Photo: Sharon Hahn Darlin · CC BY 2.0Marysville’s library logs 0.5 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Yuba County Library serves 83,721 people in and around Marysville. Last year it lent 38K books, movies and e-books and logged 41K visits.
The short version on Marysville’s library
Yuba County Library is used less than most libraries its size
Yuba County Library records 0.5 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people. Borrowing is 0.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7. It also spends less than most: $12 per resident, against a typical $40. How it compares ↓
Programs are almost all for children
85% of the 400 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 3.3 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Yuba County Library offered 400 programs last year, 4.8 per 1,000 residents against a typical 14. Kids & programs ↓
Kids’ books are most of what goes out
Children’s books and media make up 64% of print loans. Per resident, kids’ borrowing is lower than at 95% of similar-size libraries, so the high share mostly reflects light borrowing by adults. What people borrow ↓
Runs on less money than most
Yuba County Library spends $12 per resident, less than 93% of similar-size libraries (typical: $40). What your card is worth ↓
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; Yuba County Library serves 83,721 people in and around Marysville, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Marysville’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Marysville is ahead of 24% of U.S. towns, #221 of 448 in California. Marysville is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs sit below most U.S. towns; Marysville’s count of community nonprofits comes closest to the middle.
Yuba County Library spends $12 per resident, against a typical $40 for libraries its size.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($42K–$71K) 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 →
42 community nonprofits are registered in Marysville
3.3 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
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 (14 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 1 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
5.9%
5.9% of Marysville’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 Marysville’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Yuba County Library serves 83,721 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 26 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Yuba County Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
38K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
10,076 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 7 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
Yuba County Library, 303 Second St., Marysville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Yuba County Library branch.
New in Marysville? The Handbook →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 Marysville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $999K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $620K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $999K 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 40,636 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Yuba County Library serves 83,721 people in and around Marysville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Marysville.
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 Marysville
Does Marysville have a public library?
Yes. Yuba County Library, 303 Second St., serves 83,721 people in and around Marysville (the survey’s count) and is open about 28 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Yuba County 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 Marysville’s library?
It logged 0.5 visits and lent 0.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Marysville’s civic life grade?
C− Marysville is ahead of 24% of U.S. towns on civic life, #221 of 448 in California. 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 Marysville.
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.