Aurora, OH population, income and ZIP codes

Aurora city is a mid-size town in Ohio, with 17,386 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #111 of 1,265 ranked by population — larger than 91% of them. The median age here is 46.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Aurora city earn a median of $125,567 a year, 59.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 90% above the $66,250 median for the 689 Ohio cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 2.4% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Aurora city is valued at $371,400, 22.4% above the national figure and 120% above the $168,500 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,704 a month, 21.2% above the national figure, or roughly $20,448 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 81.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.