Photo: Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0Weaverville’s library logs 1.7 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries its size
Trinity County Free Library serves 15,915 people in and around Weaverville. Last year it lent 28K books, movies and e-books and logged 27K visits.
Weaverville’s library, in brief
Programs are almost all for children
96% of the 75 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 1.2 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Trinity County Free Library offered 75 programs last year, 4.7 per 1,000 residents against a typical 24. Kids & programs ↓
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; Trinity County Free Library serves 15,915 people in and around Weaverville, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Weaverville’s civic life grade
Weaverville 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 Trinity County Free 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 Weaverville
Weaverville is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
12.9%
12.9% of Weaverville’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 Weaverville’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Trinity County Free Library serves 15,915 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 11 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Trinity County Free Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
28K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
4,283 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 1 kids’ program 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
Trinity County Free Library, 351 Main St., Weaverville.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Trinity County Free Library branch.
New in Weaverville? 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 $1.02 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Weaverville cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $438K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $447K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $438K 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 7,137 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weaverville | Trinity County Free Library | — | 25 | — unincorporated |
| Douglas City | 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.
- System-wide. Trinity County Free Library serves 15,915 people in and around Weaverville, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Weaverville.
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 Weaverville
Does Weaverville have a public library?
Yes. Trinity County Free Library, 351 Main St., serves 15,915 people in and around Weaverville (the survey’s count) and is open about 25 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Trinity County Free 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 Weaverville’s library?
It logged 1.7 visits and lent 1.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Weaverville’s civic life grade?
Weaverville 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 Trinity County Free Library, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Weaverville.
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.