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Lyons gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $166K, 3.2 years of the Vidalia area’s $52K median household income. It grades C overall, 117th among Georgia's 258 graded towns. The low prices come with trade-offs. Residents are less healthy than 94% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates, and the median household income is $42K, and 34% of residents live below the poverty line. 34% of residents live below the poverty line in Lyons, against 15% in Georgia’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Lyons's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 96% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings include Lyons Woman's Club House and Robert and Missouri Garbutt House.
Where Lyons beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Lyons Woman's Club House| Widest gap | Lyons | GA |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 23.9% | 14.5% |
Where Lyons’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Georgia), ordered by how far Lyons is from typical.
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Census counts: 534 in 1900, 4,239 in 2020. The archive holds 18 old photos and papers going back to 1932 and 2 maps from 1970 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lyons, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Lyons.
Lyons draws workers from Vidalia and beyond and is healthier than towns with similar incomes, but it has poverty well above the Georgia rate.
2,304 jobs are based in Lyons, 1.6 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. The average commute takes 16.4 minutes, against 28.3 across Georgia.
Lyons’ typical journey to work comes in at 16 minutes. Commuting out is the norm in the town: 17% of working residents work locally. Since 2013, Lyons has added 321 jobs, to 2,304 in 2023. The top destinations are Vidalia (27%), Macon-Bibb County (2%) and Reidsville (2%).
| Lyons | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 16 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $42,000 | $63,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 17% | 9% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Of its 5 schools, two are listed below, each with the reason. The largest public high school is Toombs County High School, with 896 students. The public schools here belong to the Toombs County school district.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toombs County Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 681 | B− |
| Toombs County High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 896 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within GA on state tests and graduation
Against the 3,061 U.S. towns with household incomes like Lyons’s, it is less healthy than 70%, so that grade isn’t only a matter of income.
Lyons: 28% of adults say their health is fair or poor. Among adults in the town, 36% get no exercise outside work.
| Lyons | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 29% | 25% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 14% | 8.1% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 12% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 23% | 19% |
| What stands out | Lyons | GA |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 23.9% | 14.5% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 26.9% | 17.7% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.6% | 6.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median property tax bill is $1,161, against $2,341 across Georgia, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Homes sold in Lyons spent a median 86 days on the market. Zillow values the typical Lyons home at about $166,000, up 4.3% in a year, 50% below the Georgia typical home. Lyons’ going rate for rent stands at $628 a month.
| Lyons | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $628 a month | $1,160 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 50% | 58% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
2.3 miles of trail wind through 2 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Partin Park, at 31 acres. In Lyons, the concentration of trails is 0.3 miles per square mile.
| Lyons | Georgia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.7% | 2.3% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Partin Park | — | 31 |
| 2. Hallmark Park | — | 9 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Households in Lyons have drawn federal disaster aid in 3 declared disasters, most recently in 2024. On expected storm and flood damage, Lyons sits below 57% of U.S. communities. 31% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from hurricanes, followed by inland flooding at 30%. Flood insurance has paid one claim locally since 1979.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
1 within 15 miles of the center of Lyons
About 4 of every 100 Lyons residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Georgia.
2 places in Lyons on the National Register of Historic Places.
8 notable people were born in Lyons.
City in Georgia, United States
Lyons is a city in and the county seat of Toombs County, Georgia, United States. The population was 4,239 in 2020.
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2 towns share a border with Lyons.
| Town | GA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyons | #117 | C | B+ | — | B+ | D |
| Vidalia | #231 | D− | C+ | D− | C+ | C− |
| Santa Claus | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Lyons reports no FBI crime data of its own. Santa Claus isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Lyons with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Lyons grades C overall, better than 32% of U.S. towns and #117 of 258 in Georgia. It grades D for health and B+ for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.
8 notable people were born here, including Nick Eason and Craig Campbell.
