Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided · Public domainZuni Pueblo’s library logs 0.2 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Zuni Public Library serves 6,176 people in and around Zuni Pueblo. Last year it logged 1,183 visits.
What Zuni Pueblo’s library is like
More library cards than residents
7,618 cards for 6,176 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, it’s 42%. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Zuni Public Library offered 6 programs last year, 1 per 1,000 residents against a typical 34. Kids & programs ↓
New Mexico pays a big share
29% of the budget comes from the state, and 62% from local taxes. Nationally, most library money is local. 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; Zuni Public Library serves 6,176 people in and around Zuni Pueblo, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Zuni Pueblo’s civic life grade
On library visits and volunteering, Zuni Pueblo has fewer per resident than most U.S. towns. Zuni Pueblo is graded on two of the three inputs. The share of younger adults in volunteering groups comes closest to the U.S. middle.
Zuni Pueblo’s 2024 visits are an estimate from one typical week (the survey’s method for libraries that don’t count every visit).
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($34K–$57K) 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 Zuni Pueblo
Zuni Pueblo is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
1.9%
1.9% of Zuni 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 Zuni Pueblo’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 5 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Zuni Public Library serves 6,176 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
A year at Zuni Public Library
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Zuni Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Loans aren’t shown: this year’s report counted only 972 items borrowed against 1,183 visits, so we leave the count out.
6 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
Find it
Zuni Public Library, 26 Saint Anthony Drive, Zuni.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Zuni Public Library branch.
New in Zuni 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 Zuni Pueblo cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $188K.
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 7,618 cardholders ÷ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zuni Pueblo | Zuni Public Library | — | 39 | D− |
| Black Rock | 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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Zuni Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
- System-wide. Zuni Public Library serves 6,176 people in and around Zuni Pueblo, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Zuni 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 Zuni Pueblo
Does Zuni Pueblo have a public library?
Yes. Zuni Public Library, 26 Saint Anthony Drive, serves 6,176 people in and around Zuni Pueblo (the survey’s count) and is open about 39 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Zuni 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 Zuni Pueblo’s library?
It logged 0.2 visits per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Zuni Pueblo’s civic life grade?
D− Zuni 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 Zuni 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.