Lyons, Michigan.
Typical home $260,623 (+7.8% in a year). Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$711 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,927 +8%
- $241,696$260,623 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,715 +28%
- $202,909$260,623 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$1,368
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Lyons, MI rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lyons, Ionia County, Michigan
Lyons is a village of 763 people in Ionia County. Half its households earn more than $68,603 a year and half less, against $75,611 across Ionia County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Ionia County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ionia County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 village in Ionia County, Michigan, with a population well below that of most towns. Residents are somewhat younger than in many small towns, and household incomes run below the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, while July is warm; snow and rain together add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Ionia County, some of the largest workplaces are Ventra Ionia, which makes automobile bodies, Herbruck's, an egg producer, and Ionia Public Schools. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs. A typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Ionia State Recreation Area offers protected land for getting outdoors, and the Looking Glass River is nearby as well. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Potter Park Zoo and to the North Country Trail for walking.
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- 291households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Ionia County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ionia County had 18,832 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 54 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ionia 2SSW weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ionia County
- Ventra IoniaAutomobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing1,100
- Herbruck'sChicken egg production851
- Michigan Educational Transportation ServiceSchool bus services724
- Ionia Public SchoolsSchool district361FTE
- CargillEggs, processed, manufacturing299
- THK Rhythm AutomotiveMotor vehicle assembly plant construction285
- Portland Public SchoolsSchool district284FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters277
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 46 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,510 people in all across the county; Lyons has none of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Ionia County and the Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI 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$260,623
- Michigan$263,760
- 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.
- Lyons6
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.