Aurora, New York.
Typical home $343,310 (+7.2% in a year). Auburn, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,051 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,966 +7%
- $320,344$343,310 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $92,027 +37%
- $251,283$343,310 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$1,802
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Aurora, NY rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Aurora, Cayuga County, New York
Aurora is a village of 607 people in Cayuga County. Unemployment in Cayuga County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cayuga 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 village on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake, small enough that most people know one another by sight. Its residents are far younger than in most American places, which gives it the feel of a college community more than a retirement town. Homes here are worth considerably more than the typical home elsewhere, and household incomes in the county are fairly modest by comparison.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades also employing many. More people work from home than you might expect in a village this size. Across Cayuga County, the largest workplaces include Auburn Memorial Hospital, Auburn City School District and Cayuga County Community College, and the number of jobs slipped slightly last year while unemployment held steady.
Things to do. Cayuga Lake is a short drive away, and Little Creek and Paines Creek run in or beside the village. Seneca Lake lies a longer drive off, as does Women's Rights National Historical Park, a protected area marking the history of the women's rights movement. Winters are cold and snowy, with plenty of snow, and summers are comfortably warm, so the lake is mostly a season for the warmer months.
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- 119households
- 9%work from home
What people in Cayuga County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cayuga County had 24,534 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 56 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aurora Rsch Farm weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cayuga County
- Auburn Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital708FTE
- Auburn City School DistrictSchool district699FTE
- Loretto ManagementHomes for the elderly414
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets383
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters321
- Cayuga County Community CollegeTwo-year college289
- Jasper HoldingsAutomotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers254
- The REV Theatre CompanyTheaters, musical250
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,699 people in all across the county; Aurora has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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, very 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 Cayuga County and the Auburn, NY 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$343,310
- New York$524,942
- 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.
- Aurora8
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.