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Lincoln CDP, Delaware: commercial real estate data.
Lincoln CDP is a Census CDP of 1,873 people across 2.82 square miles of land, in Sussex County. Median household income is $107,690, 84.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $25,000.
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Lincoln
What Lincoln is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area2.82 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land664 plus or minus 216
- County holding the largest share of its areaSussex County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lincoln
How many people live in Lincoln
- Population1,873 plus or minus 609
- Median age28.4
- Population under 18617 plus or minus 177
- Share under 1832.9 percent plus or minus 14.3
- Population 65 and over224 plus or minus 132
- Share 65 and over12.0 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Households397 plus or minus 161
- Family households366 plus or minus 155
- Share of households that are families92.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lincoln
Income and work in Lincoln
- Median household income$107,690 plus or minus $50,165
- Per capita income$26,252 plus or minus $7,799
- Civilian labor force850 plus or minus 342
- Employed834 plus or minus 333
- Unemployed16 plus or minus 28
- Unemployment rate1.9 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Adults 25 and over1,030 plus or minus 383
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.7 percent plus or minus 44.6
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lincoln
Housing in Lincoln
- Housing units428 plus or minus 167
- Occupied units397 plus or minus 161
- Vacant units31 plus or minus 50
- Vacancy rate7.2 percent plus or minus 11.3
- Owner occupied336 plus or minus 154
- Renter occupied61 plus or minus 62
- Ownership rate84.6 percent plus or minus 18.1
- Median owner-occupied home value$262,100
- Single family units292 plus or minus 139
- Share single family68.2 percent plus or minus 18.4
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes136 plus or minus 77
- Median year structure built1984
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lincoln
How Lincoln gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute821 plus or minus 328
- Commuting under 15 minutes182 plus or minus 100
- Share commuting under 15 minutes22.2 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more447 plus or minus 159
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more54.4 percent plus or minus 29.1
- Drove alone99.8 percent
- Carpooled0.2 percent plus or minus 0.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lincoln
SBA 7(a) lending to Lincoln borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$25,000
- Average approval$25,000
- Median approval$25,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$25,000
- Largest approval$25,000
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Lincoln
SBA 504 lending to Lincoln borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$488,000
- Average approval$488,000
- Median approval$488,000
- Largest approval$488,000
- Jobs supported1
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Sussex County, not Lincoln
Sussex County context, not Lincoln figures
These are Sussex County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Lincoln measurements.
- Establishments in Sussex County6,411
- Employment at those establishments, Sussex County78,541
- Covered employment, Sussex County94,273
- Average annual pay, Sussex County$55,078
- Average weekly wage, Sussex County$1,059
- Housing units permitted, Sussex County4,354
- Of those, single family, Sussex County3,816
- County product, 2024, Sussex County$23,355,694,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sussex County9.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sussex County$127,341
Every figure in this section is published for Sussex County as a whole and is not a measurement of Lincoln. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Lincoln questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Lincoln, Delaware?
1,873, in 397 households. Lincoln CDP covers 2.82 square miles of land, which is 664 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Lincoln in?
Sussex County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Lincoln?
$107,690. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $262,100. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Lincoln businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $25,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $25,000, plus 1 504 approvals worth $488,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Lincoln, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Lincoln borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Lincoln. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Lincoln figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sussex County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Lincoln.
Is zoning published for Lincoln?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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