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Arapahoe County · Colorado

Aurora, CO housing costs

What a home costs to buy and to rent here, how old the housing stock is, and how much of a paycheck rent takes — all from Census ACS 5-year estimates.

A hand holding a house key outdoors, illustrating local housing and home value data

Quick answer

The median home in Aurora, CO is worth $444,500 and median gross rent is $1,759 a month. That is 47% above the national median home value of $303,400. 63.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, against 65% nationally.

Median home value
$444,500#26 of 94 metros
Median gross rent
$1,759/mo#16 of 94 metros
Owner-occupied
63.3%US average 65%
Median year built
1985Half the homes here are older than this

Can a median household here buy a median home?

Price-to-income is the plainest affordability yardstick there is.

Aurora's median household earns $84,156 a year while the median home is worth $444,500. That is a price-to-income ratio of 5.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally. Lenders have historically treated anything above 4× as stretched. Renters at the median put 34.7% of household income into gross rent; 30% is the federal threshold for “cost-burdened”.

Related data for Aurora

The same household, seen from three angles.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates

Tables B25077, B25064, B25003, B25035 and B25071, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, Census place 804,000. Values are place-level, not metro-area-wide.

Other Aurora datasets on this site.

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