Dutton’s library logs 10 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Dutton/Teton Public Library serves 1,439 people in and around Dutton. Last year it lent 6,539 books, movies and e-books and logged 15K visits.
What Dutton’s library is like
Open only about 22 hours a week
The Dutton branch keeps short hours: about 22 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
Visits are the system’s strong suit
Dutton/Teton Public Library logs 10 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people, more than 90% of similar-size libraries. Borrowing is closer to typical, at 3.5 print items per resident. How it compares ↓
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; Dutton/Teton Public Library serves 1,439 people in and around Dutton, and its numbers cover all of them; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Dutton’s civic life grade
Dutton 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 →
Every hour the doors are open, about 6 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Dutton/Teton Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Dutton/Teton Public Library serves 1,439 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
6,539 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
1,445 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card.
82 programs a year
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
Dutton/Teton Public Library, 22 Main St. W, Dutton.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Good at every Dutton/Teton Public Library branch.
New in Dutton? 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 $2.58 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Dutton cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $47K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $121K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $47K 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 802 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Dutton/Teton Public Library serves 1,439 people in and around Dutton, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Dutton.
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 Dutton
Does Dutton have a public library?
Yes. Dutton/Teton Public Library, 22 Main St. W, serves 1,439 people in and around Dutton (the survey’s count) and is open about 22 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Dutton/Teton 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 Dutton’s library?
It logged 10.1 visits and lent 4.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Dutton’s civic life grade?
Dutton 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 Dutton.
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.