Photo: Larry D. Moore · CC BY 4.0Navasota’s library logs 0.3 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Navasota Public Library serves Navasota’s 29,460 residents. Last year it lent 12K print books and media and logged 9,300 visits.
Navasota’s library, in brief
Navasota Public Library is used less than most libraries its size
Navasota Public Library records 0.3 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people. Borrowing is 0.4 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7. It also spends less than most: $7 per resident, against a typical $40. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Navasota Public Library offered 138 programs last year, 4.7 per 1,000 residents against a typical 14. Kids & programs ↓
Few residents carry a card
Only 14% of the people Navasota Public Library serves have a library card, against a typical 39% for its size. How it compares ↓
Runs on less money than most
Navasota Public Library spends $7 per resident, less than 98% of similar-size libraries (typical: $40). What your card is worth ↓
A big collection for the borrowing it gets
Navasota Public Library holds 35,000 books and other items, but the average item went out less than once last year. 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.
What’s behind Navasota’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Navasota is ahead of 22% of U.S. towns, #300 of 539 in Texas. Navasota is graded on two of the three inputs. Navasota’s count of community nonprofits holds the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Navasota Public Library spends $7 per resident, against a typical $40 for libraries its size.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($38K–$64K) 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 →
34 community nonprofits are registered in Navasota
3.9 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: youth, sports & recreation.
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 (7 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
4.5%
4.5% of Navasota’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 Navasota’s residents live; 2022.
Below most similar-size libraries on all 7 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Navasota Public Library serves 29,460 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 6 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
Books and media off the shelf
12K print loans last year. The library didn’t report its e-book and e-audiobook loans.
Each of the 35K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.3 time last year, on average.
Borrow from home with your card.
About 1 kids’ program 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 Navasota last year.
Find it
Navasota Public Library, 1411 E Washington Ave, Navasota.
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 $1.04 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Navasota cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $208K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $216K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $208K 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 4,044 cardholders ÷ 12.
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.
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 Navasota
Does Navasota have a public library?
Yes. Navasota Public Library, 1411 E Washington Ave, serves Navasota’s 29,460 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 42 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Navasota 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 Navasota’s library?
It logged 0.3 visits and lent 0.4 print items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Navasota’s civic life grade?
C− Navasota is ahead of 22% of U.S. towns on civic life, #300 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 Navasota.
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.