Aurora, Missouri

Aurora population, 2020 to 2024

Aurora added 357 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.9%. In the latest year it moved by +49. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 36th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Aurora is 62% of it.

Aurora covers 6.31 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,200 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Aurora is less dense than the typical town.

What county Aurora is in

All of Aurora's residents live in Lawrence County, which had 39,151 residents in 2024. Aurora holds 19.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Aurora

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Aurora by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 65605. 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 36.967400, -93.718600. Jefferson City, the capital, is 139.7 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Monett, MO (10,108 people), 11.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, MO, 28.2 miles away.

Daylight in Aurora

At 36.97° N, Aurora gets about 14 h 42 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Aurora

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is Marionville, 5.2 miles away, with 2,090 people.