Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0Pleasanton’s library lends 0.8 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries its size
Pleasanton Public Library serves Pleasanton’s 25,919 residents. Last year it lent 26K books, movies and e-books and logged 44K visits.
Pleasanton’s library, in brief
Few programs for a library this size
Pleasanton Public Library offered 124 programs last year, 4.8 per 1,000 residents against a typical 14. Kids & programs ↓
People visit, but borrow less than most
Pleasanton Public Library lends 0.8 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7 for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people, fewer than 92% of similar-size libraries, though visits are closer to typical. What people borrow ↓
Runs on less money than most
Pleasanton Public Library spends $13 per resident, less than 91% of similar-size libraries (typical: $40). What your card is worth ↓
A big collection for the borrowing it gets
Pleasanton Public Library holds 45,000 books and other items, but the average item went out less than once last year. What people borrow ↓
Most programs are for young children
65% of the 124 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 1.3 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
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 Pleasanton’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Pleasanton is ahead of 57% of U.S. towns, #109 of 539 in Texas. Pleasanton is graded on two of the three inputs. Pleasanton’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 →
47 community nonprofits are registered in Pleasanton
4.3 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 (17 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
7.5%
7.5% of Pleasanton’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 Pleasanton’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.
Pleasanton Public Library serves 25,919 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 12 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
26K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 45K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.5 time last year, on average.
6,002 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 Pleasanton last year.
Find it
Pleasanton Public Library, 115 N Main St., Pleasanton.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Pleasanton? 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 $1.23 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Pleasanton cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $344K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $422K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $344K 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 11,554 cardholders ÷ 12.
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 Pleasanton
Does Pleasanton have a public library?
Yes. Pleasanton Public Library, 115 N Main St., serves Pleasanton’s 25,919 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 41 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Pleasanton 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 Pleasanton’s library?
It logged 1.7 visits and lent 1.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Pleasanton’s civic life grade?
B Pleasanton is ahead of 57% of U.S. towns on civic life, #109 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 Pleasanton.
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.