Aurora Locksmith — 24 Hour Lock & Key Service
The technician drives from our Newmarket base, straight down Yonge or Bayview. For most Aurora addresses that is a fifteen to twenty-five minute trip, day or night.
Quick answer
Locksmith Newmarket has covered Aurora since 2000. We handle house and car lockouts, rekeying, deadbolt and handleset installation, commercial hardware and car key replacement anywhere in town, 24 hours a day. Because Aurora borders Newmarket, arrival is usually 15 to 25 minutes. Call 866-820-1331 for a firm price before anyone is dispatched.
Aurora is the closest town to our base and it shows in the response time. Yonge and Davis in Newmarket to Yonge and Wellington in Aurora is about seven kilometres of straight road. An Aurora locksmith call is normally answered in fifteen to twenty-five minutes rather than the half hour we quote for the towns further out.
We do not keep a shop on Wellington Street. The van drives down from Newmarket with cylinders, key blanks, deadbolts and programming equipment already aboard, which is the honest arrangement for a mobile trade. A storefront would not make your door open any faster. What matters is whether the technician is carrying the part your door takes, and for the hardware common in Aurora he is.
The town is really two housing stories sitting side by side, and they fail in opposite ways. Lock repair in the older core is usually about worn brass and a door that has settled. East of Bayview it is more often builder-grade cylinders, smart lock retrofits and a garage entry door that was never adjusted properly.
What Aurora addresses actually call about
Four jobs make up most of the work in this town.
Locked out of the house
Side door pulled shut on a spring latch with the key inside. Opened with picks, a bypass tool or a wedge and probe in the large majority of cases. No drilling, no damage to the door.
Key snapped in the cylinder
Common on the 1970s and 1980s brass west of Yonge. We extract the broken half, then rekey the cylinder or replace it if the wafers are worn past holding a key properly.
Car keys and fobs
Lost the only key, or the fob has stopped talking to the car. Cut and programmed in your driveway on most makes from the late 1990s onward, including proximity keys.
Store and office hardware
Yonge and Wellington storefronts: door closers, mortise cylinders, panic bars, master keys, and lockouts at seven in the morning when nobody can open up.
Aurora Heights, the heritage blocks and the older doors
Sixty-year-old doors and ten-year-old doors fail for completely different reasons.
Aurora Heights was the town’s first proper subdivision, and the streets around Murray Drive and Aurora Heights Drive still carry the houses that went up with it. West of Yonge toward Kennedy Street and Mosley Street the stock gets older again, into heritage-block houses with original jambs, painted-over strike plates and hinge screws that have been quietly backing out since the seventies.
On a door that age the lock is rarely the actual problem. The door has dropped. You feel it as a key that only turns if you lift the handle, or a deadbolt that throws hard in February and freely in July. Swapping the cylinder fixes none of that. What fixes it is packing the hinges, re-cutting the strike, and only then dealing with the hardware. We would rather spend fifteen minutes on the frame than sell you a lock you did not need.
The second thing we find constantly in older Aurora houses is a deadbolt anchored with three-quarter-inch screws into pine trim. That door opens to one shoulder regardless of what the lock cost. Three-inch screws reaching the stud behind the jamb cost a few dollars and move the failure point somewhere useful. Our deadbolt and strike reinforcement page has the long version.
- Broken keys extracted from worn brass cylinders without drilling
- Original locks rekeyed so one key runs the front, side and garage doors
- Strike plates re-cut and reinforced with three-inch screws into the framing
- Storm and screen door locks realigned after a main door replacement
- Basement apartment entrances put on their own keyway, separate from the house
- Century-home mortise cases repaired rather than replaced where the case is still sound
The Bayview corridor and the newer 2C subdivisions
East of Bayview, Aurora’s 2C lands have filled in over the last fifteen years: Bayview Northeast, and the streets running up toward St John’s Sideroad and Wellington Street East. Large houses on tight lots, and typically three or four exterior doors each. Front, garage-to-house, patio slider, and often a side door into a mudroom.
Builder hardware on those houses is usually a Grade 3 knob-and-deadbolt package keyed alike across every door. Convenient, and it also means everyone who held a key during construction held a key to the whole house. New owners on those streets are our most common lock change after closing call. Re-pinning five or six cylinders to a fresh key takes under an hour and costs a fraction of replacing the hardware.
The other newer-build pattern is the garage-to-house door. Builders hang it as an interior-grade slab with an interior-grade lockset, which makes it the weakest entrance on the property the moment the overhead door is defeated. Putting a Grade 2 deadbolt on that one door is the cheapest meaningful security change most Aurora homeowners can make.
Smart locks are common here too. Roughly half our smart lock installations in Aurora are retrofits onto builder doors, where the bore is already fine and the real job is backset, door thickness, and cutting the strike pocket deep enough that the motor is not fighting the frame every single time it throws.
The drive from Newmarket, honestly
The routes are simple. Yonge Street south through the Bayview Parkway lights reaches the Wellington intersection and the downtown. Bayview Avenue south serves the 2C subdivisions and anything near Aurora GO on Wellington Street East. Leslie Street, or Highway 404 down to Wellington, covers the commercial and industrial pocket east of the highway.
Fifteen to twenty-five minutes door to door is the realistic number for most Aurora addresses, and it can be under fifteen for the north end near St John’s Sideroad. It runs longer between four and six in the afternoon when Yonge backs up, and longer again in a snow event. We give you the honest window on the phone instead of promising a flat twenty minutes and leaving you standing in your driveway.
