Gillette City Hall (1936) · Photo: Mr. Satterly · CC0Gillette’s library lends 6.1 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Campbell County Public Library System serves 47,498 people in and around Gillette. Last year it lent 392K books, movies and e-books and logged 172K visits.
What stands out about Campbell County Public Library System
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Gillette’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Gillette is ahead of 64% of U.S. towns, #19 of 24 in Wyoming. Gillette 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 →
139 community nonprofits are registered in Gillette
4.2 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 (28 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 3 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
8.3%
8.3% of Gillette’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 Gillette’s residents live; 2022.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $1.53 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Gillette cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $3.9M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $6M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $3.9M 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 16,406 cardholders ÷ 12.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Campbell County Public Library System serves 47,498 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 60 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Campbell County Public Library System system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
392K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
103,013 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 5 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
Campbell County Public Library System, 2101 South 4-J Road, Gillette.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Campbell County Public Library System branch.
New in Gillette? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Campbell County Public Library System serves 47,498 people in and around Gillette, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Gillette.
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 Gillette
Does Gillette have a public library?
Yes. Campbell County Public Library System, 2101 South 4-J Road, serves 47,498 people in and around Gillette (the survey’s count) and is open about 62 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Campbell County Public Library System 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 Gillette’s library?
It logged 3.6 visits and lent 8.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Gillette’s civic life grade?
B Gillette is ahead of 64% of U.S. towns on civic life, #19 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 Gillette.
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.