Aurora, Colorado

Aurora population, 2020 to 2024

Aurora added 16,326 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.2%. In the latest year it moved by +5,557. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 33rd; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Aurora is 28.7 times that size.

Aurora covers 164.06 square miles of land and 0.58 of water, for 2,457 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Aurora is denser than the typical town.

The 3 counties Aurora spans

Aurora crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 403,130 residents as follows; Arapahoe County holds 84.7% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Aurora

13 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Aurora by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 80010, 80011, 80012, 80013, 80014, 80015, 80016, 80017, 80018, 80019, 80045, 80137, 80247. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Aurora is

The Census internal point of Aurora is at 39.709500, -104.720500. Denver, the capital, is 14.2 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Denver, CO (729,019 people), 9.3 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 1,687 m (5,535 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Aurora

At 39.71° N, Aurora gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Aurora daylight page.

Places near Aurora

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Denver, 9.3 miles away, with 729,019 people.