Photo: Nyttend · Public domainLivermore’s library logs 0.6 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Livermore Public Library serves Livermore’s 2,163 residents. Last year it lent 4,310 books, movies and e-books and logged 1,235 visits.
Livermore’s library, in brief
Open only about 11 hours a week
Livermore Public Library keeps short hours: about 11 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. Jay-Niles Memorial Library in Jay, next door, is open about 31 hours a week. The building ↓
Every town next door borrows more
Livermore’s library lends 2 items per resident. Each of the three neighboring towns with a library of its own lends more, led by Jay at 5. Libraries next door ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Livermore Public Library offered 8 programs last year, 3.7 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
A small-town library
Livermore Public Library serves 2,163 residents with about one full-time staff. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
Gifts and endowments pay a real share
26% of the library’s income comes from gifts, endowments, fees and other sources, not taxes. Local taxes cover 74%. What your card is worth ↓
This summary is written from the numbers on this page. Numbers are the library’s own report to the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Livermore’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Livermore is ahead of 16% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit below most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups comes closest to the middle.
Livermore Public Library spends $8 per resident, against a typical $54 for libraries its size.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($53K–$88K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 →
6 community nonprofits are registered in Livermore
3.2 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 (1 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.9%
6.9% of Livermore’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 9.0% in the typical Maine 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 Livermore’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Livermore Public Library serves 2,163 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 8 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
4,310 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 9,708 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.4 time last year, on average.
427 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card.
8 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Livermore last year.
Find it
Livermore Public Library, 22 Church Street, Livermore.
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 $3.84 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Livermore cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $17K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $66K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $17K 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 1,522 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Livermore ranks 4th of 4 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jay | Jay-Niles Memorial Library fine-free | 5.0 | 31 | C |
| Turner | Turner Public Library fine-free | 2.2 | 24 | C |
| Livermore Falls | Treat Memorial Library fine-free | 2.1 | 25 | D |
| Livermore | Livermore Public Library fine-free | 2.0 | 11 | C− |
| Leeds | None of its own | — | — | B+ |
| Canton | None of its own | — | — | A |
| Hartford | None of its own | — | — | C− |
Loans = print + digital items borrowed in the library’s fiscal year, per person it serves. — = no library of its own, a county or regional system (its numbers cover many towns), or no report. Civic life: — = not graded (unincorporated places, whose nonprofits can’t be placed by mailing address, or towns with fewer than two of the three inputs).
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Livermore
Does Livermore have a public library?
Yes. Livermore Public Library, 22 Church Street, serves Livermore’s 2,163 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 11 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Livermore Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Livermore’s library?
It logged 0.6 visits and lent 2.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Livermore’s civic life grade?
C− Livermore is ahead of 16% 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 Livermore.
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.