Aurora is a somewhat small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 7,412 people and three associated neighborhoods, Aurora is the 107th largest community in Missouri.Aurora is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Aurora is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Aurora who work in office and administrative support (12.77%), healthcare suport services (11.43%), and sales jobs (10.27%). A relatively large number of people in Aurora telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.60% 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. As is often the case in a small city, Aurora doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The percentage of people in Aurora with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.82% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Aurora in 2022 was $24,415, which is lower middle income relative to Missouri, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,660 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 Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Aurora include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Aurora is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
