Alfred Jason Randall House · Photo: Marine 69-71 · CC BY-SA 4.0Pine’s library logs 9.1 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Isabelle Hunt Memorial Public Library serves Pine’s 1,953 residents. Last year it lent 16K books, movies and e-books and logged 18K visits.
The short version on Pine’s library
Programs are almost all for children
94% of the 172 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 2.1 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
People come to Isabelle Hunt Memorial Public Library a lot
Isabelle Hunt Memorial Public Library logs 9.1 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people, more than 88% of similar-size libraries. Borrowing is above typical too, at 6.4 print items per resident. How it compares ↓
A place to get online
Isabelle Hunt Memorial Public Library logs about 29 Wi-Fi sessions a day and has 8 public computers. That’s 5.4 sessions per resident a year. 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 Pine’s civic life grade
On library visits and volunteering, Pine is ahead of 54% of U.S. towns. Pine is graded on two of the three inputs. 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 →
Volunteering in Pine
Pine is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
4.8%
4.8% of Pine’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 6.0% in the typical Arizona 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 Pine’s residents live; 2022.
Every hour the doors are open, about 10 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Not reported for 2024: spending and staff. The survey fills a missing figure with its own estimate; we leave estimates out rather than show them as the library’s count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Isabelle Hunt Memorial Public Library serves 1,953 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
16K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 16K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.8 time last year, on average.
3,600 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card.
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 Pine last year.
Find it
Isabelle Hunt Memorial Public Library, 6124 W Randall Place, Pine.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Pine cardholder borrows.
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 1,185 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine | Isabelle Hunt Memorial Public Library | 8.3 | 30 | B− |
| Strawberry | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
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.
- Not reported for 2024: spending and staff. The survey filled the figure with its own estimate, so it is left out.
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 Pine
Does Pine have a public library?
Yes. Isabelle Hunt Memorial Public Library, 6124 W Randall Place, serves Pine’s 1,953 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 30 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Isabelle Hunt Memorial 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 Pine’s library?
It logged 9.1 visits and lent 8.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Pine’s civic life grade?
B− Pine is ahead of 54% of U.S. towns on civic life. 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 Pine.
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.