Saint Charles City-County Library District
Saint Charles City-County Library District is a library district based in St. Peters (St. Charles County), Missouri, serving a legal service area of 405,262 residents through 12 library buildings and one bookmobile. Among the 122 profiled systems serving 250,000 to 499,999 residents, it ranks fourth for physical checkouts per resident.
Among profiled systems in Missouri, it ranks third for population served, third for physical checkouts, third for electronic checkouts and fourth for total visits. Against the median system of its size class, it records 36% fewer public computers per resident and 40% more operating spending per resident.
Saint Charles City-County against the 122 systems of its size class
Saint Charles City-County since FY 2019
Visits were 30% below the FY 2019 count of 1.7 million (size-class median: −30%). Physical checkouts moved 13% down over the same span.
- Visits
- Physical checkouts
Who comes to Saint Charles City-County programs
Programs for children up to age 11 drew 67% of all program attendance, and sessions averaged 19 people each.
Saint Charles City-County in numbers, FY 2024
- Visits
- 1,225,886
- Physical checkouts
- 4,471,529
- …of children's materials
- 2,473,798
- Electronic checkouts
- 1,581,773
- …of e-books
- 748,363
- …of e-audio
- 649,125
- Registered users
- 240,337
- Program sessions
- 5,032
- Program attendance
- 97,173
- Print volumes
- 517,225
- Audio items (physical)
- 43,617
- Video items (physical)
- 96,494
- Public computers
- 159
- Public service hours, all outlets
- 30,219
- Paid staff (full-time equivalent)
- 166.3
- Operating spending
- $20.3 million
- …on books and other materials
- $4.1 million
- Overdue fines on print items
- not charged
Where Saint Charles City-County gets its operating money
Operating revenue came to $25.7 million, or $63.53 per resident. The local-government share sits 3 percentage points above the combined share for the 148 profiled systems in Missouri. Federal money made up 2.5% of the total.
- Local government
- State
- Federal
- Other (fines, fees, gifts, grants)
Saint Charles City-County, building by building
The 12 buildings cover 188,506 square feet in total, 0.47 square feet per resident against a median of 0.46 for the size class. The largest building is Spencer Road Branch at 57,862 square feet; the smallest is Boone`s Trail Branch at 2,334. The longest hours are at Kathryn Linnemann Branch, 64 a week.
| Building | Type | Town | Hours a week | Floor area, sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Augusta Branch | Branch | Augusta | 30.8 | 2,750 |
| Boone`s Trail Branch | Branch | Wentzville | 30.8 | 2,334 |
| Cliff View Branch | Branch | Wentzville | 53.3 | 2,640 |
| Corporate Parkway Branch | Branch | Wentzville | 63.8 | 11,912 |
| Deer Run Branch | Branch | O'Fallon | 53.4 | 11,025 |
| Kathryn Linnemann Branch | Branch | St. Charles | 64 | 27,978 |
| Kisker Road Branch | Branch | St. Charles | 53.1 | 15,700 |
| McClay Branch | Branch | St. Charles | 53.4 | 14,400 |
| Mid Rivers Mall | Branch | St. Peters | 50 | 5,038 |
| Middendorf-Kredell Branch | Branch | O'Fallon | 63.4 | 29,805 |
| Spencer Road Branch | Branch | St. Peters | 61.9 | 57,862 |
| Winghaven Branch | Branch | O'Fallon | 53.3 | 7,062 |
| Library to You Bookmobile | Bookmobile | St. Peters | 8 |
Library districts of similar size in other states
Of these six systems, two record more visits per resident than this one. None of them matches this system's checkouts per resident.
| System | Based in | Residents | Visits per resident | Checkouts per resident | Spending per resident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas County Libraries | Castle Rock, CO | 383,911 | 3.65 | 9.77 | $87.76 |
| Henderson District Public Libraries | Henderson, NV | 341,980 | 1.54 | 3.75 | $25.55 |
| Genesee District Library | Flint, MI | 334,645 | 2.06 | 1.87 | $27.33 |
| High Plains Library District | Greeley, CO | 315,735 | 4.23 | 5.40 | $92.01 |
| Spokane County Library District | Spokane, WA | 312,530 | 2.37 | 3.41 | $56.31 |
| Kitsap Regional Library | Bremerton, WA | 286,100 | 2.91 | 6.11 | $61.07 |
Nearest in size within Missouri
- City of St. Louis Municipal Library District · St. Louis · 301,578 residents
- Springfield-Greene County Library District · Springfield · 298,915 residents
- Kansas City Public Library · Kansas City · 232,498 residents
- Daniel Boone Regional Library · Columbia · 223,840 residents