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.
In Mountain View, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 39.32 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Mountain View does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Mountain View with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.76% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mountain View in 2022 was $29,691, 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 $118,764 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 Asian. Important ancestries of people in Mountain View include Portuguese, German, Irish, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Mountain View is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Japanese.
