Aurora, Colorado.
Typical home $447,833 (-2.6% in a year), asking rent $1,742 (-1.2%). Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,042 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,014 -3%
- $459,846$447,833 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,941 +2%
- $440,891$447,833 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Aurora$2,351
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Aurora, CO fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Aurora, CO fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Aurora runs $1,283/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,542 in Oct 2022.
That is $3,025 a month against $1,742 rent: a $2,351 mortgage payment, plus $195 property tax and $479 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Aurora
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,025
- Renting$1,742
- Mortgage only$2,351
Property tax · $195/mo 0.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Arapahoe County, CO
Insurance & upkeep · $479/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado
Aurora is a city of 386,261 people in Arapahoe County. Half its households earn more than $88,368 a year and half less, against $101,087 across Arapahoe County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Aurora was 4.8% in August 2026, and Arapahoe County had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Aurora is a large city on the eastern side of the Denver area, and it is one of the biggest in Colorado. The population is young for the country as a whole, with a median age that sits at the younger end of the range. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good share are rented, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with January the coldest month and July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, retail and the building trades also common. Among the largest workplaces in Aurora are University of CO Hospital, Children's Hospital Colorado and the Aurora school district. Fewer than the average city's workers are likely to stay home, but a noticeable number work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Aurora sits within reach of Denver's best-known sights, each a longer drive away. The Denver Art Museum and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science are good choices for a rainy day, and the Denver Zoo suits a family outing. For a night out, Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a well-known outdoor theatre, also a longer drive away.
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- 145,310households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Arapahoe County had 340,945 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 47° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 56°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cherry Creek Dam weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Aurora
- University of CO HospitalGeneral hospital6,792FTE
- Children's Hospital ColoradoChildren's hospital6,672FTE
- Aurora Joint District No. 28 of the counties of Adams and ASchool district5,408FTE
- Raytheon_Aurora_CO2,032
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services1,710
- THE Medical Center of AuroraGeneral hospital1,376FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,309
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services911
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 255 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 41,838 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HailVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Aurora’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Arapahoe County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
Aurora home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Aurora$447,833
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Aurora listings, and the typical home goes pending in 27 days — the market is heating up.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Aurora36.36%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Aurora27
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Aurora2,087
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Aurora544
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Aurora$440,833
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Aurora99.26%
Zip codes with a Aurora address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Aurora — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Aurora
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80013 | Aurora | 73,248 | $1,911 | $454,276 |
| 80016 | Aurora | 68,268 | $2,002 | $730,188 |
| 80011 | Aurora | 53,695 | $1,675 | $395,243 |
| 80012 | Aurora | 51,052 | $1,541 | $381,322 |
| 80010 | Aurora | 42,439 | $1,543 | $382,204 |
| 80017 | Aurora | 40,584 | $1,566 | $392,502 |
| 80014 | Aurora | 39,496 | $1,599 | $340,507 |
| 80018 | Aurora | 19,072 | $2,794 | $532,200 |
| 80019 | Aurora | 7,900 | $2,606 | $503,792 |