Photo: Sam Beebe · CC BY 2.0Worland’s library logs 6 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Washakie County Library serves 7,710 people in and around Worland. Last year it lent 60K books, movies and e-books and logged 46K visits.
What stands out about Washakie County Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Worland’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Worland is ahead of 68% of U.S. towns, #17 of 24 in Wyoming. Worland is graded on two of the three inputs. Worland’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 →
54 community nonprofits are registered in Worland
11.3 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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 (13 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.0%
6.0% of Worland’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 Worland’s residents live; 2022.
Every hour the doors are open, about 14 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Washakie County Library system. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Washakie County Library serves 7,710 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
60K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
17,586 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 3 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
Washakie County Library, 801 Big Horn Ave., Suite 100, Worland.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Washakie County Library branch.
New in Worland? 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 $2.60 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Worland cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $349K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $906K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $349K 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 4,519 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Washakie County Library serves 7,710 people in and around Worland, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Worland.
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 Worland
Does Worland have a public library?
Yes. Washakie County Library, 801 Big Horn Ave., Suite 100, serves 7,710 people in and around Worland (the survey’s count) and is open about 46 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Washakie County 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 Worland’s library?
It logged 6.0 visits and lent 7.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Worland’s civic life grade?
B+ Worland is ahead of 68% of U.S. towns on civic life, #17 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 Worland.
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.