Santo Domingo Indian Trading Post · Photo: Svobodat · CC BY-SA 3.0Santo Domingo Pueblo’s library logs 1 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Santo Domingo Pueblo Library serves 2,311 people in and around Santo Domingo Pueblo. Last year it logged 2,340 visits.
The short version on Santo Domingo Pueblo’s library
New Mexico pays a big share
42% of the budget comes from the state, and 58% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. What your card is worth ↓
Nearly everyone the system serves has a card
2,292 cards for 2,311 people, or 99%. At the typical library serving under 2,500 people, it’s 54%. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Santo Domingo Pueblo Library offered 14 programs last year, 6.1 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. Kids & programs ↓
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; Santo Domingo Pueblo Library serves 2,311 people in and around Santo Domingo 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 Santo Domingo Pueblo’s civic life grade
On library visits and volunteering, Santo Domingo Pueblo has fewer per resident than most U.S. towns. Santo Domingo Pueblo is graded on two of the three inputs. Library visits come closest to the U.S. middle.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($43K–$72K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
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 Santo Domingo Pueblo
Santo Domingo Pueblo is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
2.7%
2.7% of Santo Domingo 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 Santo Domingo Pueblo’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 5 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Santo Domingo Pueblo Library serves 2,311 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
A year at Santo Domingo Pueblo Library
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Santo Domingo Pueblo Library system. The library’s own count.
Loans aren’t shown: this year’s report counted only 303 items borrowed against 2,340 visits, so we leave the count out.
14 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
Santo Domingo Pueblo Library, Tesuque Street, Santo Domingo Pueblo.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Santo Domingo Pueblo Library branch.
New in Santo Domingo Pueblo? The Handbook →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 Santo Domingo Pueblo cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $184K.
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 2,292 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Santo Domingo Pueblo Library serves 2,311 people in and around Santo Domingo Pueblo, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Santo Domingo Pueblo.
- Loans left out. This year’s loan count is far below the library’s visits and shelves, so we leave it out.
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 Santo Domingo Pueblo
Does Santo Domingo Pueblo have a public library?
Yes. Santo Domingo Pueblo Library, Tesuque Street, serves 2,311 people in and around Santo Domingo Pueblo (the survey’s count) and is open about 38 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Santo Domingo Pueblo 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 Santo Domingo Pueblo’s library?
It logged 1.0 visits per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Santo Domingo Pueblo’s civic life grade?
D− Santo Domingo Pueblo has fewer library visits per resident, and fewer younger adults in volunteering groups, than most U.S. towns. 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 Santo Domingo 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.