Photo: Paul Hermans · CC BY-SA 3.0Ten Sleep’s library is a branch of Washakie County Library, which lends more per resident than 69% of systems its size
Ten Sleep’s library is the Ten Sleep Branch/School Library, a branch of Washakie County Library, which serves 7,710 people and lent 60K items last year.
What stands out about Ten Sleep Branch/School Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Ten Sleep’s civic life grade
Ten Sleep 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 →
Every hour the doors are open, about 14 items go out
Fiscal year 2024, for the whole Washakie County Library system. The library’s own count.
Ahead of most similar-size libraries on 6 of 8 measures
Per resident, against libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people across the U.S.
Washakie County Library serves 7,710 people, so it’s measured against U.S. libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000.
Almost half the print loans are kids’ books
60K loans last year: print, kids’ and digital.
17,586 e-books, e-audiobooks and streams last year. Borrow from home with your card, plus research databases: courses, journals, genealogy and more.
About 3 kids’ programs a week
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
Ten Sleep Branch/School Library, 200 N. Fir St., Ten Sleep.
No late fees. E-books and audiobooks from home. Research databases: courses, journals, genealogy. Good at every Washakie County Library branch.
New in Ten Sleep? 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 $2.60 worth
Set what you’d borrow in a month. It starts at what the average Ten Sleep cardholder borrows.
Typical for a library this size: $43. Operating budget $349K.
Last year the library lent and hosted about $906K worth of books, e-books, programs and Wi-Fi on a $349K budget.
Fine-free. No late fees on books returned late.
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 4,519 cardholders ÷ 12.
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Ten Sleep Branch/School Library is one branch of Washakie County Library, so the yearly numbers cover every branch and all 7,710 people it serves.
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 Ten Sleep
Does Ten Sleep have a public library?
Yes: Ten Sleep Branch/School Library, 200 N. Fir St., is a branch of Washakie County Library, which serves 7,710 people. The branch is open about 38 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Washakie County Library fine-free? Does it lend e-books?
Yes to both: no late fees, and e-books, audiobooks and research databases with a card (the library’s 2024 survey report).
How busy is Ten Sleep’s library?
It logged 6.0 visits and lent 7.7 items per resident in 2024, against a typical 3 visits for libraries serving 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is Ten Sleep’s civic life grade?
Ten Sleep 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 Ten Sleep.
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.