Photo: Russell Lee · Public domainAguilar’s library logs 0.7 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Aguilar Public Library serves Aguilar’s 453 residents. Last year it lent 1,337 books, movies and e-books and logged 316 visits.
Aguilar’s library, in brief
More library cards than residents
980 cards for 453 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
The shelves work hard
Each of the 128 items on the shelves went out about 9.7 times last year, on average. What people borrow ↓
A small-town library
Aguilar Public Library serves 453 residents with about one full-time staff. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
Open only about 20 hours a week
Aguilar Public Library keeps short hours: about 20 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
Colorado pays a big share
32% of the budget comes from the state, and 68% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. 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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Aguilar’s civic life grade
Aguilar isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Aguilar Public Library serves 453 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 2 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
1,337 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 128 books and other items on the shelves went out about 9.7 times last year, on average.
95 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card.
12 programs a year
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.
Find it
Aguilar Public Library, 146 W. Main Street, Aguilar.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting.
New in Aguilar? 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 $1.06 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Aguilar cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $23K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $24K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $23K 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 980 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Aguilar Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Aguilar
Does Aguilar have a public library?
Yes. Aguilar Public Library, 146 W. Main Street, serves Aguilar’s 453 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 20 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Aguilar Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Aguilar’s library?
It logged 0.7 visits and lent 3.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Aguilar’s civic life grade?
Aguilar isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Aguilar.
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.