Photo: Harrison Keely · CC BY 4.0Trussville’s library logs 4.8 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Trussville Public Library serves Trussville’s 26,520 residents. Last year it lent 311K books, movies and e-books and logged 129K visits.
The short version on Trussville’s library
Trussville out-borrows every town next door
At 12 loans per resident, Trussville leads the four towns here. The closest is Irondale, at 5.8. Libraries next door ↓
More than half the print loans are for kids
Children’s books and media are 55% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 90% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 18 items per child in Trussville last year. Kids & programs ↓
Trussville uses its library more than almost any town its size
Trussville Public Library logs 4.8 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people, and lends 8.8 print items per resident against a typical 3.7. On both counts it beats 86% of similar-size libraries across the U.S. How it compares ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 2.9 e-items per resident, against a typical 1.2, higher than at 86% of similar-size libraries. It’s 25% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
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.
What’s behind Trussville’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Trussville is ahead of 63% of U.S. towns, #8 of 156 in Alabama. Library visits hold the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
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 →
118 community nonprofits are registered in Trussville
4.4 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
Community nonprofits, by kind
Counted from the IRS list of tax-exempt organizations by mailing address (fractions where a ZIP code spans towns). Congregations are counted apart (34 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 7 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.1%
7.1% of Trussville’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 4.8% in the typical Alabama town and 7.5% nationally.
Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. ZIP-code figures, weighted by where Trussville’s residents live; 2022.
About 3 kids’ programs a week
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.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Trussville last year.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Trussville Public Library serves 26,520 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 105 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
311K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 81K books and other items on the shelves went out about 2.9 times last year, on average.
77,306 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Trussville Public Library, 201 Parkway Drive, Trussville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Trussville? 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 $2.36 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Trussville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $2M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $4.6M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $2M budget.
Late fines apply to some overdue items.
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 10,481 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Trussville borrows the most per resident of the 4 towns here. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trussville | Trussville Public Library | 11.7 | 57 | B |
| Irondale | Irondale Public Library | 5.8 | 40 | B |
| Birmingham | Birmingham Public - Central Branch | 3.2 | 52 | B |
| Moody | Moody - Doris Stanley Memorial Library | 1.7 | 45 | D |
| Clay | None of its own | — | — | D |
| Argo | None of its own | — | — | D |
| Grayson Valley | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Margaret | None of its own | — | — | D |
Loans = print + digital items borrowed in the library’s fiscal year, per person it serves. — = no library of its own, a county or regional system (its numbers cover many towns), or no report. Civic life: — = not graded (unincorporated places, whose nonprofits can’t be placed by mailing address, or towns with fewer than two of the three inputs).
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 Trussville
Does Trussville have a public library?
Yes. Trussville Public Library, 201 Parkway Drive, serves Trussville’s 26,520 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 57 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Trussville Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Trussville’s library?
It logged 4.8 visits and lent 11.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Trussville’s civic life grade?
B Trussville is ahead of 63% of U.S. towns on civic life, #8 of 156 in Alabama. The grade combines library visits per resident, community nonprofits per 1,000 residents and the share of adults 25–44 in volunteering groups. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Trussville.
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.