Photo: Harrison Frazier from santa fe, usa · CC BY-SA 2.0Pojoaque’s library runs 17 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 60 for libraries its size
Pueblo of Pojoaque Public Library serves 2,071 people in and around Pojoaque. Last year it lent 5,661 books, movies and e-books and logged 7,441 visits.
What Pojoaque’s library is like
Federal money pays a real share
4% of the budget comes from federal grants, and 78% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Nearly everyone the system serves has a card
1,763 cards for 2,071 people, or 85%. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
A well-funded system
Pueblo of Pojoaque Public Library spends $120 per resident a year, about twice the typical $54 for a library its size. 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 of Pojoaque Public Library serves 2,071 people in and around Pojoaque, 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 Pojoaque’s civic life grade
On library visits and volunteering, Pojoaque is ahead of 52% of U.S. towns. Pojoaque is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs are above most U.S. towns; library visits rank highest.
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 →
Volunteering in Pojoaque
Pojoaque is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
7.6%
7.6% of Pojoaque’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 5.2% in the typical New Mexico 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 Pojoaque’s residents live; 2022.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Pojoaque cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $249K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $95K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $249K 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 1,763 cardholders ÷ 12.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 3 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Pueblo of Pojoaque Public Library serves 2,071 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 2 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Pueblo of Pojoaque Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
5,661 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
1,060 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
36 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 of Pojoaque Public Library, 101 B Lightning Loop, Pojoaque.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Pueblo of Pojoaque Public Library branch.
New in Pojoaque? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
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. Pueblo of Pojoaque Public Library serves 2,071 people in and around Pojoaque, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Pojoaque.
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 Pojoaque
Does Pojoaque have a public library?
Yes. Pueblo of Pojoaque Public Library, 101 B Lightning Loop, serves 2,071 people in and around Pojoaque (the survey’s count) and is open about 56 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pueblo of Pojoaque Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Pojoaque’s library?
It logged 3.6 visits and lent 2.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Pojoaque’s civic life grade?
B− Pojoaque is ahead of 52% 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 Pojoaque.
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.