Aura, Finland

In 1967, Aura had 23 legally recognized villages (henkikirjakylät):{{Cite book |last1=Inki |first1=Valto |last2=Papunen |first2=Pentti |title=Suomenmaa: maantieteellis-yhteiskunnallinen tieto- ja hakuteos. 1: Ahlainen–Hausjärvi|publisher=WSOY|year=1967|location=Helsinki|chapter=Aura}}

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• Auvainen
• Hypöinen
• Ihava
• Järvenoja
• Järykselä
• Kaerla
• Karviainen
• Kinnarla
• Kuuskoski
• Käetty
• Lahto
• Laukkaniitty
• Leikola
• Leinikkala
• Leppäkoski
• Paimala
• Pitkäniitty
• Prunkkala
• Puho
• Seppälä
• Sikilä
• Simola
• Viilaila

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The area was initially a part of the Lieto parish. A church was built in the village of Prunkkala in 1636, forming a new chapel community. In 1908, an order to separate Prunkkala from Lieto was made. The villages of Kuuskoski, Hypöinen, Viilala and Lahto were transferred to it from Pöytyä. The parish became fully independent in 1917 under the current name Aura, after the Aura train station and the community that had formed around it in the late 19th century.{{Cite web|title=SuomalainenPaikannimikirja_e-kirja_kuvallinen.pdf|url=https://kaino.kotus.fi/www/verkkojulkaisut/julk63/SuomalainenPaikannimikirja_e-kirja_kuvallinen.pdf|page=30|access-date=December 28, 2022|website=kaino.kotus.fi|language=fi}}{{Cite web|title=Suomen Sukututkimusseura|url=https://hiski.genealogia.fi/seurakunnat/srk?CMD=SRK&ID=19&TYPE=HTML&LANG=FI|access-date=December 28, 2022|website=hiski.genealogia.fi|language=fi}}

In 2020, 19.0% of the population of Aura was under the age of 15, 60.2% were aged 15 to 64, and 20.8% were over the age of 65. The average age was 42.0, under the national average of 43.4 and regional average of 44.0. Speakers of Finnish made up 96.8% of the population and speakers of Swedish made up 0.6%, while the share of speakers of foreign languages was 2.6%. Foreign nationals made up 2.1% of the total population.{{Cite web|title=Key figures on population by region, 1990-2020|url=https://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/en/StatFin/StatFin__vrm__vaerak/statfin_vaerak_pxt_11ra.px/|url-status=live|access-date=1 May 2021|website=StatFin|publisher=Statistics Finland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406192005/http://pxnet2.stat.fi:80/PXWeb/pxweb/en/StatFin/StatFin__vrm__vaerak/statfin_vaerak_pxt_11ra.px/ |archive-date=2019-04-06 }}

The chart below, describing the development of the total population of Aura from 1975-2020, encompasses the municipality's area as of 2021.

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| 1975 |2,338

| 1980 |2,470

| 1985 |2,692

| 1990 |2,960

| 1995 |3,288

| 2000 |3,338

| 2005 |3,699

| 2010 |3,911

| 2015 |3,986

| 2020 |3,959

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In 2019, out of the total population of 3,941, 2,705 people lived in urban areas and 1,166 in sparsely populated areas, while the coordinates of 70 people were unknown. This made Aura's degree of urbanization 69.9%.{{Cite web|title=Degree of urbanisation by area, 2019|url=https://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/en/StatFin/StatFin__vrm__vaerak/statfin_vaerak_pxt_11s7.px/|url-status=live|access-date=1 May 2021|website=StatFin|publisher=Statistics Finland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191126094642/http://pxnet2.stat.fi:80/PXWeb/pxweb/en/StatFin/StatFin__vrm__vaerak/statfin_vaerak_pxt_11s7.px/ |archive-date=2019-11-26 }} The urban population in the municipality was divided between two urban areas as follows:{{Cite web|title=Population in urban settlements and sparsely populated areas by age, sex and municipality, 2019|url=https://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/en/StatFin/StatFin__vrm__vaerak/statfin_vaerak_pxt_11s6.px/|url-status=live|access-date=1 May 2021|website=StatFin|publisher=Statistics Finland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191126094635/http://pxnet2.stat.fi:80/PXWeb/pxweb/en/StatFin/StatFin__vrm__vaerak/statfin_vaerak_pxt_11s6.px/ |archive-date=2019-11-26 }}

In 2018, 5.2% of the workforce of Aura worked in primary production (agriculture, forestry and fishing), 34.9% in secondary production (e.g. manufacturing, construction and infrastructure), and 57.6% in services. In 2019, the unemployment rate was 5.7%, and the share of pensioners in the population was 23.7%.{{Cite web|title=Municipal key figures 1987-2020 (with the 2021 regional division)|url=https://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/en/Kuntien_avainluvut/Kuntien_avainluvut__2021/kuntien_avainluvut_2021_aikasarja.px|url-status=live|access-date=1 May 2021|website=StatFin|publisher=Statistics Finland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426165318/https://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/en/Kuntien_avainluvut/Kuntien_avainluvut__2021/kuntien_avainluvut_2021_aikasarja.px |archive-date=2021-04-26 }} (2018 and 2019)

The ten largest employers in Aura in 2019 were as follows:{{Cite web|title=Kunnittainen toimipaikkatilasto|url=https://www.stat.fi/tup/yritystietopalvelu/kunnittainen-toimipaikkatilasto|url-status=live|access-date=1 May 2021|publisher=Statistics Finland|language=fi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114133314/http://www.stat.fi/tup/yritystietopalvelu/kunnittainen-toimipaikkatilasto |archive-date=2016-11-14 }}

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• Municipality of Aura, 138 employees
• Reka Kumi Oy, 63 еmployees
• Turun Osuuskauppa, 55 employees
• Oy WW-Offshore Ab, 41 employees
• Aurajoki Oy, 40 employees
• Humana Hoiva Oy, 37 employees
• JPV-Engineering Oy, 31 employees
• Criminal Sanctions Agency, 30 employees
• Posti Oy, 28 employees
• Pilke päiväkodit Oy, 21 employees

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• Aura River
• Finnish national road 9

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• [https://aura.fi/ Municipality of Aura] – Official website {{in lang|fi}}

{{Geographic location

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| N = Pöytyä

| E = Lieto

| S = Lieto

| W = Turku

| NW = {{Tooltip|Kuhankuono|boundary stone where 7 municipalities meet}}

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Category:Populated places established in 1917

Category:Municipalities of Southwest Finland

Category:1917 establishments in Finland