2025 Statistical & Financial Summaries
View details about 2025’s budget, collections, circulation and programs.
2025 Statistical & Financial Summaries
Facilities: Central Library, 26 neighborhood branches and Mobile Services
Staffing: 656 (part- and full-time), 550 full-time equivalent
Circulation
| Physical items | |
| 4.3 million | |
| Media (CDs, DVDs, audiobooks) | 1.1 million |
| Equipment (headphones, laptops, tablets, hot spots) | 53,000 |
| Total | 5.5 million |
| Digital items | |
| E-books and e-audiobooks | 6.1 million |
| Streaming and downloadable media | 1.1 million |
| Total | 7.2 million |
| Total circulation | 12.7 million |
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Collection Size
| Central Library collection | 1 million |
| Branch collections | 780,000 |
| E-collection | 1.15 million |
| Total collection size | 2.95 million |
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Active Patrons
| Patrons active in the last 12 months | 330,000 |
| Patrons active in the last three years | 430,000 |
| Patron visits to Library locations | 3.4 million |
Service Levels and Programs
| Holds placed on physical or digital items | 5.5 million |
| Public computer sessions | 400,000 |
| Pages printed | 2.1 million |
| Program attendance | 130,000 |
| Classes, events or activities | 5,800 |
Operating Budget *
| Personnel | $80.6 million |
| Books and materials | $11.3 million |
| Maintenance, security and utilities | $5.1 million |
| Equipment | $1.3 million |
| Supplies | $497,000 |
| Other | $7.3 million |
| Total | $106.1 million |
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*Our operating budget figures include gifts from The Seattle Public Library Foundation, which accounted for 4.6% of the budget in 2025. Note that the amount and conditions of Foundation grants are at the sole discretion of The Seattle Public Library Foundation’s independent Board of Directors.