51,212 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.4% since 2020)
981 square miles of land · 52 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.
33 active community water systems list Lincoln County in the area they serve, reporting 58,836 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LINCOLN CITY, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100483 | 20,830 served |
| NEWPORT, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100566 | 10,439 served |
| SEAL ROCK WATER DISTRICT surface water · local government · OR4100798 | 6,000 served |
| KERNVILLE-GLENEDEN-LINC BCH WD surface water · local government · OR4100324 | 5,609 served |
| TOLEDO WATER UTILITIES surface water · local government · OR4100899 | 3,645 served |
| SW LINCOLN CO WATER PUD surface water · local government · OR4100925 | 3,000 served |
| WALDPORT, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100926 | 2,300 served |
| DEPOE BAY, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100254 | 1,398 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 122 people were held in Lincoln County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 437 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 161.
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 $98.1 million — $87.1 million to run schools, about $16,998 per student, plus $8.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $54.7 million local (mostly property tax), $34.2 million state, $15.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $51.5 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Lincoln County about $59.3 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.
190 bridges in Lincoln County: 68 in good condition, 106 fair, and 16 poor (8.4%). “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.
| US101 (HWY 9) over Yaquina Bay · built 1934 | 20,207 vehicles a day |
| US 20 (HWY 33) over Beaver Creek · built 1953 | 13,994 vehicles a day |
| OR 18 (Hwy 39) over Salmon River · built 1930 | 7,215 vehicles a day |
| US 20 (Hwy 33) over Tumtum River · built 1989 | 6,930 vehicles a day |
| OLD US 20- HWY 033 over W OLALLA SLOUGH · built 1936 | 6,800 vehicles a day |
| OR 229 (HWY 181) over Depot Creek · built 1963 | 3,605 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $37.9 million of work in Lincoln County in fiscal 2025, about $753 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 Oregon 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: Benton County (26 mi) · Polk County (31 mi) · Yamhill County (51 mi) · Tillamook County (57 mi) · Marion County (68 mi) · Linn County (68 mi).