Holmgren Farmstead · Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Tremonton’s library logs 6.8 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries its size
Tremonton City Library serves Tremonton’s 12,411 residents. Last year it lent 126K books, movies and e-books and logged 85K visits.
What Tremonton’s library is like
Busy on a lean budget
Tremonton City Library spends $30 per resident, less than 70% of similar-size libraries (typical: $43). It’s still busier than 78% of them. What your card is worth ↓
47% of borrowing happens on a screen
E-books, e-audiobooks and streaming make up 47% of loans, more per resident than at 96% of similar-size libraries. Print still makes up 53%, much of it kids’ books. What people borrow ↓
People come to Tremonton City Library a lot
Tremonton City Library logs 6.8 visits per resident, against a typical 3.1 for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people, more than 90% of similar-size libraries. Borrowing is above typical too, at 5.4 print items per resident. How it compares ↓
Most programs are for young children
71% of the 143 programs last year were for ages 11 and under, including about 1.7 a week for ages 0–5. Kids & programs ↓
Kids’ books are most of what goes out
Children’s books and media make up 59% of print loans. Per resident, kids’ borrowing is higher than at 75% of similar-size libraries. What people borrow ↓
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 Tremonton’s civic life grade
On library visits, community nonprofits and volunteering, Tremonton is ahead of 38% of U.S. towns, #28 of 106 in Utah. Library visits hold the grade up; Tremonton’s count of community nonprofits pulls it down.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($56K–$93K) 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 →
23 community nonprofits are registered in Tremonton
2.0 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 (0 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town.
6.2%
6.2% of Tremonton’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 Tremonton’s residents live; 2022.
47% of borrowing is digital
126K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
Each of the 21K books and other items on the shelves went out about 3.2 times last year, on average.
59,184 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 5 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people across the U.S.
Tremonton City Library serves 12,411 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000.
Every hour the doors are open, about 47 items go out
Fiscal year 2024. The library’s own count.
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 Tremonton last year.
Find it
Tremonton City Library, 210 North Tremont Street, Tremonton.
E-books and audiobooks from home. Loans renew on their own if no one’s waiting. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy.
New in Tremonton? 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 $5.02 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Tremonton cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $375K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $1.9M worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $375K 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 8,227 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.
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 Tremonton
Does Tremonton have a public library?
Yes. Tremonton City Library, 210 North Tremont Street, serves Tremonton’s 12,411 residents (the survey’s count) and is open about 51 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Tremonton 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 Tremonton’s library?
It logged 6.8 visits and lent 10.2 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3.1 visits for libraries serving 10,000 to 25,000 people.
What is Tremonton’s civic life grade?
C+ Tremonton is ahead of 38% of U.S. towns on civic life, #28 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 Tremonton.
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.