Palmview’s library logs 0.1 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries its size
Palmview Municipal Library serves Palmview’s 15,874 residents. Last year it lent 775 books, movies and e-books and logged 2,258 visits.
What Palmview’s library is like
Palmview Municipal Library is used less than most libraries its size
Palmview Municipal Library records 0.1 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people. Borrowing is 0 print items per resident, against a typical 3.9. It also spends less than most: $5 per resident, against a typical $43. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Palmview Municipal Library offered 104 programs last year, 6.6 per 1,000 residents against a typical 24. Kids & programs ↓
Runs on less money than most
Palmview Municipal Library spends $5 per resident, less than 99% of similar-size libraries (typical: $43). 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.
What’s behind Palmview’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Palmview has fewer per resident than most U.S. towns. Palmview’s count of community nonprofits comes closest to the U.S. middle.
Palmview Municipal Library spends $5 per resident, against a typical $43 for libraries its size.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($33K–$55K) 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 →
3 community nonprofits are registered in Palmview
0.2 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 (2 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
1.9%
1.9% of Palmview’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 Palmview’s residents live; 2022.
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Palmview Municipal Library serves 15,874 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
A year at Palmview Municipal Library
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
775 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 6,277 books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.1 time last year, on average.
213 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card.
104 programs a year
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 Palmview last year.
Find it
Palmview Municipal Library, 603 Palmview Commercial Dr, Palmview.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting.
New in Palmview? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
What a library card is worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Palmview cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $82K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $30K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $82K 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 495 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mission | Speer Memorial Library | 0.7 | 74 | D− |
| Palmview | Palmview Municipal Library | 0.0 | 48 | D− |
| La Homa | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Abram | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Doffing | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Palmview South | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
| Perezville | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
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.
- The library’s own count. Libraries report their own visits, loans and programs. A library that didn’t respond keeps its address and hours here, with no numbers.
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 Palmview
Does Palmview have a public library?
Yes. Palmview Municipal Library, 603 Palmview Commercial Dr, serves Palmview’s 15,874 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 48 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Palmview Municipal 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 Palmview’s library?
It logged 0.1 visits and lent 0.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Palmview’s civic life grade?
D− Palmview has fewer library visits and community nonprofits per resident, and fewer younger adults in volunteering groups, than most U.S. towns. 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 Palmview.
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.