Youngville Cafe · Photo: Jim Roberts · CC BY-SA 4.0Newhall’s library logs 2.4 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Newhall Public Library serves Newhall’s 1,812 residents. Last year it lent 4,750 print books and media and logged 4,369 visits.
What stands out about Newhall’s library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Newhall’s civic life grade
Newhall isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
Below most similar-size libraries on all 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Newhall Public Library serves 1,812 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 3 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
4,750 print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Each of the 7,967 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.6 time last year, on average.
87 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Newhall last year.
Find it
Newhall Public Library, 109 Railroad St. East, Newhall.
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 $1.18 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Newhall cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $68K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $80K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $68K 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 747 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.
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 Newhall
Does Newhall have a public library?
Yes. Newhall Public Library, 109 Railroad St. East, serves Newhall’s 1,812 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 35 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Newhall Public Library fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Newhall’s library?
It logged 2.4 visits and lent 2.6 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Newhall’s civic life grade?
Newhall isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Newhall.
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.