Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Floydada’s library lends 5 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Floyd County Library serves 5,090 people in and around Floydada. Last year it lent 25K books, movies and e-books and logged 19K visits.
Floydada’s library, in brief
Few programs for a library this size
Floyd County Library offered 38 programs last year, 7.5 per 1,000 residents against a typical 34. Kids & programs ↓
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; Floyd County Library serves 5,090 people in and around Floydada, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Floydada’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Floydada is ahead of 47% of U.S. towns. Floydada is graded on two of the three inputs. Floydada’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
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 Floydada
8.1 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: civic groups, clubs & veterans.
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 (8 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 1 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
3.8%
3.8% of Floydada’s 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 Floydada’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 4 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Floyd County Library serves 5,090 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 10 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Floyd County Library system. The library’s own count.
Mostly books and media off the shelf
25K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
38 programs a year
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
Floyd County Library, 111 S Wall St., Floydada.
Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Floyd County Library branch.
New in Floydada? 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 $3.07 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Floydada cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $129K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $397K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $129K 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 3,082 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Floyd County Library serves 5,090 people in and around Floydada, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Floydada.
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 Floydada
Does Floydada have a public library?
Yes. Floyd County Library, 111 S Wall St., serves 5,090 people in and around Floydada (the survey’s count) and is open about 33 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Floyd County Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Floydada’s library?
It logged 3.8 visits and lent 5.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Floydada’s civic life grade?
B− Floydada is ahead of 47% of U.S. towns on civic life. 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 Floydada.
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.