Meyerhofer Cobblestone House · Photo: Jim Roberts · CC BY-SA 4.0At 6.0%, unemployment in Lyons is higher than in 74% of U.S. towns
Only 2% stay in Lyons for work; outside it, Lake Geneva is the main destination (10%, 4 miles). The two grades for Lyons are B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Home is the office for 2% of workers (Wisconsin 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Lyons, in brief
Lyons trades workers with the towns around it
Lyons has about as many jobs (1,373) as working residents (1,596), but they are mostly different people: 1,563 residents leave for work each day while 1,340 people come in. Only 2% of the jobs in Lyons are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
37% of the jobs based in Lyons are held by workers 29 or younger, against 21% of Lyons’ own working residents. The jobs ↓
Few Lyons workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 13% across Wisconsin. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Where Lyons’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lyons is better than 52% of U.S. towns, #280 of 362 in Wisconsin. Job access by car holds Lyons’ grade up (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lyons could be anywhere from C to A.
Who leaves Lyons for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,563 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 1,340 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Most jobs in Lyons are in services
1,373 jobs are based in Lyons.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lyons, 2013 → 2023: 1,417 → 1,373. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lyons’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Lyons: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lyons workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,646 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Wisconsin: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Commuting out of Lyons: the destinations
Where Lyons clocks in
9% of workers
8% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Short hops and long hauls from Lyons
About 17% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Lyons start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lyons is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns, #327 of 362 in Wisconsin. Both inputs place Lyons near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,674 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Lyons households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lyons’ commuters take a bus or train.
Lyons is 2,167th of 4,474 U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Ottawa WI | 3,642 | $153K | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Jackson WI | 3,950 | $117K | 0.6% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Bristol WI | 4,347 | $141K | 1.2% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,165 | Auburn IL | 4,442 | $81K | 8.1% | 5.2% | 10% | B− |
| 2,166 | Bristol NH | 3,251 | $78K | 10.3% | 1.9% | 16% | B− |
| 2,167 | Lyons WI | 3,635 | $84K | 9.8% | 6.0% | 2% | B− |
| 2,168 | Malmstrom AFB MT | 4,302 | $65K | 5.8% | 1.8% | 4% | B− |
| 2,169 | Juno Beach FL | 3,935 | $84K | 8.3% | 9.7% | 8% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Lyons, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
Next door is work for 23% of Lyons
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lyons workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyons | – | B− | C− | 25 min | $83,919 |
| Lake Geneva | 10% | B | A− | 23 min | $75,629 |
| Burlington | 9% | A− | B− | 22 min | $83,419 |
| Bloomfield | under 3% | B+ | C− | 31 min | $98,068 |
| Burlington | 2% | A− | C | 25 min | $106,929 |
| Bohners Lake | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Geneva | 2% | A | B− | 28 min | $96,154 |
| Spring Prairie | under 3% | A | D− | 28 min | $107,955 |
| Bloomfield | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Bohners Lake: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Bloomfield: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Lake Geneva. Darker towns draw more of Lyons’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Lyons: questions
What is the median household income in Lyons?
$83,919 (±$15,920) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lyons?
9.8%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lyons?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lyons work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lake Geneva (10%, 4 mi), Burlington (9%, 6 mi), Elkhorn (8%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lyons walkable?
Lyons is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lyons without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lyons, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lyons
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.