Aurora, Texas.
Typical home $495,289 (+4.0% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,378 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,160 +4%
- $476,129$495,289 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,154 +19%
- $415,134$495,289 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$2,600
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Aurora, TX rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Aurora, Wise County, Texas
Aurora is a city of 1,390 people in Wise County. Half its households earn more than $105,962 a year and half less, against $93,421 across Wise County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Wise County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wise County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Wise County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Households here earn more than the county as a whole, and few residents live below the poverty line. The typical home is valued well above what many people expect in rural North Texas, and residents are somewhat younger than in many small towns. Winters are mild and brief, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and the occasional snowmelt.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in professional and business services, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Wise County, some of the largest workplaces are Decatur Community Hospital, Decatur ISD and Walmart. The commute is a long one, and a good number of people work from home, which suits a town where much of the paid work lies elsewhere. Job numbers across the county grew over the past year.
Things to do. Walnut Creek, a river, is a short drive away and the nearest spot for time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Fort Worth, where the Fort Worth Zoo, the Fort Worth Botanic Garden and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth are among the places to spend a day. Texas Motor Speedway, a race track, is also a longer drive away.
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- 556households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Wise County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wise County had 21,814 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 76°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Worth Alliance Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wise County
- Decatur Community HospitalGeneral hospital928FTE
- Decatur ISDSchool district508FTE
- Solaris HealthcareHospice care services, in home477
- LBW TurnerArchitectural wall panels, precast concrete, manufacturing429
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters394
- Bridgeport ISDSchool district339FTE
- Boyd ISDSchool district187FTE
- Paradise ISDSchool district166FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 46 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,212 people in all across the county; Aurora has one of its own. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Wise County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 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$495,289
- Texas$296,424
- 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.
- Aurora6
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.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.