Morten Rasmussen House · Photo: Ntsimp · CC0Mount Pleasant’s library lends 11 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries its size
Mt. Pleasant Public Library serves Mount Pleasant’s 3,871 residents. Last year it lent 63K books, movies and e-books and logged 23K visits.
What Mount Pleasant’s library is like
More than half the print loans are for kids
Children’s books and media are 63% of print loans, and kids’ borrowing per resident is higher than at 97% of similar-size libraries. That works out to about 23 items per child in Mount Pleasant last year. Kids & programs ↓
Big on e-books and audiobooks
Digital borrowing runs 5.4 e-items per resident, against a typical 1, higher than at 97% of similar-size libraries. It’s 33% of all loans. What people borrow ↓
Mount Pleasant is a town of borrowers
Mt. Pleasant Public Library lends 11 print items per resident, against a typical 3.8 for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people, more than 93% of similar-size libraries. What people borrow ↓
The library is a National Register landmark
Mount Pleasant Carnegie Library has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984. Today’s library there has 4,001 square feet. The building ↓
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 Mount Pleasant’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Mount Pleasant is ahead of 56% of U.S. towns, #11 of 106 in Utah. Library visits hold 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 →
13 community nonprofits are registered in Mount Pleasant
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 (2 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.8%
6.8% of Mount Pleasant’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 Mount Pleasant’s residents live; 2022.
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 Mount Pleasant last year.
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.
Mt. Pleasant Public Library serves 3,871 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 32 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
More than half the print loans are kids’ books
63K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 33K books and other items on the shelves went out about 1.3 time last year, on average.
20,815 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
A National Register landmark since 1984
Mt. Pleasant Public Library, 24 East Main Street, Mt. Pleasant.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Mount Pleasant? The Handbook →Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Mount Pleasant Carnegie Library
Mount Pleasant Carnegie Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Oct 25, 1984. It is significant for its education at the state level. Its architecture is described as Prairie School. It was listed as part of Carnegie Library TR.
The Mount Pleasant Carnegie Library, at 24 E. Main St. in Mount Pleasant, Utah, was built as a Carnegie library in 1917. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was designed by architects Ware & Treganza in Prairie School style.
More about the building →For every $1 it spends, the library lends about $5.68 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Mount Pleasant cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $165K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $939K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $165K 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 2,822 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. Mt. Pleasant Public 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 Mount Pleasant
Does Mount Pleasant have a public library?
Yes. Mt. Pleasant Public Library, 24 East Main Street, serves Mount Pleasant’s 3,871 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 38 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Mt. Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant’s library?
It logged 6.0 visits and lent 16.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Mount Pleasant’s civic life grade?
B Mount Pleasant is ahead of 56% of U.S. towns on civic life, #11 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 Mount Pleasant.
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. Building history: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places; photo via Wikimedia Commons. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.