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Broadview has fewer than 2,500 residents, the floor for NM lists.

All 36 towns

Loans per resident, highest first. Towns next door to Broadview are tagged.

#TownLoans per residentLibraryLoans a year
1 Bosque Farms4,071 people 61.8 per resident Bosque Farms Public Library248,509
2 Tucumcari5,160 people 50.2 per resident Tucumcari Public Library264,951
3 Deming15,221 people 16.9 per resident Marshall Memorial Library249,922
4 Los Lunas18,618 people 16.2 per resident Los Lunas Public Library279,859
5 Tularosa2,597 people 13.9 per resident Tularosa Public Library35,400
6 Taos6,458 people 12.3 per resident Taos Public Library79,782
7 Ruidoso7,699 people 11.0 per resident Ruidoso Public Library84,740
8 Santa Fe89,019 people 9.5 per resident Santa Fe Public Library835,407
9 Aztec6,150 people 8.4 per resident Aztec Public Library52,246
10 Silver City9,536 people 7.1 per resident Silver City Public Library68,621
11 Belen7,450 people 7.0 per resident Belen Public Library51,497
12 Raton6,026 people 6.8 per resident Arthur Johnson Memorial Library41,257
13 Farmington46,314 people 6.6 per resident Farmington Public Library306,145
14 Corrales8,555 people 5.3 per resident Corrales Community Library45,398
15 Rio Rancho108,515 people 5.1 per resident Rio Rancho Public Library526,389
16 Edgewood6,124 people 5.0 per resident Edgewood Community Library30,679
17 Las Cruces114,197 people 3.9 per resident Thomas Branigan Memorial Library432,172
18 Artesia12,576 people 3.4 per resident Artesia Public Library44,085
19 Gallup21,023 people 3.2 per resident Octavia Fellin Public Library70,209
20 Socorro8,481 people 3.0 per resident Socorro Public Library25,776
21 Clovis37,942 people 2.8 per resident Clovis Carver Public Library109,559
22 Portales11,968 people 2.7 per resident Portales Public Library33,121
23 Truth or Consequences6,019 people 2.7 per resident Truth Or Consequences Public Library16,129
24 Clayton2,753 people 2.7 per resident Albert W. Thompson Memorial Library7,099
25 Carlsbad31,746 people 2.3 per resident Carlsbad Public Library73,105
26 Española10,473 people 2.3 per resident Espanola Public Library23,861
27 Hobbs40,252 people 1.9 per resident Hobbs Public Library78,232
28 Eunice3,015 people 1.7 per resident Eunice Public Library5,205
29 Roswell47,638 people 1.6 per resident Roswell Public Library79,724
30 Grants8,951 people 1.5 per resident Grants Public Library13,599
31 Bloomfield7,395 people 1.5 per resident Bloomfield Public Library10,910
32 Bernalillo9,086 people 1.4 per resident Town of Bernalillo Public Library12,252
33 Lovington11,498 people 1.3 per resident Lovington Public Library15,364
34 Las Vegas13,000 people 0.6 per resident Carnegie Public Library7,415
35 Sunland Park17,463 people 0.3 per resident Sunland Park Community Library5,539
36 Anthony8,767 people 0.3 per resident Anthony Public Library2,375
How it works

How this ranking works

The NM list, with the map →

We rank every town by books, movies, e-books and other items the town’s public library lent in a year, per resident. The highest figure ranks #1. Each library reports its own yearly numbers to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (fiscal year 2024), and each town’s Library page shows how it compares with libraries of a similar size nationwide.

A town is ranked only when its library system serves that town alone, and the library’s own count of the people it serves is within 20% of the town’s population. Towns served by a county or regional system, or sharing a library with a neighbor, can’t be credited with the numbers, so they aren’t ranked. Libraries that didn’t respond to the survey aren’t ranked either. Vacation towns can rank high because summer residents and visitors use the library too.

Only towns with at least 2,500 residents are ranked; Census estimates for smaller places are too uncertain. Population and income: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Libraries: IMLS Public Libraries Survey. Town photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each town’s page.

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