Eagle Historic District · Photo: Jet Lowe · Public domainEagle’s library lends 18 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Eagle Public Library serves Eagle’s 74 residents. Last year it lent 1,586 books, movies and e-books and logged 624 visits.
What Eagle’s library is like
More library cards than residents
179 cards for 74 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
Open only about 10 hours a week
Eagle Public Library keeps short hours: about 10 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
Eagle uses its library more than almost any town its size
Eagle Public Library logs 8.4 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people, and lends 18 print items per resident against a typical 3.9. On both counts it beats 85% of similar-size libraries across the U.S. How it compares ↓
Alaska pays a big share
42% of the budget comes from the state, and 37% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
A small-town library
Eagle Public Library serves 74 residents with about one full-time staff. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
This summary is written from the numbers on this page. Numbers are the library’s own report to the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Eagle’s civic life grade
Eagle isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
Mostly books and media off the shelf
1,586 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
The survey has no count of children’s loans for Eagle’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
Each of the 15K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
236 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Eagle Public Library serves 74 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 3 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
8 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, 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
Eagle Public Library, 4th & Amundsen, Eagle.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Eagle? 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 $2.03 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Eagle cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $15K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $31K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $15K 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 179 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Eagle
Does Eagle have a public library?
Yes. Eagle Public Library, 4th & Amundsen, serves Eagle’s 74 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 10 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Eagle Public 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 Eagle’s library?
It logged 8.4 visits and lent 21.4 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Eagle’s civic life grade?
Eagle isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Eagle.
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.