Lyons Falls, New York.
Typical home $169,544 (+3.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$498 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,166 +3%
- $164,378$169,544 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,200 +26%
- $134,344$169,544 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 Falls$890
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Lyons Falls, NY rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lyons Falls, Lewis County, New York
Lyons Falls is a village of 570 people in Lewis County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Lewis County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lewis County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Falls is a small village where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, and where a river runs through the middle of things. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the year, and summers are mild to warm. Most adults do not hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops close behind. Across Lewis County, some of the largest workplaces are Kraftheinz Lowville, a cheese manufacturer, Lewis County General Hospital, and the Lowville Academy & Central School District. Unemployment across the county has held steady over the past year, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. The Moose River and Mill Creek run in or beside town, so water is close at hand. Brantingham Lake and Whetstone Gulf State Park are each a short drive away, one for time by the water and the other for a protected natural area to walk through. Fort Stanwix, a historic fort, is a longer drive.
Report a mistake
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Lewis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 7,072 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 53°. About 203 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Highmarket 2W weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis County
- Kraftheinz LowvilleCheese manufacturing425
- Lewis County General HospitalCritical access hospital367FTE
- Lowville Academy & Central School DistrictSchool district235FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters231
- South Lewis Central School DistrictSchool district224FTE
- Beaver River Central School DistrictSchool district180FTE
- Viking Cives USASnow plow attachments manufacturing138
- Copenhagen Central School DistrictSchool district100FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,466 people in all across the county; Lyons Falls has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lyons Falls’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Lewis County.
Lyons Falls home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lyons Falls$169,544
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lyons Falls7
Zip codes with a Lyons Falls address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lyons Falls — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.