Photo: Bobak Ha'Eri · CC BY 3.0San Andreas’ library logs 1.1 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Calaveras County Library serves 44,842 people in and around San Andreas. Last year it lent 141K books, movies and e-books and logged 51K visits.
What stands out about Calaveras County Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind San Andreas’ civic life grade
San Andreas 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 Calaveras 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 San Andreas
San Andreas is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
9.8%
9.8% of San Andreas’ 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 San Andreas’ 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.
Calaveras County Library serves 44,842 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
A year at Calaveras County Library
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Calaveras County Library system. The library’s own count.
Not reported for 2024: hours open. The survey fills a missing figure with its own estimate; we leave estimates out rather than show them as the library’s count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
141K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
22,769 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 8 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.
2 places to borrow in San Andreas
Calaveras County Library, 1299 Gold Hunter Road, San Andreas.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Calaveras County Library branch.
New in San Andreas? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Other Calaveras County Library branches in San Andreas
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $2.07 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average San Andreas cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $1.1M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2.3M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $1.1M 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 30,632 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Not reported for 2024: hours open. The survey filled the figure with its own estimate, so it is left out.
- System-wide. Calaveras County Library serves 44,842 people in and around San Andreas, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just San Andreas.
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 San Andreas
Does San Andreas have a public library?
Yes. Calaveras County Library, 1299 Gold Hunter Road, serves 44,842 people in and around San Andreas (the survey’s count) and is open about 38 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Calaveras 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 San Andreas’ library?
It logged 1.1 visits and lent 3.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is San Andreas’ civic life grade?
San Andreas 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 Calaveras County Library, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in San Andreas.
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.