Lincoln, Texas.
Typical home $502,919 (+3.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$915 (+53%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $15,331 +3%
- $487,588$502,919 since Sep 2025
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$2,640
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Lincoln, TX rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lincoln, Lee County, Texas
The Census does not count Lincoln on its own, so the figures here are Lee County's. Half the county's households earn more than $76,371 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Lee County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lee County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 town in Lee County, Texas, and its figures are the county's, since the Census does not count the town on its own. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home is valued well above what many households in Texas would expect. Residents are, on the whole, a little older than the typical American, and the county's winters are mild, with summers that are the hottest part of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehousing and utilities. The number of jobs in the county grew over the past year, while unemployment has edged up slightly from a year earlier. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country, and household incomes sit around the county's typical level.
Things to do. Lake Bastrop, a lake, is a longer drive away and suits anyone who likes time on the water. Bastrop State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away and offers woods and quiet trails. Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites, a museum, is another longer drive away for those interested in local history.
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- 6,984households
- 42.6median age
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Lee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 8,011 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 38 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lexington weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lee County
- MasTec, Inc./PumpcoPipeline, gas and oil, construction1,923
- Altman Specialty PlantsFlorist's supplies merchant wholesalers963
- Giddings ISDSchool district252FTE
- Lexington ISDSchool district163FTE
- KaemarkInstitutional furniture manufacturing128
- Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Giddings CampusDistribution of electric power118
- WalmartDiscount department stores106
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores93
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,830 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lee County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Lee County.
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$502,919
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lincoln5
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.