48,243 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.1% since 2020)
472 square miles of land · 102 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.
20 active community water systems list Lincoln Parish in the area they serve, reporting 60,540 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF RUSTON WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1061017 | 22,468 served |
| GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY WS groundwater · state · LA1061005 | 6,000 served |
| TOWN OF GRAMBLING WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1061006 | 4,949 served |
| WESLEY CHAPEL WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1061020 | 4,080 served |
| GREATER WARD 1 WATERWORKS DISTRICT groundwater · local government · LA1061007 | 3,333 served |
| CULBERTSON WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · LA1061024 | 3,300 served |
| LINCOLN PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT #3 groundwater · local government · LA1061010 | 2,730 served |
| VILLAGE OF CHOUDRANT WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · LA1061002 | 1,950 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 329 people were held in Lincoln Parish's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 993 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 241.
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 Parish. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $98.4 million — $89.8 million to run schools, about $15,374 per student, plus $2.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $58.2 million local (mostly property tax), $35.6 million state, $18.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $42.3 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Lincoln Parish about $16.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
171 bridges in Lincoln Parish: 40 in good condition, 109 fair, and 22 poor (12.9%). “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.
| I0020 over CREEK · built 1963 | 50,895 vehicles a day |
| US0167 over I-20 · built 1960 | 22,345 vehicles a day |
| LA0544 over CYPRESS CREEK · built 1961 | 11,636 vehicles a day |
| LA0544 over I-20 · built 1963 | 11,636 vehicles a day |
| US0167 over I-20 · built 1960 | 6,795 vehicles a day |
| HARRIS RD over I-20 · built 1960 | 3,620 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $78.7 million of work in Lincoln Parish in fiscal 2025, about $1,626 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 Louisiana 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 Parish 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 Parish built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Jackson Parish (21 mi) · Union Parish (23 mi) · Claiborne Parish (25 mi) · Bienville Parish (28 mi) · Ouachita Parish (31 mi) · Union County, AR (39 mi).