Aurora, Utah.
Typical home $342,991 (+1.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$719 (+67%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $3,901 +1%
- $339,089$342,991 since Sep 2025
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$1,800
- Utah$2,797
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Aurora, UT rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Aurora, Sevier County, Utah
Aurora is a city of 984 people in Sevier County. Half its households earn more than $91,250 a year and half less, against $74,884 across Sevier County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Sevier County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 very small city in Sevier County, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are cold, with snow on the ground for much of the season, and summers turn hot, while the year as a whole is fairly dry.
Work. Residents are most often employed in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, farming, forestry and mining, and government. Across Sevier County, the largest workplaces include Sevier Valley Hospital, Walmart and D&A McRae, a trucking company. Commutes are short, and a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Salina Creek and Denmark Wash are rivers, and Glenwood National Forest is a protected area for walking and time outdoors. Farther afield, Fish Lake is a lake worth the longer drive, and Fishlake National Forest is a larger protected area nearby.
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- 325households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sevier County had 9,967 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 54°. About 18 inches of snow and 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richfield Radio Ksvc weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sevier County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters285
- Sevier Valley HospitalHospitals, general medical and surgical204
- D&A McRaeTrucking, specialized freight, local164
- Sevier Valley HospitalGeneral hospital158FTE
- Associated Food StoresGrocery stores120
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture91
- Pitman Farms, Salina Processing PlantProcessed poultry manufacturing68
- USGWall board, ready mixjoint treatment and quarry64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,412 people in all across the county; Aurora has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Sevier 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$342,991
- Utah$532,920
- 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.
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.