Lincoln, Alabama.
Typical home $229,569 (-0.1% in a year), asking rent $1,527 . Talladega-Sylacauga, AL metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$599 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $312 -0%
- $229,881$229,569 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,240 +9%
- $210,329$229,569 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Lincoln$1,205
- Alabama$1,252
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Lincoln, AL fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lincoln, Talladega County, Alabama
Lincoln is a city of 6,845 people in Talladega County. Half its households earn more than $57,145 a year and half less, against $57,776 across Talladega County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Talladega County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Lincoln is a small city in Talladega County where nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a fair number of households live under the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the winters are mild, with cool days in January and hot summers that peak in July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in the building trades. Schneider, Lincoln Hauling and TEN, which rents and leases semi-trailers, are among the largest workplaces in Lincoln. Jobs across Talladega County slipped slightly last year, and unemployment there is higher than it was a year earlier. Commutes are fairly long, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Motorsports fans have the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, a museum, and Talladega Superspeedway, a race track, both a short drive away. For time outdoors, Talladega National Forest is a protected area a longer drive away, as is Cheaha State Park. Logan Martin Lake, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away and suits a day on the water.
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- 2,975households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Talladega County had 31,617 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Talladega Nne weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln
- Schneider94
- Lincoln Hauling58
- TENSemi-trailer rental or leasing22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 174 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lincoln’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Talladega County and the Talladega-Sylacauga, AL metro.
Lincoln home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lincoln$229,569
- Alabama$238,614
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lincoln listings — the market is heating up.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Lincoln21.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lincoln60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lincoln17
Zip codes with a Lincoln address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lincoln — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.