Aurora, North Carolina.
Typical home $132,016 (-0.4% in a year). Washington, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$393 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $557 -0%
- $132,573$132,016 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,763 +17%
- $113,253$132,016 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$693
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Aurora, NC fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Aurora, Beaufort County, North Carolina
Aurora is a town of 455 people in Beaufort County. Half its households earn more than $46,131 a year and half less, against $58,357 across Beaufort County. Unemployment in Beaufort County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Beaufort County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 very small town in Beaufort County, North Carolina, and the kind of place where people tend to know one another. Household incomes in town are lower than across the county, and homes are priced modestly. Winters are cool and mostly free of snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Almost no one works from home. Across Beaufort County, some of the largest workplaces are Beaufort County Schools, ECU Health Beaufort Hospital and Nutrien.
Things to do. The Aurora Fossil Museum is in or beside town. A longer drive away are Goose Creek State Park, a protected area, and the Pamlico River, one of the larger waterways in the region.
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- 1%work from home
What people in Beaufort County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Beaufort County had 16,255 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 74°. About 52 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aurora North weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Beaufort County
- Beaufort County SchoolsSchool district788FTE
- ECU Health Beaufort HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical632
- NutrienPhosphatic fertilizer materials manufacturing612
- River City ConstructionTransmission and distribution line construction576
- Beaufort County Community CollegeTwo-year college335
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters290
- AAF Flanders FFIAir purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing259
- Rose Acre FarmsChicken egg production181
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,936 people in all across the county; Aurora has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 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 Beaufort County and the Washington, NC 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$132,016
- North Carolina$332,159
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Aurora10
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28515 | Bayboro | 2,822 | — | $178,222 |
| 27806 | Aurora | 2,152 | — | $131,100 |