Santa Ana Pueblo’s library runs 145 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 60 for libraries its size
Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library serves 684 people in and around Santa Ana Pueblo. Last year it lent 1,245 books, movies and e-books and logged 2,188 visits.
What Santa Ana Pueblo’s library is like
New Mexico pays a big share
59% of the budget comes from the state, and 41% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Well funded, but lightly used
Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library spends $178 per resident, more than 95% of similar-size libraries. Use doesn’t match: visits per resident are lower than at 54% of them. What your card is worth ↓
Kids’ books are most of what goes out
Children’s books and media make up 58% of print loans. Per resident, kids’ borrowing is lower than at 62% of similar-size libraries, so the high share mostly reflects light borrowing by adults. What people borrow ↓
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; Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library serves 684 people in and around Santa Ana Pueblo, 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 Santa Ana Pueblo’s civic life grade
Santa Ana Pueblo isn’t graded on civic life: it’s unincorporated, so its nonprofits can’t be counted reliably (mailing addresses don’t follow its boundary) and its library is a branch of Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library, so there is no town figure for visits.
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 Santa Ana Pueblo
Santa Ana Pueblo is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
4.3%
4.3% of Santa Ana Pueblo’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 Santa Ana Pueblo’s residents live; 2022.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Santa Ana Pueblo cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $122K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $29K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $122K 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 533 cardholders ÷ 12.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library serves 684 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
A year at Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
1,245 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
127 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
99 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
Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library, 2 Dove Road, Santa Ana.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library branch.
New in Santa Ana Pueblo? 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.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernalillo | Town of Bernalillo Public Library fine-free | 1.4 | 41 | D |
| Santa Ana Pueblo | Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library fine-free | — | 45 | — unincorporated |
| Placitas | Placitas Community Library fine-free | — | 33 | A+ |
| Algodones | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
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. Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library serves 684 people in and around Santa Ana Pueblo, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Santa Ana Pueblo.
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 Santa Ana Pueblo
Does Santa Ana Pueblo have a public library?
Yes. Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library, 2 Dove Road, serves 684 people in and around Santa Ana Pueblo (the survey’s count) and is open about 45 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Santa Ana Pueblo Community 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 Santa Ana Pueblo’s library?
It logged 3.2 visits and lent 1.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Santa Ana Pueblo’s civic life grade?
Santa Ana Pueblo isn’t graded on civic life: it’s unincorporated, so its nonprofits can’t be counted reliably (mailing addresses don’t follow its boundary) and its library is a branch of Santa Ana Pueblo Community Library, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Santa Ana Pueblo.
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.