Navarre’s library is a branch of Santa Rosa County Library System, which lends less per resident than 75% of systems its size
Navarre’s library is the Navarre Library, a branch of Santa Rosa County Library System, which serves 203,517 people and lent 397K items last year.
What stands out about Navarre Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Navarre’s civic life grade
Navarre 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 Santa Rosa County Library System, 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 Navarre
Navarre is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
7.3%
7.3% of Navarre’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 Navarre’s residents live; 2022.
Below most similar-size libraries on all 6 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 100,000+ people across the U.S.
Santa Rosa County Library System serves 203,517 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.
Every hour the doors are open, about 26 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Santa Rosa County Library System system. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
397K 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 Navarre’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.
About 11 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
Navarre Library, 8484 James M. Harvell Road, Navarre.
No late fees. Good at every Santa Rosa County Library System branch.
New in Navarre? 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 $2.36 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Navarre cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $3.1M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $7.2M 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 78,848 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navarre | Navarre Library fine-free | — | 51 | — unincorporated |
| Holley | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Navarre Beach | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Midway | 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.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
- System-wide. Navarre Library is one branch of Santa Rosa County Library System, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 203,517 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 Navarre
Does Navarre have a public library?
Yes: Navarre Library, 8484 James M. Harvell Road, is a branch of Santa Rosa County Library System, which serves 203,517 people. The branch is open about 51 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Santa Rosa County Library System fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Navarre’s library?
It logged 1.0 visits and lent 2.0 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.
What is Navarre’s civic life grade?
Navarre 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 Santa Rosa County Library System, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Navarre.
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.