Mountain View is a larger medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 70,467 people and 17 constituent neighborhoods, Mountain View is the 93rd largest community in California.

Mountain View is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 89.80% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Mountain View is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mountain View who work in management occupations (15.41%), computer science and math (14.27%), and office and administrative support jobs (10.58%).

Of important note, Mountain View is also a city of artists. Mountain View has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Mountain View's character.

Also of interest is that Mountain View has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Another interesting thing about Mountain View, despite not being a huge city, is that there is a relatively high proportion of people living here who are young, single, and upwardly-mobile professionals. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Mountain View is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

One of the nice things about Mountain View is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the city are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

Mountain View Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Mountain View is a pretty powerful place. 55.35% of the adults in Mountain View have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Mountain View in 2000 was $39,693, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $158,772 for a family of four. However, Mountain View contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mountain View is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mountain View home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Mountain View is White, followed by Asian. Mountain View also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.12% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Mountain View include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Russian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Mountain View's cultural character, accounting for 35.00% of the city's population.

The languages spoken by people in Mountain View are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Mountain View is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese, and Russian.