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Welcome to the Lincoln Home page. The Lincoln Home page provides as much information as possible on Lincoln. Knowing Lincoln’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lincoln’s Home page, you will also find Lincoln’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Lincoln has a population of 280780. 50.2% of Lincoln’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.8 are female. 45.9% of Lincoln is married and 56.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $180,047, and the average rent is $871. Household median income in Lincoln is $60,063, and the individual median income is $31,433. Lincoln’s Ethnic is the following: White(84%), Hispanic(7.8%), Multiple(4.9%), Asian(4.6%), Black(4.3%), Other(1.5%), Native(0.7%), Pacific(0.1%).


Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers 100.4 square miles (260.035 km2) with a population of 292,657 in 2021. It is Nebraska's second-most populous city and the 73rd-largest in the United States. Lincoln is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area in southeastern Nebraska, the Lincoln Metropolitan and Lincoln-Beatrice Combined Statistical Areas.


The statistical area is home to 361,921 people, making it the 104th-largest combined statistical area in the United States. Lincoln was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster on the wild salt marshes and arroyos of what became Lancaster County. Renamed after President Abraham Lincoln, it became Nebraska's state capital in 1869.


The Bertram G. Goodhue–designed state capitol building was completed in 1932, and is the nation's second-tallest capitol. As the city is the seat of government for the state of Nebraska, the state and the U.S. government are major employers. The University of Nebraska was founded in Lincoln in 1869.


The university is Nebraska's largest, with 26,079 students enrolled, and the city's third-largest employer. Other primary employers fall into the service and manufacturing industries, including a growing high-tech sector. The region makes up a part of what is known as the greater Midwest Silicon Prairie. Designated as a "refugee-friendly" city by the U.S.


Department of State in the 1970s, the city was the 12th-largest resettlement site per capita in the country by 2000. Refugee Vietnamese, Karen (Burmese ethnic minority), Sudanese and Yazidi (Iraqi ethnic minority) people, as well as refugees from Iraq, the Middle East and Afghanistan, have resettled in the city.


During the 2018–19 school year, Lincoln Public Schools provided support for about 3,000 students from 150 countries, who spoke 125 different languages.


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