Idaho State Industrial School Women's Dormitory · Photo: UltraSparky · CC BY-SA 3.0St. Anthony’s library is a branch of Fremont County District, which lends less per resident than 59% of systems its size
St. Anthony’s library is the Fremont District - St. Anthony, a branch of Fremont County District, which serves 12,647 people and lent 54K items last year.
What stands out about Fremont District - St. Anthony
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind St. Anthony’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, St. Anthony is ahead of 62% of U.S. towns, #23 of 54 in Idaho. St. Anthony is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; St. Anthony’s count of community nonprofits 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 →
8 community nonprofits are registered in St. Anthony
2.1 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
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.
16.4%
16.4% of St. Anthony’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 St. Anthony’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Fremont County District serves 12,647 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 9 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Fremont County District system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
54K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
12,947 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card.
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.
Find it
Fremont District - St. Anthony, 420 N Bridge Ste E, St. Anthony.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Good at every Fremont County District branch.
New in St. Anthony? 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 $1.38 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average St. Anthony cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $619K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $857K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $619K 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 5,958 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Fremont District - St. Anthony is one branch of Fremont County District, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 12,647 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. Anthony
Does St. Anthony have a public library?
Yes: Fremont District - St. Anthony, 420 N Bridge Ste E, is a branch of Fremont County District, which serves 12,647 people. The branch is open about 40 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Fremont 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 St. Anthony’s library?
It logged 2.1 visits and lent 4.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is St. Anthony’s civic life grade?
B St. Anthony is ahead of 62% of U.S. towns on civic life, #23 of 54 in Idaho. 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. Anthony.
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.