Trimont’s library is a branch of Martin County Library, which lends more per resident than 77% of systems its size
Trimont’s library is the Trimont Branch Library, a branch of Martin County Library, which serves 19,657 people and lent 163K items last year.
What stands out about Trimont Branch Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Trimont’s civic life grade
Trimont 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 →
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.
Martin County Library serves 19,657 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 31 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Martin County Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
163K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
30,426 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 2 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
Trimont Branch Library, 190 Main Street West, Trimont.
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 Martin County Library branch.
New in Trimont? 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 $2.81 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Trimont cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $919K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $2.6M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $919K 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 5,227 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trimont | Trimont Branch Library fine-free | — | 12 | — under 1,000 residents |
| Galena Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
| Fox Lake Township | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
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.
- System-wide. Trimont Branch Library is one branch of Martin County Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 19,657 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 Trimont
Does Trimont have a public library?
Yes: Trimont Branch Library, 190 Main Street West, is a branch of Martin County Library, which serves 19,657 people. The branch is open about 12 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Martin County 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 Trimont’s library?
It logged 2.9 visits and lent 8.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Trimont’s civic life grade?
Trimont 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 Trimont.
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.