Aurora
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About Aurora
City in Illinois, United StatesAurora is a city in northeastern Illinois, United States, located along the Fox River. The population was 180,542 at the 2020 census. It is the second-most populous city in Illinois, after Chicago, and the 144th-most populous city in the US. Aurora is the most populous city in Illinois that is not a county seat. Founded within Kane County, Aurora's city limits have expanded into DuPage, Kendall, and Will counties. Once a mid-sized manufacturing city, Aurora has grown since the 1960s into a large city within the Chicago metropolitan area. In 1908, Aurora adopted the nickname "City of Lights", because in 1881 it was one of the first cities in the United States to implement an all-electric str…
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How Aurora ranks
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Housing in Aurora
The typical Aurora home is worth about $324,000, up 3.2% in a year, 9% above the Illinois typical home.
Health in Aurora
Health Grade B
Healthier than 56% of U.S. towns on seven CDC estimates.
Compared with Illinois
of 32 measures CDC estimates. The other 16 are too close to call.
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Schools in Aurora
All Aurora schools →School Grade D
The public schools Aurora’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 89% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within IL. Ratings are from neighbors.
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