Photo: CZfromPV · CC BY-SA 4.0Prescott Valley’s library lends 7.5 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Prescott Valley Public Library serves Prescott Valley’s 51,532 residents. Last year it lent 517K books, movies and e-books and logged 198K visits.
What Prescott Valley’s library is like
The shelves work hard
Each of the 95,000 items on the shelves went out about 4 times last year, on average. What people borrow ↓
A place to get online
Prescott Valley Public Library logs about 3,372 Wi-Fi sessions a day and has 82 public computers. That’s 24 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.
What’s behind Prescott Valley’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Prescott Valley is ahead of 28% of U.S. towns, #38 of 68 in Arizona. Library visits hold the grade up; Prescott Valley’s count of community nonprofits pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($56K–$93K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 →
124 community nonprofits are registered in Prescott Valley
2.5 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
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 (30 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 2 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
6.1%
6.1% of Prescott Valley’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 Prescott Valley’s residents live; 2022.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
517K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 95K books and other items on the shelves went out about 4 times last year, on average.
132,766 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 7 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Prescott Valley Public Library serves 51,532 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 182 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
About 9 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 Prescott Valley last year.
Find it
Prescott Valley Public Library, 7401 E Skoog Blvd, Prescott Valley.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Prescott Valley? 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 $4.53 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Prescott Valley cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $2.6M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $12M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $2.6M 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 16,058 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prescott | Prescott Public Library fine-free | 12.2 | 59 | A− |
| Prescott Valley | Prescott Valley Public Library fine-free | 10.0 | 58 | C |
| Dewey-Humboldt | Dewey-Humboldt Town Library fine-free | — | 37 | C+ |
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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Prescott Valley Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Prescott Valley
Does Prescott Valley have a public library?
Yes. Prescott Valley Public Library, 7401 E Skoog Blvd, serves Prescott Valley’s 51,532 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 58 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Prescott Valley 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 Prescott Valley’s library?
It logged 3.8 visits and lent 10.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Prescott Valley’s civic life grade?
C Prescott Valley is ahead of 28% of U.S. towns on civic life, #38 of 68 in Arizona. 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 Prescott Valley.
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.