Aurora
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Outdoors in Aurora
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1910
Three Boys Shoveling Zinc Ore from Car Into Wagon, Near Big Bonanza Mine, 1910
Photo · Library of Congress
About Aurora
City in Missouri, United StatesAurora is a city in Lawrence County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 7,217.
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How Aurora ranks
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Housing in Aurora
The typical Aurora home is worth about $178,000, up 3.6% in a year, 34% below the Missouri typical home.
Safety in Aurora
Not graded
A grade needs all of the FBI's latest years (2023–2025). Aurora's police department reported only 2023, so we don't grade it yet. The figures below are still real.
Health in Aurora
Health Grade D
Healthier than 5% of U.S. towns on seven CDC estimates.
Compared with Missouri
of 32 measures CDC estimates. The other 14 are too close to call.
What stands out
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Schools in Aurora
All Aurora schools →School Grade C
The public schools Aurora’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 74% of Missouri’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 MO. Ratings are from neighbors.
Famous people from Aurora
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Where Aurora is
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