Photo: John Karl Hillers · Public domainCochiti’s library lends 0.7 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9 for libraries its size
Pueblo De Cochiti Library serves 1,517 people in and around Cochiti. Last year it lent 1,000 books, movies and e-books and logged 3,000 visits.
What Cochiti’s library is like
New Mexico pays a big share
21% of the budget comes from the state, and 0% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Below typical on every measure
Against libraries serving under 2,500 people, Pueblo De Cochiti Library sits below the middle on all seven per-resident measures we compare, and in the bottom 30% on seven. How it compares ↓
Few residents carry a card
Only 20% of the people the system serves have a library card, against a typical 54% for its size. How it compares ↓
Runs on less money than most
Pueblo De Cochiti Library spends $18 per resident, less than 93% of similar-size libraries (typical: $54). 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; Pueblo De Cochiti Library serves 1,517 people in and around Cochiti, 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 Cochiti’s civic life grade
Cochiti 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 →
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Pueblo De Cochiti Library serves 1,517 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
A year at Pueblo De Cochiti Library
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Pueblo De Cochiti Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
1,000 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
31 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
Pueblo De Cochiti Library, 255 Cochiti St., Cochiti Pueblo.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Cochiti cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $27K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $19K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $27K 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 300 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Pueblo De Cochiti Library serves 1,517 people in and around Cochiti, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Cochiti.
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 Cochiti
Does Cochiti have a public library?
Yes. Pueblo De Cochiti Library, 255 Cochiti St., serves 1,517 people in and around Cochiti (the survey’s count) and is open about 43 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pueblo De Cochiti Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Cochiti’s library?
It logged 2.0 visits and lent 0.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Cochiti’s civic life grade?
Cochiti 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 Cochiti.
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.