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Woodville Branch Library · part of Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library Syst

Woodville’s library is a branch of Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library Syst, which lends less per resident than 53% of systems its size

Woodville’s library is the Woodville Branch Library, a branch of Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library Syst, which serves 300,806 people and lent 908K items last year.

8000 Old Woodville Road, Tallahassee 32305 · about 38 hours a week
–Civic lifeNot graded: unincorporated places have too few inputs
Borrowed a year
908K
3 per resident
Visits a year
593K
2 per resident · Below typical (2.1)
Programs & events
1,603
about 31 a week · 39K attended
Cardholders
46%
139,759 cards
Open
38 hrs
a week at this branch

What stands out about Woodville Branch Library

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

Civic life grade

What’s behind Woodville’s civic life grade

Woodville 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 Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library Syst, so there is no town figure for visits.

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Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Woodville’s overall grade.

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 →

Places to belong

Volunteering in Woodville

Woodville is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.

Volunteering

4.0%

4.0% of Woodville’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 Woodville’s residents live; 2022.

How it compares

Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 6 measures

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

Visits per resident 2 visits · typical 2.1Lower than 55%
Borrowing per resident 3 print items · typical 3.2Lower than 53%
Program attendance 0.1 attendees · typical 0.2Lower than 80%
Programs offered 5.3 per 1,000 residents · typical 9Lower than 80%
Cardholders 46% of residents · typical 41%Higher than 62%
Spending $21 per resident · typical $36Lower than 77%
Fewer per residentMore per resident
Size group

Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library Syst serves 300,806 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 100,000+.

A year at the library

Every hour the doors are open, about 60 items go out

Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library Syst system. The library’s own count.

593K
visits
2 per resident
908K
loans, print + digital
3 per resident
1,603
programs & events
39K attended
140K
library cards
46% of people served
Every open hour60items borrowed
Every week748people at a program
Every week11,409visits
71 staff (full-time equivalent)288 public computers
What people borrow

Books and media off the shelf

908K 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 Woodville’s library in 2024, so there’s no split between adults’ and kids’ borrowing.

Kids & programs

About 20 kids’ programs a week

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

Schools in Woodville →

Programs last year by age group

Ages 0–5919
Ages 6–11137
Teens158
Adults329
All ages60
Little ones
17.7

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

39K
people at programs
1,603
programs
The building

Find it

Woodville Branch Library, 8000 Old Woodville Road, Tallahassee.

38
hours open a week
6,667
square feet
With a card

Good at every Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library Syst branch.

New in Woodville? 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 $2.48 worth

Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Woodville 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
$21 per resident a year

Typical for a library this size: $36. Operating budget $6.4M.

Local taxes 95%State 1%Federal 1%Gifts & other 3%

Last year the library lent and hosted about $16M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $6.4M 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 139,759 cardholders ÷ 12.

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. Woodville Branch Library is one branch of Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library Syst, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 300,806 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 Woodville

Does Woodville have a public library?

Yes: Woodville Branch Library, 8000 Old Woodville Road, is a branch of Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library Syst, which serves 300,806 people. The branch is open about 38 hours a week, averaged over the year.

Is Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library Syst fine-free?

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

How busy is Woodville’s library?

It logged 2.0 visits and lent 3.0 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.1 visits for libraries serving 100,000+ people.

What is Woodville’s civic life grade?

Woodville 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 Leroy Collins Leon County Public Library Syst, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.

Book talk

Reading, story times and the library in Woodville.

Town Square →
Start a conversation

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.