Photo: Steve Morgan · CC BY-SA 3.0Cedar Mill’s library lends 22 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Cedar Mill Community Library serves 81,183 people in and around Cedar Mill. Last year it lent 1.8M print books and media and logged 426K visits.
The short version on Cedar Mill’s library
More than half the print loans are for kids
Children’s books and media are 60% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 99% of similar-size libraries. Kids & programs ↓
One of the busiest library systems its size
Cedar Mill Community Library logs 5.2 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people, and lends 22 print items per resident against a typical 3.7. On both counts it beats 89% of similar-size libraries across the U.S. How it compares ↓
Most programs are for young children
77% of the 963 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 13 a week for ages 0–5. 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; Cedar Mill Community Library serves 81,183 people in and around Cedar Mill, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Cedar Mill’s civic life grade
Cedar Mill 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 Cedar Mill Community 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 Cedar Mill
Cedar Mill is unincorporated, so its nonprofits aren’t counted: they file by mailing address, which doesn’t follow its boundary.
6.6%
6.6% of Cedar Mill’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 8.9% in the typical Oregon 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 Cedar Mill’s residents live; 2022.
About 14 kids’ programs 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.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Cedar Mill Community Library serves 81,183 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 304 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Cedar Mill Community Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
1.8M print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Find it
Cedar Mill Community Library, 1080 NW Saltzman Rd, Portland.
No late fees. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Cedar Mill Community Library branch.
New in Cedar Mill? 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 $4.52 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Cedar Mill cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $5.7M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $26M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $5.7M 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 53,779 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaverton | Beaverton City Library fine-free | 13.1 | 54 | B− |
| Cedar Mill | Cedar Mill Community Library fine-free | — | 57 | — unincorporated |
| Portland | Central Library fine-free | — | 54 | A |
| Bethany | Bethany Branch fine-free | — | 57 | — unincorporated |
| West Haven-Sylvan | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Oak Hills | 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.
- Digital loans not reported. The library didn’t report e-book loans, so borrowing here is print only.
- System-wide. Cedar Mill Community Library serves 81,183 people in and around Cedar Mill, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Cedar Mill.
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 Cedar Mill
Does Cedar Mill have a public library?
Yes. Cedar Mill Community Library, 1080 NW Saltzman Rd, serves 81,183 people in and around Cedar Mill (the survey’s count) and is open about 57 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Cedar Mill Community Library fine-free?
Yes, no late fees (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Cedar Mill’s library?
It logged 5.2 visits and lent 22.2 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Cedar Mill’s civic life grade?
Cedar Mill 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 Cedar Mill Community Library, so there is no town figure for visits. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Cedar Mill.
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.