CrimeMetric

Crime in Lincoln, Alabama

Major crime in Lincoln is 7% below the U.S. rate per resident: 9% lower for persons crimes and 6% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.1% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
93
7% below the U.S. rate
7% below the Alabama rate
down 9.1% in a year
Persons crimes
91
9% below the U.S. rate
16% below the Alabama rate
down 3.0% in a year
Property crimes
94
6% below the U.S. rate
about the Alabama rate
down 10.3% in a year
Social disorder
186
1.9 times the U.S. rate
37% above the Alabama rate
down 4.5% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Simple assault stands out most, at 2.8 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Lincoln for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Lincoln

The middle half of Lincoln residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 62 and 133; the typical (median) resident's is 63. The citywide figure (93) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Lincoln, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5017.6%
  • 50–10047.6%
  • 100–20021.4%
  • 200–40013.4%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on Friday and Saturday nights

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm96
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am85
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm96
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am102
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.1% in a year; across Alabama it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.1%AL -8.3%-5.5%AL -12.4%
Persons crimes-3.0%AL -5.4%+7.7%AL -0.5%
Property crimes-10.3%AL -8.9%-8.3%AL -15.2%
Social disorder-4.5%AL -5.4%+3.1%AL -5.7%

Change in expected crimes, with Alabama as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Lincoln against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

771 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lincoln; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Lincoln, AL10,08093
Canton, MS10,07845
Bardmoor, FL10,07244
Commerce, GA10,09226
Manteno, IL10,07718

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Lincoln has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Pell City (8 mi), is about Lincoln's rate.

Anniston19 mi221
Talladega12 mi176
Oxford16 mi117
Lincoln93
Pell City8 mi91
Saks19 mi61
Odenville19 mi38
Moody20 mi35
Margaret20 mi20

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Lincoln

What are the most common crimes in Lincoln?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 61 a year), aggravated assault (about 23 a year) and burglary (about 22 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 2.8 times the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Lincoln's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Lincoln has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 28.4% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 10,080. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lincoln, Alabama." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/al/lincoln

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100