Mountain View RanchesAZ
The town has 1,984 residents and lies in Arizona.
Is Mountain View Ranches a good place to live?
The best of Mountain View Ranches’ subject grades is an A for health; the weakest is a D− for hazard risk. On hazard risk, just 9 of Arizona’s 207 towns do worse. 48% of the land in Mountain View Ranches is conserved, against 14% in Arizona’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. The biggest place to walk is Coconino National Forest, 1,498 acres with 5.6 miles of trail. Mountain View Ranches has 4 places on the National Register. Mountain View Ranches has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Mountain View Ranches stand out
Where Mountain View Ranches beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| Widest gap | Mountain View Ranches | AZ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 7.6% | 13.2% |
97% of working residents leave Mountain View Ranches for work
Where Mountain View Ranches’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Mountain View Ranches grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Arizona), ordered by how far Mountain View Ranches is from typical.
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Moving to Mountain View Ranches: who provides what
Mountain View Ranches is unincorporated, so Coconino County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Mountain View Ranches.
Conservation land takes up nearly a third of Mountain View Ranches
Mountain View Ranches’ trail network density comes in at 1.1 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Coconino National Forest | 5.6 mi | 1,498 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A smaller share of adults in Mountain View Ranches have obesity than in the typical Arizona or U.S. town
29% of Mountain View Ranches adults feel lonely. This Arizona town does better than the Arizona average on 14 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 1. In Mountain View Ranches, 73% of adults had a checkup this year, and 30% have high blood pressure.
| Mountain View Ranches | Arizona towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 32% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 75% | 79% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 36% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 35% | 36% |
| What stands out | Mountain View Ranches | AZ |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 7.6% | 13.2% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.2% | 15.8% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.8% | 8.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Mountain View Ranches faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
FEMA puts 64% of Mountain View Ranches’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 20% to wildfires. Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 97% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Mountain View Ranches stands out in Arizona and nationally, with fewer of its residents who live below the poverty line
For Mountain View Ranches, the average commute is 23 minutes. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs locally rose by 160, to 241. In Mountain View Ranches, 2.5% of working residents work locally. The top destinations are Flagstaff (54%), Phoenix (7%) and Doney Park (4%).
| Mountain View Ranches | Arizona towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 2.1% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.5% | 10% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 24 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The climate in Mountain View Ranches brings snowy winters and pleasant summers
The range runs from 18° on a January night to 87° on a July afternoon, with about 52 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median home in Mountain View Ranches sells for about $702K
For households in Mountain View Ranches, the share who live in a home they own is 94%.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Humphreys Peak and 11 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Mountain View Ranches. Close and well known come first.
14 mi MountainHumphreys Peak
9 mi National MonumentSunset Crater Volcano National Monument108K visitors a year
18 mi MountainRoden Crater
4 mi National MonumentWalnut Canyon National Monument153K visitors a year
14 mi Ski areaArizona Snowbowl53 runs · 2,368 ft vertical
34 mi MountainCathedral RockPhoto credits
Humphreys Peak: Bob Blasi; Coconino National Forest, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument: National Park Service, Public domain · Roden Crater: Unknown, Public domain · Walnut Canyon National Monument: Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Arizona Snowbowl: Frederick Dennstedt from los angeles, usa, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Cathedral Rock: Terrydarc, CC BY-SA 3.0
Everything we know about Mountain View Ranches
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Mountain View Ranches
About 3 of every 100 Mountain View Ranches residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Arizona.
Mountain View Ranches’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Mountain View Ranches.
| Town | AZ rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain View Ranches | — | — | C | — | B | A |
| Doney Park | #49 | B− | C | — | B | A |
Mountain View Ranches has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Mountain View Ranches and Doney Park report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Mountain View Ranches with a neighbor →
Questions about Mountain View Ranches
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mountain View Ranches, AZ expensive?
The typical home is worth about $519,000, 24% above the Arizona typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.