Aurora, Missouri.
Typical home $177,023 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$559 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,085 +4%
- $170,937$177,023 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,040 +39%
- $126,983$177,023 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$929
- Missouri$1,393
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Aurora, MO rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Aurora, Barry County, Missouri
Aurora is a city of 7,219 people in Barry County. Half its households earn more than $49,848 a year and half less, against $58,346 across Barry County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Barry County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Barry County, Missouri, with a median age somewhat older than much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with some snow each year and a fair amount of rain through the seasons.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Aurora are Walmart, Aurora R-viii Schools and Mercy Hospital Aurora. A typical commute is short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Silver Dollar City is an amusement park a longer drive away, and Fantastic Caverns is a cave attraction in the same category of longer trips. For time on the water, the James River is also a longer drive away.
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- 2,940households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barry County had 13,017 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 45° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 12 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Billings 1SW weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Aurora
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters248
- Aurora R-viii SchoolsSchool district205FTE
- Mercy Hospital AuroraCritical access hospital148FTE
- AFB InternationalPet food, dog and cat, manufacturing109
- Jimmy Michel MotorsNew car dealers45
- BrightliRehabilitation job counseling and training, vocational37
- RpcsGrocery stores36
- AuroraMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 752 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
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 high. 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 Barry County.
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$177,023
- Missouri$265,387
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Aurora listings — 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.
- Aurora24.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Aurora74
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Aurora20
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65605 | Aurora | 11,514 | — | $184,899 |
| 65633 | Crane | 3,952 | — | $249,168 |