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Texas Public Library Summary for 2008

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 0
8.29% 9.74% 8.27% 8.57% 0.00% 0.00%
BCLS 42 34,301 32 32 0 0
7.41% 13.10% 12.60% 13.06% 0.00% 0.00%
CTLS 80 25,607 30 30 0 0
14.11% 9.78% 11.81% 12.24% 0.00% 0.00%
HALS 71 24,375 28 28 0 0
12.52% 9.31% 11.02% 11.43% 0.00% 0.00%
NETLS 114 23,721 33 31 2 0
20.11% 9.06% 12.99% 12.65% 100.00% 0.00%
NTRLS 76 16,489 20 20 0 0
13.40% 6.30% 7.87% 8.16% 0.00% 0.00%
STLS 55 28,219 26 24 0 1
9.70% 10.77% 10.24% 9.80% 0.00% 28.57%
TPLS 30 25,825 26 24 0 1
5.29% 9.86% 10.24% 9.80% 0.00% 28.57%
TTPLS 15 31,469 9 9 0 0
2.65% 12.02% 3.54% 3.67% 0.00% 0.00%
WTLS 37 26,406 29 26 0 3
6.53% 10.08% 11.42% 10.61% 0.00% 42.86%
State 567 261,910 254 245 2 5

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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 2,255,250 2,208,252 0 2,208,252 46,999 97.92% 2.08%
9.43% 10.00% 0 9.92% 2.87%    
BCLS 466,644 432,652 8,405 441,057 25,587 94.52% 5.48%
1.95% 1.96% 4.36% 1.98% 1.56%    
CTLS 2,752,837 2,328,569 3,324 2,331,893 420,944 84.71% 15.29%
11.52% 10.55% 1.72% 10.47% 25.69%    
HALS 6,509,419 6,211,917 33,772 6,245,689 263,730 95.95% 4.05%
27.23% 28.14% 17.51% 28.05% 16.10%    
NETLS 4,810,609 4,427,946 91,333 4,519,277 291,332 93.94% 6.06%
20.12% 20.06% 47.36% 20.30% 17.78%    
NTRLS 2,985,093 2,612,740 31,120 2,643,860 341,233 88.57% 11.43%
12.49% 11.84% 16.14% 11.87% 20.83%    
STLS 2,175,709 2,045,542 0 2,045,541 130,168 94.02% 5.98%
9.10% 9.27% 0 9.19% 7.95%    
TPLS 411,521 385,519 4,578 390,097 21,424 94.79% 5.21%
1.72% 1.75% 2.37% 1.75% 1.31%    
TTPLS 787,611 686,275 10,060 696,335 91,276 88.41% 11.59%
3.29% 3.11% 5.22% 3.13% 5.57%    
WTLS 749,687 733,832 10,275 744,107 5,580 99.26% 0.74%
3.14% 3.32% 5.33% 3.34% 0.34%    
State 23,904,380 22,073,244 192,867 22,266,108 1,638,272 92.34% 0.81%

Texas Public Library Summary for 2008

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