Lyons, Colorado.
Typical home $746,641 (-0.8% in a year). Boulder, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,895 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,322 -1%
- $752,963$746,641 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,186 +6%
- $702,455$746,641 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Lyons$3,919
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 57 years.
Typical home values in Lyons, CO fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lyons, Boulder County, Colorado
Lyons is a town of 2,209 people in Boulder County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Boulder County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Boulder County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Lyons is a small town where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people who live there tend to be older than in many places. Nearly everyone is a full-time resident rather than a renter, and the great majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Typical home values run high, and a good number of households live on low incomes all the same.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Boulder County, the largest workplaces include the University of Colorado Boulder, the St. Vrain Valley School District and Boulder Community Hospital. The typical commute is a moderate drive, and unemployment in the county has risen over the past year.
Things to do. The North Fork Little Thompson River is a short drive away. Farther afield, Rocky Mountain National Park is a longer drive away, as is the Big Thompson River, and Folsom Field is a stadium a longer drive away too. Winters are cold, with the chill peaking in January, while summers turn hot by July, and the year brings little rain or snow.
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- 747households
- 75%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Boulder County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Boulder County had 191,487 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 44° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 55°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Longmont Ese weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boulder County
- University of Colorado BoulderUniversity or college9,660
- St. Vrain Valley School District No. Re1JSchool district4,060FTE
- Boulder Valley School District No. Re2School district3,834FTE
- BAE System Inc. Space and Mission SystemAeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing1,476
- Boulder Community HospitalGeneral hospital1,384FTE
- Good Samaritan Medical CTRGeneral hospital903FTE
- Corden Pharma ColoradoEnzyme proteins, pharmaceutical use, manufacturing787
- Medtronic CovidienLaser equipment, electromedical, manufacturing673
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 252 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 33,235 people in all across the county; Lyons has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lyons’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Boulder County and the Boulder, CO metro.
Lyons home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lyons$746,641
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Lyons listings — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Lyons26.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lyons88
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lyons11
Zip codes with a Lyons address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lyons — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.