Photo: Florida. - Bureau of Historic Preservation. · Public domainInterlachen’s library is a branch of Pal Public Library Cooperative, which lends more per resident than 68% of systems its size
Interlachen’s library is the Interlachen Public Library, a branch of Pal Public Library Cooperative, which serves 416,905 people and lent 2M items last year.
What stands out about Interlachen Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Interlachen’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Interlachen is ahead of 9% of U.S. towns. Interlachen is graded on two of the three inputs. Both 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 ($36K–$60K) 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 →
3 community nonprofits are registered in Interlachen
1.5 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
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 (3 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.0%
6.0% of Interlachen’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 5.6% in the typical Florida 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 Interlachen’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 100,000+ people across the U.S.
Pal Public Library Cooperative serves 416,905 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.
A year at Pal Public Library Cooperative
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Pal Public Library Cooperative system. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
2M print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
The survey has no count of children’s loans for Interlachen’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
About 50 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
Interlachen Public Library, 133 North State Road 315, Interlachen.
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 $1.59 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Interlachen cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $22M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $35M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $22M 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 240,614 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
- System-wide. Interlachen Public Library is one branch of Pal Public Library Cooperative, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 416,905 people it serves.
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 Interlachen
Does Interlachen have a public library?
Yes: Interlachen Public Library, 133 North State Road 315, is a branch of Pal Public Library Cooperative, which serves 416,905 people. The branch is open about 36 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pal Public Library Cooperative fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Interlachen’s library?
It logged 2.4 visits and lent 4.8 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.
What is Interlachen’s civic life grade?
D Interlachen is ahead of 9% of U.S. towns on civic life. 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 Interlachen.
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.