Taos Pueblo · Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 3.0Taos Pueblo’s library logs 0 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Taos Pueblo Library serves 2,698 people in and around Taos Pueblo. Last year it lent 861 books, movies and e-books and logged 100 visits.
The short version on Taos Pueblo’s library
Taos Pueblo Library is used less than most libraries its size
Taos Pueblo Library records 0 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people. Borrowing is 0.3 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8. It also spends less than most: $0 per resident, against a typical $43. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Taos Pueblo Library offered 13 programs last year, 4.8 per 1,000 residents against a typical 34. 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; Taos Pueblo Library serves 2,698 people in and around Taos Pueblo, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Taos Pueblo’s civic life grade
Taos 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 Taos Pueblo 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 Taos Pueblo
Taos Pueblo is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
12.9%
12.9% of Taos 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 Taos Pueblo’s residents live; 2022.
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Taos Pueblo Library serves 2,698 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
A year at Taos Pueblo Library
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Taos Pueblo Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
861 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
13 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
Taos Pueblo Library, 120 Veterans Highway, Taos.
No late fees. Good at every Taos Pueblo Library branch.
New in Taos 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 Taos Pueblo resident borrows (the library didn’t report its card count for 2024).
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 resident’s month = the library’s yearly loans and Wi-Fi sessions ÷ the 2,698 people it serves ÷ 12.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taos | Taos Public Library fine-free | 12.3 | 40 | A+ |
| Taos Pueblo | Taos Pueblo Library fine-free | — | 46 | — unincorporated |
| Arroyo Seco | 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. Taos Pueblo Library serves 2,698 people in and around Taos Pueblo, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Taos 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 Taos Pueblo
Does Taos Pueblo have a public library?
Yes. Taos Pueblo Library, 120 Veterans Highway, serves 2,698 people in and around Taos Pueblo (the survey’s count) and is open about 46 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Taos Pueblo Library fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Taos Pueblo’s library?
It logged 0.0 visits and lent 0.3 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Taos Pueblo’s civic life grade?
Taos 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 Taos Pueblo Library, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Taos 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.