Georgia · Census place 1348232

Lyons, Georgia

Lyons is a city in Toombs County, Georgia with an estimated 4,253 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 160th largest of 305 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,253
#160 of 305 in Georgia
Change since 2020
+0.1%
+6 people
Land area
8.4 sq mi
+ 0.20 sq mi water
Density
505 / sq mi
State median 1,234
Orange pin: Lyons. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Atlanta.

Lyons population, 2020 to 2024

Lyons added 6 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +39.

4,24720204,18820214,18020224,21420234,2532024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,240. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Lyons covers 8.42 square miles of land and 0.20 of water, for 505 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Lyons is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lyons is in

All of Lyons's residents live in Toombs County, which had 27,488 residents in 2024. Lyons holds 15.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lyons

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lyons by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30436. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Lyons is

The Census internal point of Lyons is at 32.204900, -82.321200. Atlanta, the capital, is 160.4 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Vidalia, GA (10,853 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Savannah, GA, 67.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
32.204900, -82.321200
DMS
32°12'17.64"N 82°19'16.32"W
UTM
17N 375479.1E 3563912.9N
Geohash
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Plus code
864V6M3H+XG

Daylight in Lyons

At 32.20° N, Lyons gets about 14 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lyons

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Vidalia, 4.8 miles away, with 10,853 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Lyons, GA?

4,253 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 6 (0.1%) from 4,247 in July 2020.

What county is Lyons in?

Toombs County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Lyons?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 30436.

How far is Lyons from Atlanta?

160.4 miles (258.2 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Lyons.

What is the nearest larger city to Lyons?

Vidalia, GA, with 10,853 residents, 4.8 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.