Aurora is a somewhat small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 7,512 people and three associated neighborhoods, Aurora is the 107th largest community in Missouri.When you are in Aurora, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.90% of Aurora’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Aurora is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Aurora who work in sales jobs (11.29%), healthcare suport services (9.30%), and management occupations (8.16%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.43% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Aurora has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Aurora has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Aurora than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Aurora may be for you. As is often the case in a small city, Aurora doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In Aurora, just 12.11% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in Aurora in 2022 was $27,651, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,604 for a family of four. However, Aurora contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Aurora home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Aurora residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Aurora include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and French. The most common language spoken in Aurora is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
