Lincoln County area

Population and density of Lincoln County

The Census Bureau estimates that 8,112 people lived in Lincoln County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,639 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #139 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 7,689, the population has grown by 423 (+5.5%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 210.4 square miles of land, that is 39 people per square mile (15 per km²), placing Lincoln County #1,784 nationally for density and #111 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 17 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Lincoln County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Lincoln County. Together they are home to 1,433 people (17.7%); the other 6,679 (82.3%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Lincolnton city, with 1,433 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Lincoln County is an outlying county of the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 7 county equivalents have 641,231 residents on 3,480.7 square miles of land; Lincoln County accounts for 6% of the land and 1.3% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #85 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #93 by population.

ZIP codes

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Lincoln County; 1 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

3066830817

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Lincoln County

Lincoln County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 1 in South Carolina. Each of them has more land than Lincoln County. The largest neighbor is Wilkes County (469.5 mi²) and the smallest is McDuffie County (257.4 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Lincoln County forms a block of 1,937.4 mi² of land, of which it holds 10.9%.

How big is Lincoln County compared with U.S. states?

Lincoln County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 4.9 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 274 areas the size of Lincoln County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 14.5 miles (23.3 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Lincoln County?

Lincoln County has more land than 240 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Lincoln County at #2,931 nationally by total area, 51 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 18.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 17.1 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Lincoln County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.