, #14 of 24 in Wyoming. 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 Cheyenne.
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.