Broomfield’s library lends 7.4 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Broomfield/Eisenhower Public Library serves 76,853 people in and around Broomfield. Last year it lent 741K books, movies and e-books and logged 229K visits.
What Broomfield’s library is like
Open about 68 hours a week
The Broomfield branch is open about 68 hours a week, averaged over the year. The building ↓
78% of the people it serves carry a library card
59,680 cards for 76,853 people, or 78%. At the typical library serving 25,000 to 100,000 people, it’s 39%. How it compares ↓
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; Broomfield/Eisenhower Public Library serves 76,853 people in and around Broomfield, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Broomfield’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Broomfield is ahead of 37% of U.S. towns, #67 of 104 in Colorado. All three inputs sit below most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups comes closest to the middle.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($93K–$155K) 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 →
247 community nonprofits are registered in Broomfield
3.2 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: education.
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 (49 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 14 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
7.3%
7.3% of Broomfield’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 6.8% in the typical Colorado 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 Broomfield’s residents live; 2022.
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.
Broomfield/Eisenhower Public Library serves 76,853 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 214 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Broomfield/Eisenhower Public Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
741K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
171,357 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 6 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
Broomfield/Eisenhower Public Library, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Broomfield/Eisenhower Public Library branch.
New in Broomfield? 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 $3.62 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Broomfield cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $3.1M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $11M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $3.1M 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 59,680 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | Louisville Public Library | 58.8 | 58 | A |
| Lafayette | Lafayette Public Library fine-free | 13.9 | 58 | A− |
| Westminster | College Hill Library fine-free | 5.3 | 57 | C− |
| Broomfield | Broomfield/Eisenhower Public Library fine-free | — | 68 | C+ |
| Thornton | Wright Farms fine-free | — | 56 | D− |
| Erie | Erie Community Library fine-free | — | 62 | C+ |
| Superior | None of its own | — | — | C |
| Northglenn | None of its own | — | — | D |
| Dacono | None of its own | — | — | D |
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. Broomfield/Eisenhower Public Library serves 76,853 people in and around Broomfield, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Broomfield.
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 Broomfield
Does Broomfield have a public library?
Yes. Broomfield/Eisenhower Public Library, 3 Community Park Road, serves 76,853 people in and around Broomfield (the survey’s count) and is open about 68 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Broomfield/Eisenhower Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Broomfield’s library?
It logged 3.0 visits and lent 9.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Broomfield’s civic life grade?
C+ Broomfield is ahead of 37% of U.S. towns on civic life, #67 of 104 in Colorado. 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 Broomfield.
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.