The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Mountain View has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mountain View a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Mountain View is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mountain View, the average commute to work is 39.35 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Mountain View is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in Mountain View is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.90% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mountain View in 2022 was $27,028, which is low income relative to Hawaii, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,112 for a family of four. However, Mountain View contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mountain View is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mountain View home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mountain View residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Mountain View include Portuguese, Irish, French, German, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Mountain View is English. Other important languages spoken here include Japanese and Spanish.
