It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Mountain View has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Mountain View has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mountain View than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mountain View may be for you.
Being a small city, Mountain View does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Mountain View are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.06% of adults in Mountain View having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mountain View in 2022 was $26,402, which is middle income relative to Arkansas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,608 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 Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mountain View include English, Irish, German, Danish, and British.
The most common language spoken in Mountain View is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
