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.
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.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Mountain View rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.18% of adults 25 and older in Mountain View have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Mountain View in 2022 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.
