1938 Lincoln County Courthouse · Photo: Calvin Beale · Public domainPioche’s library logs 0.6 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Lincoln County Library serves 4,808 people in and around Pioche. Last year it lent 3,144 books, movies and e-books and logged 2,991 visits.
What Pioche’s library is like
Lincoln County Library is used less than most libraries its size
Lincoln County Library records 0.6 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people. Borrowing is 0.7 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8. It also spends less than most: $21 per resident, against a typical $43. How it compares ↓
Nevada pays a big share
23% of the budget comes from the state, and 74% 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; Lincoln County Library serves 4,808 people in and around Pioche, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Pioche’s civic life grade
Pioche 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 Lincoln 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 Pioche
Pioche is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
3.9%
3.9% of Pioche’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 Pioche’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Lincoln County Library serves 4,808 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 1 item goes out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Lincoln County Library system. The library’s own count.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
3,144 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
What kids borrow
Story times, clubs, classes and events, across the whole system, by who they’re for.
Find it
Lincoln County Library, 63 Main St., Pioche.
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 Pioche cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $103K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $46K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $103K budget.
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 2,991 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Lincoln County Library serves 4,808 people in and around Pioche, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Pioche.
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 Pioche
Does Pioche have a public library?
Yes. Lincoln County Library, 63 Main St., serves 4,808 people in and around Pioche (the survey’s count) and is open about 30 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Lincoln County Library fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Pioche’s library?
It logged 0.6 visits and lent 0.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Pioche’s civic life grade?
Pioche 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 Lincoln County Library, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Pioche.
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.