Aurora, Nebraska.
Typical home $274,727 (+5.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$816 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,448 +5%
- $261,279$274,727 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,841 +36%
- $201,886$274,727 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$1,442
- Nebraska$1,461
- 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, NE rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Aurora, Hamilton County, Nebraska
Aurora is a city of 4,678 people in Hamilton County. Half its households earn more than $77,679 a year and half less, against $83,994 across Hamilton County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Hamilton County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 and the seat of Hamilton County, in the farm country of central Nebraska. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's, with only a small share of people living below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn properly warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with banks, insurance and property, other services, and government also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in Aurora include Memorial Community Health, Aurora Public Schools and the Aurora Cooperative's corporate office. Unemployment in Hamilton County is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Plainsman Museum is in or beside town, and the IOOF Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Morning Star Lake is a longer drive away, as is the Stuhr Museum.
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- 1,762households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hamilton County had 3,974 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 27 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aurora weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Aurora
- Memorial Community HealthCritical access hospital194FTE
- Aurora Public SchoolsSchool district192FTE
- Aurora Cooperative - Corporate OfficeGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain137
- KAAPA Partners AuroraDenatured alcohol manufacturing54
- Triple JGrocery stores40
- Aurora Cooperative - Service CenterGasoline stations without convenience stores26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 257 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Hamilton 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$274,727
- Nebraska$278,299
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Aurora listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Aurora14.31%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Aurora31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Aurora9
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.