Photo: formulanone · CC BY-SA 2.0Pahrump’s library logs 1.6 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Pahrump Community Library serves 43,984 people in and around Pahrump. Last year it lent 80K books, movies and e-books and logged 69K visits.
What stands out about Pahrump Community Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Pahrump’s civic life grade
On library visits and volunteering, Pahrump is ahead of 13% of U.S. towns, #11 of 16 in Nevada. Pahrump is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs sit below most U.S. towns; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups comes closest to the middle.
Pahrump Community Library spends $20 per resident, against a typical $40 for libraries its size.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($47K–$78K) 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 Pahrump
Pahrump is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
6.3%
6.3% of Pahrump’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 Pahrump’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Pahrump Community Library serves 43,984 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 35 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Pahrump Community Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
80K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
16,203 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 1 kids’ program a week
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
Pahrump Community Library, 701 East Street, Pahrump.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Pahrump Community Library branch.
New in Pahrump? 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 $1.49 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Pahrump cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $881K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.3M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $881K 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 28,035 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Pahrump Community Library serves 43,984 people in and around Pahrump, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Pahrump.
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 Pahrump
Does Pahrump have a public library?
Yes. Pahrump Community Library, 701 East Street, serves 43,984 people in and around Pahrump (the survey’s count) and is open about 44 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pahrump Community 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 Pahrump’s library?
It logged 1.6 visits and lent 1.8 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Pahrump’s civic life grade?
D Pahrump is ahead of 13% of U.S. towns on civic life, #11 of 16 in Nevada. 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 Pahrump.
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.