Photo: The original uploader was Sorcha at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5Yorba Linda’s library lends 21 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Yorba Linda Public Library serves Yorba Linda’s 66,087 residents. Last year it lent 1.6M books, movies and e-books and logged 472K visits.
What Yorba Linda’s library is like
Yorba Linda ranks 3rd in California for borrowing
Out of 117 California towns with a library of their own, Yorba Linda comes 3rd for items borrowed per resident. It’s also #3 for kids’ borrowing. How it compares ↓
More library cards than residents
76,746 cards for 66,087 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving 25,000 to 100,000 people, it’s 39%. How it compares ↓
Yorba Linda uses its library more than almost any town its size
Yorba Linda Public Library logs 7.1 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people, and lends 21 print items per resident against a typical 3.7. On both counts it beats 95% of similar-size libraries across the U.S. How it compares ↓
The shelves work hard
Each of the 126,000 items on the shelves went out about 11 times last year, on average. What people borrow ↓
Kids borrow more here than almost anywhere
Children’s books and media are 54% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 99% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 51 items per child in Yorba Linda last year. 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.
What’s behind Yorba Linda’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Yorba Linda is ahead of 63% of U.S. towns, #109 of 448 in California. Library visits hold the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
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 →
262 community nonprofits are registered in Yorba Linda
3.9 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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 (71 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 17 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
6.6%
6.6% of Yorba Linda’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 Yorba Linda’s residents live; 2022.
About 11 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 Yorba Linda last year.
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.
Yorba Linda Public Library serves 66,087 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 553 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
1.6M loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 126K books and other items on the shelves went out about 11.2 times last year, on average.
218,566 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Yorba Linda Public Library, 4852 Lakeview Ave., Yorba Linda.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Yorba Linda? 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 $3.26 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Yorba Linda cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $7.5M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $24M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $7.5M 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 76,746 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Yorba Linda borrows the most per resident of the 3 towns here. 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.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Yorba Linda
Does Yorba Linda have a public library?
Yes. Yorba Linda Public Library, 4852 Lakeview Ave., serves Yorba Linda’s 66,087 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 58 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Yorba Linda Public 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 Yorba Linda’s library?
It logged 7.1 visits and lent 24.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Yorba Linda’s civic life grade?
B Yorba Linda is ahead of 63% of U.S. towns on civic life, #109 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 Yorba Linda.
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.