Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Georgetown’s library logs 3.8 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Georgetown Public Library serves Georgetown’s 96,312 residents. Last year it lent 718K books, movies and e-books and logged 370K visits.
What Georgetown’s library is like
The shelves work hard
Each of the 107,000 items on the shelves went out about 4.6 times last year, on average. What people borrow ↓
Open about 64 hours a week
Georgetown Public Library is open about 64 hours a week, averaged over the year. Every hour the doors are open, about 203 items go out. The building ↓
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.
What’s behind Georgetown’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Georgetown is ahead of 53% of U.S. towns, #119 of 539 in Texas. Among the 385 U.S. cities over 100,000 we grade, it ranks #82. Georgetown’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 →
417 community nonprofits are registered in Georgetown
4.9 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 (116 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 18 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
6.4%
6.4% of Georgetown’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 Georgetown’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Georgetown Public Library serves 96,312 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 203 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
718K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 107K books and other items on the shelves went out about 4.6 times last year, on average.
221,558 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 2 kids’ programs a week
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 Georgetown last year.
Find it
Georgetown Public Library, 402 W 8th St., Georgetown.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Georgetown? 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 $3.02 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Georgetown cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $3.6M.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $11M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $3.6M 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 44,613 cardholders ÷ 12.
Libraries next door
Georgetown ranks 2nd of 3 for borrowing per resident. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round Rock | Round Rock Public Library System | 9.8 | 68 | B− |
| Georgetown | Georgetown Public Library fine-free | 7.5 | 64 | B− |
| Leander | Leander Public Library fine-free | 4.4 | 52 | C |
| Weir | None of its own | — | — | — under 1,000 residents |
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.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Georgetown Public Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Georgetown
Does Georgetown have a public library?
Yes. Georgetown Public Library, 402 W 8th St., serves Georgetown’s 96,312 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 64 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Georgetown Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Georgetown’s library?
It logged 3.8 visits and lent 7.5 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Georgetown’s civic life grade?
B− Georgetown is ahead of 53% of U.S. towns on civic life, #119 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 Georgetown.
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.