Lyons, New York.
Typical home $178,716 (+5.8% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$595 (+173%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,865 +6%
- $168,851$178,716 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,080 +47%
- $121,636$178,716 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$938
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Lyons, NY rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lyons, Wayne County, New York
Lyons, in Wayne County, had 3,989 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $67,850 a year and half less, against $74,506 across Wayne County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 is a small community and the seat of Wayne County, in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes are below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and very snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing a good number. Lyons Central School District, Midland Asphalt Materials INC - Lyons and WesLor Enterprises are among the largest workplaces in town. Most people have a fairly short commute, and very few work from home. Unemployment across Wayne County is steady compared with a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Ganargua Creek runs in or beside town, and the Clyde River is a short drive away. Zurich Bog, a protected area, is also a short drive away. Seneca Lake is a longer drive, and it is the best known of the lakes in the area.
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- 1,563households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 28,770 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 105 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sodus 1W weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lyons
- Lyons Central School DistrictSchool district239FTE
- Midland Asphalt Materials INC - LyonsAsphalt paving47
- WesLor EnterprisesSheet metal work manufacturing25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 72 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 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 Wayne County and the Rochester, NY 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$178,716
- 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.
- Lyons15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lyons5
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.