Brick Replacement Is Not Cicero's Usual Answer
6.9 percent of Cicero predates 1940 on a median build year of 1980, so wholesale brick failure is not what happens here.
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6.9 percent prewar, and what that rules out
Ranked by the share of housing built in 1939 or earlier, the places of Onondaga County spread very widely: Skaneateles village 54.3 percent, East Syracuse village 54.0, Liverpool village 50.2, Solvay village 43.1, the City of Syracuse 43.1, Marcellus village 38.4, Skaneateles town 36.6, Camillus village 32.2, Marcellus town 31.8, Baldwinsville village 20.6, Fayetteville village 20.7, DeWitt town 18.7, North Syracuse village 14.9, Salina town 14.5, Manlius town 11.2, Cicero town 6.9, Camillus town 6.1 and Clay town 3.2.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, table B25034 Year Structure Built and table B25035 Median Year Structure Built, accessed 2026-09-10
The Town of Clay has 26,282 housing units, the largest count of any town in Onondaga County, with a median year of construction of 1978. Only 3.2 percent were built in 1939 or earlier and only 16.0 percent in 1959 or earlier, the lowest figures in the county. The Radisson census place inside Clay has a median of 1990 and a pre-1940 share of 4.2 percent. The Town of Cicero has 13,584 units, a median of 1980, a pre-1940 share of 6.9 percent and a pre-1960 share of 26.6 percent.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, table B25034 Year Structure Built and table B25035 Median Year Structure Built, accessed 2026-09-10
Why this pairing stays thin in Cicero
We have not built Cicero a full brick replacement page, because the evidence does not carry one. Only 6.9 percent of the town's 13,584 homes were built in 1939 or earlier and the median build year is 1980, the newest in the county and the same as the national figure. The spalling mechanism that makes brick replacement a real subject elsewhere in this metro needs soft old brick and a mortar harder than it, and Cicero mostly has neither. Where units do fail here it is local, and the cause is nearly always water arriving in one spot.
What to check before replacing anything
Start with the quarter of this town that is genuinely older, because 26.6 percent of Cicero predates 1960 even though only 6.9 percent predates 1940. On a mid-century house, failed units are usually clustered over an opening and the steel below them is the reason. On a house from 1980 or later, failed units are usually below a sill or beside a downspout and water is the reason. Neither case is an elevation of brick, and both cases are cheaper once the cause is named rather than assumed.
The mechanism needs old brick, and Cicero has little
On the county's prewar ranking Cicero is 6.9 percent, third from the bottom above only Camillus town at 6.1 and Clay at 3.2, against 54.3 percent at Skaneateles village. Spalling from a mortar harder than the brick needs soft units to act on, and those are uncommon here.
The older quarter is mid-century, not Victorian
26.6 percent of Cicero predates 1960 while only 6.9 percent predates 1940, so the older part of this town is mid-century rather than historic, and 19.7 percent falls in the 1940 to 1959 window. On those houses the openings are the subject rather than the field of the wall.
Which decade, and where is the damage?
Send the Cicero address with the build year if you have it. Those two answers point at two different jobs.
The Cicero masonry worth looking at instead
Failed brick: what Cicero owners should ask
Some bricks over our garage have come loose. Is that a brick problem?
On a mid-century Cicero house, almost certainly not. Units loosening above an opening are being pushed by the steel angle beneath them as it corrodes and swells, so replacing the brick without addressing the angle means doing the job twice. Photograph the opening square on from about fifteen feet back, and say whether there is a rust stain or a course that no longer reads level, because both of those confirm it.
Do you take on brick replacement in Cicero at all?
Yes. We have simply not written this town a page claiming that soft historic brick is its problem, because 6.9 percent of Cicero predates 1940 on a median build year of 1980. Where a Cicero house does need units cut out, the work is the same as anywhere: find what is putting water there, replace the units that have genuinely gone, and bed them in a mortar consistent with the wall rather than with the last job.
Get a Cicero wall diagnosed before units are ordered
Loose units over an opening, faces crumbling below a sill: describe it with the address and we will say what is feeding it.