County / FIPS 27081
Lincoln County
Minnesota
Lincoln County runs 12 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 2 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
12
Hospitals
2
With a star rating
0
Land area
537
Lincoln County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
5,603
Median household income
$69,694
Poverty rate
11.9%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$164,400
Median gross rent
$674
Bachelor's degree or higher
25.7%
One figure is withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Lincoln County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$62.6M
Per resident
$11,103
Change since FY2021
−2%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $64M |
| 2022 | $54M |
| 2023 | $43M |
| 2024 | $45M |
| 2025 | $63M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Lincoln County ranks 2739th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Lincoln County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Avera Tyler Hospital | Tyler | Not rated |
| Hendricks Community Hospital | Hendricks | Not rated |
Public schools in Lincoln County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hendricks Elementary | Hendricks Public School District | Hendricks | 98 |
| Lake Benton Elementary | Lake Benton Public School District | Lake Benton | 116 |
| Lincoln Elementary - Ivanhoe | Ivanhoe Public School District | Ivanhoe | 73 |
| Rtr Elementary School | Rtr Public Schools | Tyler | 261 |
| Rtr Secondary School | Rtr Public Schools | Tyler | 359 |
| Mnvss | Hendricks Public School District | Hendricks | 66 |
| Hendricks Senior High | Hendricks Public School District | Hendricks | 47 |
| Lake Benton Secondary | Lake Benton Public School District | Lake Benton | 1 |
| Hendricks Learning Center - Credit | Region 6 and 8-Sw/Wc Service Coop | Hendricks | — |
| Hendricks Middle School | Hendricks Public School District | Hendricks | — |
| Rtr Alc | Region 6 and 8-Sw/Wc Service Coop | Tyler | — |
| Rtr Alp | Rtr Public Schools | Tyler | — |