#1Orange Beach
Baldwin County · 8,798 peopleVisits per resident a year·Orange Beach Public Library, FY 2024
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Orange Beach, #1 on this list · Photo: Crimson Pictures · CC BY-SA 4.0Orange Beach has the most-used library of Alabama’s 71 towns of 2,500+ with a library of their own: 14.7 visits per resident a year at Orange Beach Public Library (IMLS Public Libraries Survey). The typical library here counts 2.5.
IMLS Public Libraries Survey: a year’s visits divided by the people the library serves. Only a library that serves one town (80–125% of its population) and reported its own count is ranked; IMLS estimates never are. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1Visits per resident a year·Orange Beach Public Library, FY 2024
#2Visits per resident a year·Opelika Public Library, FY 2024
#3Visits per resident a year·Vestavia Hills Library in the Forest, FY 2024
Visits per resident, highest first.
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Orange Beach (Baldwin County): Orange Beach Public Library counts 14.7 visits per resident a year. Opelika (12.3) and Vestavia Hills (8.6) follow.
By library visits per resident in the IMLS Public Libraries Survey: the visits a town’s own library reported, divided by the population it serves, highest first. It is the same rank as on each town’s Library & civic life page. How grades work.
The list covers towns of 2,500+ with a library of their own that reported its visits (71 in Alabama). Towns served by a county or regional system share its figure and aren’t ranked one by one; figures IMLS estimated for a library that didn’t report aren’t ranked; in states with strong townships the township, not a village inside it, is ranked. Every town is on the Alabama page.
Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.