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Anastasia Island Branch · part of St. Johns County Public Library System

St. Augustine Beach’s library is a branch of St. Johns County Public Library System, which lends more per resident than 58% of systems its size

St. Augustine Beach’s library is the Anastasia Island Branch, a branch of St. Johns County Public Library System, which serves 331,327 people and lent 1.2M items last year.

124 Seagrove Main Street, St. Augustine Beach 32080 · about 45 hours a week
B+Civic lifeAhead of 72% of U.S. towns · #15 of 273 in Florida. Nonprofits and volunteering.
Directions (904) 209-3730 What’s a card worth?
Borrowed a year
1.2M
3.6 per resident
Visits a year
745K
2.2 per resident · Above typical (2.1)
Programs & events
3,349
about 64 a week · 114K attended
Cardholders
30%
99,686 cards
Open
45 hrs
a week at this branch

What stands out about Anastasia Island Branch

Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.

Part of a bigger system
Civic life grade

What’s behind St. Augustine Beach’s civic life grade

On community nonprofits and volunteering, St. Augustine Beach is ahead of 72% of U.S. towns, #15 of 273 in Florida. St. Augustine Beach is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups ranks highest.

B+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of St. Augustine Beach’s overall grade.
–Library visitsServed by a county or regional system, so there is no town figureBCommunity nonprofits4.1 per 1,000 residents · FL towns 3.3 · U.S. 3.7B+Volunteering9.4% of adults 25–44 · FL towns 5.6% · U.S. 7.5%
All U.S. towns we grade (17,556)Ahead of 72%
FewerMore
Florida towns we grade (273)Ahead of 95%
U.S. towns with similar incomes, $76K–$126K (7,005)Ahead of 75%

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.

How sure. Graded on two inputs, so a change in either one moves the letter more than it would with three. St. Augustine Beach is small (6,810 residents), so a few dozen organizations or visits move its per-resident figures; the volunteering share is a 2022 estimate from Facebook users aged 25–44.

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 →

Places to belong

28 community nonprofits are registered in St. Augustine Beach

4.1 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.

Community nonprofits, by kind

Arts & culture40.58 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.24
Youth, sports & recreation20.36 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.52
Civic groups, clubs & veterans40.64 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.74
Human services60.86 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.59
Education30.45 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.43
Health10.17 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.16
Environment & animals50.77 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.17
Other20.23 per 1,000 · U.S. towns 0.47

Counted from the IRS list of tax-exempt organizations by mailing address (fractions where a ZIP code spans towns). Congregations are counted apart (4 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 1 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.

Volunteering

9.4%

9.4% of St. Augustine Beach’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 St. Augustine Beach’s residents live; 2022.

How it compares

Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 6 measures

Per resident, against libraries serving 100,000+ people across the U.S.

Visits per resident 2.2 visits · typical 2.1Higher than 55%
Borrowing per resident 3.6 print items · typical 3.2Higher than 58%
Program attendance 0.3 attendees · typical 0.2Higher than 76%
Programs offered 10.1 per 1,000 residents · typical 9Higher than 53%
Cardholders 30% of residents · typical 41%Lower than 73%
Spending $29 per resident · typical $36Lower than 61%
Fewer per residentMore per resident
Size group

St. Johns County Public Library System serves 331,327 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.

A year at the library

Every hour the doors are open, about 82 items go out

Fiscal year 2024, for the whole St. Johns County Public Library System system. The library’s own count.

745K
visits
2.2 per resident
1.2M
loans, print + digital
3.6 per resident
3,349
programs & events
114K attended
100K
library cards
30% of people served
Every open hour82items borrowed
Every week2,190people at a program
Every day280Wi-Fi sessions
95 staff (full-time equivalent)117 public computers
What people borrow

Books and media off the shelf

1.2M 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 St. Augustine Beach’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.

Kids & programs

About 25 kids’ programs a week

Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.

Schools in St. Augustine Beach →

Programs last year by age group

Ages 0–5862
Ages 6–11423
Teens189
Adults1,506
All ages369
Little ones
16.6

story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.

114K
people at programs
3,349
programs
The building

Find it

Anastasia Island Branch, 124 Seagrove Main Street, St. Augustine Beach.

Directions(904) 209-3730
45
hours open a week
8,100
square feet
With a card

Good at every St. Johns County Public Library System branch.

New in St. Augustine Beach? The Handbook →

Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.

What your card is worth

For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $2.31 worth

Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average St. Augustine Beach cardholder borrows.

In a month I’d use…
Books$17 each
1
Kids’ books$12 each
0
E-books & audio$15 each
0
Movies & music$4 each
0
Programs & classes$10 a program
0
Computer & Wi-Fi$3 a session
0
Your card saves you about
$204
a year at retail prices · $17 a month

Who pays for it
$29 per resident a year

Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $9.5M.

Local taxes 96%State 1%Gifts & other 3%

Last year the library lent and hosted about $22M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $9.5M 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 99,686 cardholders ÷ 12.

Next door

Libraries next door

Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.

Butler Beach: no library of its ownSt. Augustine: St. Johns County Public Library - Main LibraryButler BeachSt. AugustineSt. Augustine Beach
12+ loans per resident8–124–8Under 4No library / shared system
TownLibraryLoans per residentHoursCivic life
St. Augustine BeachAnastasia Island Branch—45B+
St. AugustineSt. Johns County Public Library - Main Library—49A−
Butler BeachNone 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).

How to read these numbers

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. Anastasia Island Branch is one branch of St. Johns County Public Library System, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 331,327 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 St. Augustine Beach

Does St. Augustine Beach have a public library?

Yes: Anastasia Island Branch, 124 Seagrove Main Street, is a branch of St. Johns County Public Library System, which serves 331,327 people. The branch is open about 45 hours a week, averaged over the year.

Is St. Johns County Public Library System fine-free?

It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).

How busy is St. Augustine Beach’s library?

It logged 2.2 visits and lent 3.6 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.

What is St. Augustine Beach’s civic life grade?

B+ St. Augustine Beach is ahead of 72% of U.S. towns on civic life, #15 of 273 in Florida. 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 St. Augustine Beach.

Town Square →
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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.