Lyons, Georgia.
Typical home $165,812 (+4.3% in a year). Vidalia, GA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$490 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,797 +4%
- $159,015$165,812 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,182 +30%
- $127,630$165,812 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$870
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Lyons, GA rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lyons, Toombs County, Georgia
Lyons is a city of 4,239 people in Toombs County. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Toombs County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 is a small city and the seat of Toombs County, in south Georgia. Owners and renters are about evenly matched among its homes, and typical home values are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and household incomes across the county run on the low side.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in Lyons are Oxley Park Health & Rehabilitation and Altamaha Electric Membership. Jobs across Toombs County have slipped a little from a year earlier, and unemployment there is a touch lower than it was then. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The area is mostly about water and woods, though everything on the list is a longer drive away. The Ohoopee River is the best known of the nearby rivers, and Jack Hill State Park and George L. Smith State Park are protected areas for time outdoors. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 1,654households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 16 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Toombs County had 11,971 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 73°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Metter weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lyons
- Oxley Park Health & RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities111
- Altamaha Electric MembershipDistribution of electric power70
- LyonsMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 202 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of LyonsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 low. 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 Toombs County and the Vidalia, GA 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$165,812
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lyons listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lyons18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lyons4
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.
Zip codes in Lyons
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30436 | Lyons | 11,704 | — | $157,175 |
| 30471 | Twin City | 4,718 | — | $130,771 |