Penick House · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Texhoma’s library logs 1.7 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries its size
Texhoma Public Library serves Texhoma’s 819 residents. Last year it lent 1,200 books, movies and e-books and logged 1,386 visits.
Texhoma’s library, in brief
Texhoma Public Library is used less than most libraries its size
Texhoma Public Library records 1.7 visits per resident, against a typical 3.5 for libraries serving under 2,500 people. Borrowing is 1.5 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9. It also spends less than most: $29 per resident, against a typical $54. How it compares ↓
Open only about 18 hours a week
Texhoma Public Library keeps short hours: about 18 a week, averaged over the year, so check its schedule before you go. The building ↓
A small-town library
Texhoma Public Library serves 819 residents with about one full-time staff. It’s compared only with libraries serving under 2,500 people, because per-person numbers always look big in a small town. A year at the library ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Texhoma Public Library offered 8 programs last year, 9.8 per 1,000 residents against a typical 60. 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; in a town this small, one busy program or a few avid readers move the per-resident numbers.
What’s behind Texhoma’s civic life grade
Texhoma isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving under 2,500 people across the U.S.
Texhoma Public Library serves 819 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving under 2,500.
Every hour the doors are open, about 1 item goes out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
1,200 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 10K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
8 programs a year
Story times, clubs, classes and events, by who they’re for.
Programs last year by age group
story times and programs a week for ages 0–5, on average.
children’s books and media borrowed per child under 18 in Texhoma last year.
Find it
Texhoma Public Library, 201 S 2nd St., Texhoma.
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 Texhoma cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $54. Operating budget $24K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $23K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $24K 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 278 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Texhoma
Does Texhoma have a public library?
Yes. Texhoma Public Library, 201 S 2nd St., serves Texhoma’s 819 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 18 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Texhoma Public Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Texhoma’s library?
It logged 1.7 visits and lent 1.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.5 visits for libraries serving under 2,500 people.
What is Texhoma’s civic life grade?
Texhoma isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Texhoma.
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.