The city 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 of the benefits of Mountain View is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.70 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Mountain View is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Mountain View are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.18% of adults in Mountain View have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Mountain View in 2018 was $22,568, which is lower middle income relative to Arkansas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,272 for a family of four. However, Mountain View contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
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 Asian. Important ancestries of people in Mountain View include Irish, English, German, Danish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Mountain View is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
