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Over 53,000 people live within walking distance (defined
as a ½ mile radius) of a library in Springfield.
This is slightly more than one-third of the population of the city.
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If the Forest Park,
Liberty, and
East Springfield branches are closed,
one-third of these people (almost 18,000)
will lose walking access and be required to drive or take a bus.
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The Forest Park
branch library has the most people living in a ½ mile radius (over 8500).
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The Liberty
branch has the fourth largest population within a walking distance (½
mile radius, over 6,300), as well as the largest population of over-65
persons.
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The Forest Park
Branch has the second-largest number of children under 18 living within
walking distance (over 2,700), and the Liberty
branch has the fourth largest (almost 1,900). In all, 33 percent of all children (5400
of 16,000) who now live within walking distance of a library will lose
this access.
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