Photo: Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Aurora has 2.3 jobs per working resident, and 546 people come in to work
Home is the office for 9% of workers; New York has 15%. 565 jobs are based in Aurora for 247 working residents. Only 8% stay in Aurora for work; outside it, Ledyard is the main destination (16%, 1 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Aurora in brief
Aurora is where the jobs are
Aurora has 565 jobs, 2.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 650 people are in town, 97% more than the 330 who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Aurora are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 153 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Aurora and Ledyard trade workers both ways
Ledyard is the top workplace for Aurora residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Aurora come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 247 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How a workday changes Aurora
On a workday 228 residents head out to work and 19 work right here.
About 650 people are in Aurora on a workday afternoon, 97% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The daily trip from Aurora: about 13 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Aurora workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 254 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The daily trip into Aurora
Where Aurora clocks in
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Most jobs in Aurora are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Aurora, 2013 → 2023: 415 → 565. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Aurora’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Aurora
About 23% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Aurora: questions
What is the median household income in Aurora?
$71,250 (±$25,010) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Aurora?
14.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Aurora?
13 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Aurora work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ledyard (16%, 1 mi), Lansing (8%, 15 mi), Ithaca (7%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Aurora without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Aurora, from the people who make the trip.
More of Aurora
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.