24,910 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.7% since 2020)
333 square miles of land · 75 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
4 active community water systems list Lincoln County in the area they serve, reporting 21,615 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| STANFORD WATER WORKS surface water · local government · KY0690417 | 9,284 served |
| MCKINNEY WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY0690278 | 5,423 served |
| HUSTONVILLE WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · KY0690203 | 5,420 served |
| CRAB ORCHARD WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY0690089 | 1,488 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 74 people were held in Lincoln County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 495 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 86.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Lincoln County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $55.3 million — $49.1 million to run schools, about $14,375 per student, plus $4.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.4 million local (mostly property tax), $27.8 million state, $20.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $16.2 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Lincoln County about $8.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
136 bridges in Lincoln County: 21 in good condition, 109 fair, and 6 poor (4.4%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| Liberty Road over HANGING FORK @HUSTONVILL · built 1927 | 416 vehicles a day |
| KY-3246 over FALL LICK CREEK · built 1986 | 279 vehicles a day |
| KY-1770 over WALNUT FLAT CREEK · built 1970 | 263 vehicles a day |
| Black Pike Road over BAUGHMAN CREEK · built 1940 | 217 vehicles a day |
| MOORES LN over HARRIS CREEK · built 1965 | 129 vehicles a day |
| CUT OFF PIKE over LOGAN CREEK · built 1981 | 126 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.1 million of work in Lincoln County in fiscal 2025, about $211 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Kentucky are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Lincoln County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Lincoln County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Garrard County (13 mi) · Boyle County (16 mi) · Casey County (17 mi) · Rockcastle County (20 mi) · Pulaski County (25 mi) · Mercer County (27 mi).