Photo: Billy Hathorn at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Carrizo Springs’ library runs 13 programs per 1,000 residents, against a typical 34 for libraries its size
Dimmit County Public Library serves 8,257 people in and around Carrizo Springs. Last year it lent 16K books, movies and e-books and logged 21K visits.
Carrizo Springs’s library, in brief
More library cards than residents
8,921 cards for 8,257 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, it’s 42%. How it compares ↓
Almost all the borrowing is off the shelf
Only 0% of loans are e-books, audiobooks or streaming, fewer per resident than at 99% of similar-size libraries. What people borrow ↓
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; Dimmit County Public Library serves 8,257 people in and around Carrizo Springs, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Carrizo Springs’ civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Carrizo Springs is ahead of 23% of U.S. towns, #294 of 539 in Texas. Carrizo Springs is graded on two of the three inputs. Carrizo Springs’ count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Dimmit County Public Library spends $18 per resident, against a typical $43 for libraries its size.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($29K–$48K) 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 →
21 community nonprofits are registered in Carrizo Springs
4.5 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
Community nonprofits, by kind
Counted from the IRS list of tax-exempt organizations by mailing address (fractions where a ZIP code spans towns). Congregations are counted apart (6 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
2.5%
2.5% of Carrizo Springs’ Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 5.7% in the typical Texas 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 Carrizo Springs’ 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.
Dimmit County Public Library serves 8,257 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 7 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Dimmit County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
16K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
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
Dimmit County Public Library, 200 N 9th St., Carrizo Springs.
Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Good at every Dimmit County Public Library branch.
New in Carrizo Springs? 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 $1.86 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Carrizo Springs cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $148K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $276K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $148K 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 8,921 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Dimmit County Public Library serves 8,257 people in and around Carrizo Springs, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Carrizo Springs.
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 Carrizo Springs
Does Carrizo Springs have a public library?
Yes. Dimmit County Public Library, 200 N 9th St., serves 8,257 people in and around Carrizo Springs (the survey’s count) and is open about 46 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Dimmit County Public Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Carrizo Springs’ library?
It logged 2.5 visits and lent 2.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Carrizo Springs’ civic life grade?
C− Carrizo Springs is ahead of 23% of U.S. towns on civic life, #294 of 539 in Texas. 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 Carrizo Springs.
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.