The population of Lincoln county is estimated at 81,075. In 2017 there were 796 births and 817 deaths in Lincoln county. Lincoln county has 16,128 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 6,944 that are owned free and clear and 7,271 that are renter occupied.

  The gracious residents of Lincoln County filed 36,320 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 0.8% of all North Carolina filings and 0.024% of the entire nation. Lincoln had a combined total federal tax liability of $342,752,000 on earned income of $2,301,938,000. Other notable statistics from Lincoln County were 700 unemployment claims which collected a total of $1,870,000 and 9,900 charitable contributions valued at $49,308,000. 10,660 filings from Lincoln County paid a combined total of $27,810,000 in property taxes and 9,450 filings paid $75,356,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Lincoln county had 160 religious congregations with an estimated 42,506 members.
20.2% of the Lincoln population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 15.6% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 49% of Lincoln County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is an increase from the 2012 election by 2,917 votes.
At $57,042 the median income is 108.0% of the North Carolina average. An estimated 1,703 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Lincoln, the equivalant of around 4.0% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.7%.

Top 15 Industries in Lincoln County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
3,974	Manufacturing
2,945	Retail trade
2,343	Health care and social assistance
1,649	Accommodation and food services
1,604	Food services and drinking places
1,543	Restaurants and other eating places
927	Limited-service restaurants
848	Wholesale trade
820	General merchandise stores
820	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
814	Fabricated metal product manufacturing
789	Furniture and related product manufacturing
779	Administrative and support services
672	Textile mills
642	Ambulatory health care services

In 2018 the average price reduction was 1.34% in Lincoln County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 28037).

In 2018 18.82% of listings in Lincoln County (averaging across 2 zip codes; 28037) dropped their price.

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