Aurora, Minnesota.
Typical home $165,325 (+3.8% in a year). Duluth, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$490 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,081 +4%
- $159,244$165,325 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,489 +29%
- $127,836$165,325 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$868
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Aurora, MN rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Aurora, St. Louis County, Minnesota
Aurora is a city of 1,678 people in St. Louis County. Half its households earn more than $42,083 a year and half less, against $70,069 across St. Louis County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in St. Louis County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 small city in St. Louis County, in northern Minnesota. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect for the state. Homes are modestly priced, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in farming, forestry and mining, or in manufacturing. The largest workplaces in Aurora include the Mesabi East School District, Northern Pines Medical Center and Oxford Capitol. Unemployment across St. Louis County is higher than it was a year ago, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before. The typical commute is a fairly short drive, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Partridge River runs in or beside town, a handy spot for a walk along the water. A longer drive brings you to Lake Vermilion, a large lake well known across the region, and to Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park, a protected area. Bear Head Lake State Park is also a longer drive away and offers more of the north woods.
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- 944households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Louis County had 95,078 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 17° and lows near -7°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 49°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Embarrass weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Aurora
- Elementary SchoolK-12 education131
- Mesabi East School DistrictSchool district128FTE
- Northern Pines Medical CenterCritical access hospital79FTE
- Oxford CapitolAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities41
- White TownshipCity and town managers' offices36
- Essentia HealthNursing homes33
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 352 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat 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 St. Louis County and the Duluth, MN-WI 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$165,325
- Minnesota$348,778
- 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 4 Aurora listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Aurora25.27%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Aurora24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Aurora9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55705 | Aurora | 3,211 | — | $162,915 |
| 55708 | Biwabik | 929 | — | $131,256 |