Photo: Brandonrush · CC BY-SA 4.0Mountain View’s household incomes are among the lowest in the country
The two grades for Mountain View are C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Household incomes here are among the lowest in the country. Below the poverty line: 23.1% of residents (Arkansas 16.0%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Mountain View stands out on work
Mountain View is where the jobs are
Mountain View has 1,749 jobs, 2.3 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Mountain View’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Mountain View is Batesville, 28 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (67) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer than half of Mountain View workers earn over $40,000 a year
37% of Mountain View’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 21% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 771 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Mountain View
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mountain View is better than 20% of U.S. towns, #70 of 123 in Arkansas. Unemployment holds Mountain View’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($29,172, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mountain View could be anywhere from C− to C.
The daily commute in and out of Mountain View
On a workday 523 residents head out to work, 248 work right here, and 1,501 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,900 people are in Mountain View on a workday afternoon, 33% more than live here.
2.3 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Miles to work from Mountain View
About 33% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What the 1,749 jobs in Mountain View are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mountain View, 2013 → 2023: 1,824 → 1,749. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mountain View’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Mountain View, and from where
Where Mountain View clocks in
4% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Getting to work from Mountain View takes about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mountain View workers work from home, vs 9% across Arkansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 972 commuters (the 10% who work from home are left out). Across Arkansas: 87% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Few in Mountain View walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mountain View is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #69 of 123 in Arkansas. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.0% across Arkansas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,084 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 23.2% of Mountain View households have no vehicle (Arkansas 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mountain View’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,647th of 4,618: where Mountain View ranks among U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 161 | Johnson AR | 3,684 | $96K | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 244 | Goshen AR | 2,405 | $150K | 1.7% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 352 | Salem AR | 2,642 | $74K | 2.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,645 | Shingletown CA | 2,164 | $67K | 10.4% | 7.7% | 7% | C− |
| 3,646 | Dunean SC | 3,668 | $49K | 20.5% | 9.7% | 2% | C− |
| 3,647 | Mountain View AR | 2,940 | $29K | 23.1% | 0.0% | 32% | C− |
| 3,648 | Tonkawa OK | 2,983 | $59K | 13.9% | 4.9% | 22% | C− |
| 3,649 | Luzerne PA | 2,744 | $42K | 19.9% | 6.4% | 5% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Mountain View, the top three, the last and three more from Arkansas.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Mountain View: questions
What is the median household income in Mountain View?
$29,172 (±$10,640) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,773 across Arkansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mountain View?
23.1%, against 16.0% across Arkansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mountain View?
17 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Arkansas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mountain View work?
32% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Batesville (9%, 28 mi), Little Rock (4%, 80 mi), Conway (4%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mountain View walkable?
Mountain View is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mountain View without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 23% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mountain View, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mountain View
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.