Lyons, Illinois.
Typical home $279,780 (+2.9% in a year), asking rent $1,450 . Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$750 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,966 +3%
- $271,814$279,780 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,998 +19%
- $235,782$279,780 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$1,468
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Lyons, IL rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois
Lyons is a village of 10,817 people in Cook County. Half its households earn more than $70,993 a year and half less, against $83,498 across Cook County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Cook County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 village in Cook County, home to more people than many small towns, with an age profile close to the middle of the road for the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and a somewhat larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for the area. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renting is also common, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Some of the largest workplaces in Lyons itself are Lyons Schools, Wertheimer Box & Paper, and atlas tool. Unemployment across Cook County is higher than it was a year earlier, though the county has added a few more jobs over the past year. A typical commute is fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Brookfield Zoo is in or beside town, which makes it an easy outing for families. A short drive away are the United Center and SeatGeek Stadium, both stadiums that host games and large events. For a longer trip, the Art Institute of Chicago is among the best known museums in the country.
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- 4,022households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cook County had 2,594,810 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 68°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Midway Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lyons
- Lyons SD 103School district351FTE
- Wertheimer Box & PaperBoxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard135
- atlas toolMetal stampings, unfinished, manufacturing67
- Rush EnterprisesAll other motor vehicle dealers30
- AT&TWired telecommunications carriers26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 258 people in all. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Cook County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI 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$279,780
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 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.
- Lyons21.51%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lyons22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lyons9
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.