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South Carolina Library Districts Ranked by Expenditures

Normalized from state-comptroller audits and annual financial reports. Every agency is a live report card — click through for peer percentiles, fund balance, and distress indicators.

Cohort size 42
Median expenditures $1.3M
25th–75th percentile $705K  –  $4.3M
Total spend $182.8M
  1. #1
    Charleston County Public Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 408,235
    Expenditures $32.6M
    Revenue $33.5M
  2. #2
    Richland County Public Library
    FY 2023 pop. 416,147
    Expenditures $31.2M
    Revenue $32.0M
  3. #3
    Greenville County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 525,534
    Expenditures $21.3M
    Revenue $24.3M
  4. #4
    Spartanburg County Public Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 327,997
    Expenditures $15.7M
    Revenue $18.3M
  5. #5
    Lexington County Public Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 293,991
    Expenditures $9.5M
    Revenue $10.4M
  6. #6
    YORK County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 282,090
    Expenditures $8.5M
    Revenue $8.7M
  7. #7
    Horry County Memorial Library
    FY 2023 pop. 351,029
    Expenditures $6.1M
    Revenue $6.6M
  8. #8
    Anderson County Library
    FY 2023 pop. 203,718
    Expenditures $6.1M
    Revenue $6.6M
  9. #9
    Beaufort County Library
    FY 2023 pop. 187,117
    Expenditures $5.2M
    Revenue $5.0M
  10. #10
    Florence County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 137,059
    Expenditures $4.6M
    Revenue $4.7M
  11. #11
    Dorchester County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 161,540
    Expenditures $4.4M
    Revenue $4.7M
  12. #12
    Berkeley County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 229,861
    Expenditures $4.1M
    Revenue $4.6M
  13. #13
    Pickens County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 131,404
    Expenditures $3.6M
    Revenue $3.9M
  14. #14
    Georgetown County Library
    FY 2023 pop. 63,404
    Expenditures $2.3M
    Revenue $2.5M
  15. #15
    Orangeburg County Library Commission
    FY 2023 pop. 84,223
    Expenditures $2.2M
    Revenue $1.9M
  16. #16
    Oconee County Public Library
    FY 2023 pop. 78,607
    Expenditures $1.8M
    Revenue $1.8M
  17. #17
    Darlington County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 62,905
    Expenditures $1.7M
    Revenue $1.8M
  18. #18
    Sumter County Public Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 105,556
    Expenditures $1.7M
    Revenue $1.6M
  19. #19
    Greenwood County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 69,351
    Expenditures $1.5M
    Revenue $2.3M
  20. #20
    ABBE Regional Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 228,365
    Expenditures $1.5M
    Revenue $1.8M
  21. #21
    Chapin Memorial Library
    FY 2023 pop. 35,682
    Expenditures $1.4M
    Revenue $1.4M
  22. #22
    Laurens County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 67,539
    Expenditures $1.3M
    Revenue $1.3M
  23. #23
    Lancaster County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 96,016
    Expenditures $1.2M
    Revenue $1.6M
  24. #24
    Kershaw County Library
    FY 2023 pop. 65,403
    Expenditures $1.2M
    Revenue $1.3M
  25. #25
    Colleton County Memorial Library
    FY 2023 pop. 38,604
    Expenditures $1.1M
    Revenue $1.1M
  26. #26
    Cherokee County Public Library
    FY 2023 pop. 56,216
    Expenditures $1.0M
    Revenue $1.3M
  27. #27
    Chester County Library
    FY 2023 pop. 32,294
    Expenditures $982K
    Revenue $1.1M
  28. #28
    Fairfield County Library
    FY 2023 pop. 20,948
    Expenditures $956K
    Revenue $860K
  29. #29
    Calhoun County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 14,119
    Expenditures $901K
    Revenue $961K
  30. #30
    Allendale Hampton Jasper Regional Library
    FY 2023 pop. 55,391
    Expenditures $871K
    Revenue $1.0M
  31. #31
    Marion County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 29,183
    Expenditures $787K
    Revenue $181K
  32. #32
    Chesterfield County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 43,273
    Expenditures $678K
    Revenue $752K
  33. #33
    Newberry County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 37,719
    Expenditures $660K
    Revenue $656K
  34. #34
    Clarendon County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 31,144
    Expenditures $646K
    Revenue $735K
  35. #35
    Union County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 27,244
    Expenditures $595K
    Revenue $618K
  36. #36
    Williamsburg County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 31,026
    Expenditures $582K
    Revenue $601K
  37. #37
    Dillon County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 28,292
    Expenditures $567K
    Revenue $692K
  38. #38
    Marlboro County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 26,667
    Expenditures $530K
    Revenue $547K
  39. #39
    Abbeville County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 24,295
    Expenditures $386K
    Revenue $388K
  40. #40
    LEE County Public Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 16,531
    Expenditures $334K
    Revenue $289K
  41. #41
    Mccormick County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 9,526
    Expenditures $331K
    Revenue $330K
  42. #42
    Saluda County Library System
    FY 2023 pop. 18,862
    Expenditures $258K
    Revenue $314K