22,184 people (2024 Census estimate, +12.4% since 2020)
3,613 square miles of land · 6 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.
19 active community water systems list Lincoln County in the area they serve, reporting 11,154 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LIBBY CITY OF surface water · local government · MT0000274 | 4,892 served |
| TROY CITY OF groundwater · local government · MT0000348 | 2,100 served |
| EUREKA TOWN OF surface water · local government · MT0000210 | 1,995 served |
| INDIAN SPRINGS RANCH SUB groundwater · private · MT0004611 | 455 served |
| WILDERNESS CLUB THE groundwater · private · MT0004748 | 440 served |
| WILDERNESS PLATEAU WATER AND SEWER DIST groundwater · local government · MT0002985 | 208 served |
| PINEWOOD VILLAGE groundwater · private · MT0000275 | 160 served |
| REXFORD TOWN OF groundwater · local government · MT0000315 | 160 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 31 people were held in Lincoln County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 283 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 23.
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.
9 school districts have their office in Lincoln County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $16.1 million — $14.4 million to run schools, about $12,407 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.2 million local (mostly property tax), $7.4 million state, $3.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $761,000.
Spent $8.5 million — $6.6 million to run schools, about $13,268 per student, plus $1.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.4 million local (mostly property tax), $2.7 million state, $2.3 million federal.
Spent $3.4 million — $3 million to run schools, about $9,905 per student, plus $174,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $2.1 million state, $44,000 federal. Long-term debt: $443,000.
Spent $5.6 million — $4.9 million to run schools, about $17,314 per student, plus $352,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.5 million local (mostly property tax), $1.7 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $69,000.
Spent $2.9 million — $2.7 million to run schools, about $20,961 per student, plus $73,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.5 million local (mostly property tax), $1.1 million state, $110,000 federal.
Spent $1 million — $1 million to run schools, about $14,370 per student. Money in: $303,000 local (mostly property tax), $521,000 state, $227,000 federal.
Spent $438,000 — $438,000 to run schools, about $29,200 per student. Money in: $202,000 local (mostly property tax), $184,000 state, $109,000 federal.
Spent $331,000 — $323,000 to run schools, about $24,846 per student. Money in: $96,000 local (mostly property tax), $134,000 state, $93,000 federal.
And 1 more.
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 $15.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
191 bridges in Lincoln County: 70 in good condition, 92 fair, and 29 poor (15.2%). “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.
| US 2 over BIG CHERRY CREEK · built 1976 | 5,295 vehicles a day |
| US 2 over KOOTENAI RIVER-RR · built 1942 | 2,104 vehicles a day |
| S 37 FH 57 over TOBACCO RIVER · built 1971 | 1,699 vehicles a day |
| KOOTENAI RIVER RD over PIPE CREEK · built 1987 | 702 vehicles a day |
| S 37 FH 57 over CADETTE CREEK · built 1971 | 612 vehicles a day |
| S 37 FH 57 over PINKHAM CREEK · built 1971 | 612 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $13 million of work in Lincoln County in fiscal 2025, about $660 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 Montana 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: Boundary County, ID (51 mi) · Bonner County, ID (55 mi) · Sanders County (56 mi) · Flathead County (67 mi) · Pend Oreille County, WA (81 mi) · Kootenai County, ID (83 mi).