Aurora Community Summary

Aurora is located north of the town of Richmond Hill and is partially situated on the Oak Ridges Moraine. Aurora's an affluent town with many residents who commute to Toronto and surrounding communities.

Aurora is served by three publicly funded school boards: the York Region District School Board (the English Public Board), the York Catholic District School Board (the English Catholic Board), and Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud (Ontario's French-language Catholic Board).

Aurora residents have access to a wide range of other educational facilities including daycares and nurseries. The Aurora Public Library is a public library funded and operated by the town.

“Leafy, affluent, and only about an hour’s drive from Downtown Toronto ,” it’s easy to see why the Town of Aurora is one of the fastest growing communities in the Greater Toronto Area.

Nestled just north of the Town of Richmond Hill , and flanked on the east and west by the rolling, more rural landscapes of Whitchurch-Stouffville and King Township respectively, Aurora has one of the highest average household income levels in all of Canada and is home to more than 100 major industries and corporate HQs including Hallmark Cards, Reebok Canada, Desjardins Insurance Agents, and Magna International, the auto parts giant founded by Frank Stronach.

The homes in Aurora’s older Aurora Village & Downtown area encompass a wide range of styles - from Victorian and Georgian to Colonial Tudor, and Greek Revival - and many have heritage designations.

The commercial area of Downtown - generally along Yonge Street and Wellington Street - is lined with charming 19th century buildings, but the town also boasts newer architecture the ultra-modern Aurora Town Hall and the 44,000 square foot, state of the art, Aurora Public Library.

And then there are the parks, trails & green spaces : Aurora has more than 45 of them encompassing almost 500 acres. Many of the town's parks are linked by a trail system that’s enjoyed year round by joggers & hikers; cyclists & cross country skiers.

The Aurora Community Centre - just off Aurora Heights Drive - is home to the Aurora Tigers - the Provincial Junior “A” hockey team. The Aurora Family Leisure Complex - on Industrial Parkway North - offers ice for other levels of hockey as well as figure and pleasure skaters - among others - as well as a pool, gym, squash courts, and more. The Stronach Aurora Recreation Complex near Wellington Street East & Leslie Street has ice, pools, sports fields, facility rooms, and more.

Most of the shopping in Aurora is located along the Yonge Street corridor, with additional shopping across Wellington Sreet East; up Bayview Avenue to St. John's Sideroad, and near the Wellington Street East / Highway 404 interchange.

Aurora offers a fantastic selection of restaurants from many cultures and all price ranges...

There's a Seniors' Centre & Association, and several options for retirement and care reidences in town, too. The nearest major hospitals are Southlake in Newmarket, and MacKenzie Health [formerly York Central Hospital] in Richmond Hill. There's also a good number of walk-in clinics and specialty medical care providers in and around Aurora.

Aurora’s also home to St. Andrew’s College - or “SAC” - the internationally renowned private school founded in Toronto in 1899 and relocated to the Aurora campus in 1926. “The best private boys boarding school in Canada” SAC offers grades five through twelve to about 650 students from 25 countries and a student/teacher ratio of 9:1.

It's sometimes called "Canada's Birthday Town", and you might frequently hear the locals proclaim, “Aurora: My Kind of Town!”. Many renowned Ontarians & Canadians have called Aurora home including former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, whose alma mater, the original Aurora Public School, is now a community museum.

Some of Aurora's best neighbourhoods for finding Bungalows for sale are Aurora Highlands and Aurora Heights - both of which are west of Yonge Street and encompass a sinificant portion of Aurora's early subdividing and dfevelopment - thus the concentration of Bungalow-style homes - as well as newer developments as the town grows. The original Central Aurora neighbourhood of "Aurora Village" also offers a good, varied selection while Aurora Estates has a fair number of Bungalows in the higher price ranges on larger "estate" lots. Most of the neighbourhoods built more recently offer a sprinkling of single storey homes and "Bungalofts" - particularly Hills of St. Andrew along with Bayview Northeast & Southeast. "Bungalofts" are often built in the newer subdivisions where the lots tend to be smaller. It's simply a means of adding some floor area despite the lot size and has become more popular to add some second level space - usually a bathroom of at least three pieces along with a secondary bedroom or two; office space; media/home theatre room - or some combination of those lliving areas - even on larger lots and rural estates. 

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