Manti Motor Company Building · Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Manti’s library logs 5.2 visits per resident, against a typical 3 for libraries its size
Manti City Library serves Manti’s 3,645 residents. Last year it lent 46K books, movies and e-books and logged 19K visits.
What Manti’s library is like
Most of Manti’s borrowing is digital
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 57% of loans, more per resident than at 98% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 43%, much of it kids’ books. What people borrow ↓
More library cards than residents
3,734 cards for 3,645 people. Cards held by people from outside the service area count too, so the total can pass the population. At the typical library serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, it’s 42%. How it compares ↓
Most programs are for young children
72% of the 184 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 1.4 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 Manti’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Manti is ahead of 40% of U.S. towns, #22 of 106 in Utah. Library visits hold the grade up; the share of younger adults in volunteering groups pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($47K–$78K) 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 →
12 community nonprofits are registered in Manti
3.4 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: arts & culture.
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 (1 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
5.3%
5.3% of Manti’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 6.2% in the typical Utah 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 Manti’s residents live; 2022.
57% of borrowing is digital
46K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 28K books and other items on the shelves went out about 0.7 time last year, on average.
26,298 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on all 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Manti City Library serves 3,645 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 18 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
About 3 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 Manti last year.
Find it
Manti City Library, 02 South Main Street, Manti.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Manti? 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 $4.40 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Manti cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $161K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $707K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $161K 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 3,734 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- Visits are a typical-week estimate. Manti City Library counted one typical week and multiplied by 52, as the survey allows.
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 Manti
Does Manti have a public library?
Yes. Manti City Library, 02 South Main Street, serves Manti’s 3,645 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 50 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Manti City 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 Manti’s library?
It logged 5.2 visits and lent 12.6 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Manti’s civic life grade?
C+ Manti is ahead of 40% of U.S. towns on civic life, #22 of 106 in Utah. 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 Manti.
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.