Aurora

City Commute Profile

Aurora, IL

Where Aurora’s 86,988 resident workers go each day — 16.8% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Chicago.

IllinoisLODES 2023 data
51
Commute Score

51 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Aurora at a glance
Employed Residents
86,988
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
18.2mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
16.8%
Share working within the area
Work from home
16.1%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Chicago
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Aurora proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Aurora commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Aurora

86,988 commutes, one dot at a time

Aurora

Where 86,988 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Aurora, by worker count.

1Aurora0.0 mi14,626
2Chicago32.0 mi10,880
3Naperville6.9 mi7,557
4Batavia6.2 mi2,214
5Downers Grove14.7 mi1,623
6St. Charles10.9 mi1,608
7Geneva8.8 mi1,587
8Bolingbrook11.1 mi1,584

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Aurora.

1Aurora0.0 mi14,626
2Chicago32.0 mi4,274
3Naperville6.9 mi3,205
4Oswego5.3 mi1,988
5Joliet17.8 mi1,800
6Montgomery4.4 mi1,687
7North Aurora4.2 mi1,297
8Yorkville10.6 mi1,241

Top industries

The sectors that employ Aurora’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services13.6%
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance12.4%
EDEducational Services11.3%
RTRetail Trade10.4%
MFManufacturing10.2%
TRTransportation and Warehousing7.4%
WSWholesale Trade6.4%
AFAccommodation and Food Services6.3%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services4.6%

Aurora city profile

Who lives in Aurora — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
179,898
Median age
35.2yrs
Median household income
$93,633
Median home value
$274,800
Median gross rent
$1,596/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
38.5%
Poverty rate
9.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Aurora

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

5 providers · 2 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps92%
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Aurora

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).