Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Lincolnton are lower than in 94% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 4% of workers; Georgia has 16%. Below the poverty line: 12.4% of residents; Georgia has 13.4%. Lincolnton grades D for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Lincolnton at work: what stands out
Lincolnton’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Lincolnton is Augusta, 38 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (64) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Lincolnton workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Georgia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 634 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Lincolnton’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lincolnton is better than 13% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lincolnton’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($43,935, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Lincolnton’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lincolnton could be anywhere from D to C−.
Where in the region Lincolnton works
About 36% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Each way, about 31 minutes from Lincolnton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lincolnton workers work from home, vs 16% across Georgia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 703 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Georgia: 84% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Lincolnton by day and by night
On a workday 536 residents head out to work, 98 work right here, and 621 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.13 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Augusta
Where Lincolnton clocks in
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
What the 719 jobs in Lincolnton are
719 jobs are based in Lincolnton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lincolnton, 2013 → 2023: 623 → 719. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lincolnton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Lincolnton is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lincolnton is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.1% across Georgia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 731 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 16.7% of Lincolnton households have no vehicle (Georgia 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lincolnton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Lincolnton is 4,594th among 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Fairplay GA | 1,881 | $120K | 1.6% | 1.2% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 181 | Winterville GA | 1,203 | $111K | 3.2% | 0.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 375 | Cataula GA | 1,522 | $124K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,592 | Casa Blanca AZ | 1,697 | $30K | 54.0% | 10.4% | 10% | D |
| 4,593 | West Blocton AL | 1,194 | $41K | 24.0% | 10.1% | 3% | D |
| 4,594 | Lincolnton GA | 1,433 | $44K | 12.4% | 1.7% | 15% | D |
| 4,595 | Cave Spring GA | 1,228 | $51K | 12.6% | 1.3% | 3% | D |
| 4,596 | Oxford NY | 1,322 | $56K | 14.6% | 5.1% | 5% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Lincolnton, the top three, the last and three more from Georgia.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Lincolnton: questions
What is the median household income in Lincolnton?
$43,935 (±$3,853) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,353 across Georgia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lincolnton?
12.4%, against 13.4% across Georgia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lincolnton?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Georgia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lincolnton work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Augusta (10%, 38 mi), Washington (4%, 16 mi), Evans (3%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lincolnton walkable?
Lincolnton is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lincolnton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lincolnton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lincolnton
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.