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Texas Public Library Summary for 2007

Statistics by Regional System Summary

Statistics of Texas Library Systems by Regional System Summary - Part 1
System Number of public libraries Square Miles Number of Counties Number of Counties with System Member Public Library Counties with Only Non-System Member Public Libraries Unserved Counties
AALS 47 25,498 21 21 0
8.29% 9.74% 8.27% 8.64% 0.00%
BCLS 43 34,301 32 32 0
7.58% 13.10% 12.60% 13.17% 0.00%
CTLS 80 25,607 30 30 0
14.11% 9.78% 11.81% 12.35% 0.00%
HALS 71 24,375 28 28 0
12.52% 9.31% 11.02% 11.52% 0.00%
NETLS 114 23,721 33 32 1 0
20.11% 9.06% 12.99% 13.17% 25.00% 0.00%
NTRLS 75 16,489 20 19 1 0
13.23% 6.30% 7.87% 7.82% 25.00% 0.00%
STLS 55 28,219 26 24 2
9.70% 10.77% 10.24% 9.88% 28.57%
TPLS 30 25,825 26 23 1 2
5.29% 9.86% 10.24% 9.47% 25.00% 28.57%
TTPLS 16 31,469 9 8 1 0
2.82% 12.02% 3.54% 3.29% 25.00% 0.00%
WTLS 36 26,406 29 26 3
6.35% 10.08% 11.42% 10.70% 42.86%
State 567 261,910 254 243 4 7

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Statistics of Texas Library Systems by Regional System Summary - Part 2
System Current Total Population Estimate Population Served by Public Libraries Population NOT Served by Public Libraries % of population
System Members Non-System Members Total Served by public libraries Not served by public libraries
AALS 2,208,825 2,176,593 2,176,593 32,232 98.54% 1.46%
9.40% 10.02% 9.94% 2.01%
BCLS 465,705 433,122 10,985 444,107 21,598 95.36% 4.64%
1.98% 1.99% 6.38% 2.03% 1.35%
CTLS 2,637,632 2,211,824 6,901 2,218,725 418,907 84.12% 15.88%
11.22% 10.18% 4.01% 10.13% 26.13%
HALS 6,426,814 6,137,279 24,719 6,161,998 264,816 95.88% 4.12%
27.34% 28.24% 14.36% 28.13% 16.52%
NETLS 4,747,541 4,362,080 90,175 4,452,255 295,286 93.78% 6.22%
20.20% 20.07% 52.38% 20.33% 18.42%
NTRLS 2,905,743 2,548,121 12,237 2,560,358 345,385 88.11% 11.89%
12.36% 11.73% 7.11% 11.69% 21.54%
STLS 2,168,999 2,061,823 2,061,823 107,176 95.06% 4.94%
9.23% 9.49% 9.41% 6.68%
TPLS 413,411 382,204 9,439 391,643 21,768 94.73% 5.27%
1.76% 1.76% 5.48% 1.79% 1.36%
TTPLS 789,819 686,872 12,612 699,484 90,335 88.56% 11.44%
3.36% 3.16% 7.33% 3.19% 5.63%
WTLS 743,294 732,411 5,079 737,490 5,804 99.22% 0.78%
3.16% 3.37% 2.95% 3.37% 0.36%
State 23,507,783 21,732,329 172,147 21,904,476 1,603,307 92.45% 0.73%

Texas Public Library Summary for 2007

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