Photo: Ntsimp · Public domainMalad City’s library logs 7.3 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Oneida County District serves 4,777 people in and around Malad City. Last year it lent 46K books, movies and e-books and logged 35K visits.
What stands out about Oneida County District
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Malad City’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Malad City is ahead of 54% of U.S. towns. Malad City is graded on two of the three inputs. Malad City’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
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 →
12 community nonprofits are registered in Malad City
4.8 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: arts & culture.
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 (2 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.
6.8%
6.8% of Malad City’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 8.7% in the typical Idaho 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 Malad City’s residents live; 2022.
About 4 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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Oneida County District serves 4,777 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 26 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Oneida County District system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
46K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
7,687 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Oneida County District, 31 N 100 W, Malad.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Oneida County District branch.
New in Malad City? 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 $2.14 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Malad City cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $344K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $736K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $344K 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 3,335 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Oneida County District serves 4,777 people in and around Malad City, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Malad City.
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 Malad City
Does Malad City have a public library?
Yes. Oneida County District, 31 N 100 W, serves 4,777 people in and around Malad City (the survey’s count) and is open about 34 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Oneida County District fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Malad City’s library?
It logged 7.3 visits and lent 9.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Malad City’s civic life grade?
B− Malad City is ahead of 54% 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 Malad City.
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.