Lyons is a very small city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 4,181 people and five associated neighborhoods, Lyons is the 171st largest community in Georgia.When you are in Lyons, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.29% of Lyons’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lyons is a city of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lyons who work in office and administrative support (15.30%), teaching (11.60%), and personal care services (9.57%). The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Lyons has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lyons a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Lyons is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The rate of college-level education in Lyons is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.81% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Lyons in 2022 was $20,685, which is lower middle income relative to Georgia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $82,740 for a family of four. However, Lyons contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lyons also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.02% of its population below the federal poverty line.Lyons is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lyons home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lyons residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lyons include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Swedish. The most common language spoken in Lyons is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Pacific Island languages.
