Photo: Michael Barera · CC BY-SA 4.0Granbury’s library logs 0.9 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Hood County Public Library serves 67,774 people in and around Granbury. Last year it lent 267K books, movies and e-books and logged 58K visits.
The short version on Granbury’s library
Few programs for a library this size
Hood County Public Library offered 297 programs last year, 4.4 per 1,000 residents against a typical 14. Kids & programs ↓
Fewer visits than most libraries its size
Hood County Public Library records 0.9 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people, below 93% of similar-size libraries. Borrowing holds up better, at 3.5 print items per resident. How it compares ↓
Runs on less money than most
Hood County Public Library spends $12 per resident, less than 93% of similar-size libraries (typical: $40). What your card is worth ↓
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; Hood County Public Library serves 67,774 people in and around Granbury, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Granbury’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Granbury is ahead of 50% of U.S. towns, #136 of 539 in Texas. Granbury is graded on two of the three inputs. Granbury’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 →
54 community nonprofits are registered in Granbury
4.5 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: education.
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 (14 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 2 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
6.8%
6.8% of Granbury’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 Granbury’s residents live; 2022.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 1 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Hood County Public Library serves 67,774 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 85 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Hood County Public Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
267K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
27,687 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 3 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.
Find it
Hood County Public Library, 222 N Travis St., Granbury.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Hood County Public Library branch.
New in Granbury? 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 $4.91 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Granbury cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $812K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $4M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $812K 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 24,950 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granbury | Hood County Public Library | — | 52 | B− |
| Stockton Bend | 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.
- System-wide. Hood County Public Library serves 67,774 people in and around Granbury, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Granbury.
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 Granbury
Does Granbury have a public library?
Yes. Hood County Public Library, 222 N Travis St., serves 67,774 people in and around Granbury (the survey’s count) and is open about 52 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Hood County Public Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
It charges late fines on some overdue items, and it lends e-books and audiobooks with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Granbury’s library?
It logged 0.9 visits and lent 3.9 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Granbury’s civic life grade?
B− Granbury is ahead of 50% of U.S. towns on civic life, #136 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 Granbury.
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.