Bay Point’s library is a branch of Contra Costa County Library, which lends more per resident than 66% of systems its size
Bay Point’s library is the Bay Point Library, a branch of Contra Costa County Library, which serves 1,033,891 people and lent 7M items last year.
What stands out about Bay Point Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Bay Point’s civic life grade
Bay Point isn’t graded on civic life: it’s unincorporated, so its nonprofits can’t be counted reliably (mailing addresses don’t follow its boundary) and its library is a branch of Contra Costa County Library, so there is no town figure for visits.
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 Bay Point
Bay Point is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
2.5%
2.5% of Bay Point’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 5.9% in the typical California 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 Bay Point’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 100,000+ people across the U.S.
Contra Costa County Library serves 1,033,891 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.
Every hour the doors are open, about 118 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Contra Costa County Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
7M loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
2,205,667 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 71 kids’ programs a week
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, 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
Bay Point Library, 205 Pacifica Avenue, Bay Point.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Contra Costa County Library branch.
New in Bay Point? 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 $2.31 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Bay Point cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $44M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $102M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $44M 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 359,564 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.
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.
- System-wide. Bay Point Library is one branch of Contra Costa County Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 1,033,891 people it serves.
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 Bay Point
Does Bay Point have a public library?
Yes: Bay Point Library, 205 Pacifica Avenue, is a branch of Contra Costa County Library, which serves 1,033,891 people. The branch is open about 35 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Contra Costa County 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 Bay Point’s library?
It logged 2.4 visits and lent 6.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.
What is Bay Point’s civic life grade?
Bay Point isn’t graded on civic life: it’s unincorporated, so its nonprofits can’t be counted reliably (mailing addresses don’t follow its boundary) and its library is a branch of Contra Costa County Library, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Bay Point.
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.