Walnut Canyon National Monument · Photo: Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 3.0For more than half of its working residents, Mountain View Ranches is a commute to Flagstaff
The two grades for Mountain View Ranches are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 87% of U.S. towns. Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers, where Arizona as a whole has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Mountain View Ranches
How Mountain View Ranches earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mountain View Ranches is better than 60% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Mountain View Ranches’ grade up (2.1%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (6.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mountain View Ranches could be anywhere from C− to A.
Where the trip to work from Mountain View Ranches ends
Where Mountain View Ranches clocks in
54% of workers
7% 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.
A workday in Mountain View Ranches: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 657 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 224 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Mountain View Ranches on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.36 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Making and building: 36% of jobs based in Mountain View Ranches
241 jobs are based in Mountain View Ranches.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mountain View Ranches, 2013 → 2023: 81 → 241. 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 Ranches’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes to work from Mountain View Ranches
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mountain View Ranches workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 881 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Arizona: 82% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Mountain View Ranches
About 29% 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.
Getting around Mountain View Ranches: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mountain View Ranches is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.9% across Arizona, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 962 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Mountain View Ranches households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mountain View Ranches’ commuters take a bus or train.
Mountain View Ranches is 1,666th of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 958 | Fort Valley AZ | 1,761 | $126K | 5.2% | 0.6% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,184 | Centennial Park AZ | 1,839 | $168K | 3.5% | 2.5% | 31% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,205 | Bellemont AZ | 1,701 | $120K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,664 | Oliver Township PA | 2,097 | $91K | 8.7% | 6.5% | 2% | B |
| 1,665 | Sullivan WI | 2,318 | $86K | 6.7% | 6.6% | 1% | B |
| 1,666 | Mountain View Ranches AZ | 1,984 | $116K | 2.1% | 6.7% | 3% | B |
| 1,667 | Woodlawn VA | 2,250 | $78K | 7.6% | 2.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,668 | Evans City PA | 1,670 | $74K | 4.1% | 7.2% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Ranches, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
The towns around Mountain View Ranches
The biggest share goes to Doney Park (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mountain View Ranches workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain View Ranches | – | B | C+ | 23 min | $116,290 |
| Doney Park | 4% | B+ | D | 22 min | $104,967 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mountain View Ranches’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Ranches: questions
What is the median household income in Mountain View Ranches?
$116,290 (±$99,309) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mountain View Ranches?
2.1%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mountain View Ranches?
23 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mountain View Ranches work?
3% work in town.
Is Mountain View Ranches walkable?
Mountain View Ranches is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mountain View Ranches without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mountain View Ranches, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mountain View Ranches
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.