Overnight coverage is the same coverage. A three in the morning call from Aurora reaches the same on-call technician as a three in the afternoon call, and the drive at that hour is as fast as it ever gets. Nights, weekends and statutory holidays carry a call-out premium. We state it before dispatch, never after the work is done.
Aurora locksmith prices in 2026
Every job below is priced on the phone before the van moves. These are the ranges Aurora addresses actually fall into.
| Job | What is involved | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| House lockout | Non-destructive entry on a standard residential lock | $95 – $180 |
| Rekey, per cylinder | Existing lock re-pinned to a new key | $25 – $45 each, plus the call-out |
| Deadbolt supplied and fitted | Grade 2 or Grade 1 bolt, new strike, 3-inch screws | $150 – $290 |
| Full lock change, 4 to 6 doors | New keyed-alike hardware throughout the house | $450 – $950 |
| Broken key extraction | Removal, then rekey or cylinder replacement | $110 – $200 |
| Car lockout | Non-destructive entry, most makes | $95 – $175 |
| Car key cut and programmed | Transponder key or fob, done at your vehicle | $180 – $450 |
| Commercial lockout, after hours | Storefront or office, outside business hours | $150 – $320 |
Ranges are typical for 2026 and cover the ordinary version of each job. Overnight, weekend and statutory holiday call-outs carry a premium. The hardware you choose changes the total. A firm price is confirmed on the phone before a technician is dispatched — nothing is quoted at your door.
Shops, offices and the Aurora business strips
Commercial work here splits between the Yonge and Wellington retail blocks, the plazas along Bayview and Wellington East, and the industrial units east of Leslie near the 404. Different buildings, a short and repetitive list of problems.
Aluminium storefront doors are the big one. Narrow stile, mortise cylinder, hook bolt, and a predictable set of failures: the closer loses fluid and the door either slams or stops latching, the bottom pivot wears, and the cylinder goes sloppy after ten years of a dozen staff keys. Closer repairs and mortise cylinder swaps are routine, usually same day.
Where a business has staff turnover we set up a master key system, so the owner carries one key that opens everything while each employee holds a key that opens only what they need. On fire-route doors, panic hardware is not a preference. We fit and service panic bars to standard rather than working around them.
Why Aurora calls us
Aurora and the towns around it
Aurora sits between Newmarket and Richmond Hill, and we cover the whole corridor from the same base. If you are outside Aurora, the pages below give the honest drive time and the local detail for each town.
Frequently asked questions
How fast can a locksmith actually get to Aurora?
Fifteen to twenty-five minutes for most addresses. The drive from our Newmarket base is about seven kilometres to the downtown and a little more to the 2C subdivisions east of Bayview. Rush hour on Yonge and heavy snow both stretch it. We give you a real window when you call rather than a stock number, and we tell you if something has pushed it out.
Do you have a locksmith shop in Aurora?
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. We are a mobile locksmith working out of Newmarket. The technician drives to you with the stock on board. For a lockout, a rekey or a car key that is not a disadvantage, because everything happens at your door anyway. If you specifically want to walk into a store and buy a lock over a counter, a hardware store is a better fit.
Can you open my Aurora door without damaging it?
Almost always. Standard residential cylinders open with picks or a bypass tool, and a latch that has not been deadbolted often opens with a shim. Drilling is a last resort reserved for high-security cylinders, seized locks or a bolt that has already failed inside the door. If drilling is the only option we tell you first, and we tell you what replacing it will cost.
Should I rekey or replace the locks in a house I just bought in Aurora?
Rekey, in most cases. If the hardware is sound and matches the door, re-pinning the cylinders to a new key ends every old key in circulation for a fraction of the cost of new locks. Replace instead when the finish is failing, the lock is loose in the bore, the grade is too low for an exterior door, or you want a keypad. We tell you which situation you are in before quoting.
Do you cut car keys in Aurora, or do I need the dealership?
We cut and program most car keys at the vehicle, including transponder keys and proximity fobs, for the large majority of makes from the late 1990s on. It is normally cheaper than a dealer and it does not need a tow. A handful of newer European models still require dealer-only equipment. Give us the year, make and model on the phone and we will tell you honestly which category you are in.
Are you open overnight and on holidays in Aurora?
Yes, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, including Christmas Day and every statutory holiday. The same on-call technician covers overnight calls. There is a call-out premium outside normal hours, and you hear that number before we dispatch. Nothing gets added at the door.
What does an Aurora house lockout cost?
Typically $95 to $180 during normal hours for a standard residential lock opened without damage. High-security cylinders, a deadbolt thrown from inside, or a door that has to be drilled and rebuilt cost more. Overnight and holiday calls carry a premium. You get a firm number on the phone, and if the situation on arrival is genuinely different from what was described, we tell you before doing the work.
Do you work on the older doors in downtown Aurora?
Yes, and they are some of our more interesting calls. Heritage doors often carry original mortise cases that can be stripped, cleaned and repaired instead of replaced, which matters if you want to keep the look of the door. Where the case is beyond saving we can fit a modern cylinder into the original hardware so the door still reads correctly from the street.
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Need an Aurora locksmith right now?
Call 866-820-1331 and describe the door. You get a firm price on the phone and a realistic arrival time, day or night. Most Aurora addresses are fifteen to twenty-five minutes from our Newmarket base.
