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Aurora town, South Dakota: commercial real estate data.
Aurora town is a Census town of 1,444 people across 0.84 square miles of land, in Brookings County. Median household income is $95,952, 75.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $992,500.
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Aurora
What Aurora is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.84 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,726
- County holding the largest share of its areaBrookings County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Aurora
How many people live in Aurora
- Population1,444
- Median age29.0
- Population under 18391 plus or minus 114
- Share under 1827.1 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Population 65 and over79 plus or minus 29
- Share 65 and over5.5 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Households612
- Family households355 plus or minus 92
- Share of households that are families58.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Aurora
Income and work in Aurora
- Median household income$95,952
- Per capita income$38,287
- Civilian labor force938 plus or minus 210
- Employed907 plus or minus 210
- Unemployed31 plus or minus 17
- Unemployment rate3.3 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Adults 25 and over895
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher97.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher42.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.0 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Aurora
Housing in Aurora
- Housing units635
- Occupied units612
- Vacant units23 plus or minus 22
- Vacancy rate3.6 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Owner occupied459 plus or minus 105
- Renter occupied153 plus or minus 63
- Ownership rate75.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$234,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$840 plus or minus $192
- Annual rent as a share of median income10.5 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Single family units489 plus or minus 116
- Share single family77.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more133 plus or minus 64
- Share in buildings of two or more20.9 percent plus or minus 9.3
- Mobile homes3 plus or minus 4
- Median year structure built2010
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Aurora
How Aurora gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute801 plus or minus 185
- Commuting under 15 minutes327 plus or minus 79
- Share commuting under 15 minutes40.8 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more77 plus or minus 34
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more9.6 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Drove alone80.4 percent
- Carpooled4.9 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Public transport1.3 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Walked1.5 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Worked from home11.4 percent plus or minus 5.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Aurora
SBA loans in Aurora (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$992,500
- Average approval$496,250
- Median approval$977,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$977,500
- Largest approval$977,500
- Jobs supported33
- Jobs per approval16.5
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises50.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Brookings County, not Aurora
Brookings County context, not Aurora figures
These are Brookings County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Aurora measurements.
- Establishments in Brookings County958
- Employment at those establishments, Brookings County15,151
- Covered employment, Brookings County19,246
- Average annual pay, Brookings County$56,994
- Average weekly wage, Brookings County$1,096
- Housing units permitted, Brookings County208
- Of those, single family, Brookings County144
- County product, 2024, Brookings County$3,061,772,000
- County product change over the prior year, Brookings County5.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Brookings County$62,872
Every figure in this section is published for Brookings County as a whole and is not a measurement of Aurora. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Aurora questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Aurora, South Dakota?
1,444, in 612 households. Aurora town covers 0.84 square miles of land, which is 1,726 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Aurora in?
Brookings County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Aurora?
$95,952. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $234,600. Median gross rent is $840 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Aurora businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $992,500, across 2 lenders, median approval $977,500. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Aurora, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Aurora borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Aurora. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Aurora figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Brookings County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Aurora.
Is zoning published for Aurora?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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