Photo: Ntsimp · Public domainWith 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Aurora works elsewhere
Home is the office for 8% of workers; Utah has 18%. 161 jobs are based in Aurora for 397 working residents. Aurora grades B for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Aurora apart on work
Fewer jobs are based in Aurora than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Aurora fell from 461 in 2013 to 161 in 2023, −65%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Aurora and Salina trade workers both ways
Salina is the top workplace for Aurora residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Aurora come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 397 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Aurora’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Aurora is better than 55% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Aurora’s grade up (4.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.2%) is left out: Aurora’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Aurora could be anywhere from C to B+.
73% of the jobs in Aurora pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Aurora, 2013 → 2023: 461 → 161. 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.
25% of working residents work in Salina
Where Aurora clocks in
25% of workers
9% of workers
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.
Aurora’s commute, mile by mile
About 32% 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.
How many people are in Aurora by day
On a workday 389 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 153 people come in from elsewhere.
About 830 people are in Aurora on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer 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.
How long Aurora spends getting to work: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Aurora workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 454 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Utah: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Getting around Aurora: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Aurora is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Utah, on an EPA index of 2.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 491 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.9% of Aurora households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Aurora’s commuters take a bus or train.
885th of 3,133: where Aurora ranks among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 128 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 131 | West Mountain UT | 1,282 | $112K | 1.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 883 | Petersham MA | 1,242 | $111K | 8.8% | 4.3% | 7% | B |
| 884 | Burgettstown PA | 1,390 | $53K | 5.7% | 6.6% | 3% | B |
| 885 | Aurora UT | 1,062 | $91K | 4.6% | 1.2% | 2% | B |
| 886 | Steele AL | 1,004 | $72K | 7.0% | 5.7% | 4% | B− |
| 887 | Liberty Township IN | 1,010 | $85K | 6.5% | 0.5% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Aurora, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
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?
$91,250 (±$17,249) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Aurora?
4.6%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Aurora?
17 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Aurora work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salina (25%, 4 mi), Richfield (9%, 14 mi), Gunnison (7%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Aurora walkable?
Aurora is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 2.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Aurora without a car?
0% 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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.