Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Hawthorne’s library runs 8.1 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34 for libraries its size
Mineral County Library serves 4,842 people in and around Hawthorne. Last year it lent 12K books, movies and e-books and logged 12K visits.
What stands out about Mineral County Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Hawthorne’s civic life grade
Hawthorne 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 Mineral County 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 Hawthorne
Hawthorne is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
7.0%
7.0% of Hawthorne’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 7.0% in the typical Nevada 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 Hawthorne’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 2 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Mineral County Library serves 4,842 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 5 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Mineral County Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
12K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
2,019 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
39 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
Mineral County Library, 110 First St., Hawthorne.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Mineral County Library branch.
New in Hawthorne? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $1.05 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Hawthorne cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $348K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $365K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $348K 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 2,051 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Mineral County Library serves 4,842 people in and around Hawthorne, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Hawthorne.
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 Hawthorne
Does Hawthorne have a public library?
Yes. Mineral County Library, 110 First St., serves 4,842 people in and around Hawthorne (the survey’s count) and is open about 40 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Mineral County 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 Hawthorne’s library?
It logged 2.5 visits and lent 2.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Hawthorne’s civic life grade?
Hawthorne 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 Mineral County Library, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Hawthorne.
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.