65,888 people (2024 Census estimate, +10.1% since 2020)
627 square miles of land · 105 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.
32 active community water systems list Lincoln County in the area they serve, reporting 44,707 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TROY PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010798 | 15,000 served |
| LINCOLN COUNTY PWSD 1 groundwater · local government · MO6024340 | 14,000 served |
| MOSCOW MILLS PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010547 | 4,500 served |
| ELSBERRY PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010250 | 2,076 served |
| WINFIELD PWS buys groundwater · local government · MO6010866 | 1,489 served |
| MO AMERICAN WARREN COUNTY WATER & SEWER groundwater · private · MO6036149 | 1,200 served |
| LINCOLN COUNTY PWSD 2 buys groundwater · local government · MO6024341 | 1,005 served |
| HAWK POINT PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010353 | 945 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 163 people were held in Lincoln County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 392 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 217.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Lincoln County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $112.8 million — $83.9 million to run schools, about $12,029 per student, plus $24.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $49 million local (mostly property tax), $44.2 million state, $10.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $55.2 million.
Spent $21.4 million — $17.5 million to run schools, about $11,013 per student, plus $3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.2 million local (mostly property tax), $11.1 million state, $4 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.9 million.
Spent $11.4 million — $10.1 million to run schools, about $12,367 per student, plus $725,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4 million local (mostly property tax), $6 million state, $1.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.1 million.
Spent $5.8 million — $4.9 million to run schools, about $10,680 per student, plus $623,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.5 million local (mostly property tax), $2.7 million state, $639,000 federal. Long-term debt: $5.7 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 County about $31.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
189 bridges in Lincoln County: 73 in good condition, 108 fair, and 8 poor (4.2%). “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.
| EAST CHERRY ST E over US 61 · built 1970 | 5,667 vehicles a day |
| RT C E over CUIVRE RVR · built 1966 | 3,504 vehicles a day |
| RT E E over N FK OF CUIVRE RVR · built 1966 | 3,218 vehicles a day |
| MO 147 S over LIT SUGAR CR · built 1941 | 1,738 vehicles a day |
| RT J S over BIG CR · built 1955 | 1,718 vehicles a day |
| DEER RUN RD 646 over HURRICANE CR · built 1961 | 200 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $11.3 million of work in Lincoln County in fiscal 2025, about $190 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 Missouri 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: Calhoun County, IL (17 mi) · Pike County (22 mi) · Warren County (23 mi) · St. Charles County (25 mi) · Montgomery County (28 mi) · Jersey County, IL (32 mi).