Aurora is a somewhat small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 7,573 people and three associated neighborhoods, Aurora is the 107th largest community in Missouri.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Aurora is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.90% of the Aurora workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. 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%). A relatively large number of people in Aurora telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.43% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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. Being a small city, Aurora does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.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.
