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The median home value in Aurora, IL is $326,890 as of 2026-07-31, up 2.92% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$326,890
Year-over-Year
+2.92%
Population
176,688
Aurora ranks #132 of 279 Illinois cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 2.5% above the state's city median of $319,026. It sits in Kane County, where the county-wide median is $387,210.
Median household income in Aurora is $93,633, so the typical home value is about 3.5× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Aurora police recorded a violent crime rate of 266 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,252 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Aurora, that value is $326,890. That's up 2.92% from a year earlier. It is about 2.5% above the typical Illinois city tracked here.
Homes in Aurora are cheaper than Kane County as a whole, where the median is $387,210 — a difference of about 15.6%.
Median household income here is $93,633, so the typical home value is about 3.5× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Aurora police reported 266 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 176,688. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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