Quemado’s library logs 0.1 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries its size
Quemado Public Library serves 29,480 people in and around Quemado. Last year it lent 428 books, movies and e-books and logged 1,954 visits.
Quemado’s library, in brief
Quemado Public Library is used less than most libraries its size
Quemado Public Library records 0.1 visits per resident, against a typical 2.6 for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people. Borrowing is 0 print items per resident, against a typical 3.7. It also spends less than most: $2 per resident, against a typical $40. How it compares ↓
Few programs for a library this size
Quemado Public Library offered 29 programs last year, 1 per 1,000 residents against a typical 14. Kids & programs ↓
Runs on less money than most
Quemado Public Library spends $2 per resident, less than 99% 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; Quemado Public Library serves 29,480 people in and around Quemado, and its numbers cover all of them.
What’s behind Quemado’s civic life grade
Quemado isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more.
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 →
Below most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people across the U.S.
Quemado Public Library serves 29,480 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000.
A year at Quemado Public Library
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Quemado Public Library system. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
428 loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
29 programs a year
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
Quemado Public Library, 19791 Us 277, Quemado.
Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Good at every Quemado Public Library branch.
New in Quemado? 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 Quemado cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $40. Operating budget $51K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $9,291 worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $51K 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 951 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Quemado Public Library serves 29,480 people in and around Quemado, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Quemado.
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 Quemado
Does Quemado have a public library?
Yes. Quemado Public Library, 19791 Us 277, serves 29,480 people in and around Quemado (the survey’s count) and is open about 40 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Quemado Public Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Quemado’s library?
It logged 0.1 visits and lent 0.0 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 2.6 visits for libraries serving 25,000 to 100,000 people.
What is Quemado’s civic life grade?
Quemado isn’t graded on civic life: TownRatings grades towns of 1,000 residents or more. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Quemado.
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.