Photo: W.marsh · CC BY-SA 3.0Falmouth’s library logs 1.4 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries its size
Pendleton County Public Library serves 14,810 people in and around Falmouth. Last year it lent 64K books, movies and e-books and logged 20K visits.
What stands out about Pendleton County Public Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Falmouth’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Falmouth is ahead of 39% of U.S. towns. Falmouth is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups holds the grade up; Falmouth’s count of community nonprofits pulls it down.
Among U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($26K–$43K) it does better, ahead of 58%.
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 Falmouth
3.2 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.
7.6%
7.6% of Falmouth’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 6.6% in the typical Kentucky 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 Falmouth’s residents live; 2022.
About 1 kids’ program 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 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Pendleton County Public Library serves 14,810 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 18 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Pendleton County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
64K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
15,856 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Find it
Pendleton County Public Library, 801 Robbins Avenue, Falmouth.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Pendleton County Public Library branch.
New in Falmouth? 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 $1.42 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Falmouth cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $793K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.1M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $793K 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 6,761 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Pendleton County Public Library serves 14,810 people in and around Falmouth, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Falmouth.
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 Falmouth
Does Falmouth have a public library?
Yes. Pendleton County Public Library, 801 Robbins Avenue, serves 14,810 people in and around Falmouth (the survey’s count) and is open about 67 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pendleton County Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Falmouth’s library?
It logged 1.4 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 Falmouth’s civic life grade?
C+ Falmouth is ahead of 39% 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 Falmouth.
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.