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Aura, Finland - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 60°39′N 022°35′E / 60.650°N 22.583°E

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Aura
Municipality
Auran kunta Aura kommun

Coat of arms
Location of Aura in Finland
Coordinates: 60°39′N 022°35′E / 60.650°N 22.583°E / 60.650; 22.583
Country	Finland
Region	Southwest Finland
Sub-region	Loimaa sub-region
Charter	1917
Government
• Municipal manager	Jari Kesäniemi
Area (2018-01-01)^[1]
• Total	95.58 km² (36.90 sq mi)
• Land	95.01 km² (36.68 sq mi)
• Water	0.59 km² (0.23 sq mi)
• Rank	301st largest in Finland
Population (2024-10-31)^[2]
• Total	3,955
• Rank	195th largest in Finland
• Density	41.63/km² (107.8/sq mi)
Population by native language ^[3]
• Finnish	96.5% (official)
• Swedish	0.6%
• Others	2.9%
Population by age ^[4]
• 0 to 14	19%
• 15 to 64	60.2%
• 65 or older	20.8%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Climate	Dfb
Website	aura.fi

Aura (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈɑu̯rɑ]) is a municipality of Finland. The name derives from the river Aura and the plough (aura in Finnish) reminiscent shape of the municipality. The municipality was established in 1917 from parts of Lieto and Pöytyä.

It is part of the Varsinais-Suomi region. The municipality has a population of 3,955 (31 October 2024)^[2] and covers an area of 95.58 square kilometres (36.90 sq mi) of which 0.59 km² (0.23 sq mi) is water.^[1] The population density is 41.63 inhabitants per square kilometre (107.8/sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Geography

Villages

In 1967, Aura had 23 legally recognized villages (henkikirjakylät):^[6]

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

History

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.^[7]^[8]

Demographics

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.^[9]

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

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1975	2,338	—
1980	2,470	+1.10%
1985	2,692	+1.74%
1990	2,960	+1.92%
1995	3,288	+2.12%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
2000	3,338	+0.30%
2005	3,699	+2.08%
2010	3,911	+1.12%
2015	3,986	+0.38%
2020	3,959	−0.14%

Source: Statistics Finland^[10]

Urban areas

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%.^[11] The urban population in the municipality was divided between two urban areas as follows:^[12]

#	Urban area	Population
1	Aura railway station area	2,700
2	Lieto railway station area	5^[a]

Economy

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%.^[13]

The ten largest employers in Aura in 2019 were as follows:^[14]

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

Notes

^ The Lieto railway station area has a total population of 1,177, and in addition to Aura, reaches the municipality of Lieto (1,172 residents).^[12]

References

^ ^a ^b "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Finland's preliminary population figure was 5,635,560 at the end of October 2024". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 19 November 2024. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
^ "Population growth biggest in nearly 70 years". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 26 April 2024. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
^ "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Luettelo kuntien ja seurakuntien tuloveroprosenteista vuonna 2023". Tax Administration of Finland. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
^ Inki, Valto; Papunen, Pentti (1967). "Aura". Suomenmaa: maantieteellis-yhteiskunnallinen tieto- ja hakuteos. 1: Ahlainen–Hausjärvi. Helsinki: WSOY.
^ "SuomalainenPaikannimikirja_e-kirja_kuvallinen.pdf" (PDF). kaino.kotus.fi (in Finnish). p. 30. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
^ "Suomen Sukututkimusseura". hiski.genealogia.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 28 December 2022.
^ "Key figures on population by region, 1990-2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
^ "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area, 1972-2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
^ "Degree of urbanisation by area, 2019". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Archived from the original on 26 November 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Population in urban settlements and sparsely populated areas by age, sex and municipality, 2019". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Archived from the original on 26 November 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
^ "Municipal key figures 1987-2020 (with the 2021 regional division)". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Archived from the original on 26 April 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2021. (2018 and 2019)
^ "Kunnittainen toimipaikkatilasto" (in Finnish). Statistics Finland. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2021.

External links

Media related to Aura at Wikimedia Commons

Municipality of Aura – Official website (in Finnish)

Places adjacent to Aura, Finland

Pöytyä

Turku

Aura

Lieto

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