Few U.S. towns have unemployment as high as Mountain View Acres’ 16.4%
Mountain View Acres grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, against 17% across California. Hardly any stay in Mountain View Acres for work; outside it, Victorville is the main destination (19%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mountain View Acres at work: what stands out
Mountain View Acres and Victorville trade workers both ways
Victorville is the top workplace for Mountain View Acres residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Mountain View Acres come from (36% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Mountain View Acres workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 17% across California. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Mountain View Acres is a place people come home to
There are 306 jobs based in Mountain View Acres, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Mountain View Acres workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 29 across California. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Mountain View Acres
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mountain View Acres is better than 22% of U.S. towns, #702 of 847 in California. Job access by car holds Mountain View Acres’ grade up (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mountain View Acres could be anywhere from D to B−.
Where Mountain View Acres goes to work
Where Mountain View Acres clocks in
19% of workers
7% 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.
Time on the road from Mountain View Acres: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mountain View Acres workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,024 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across California: 79% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Who works in Mountain View Acres, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,041 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 299 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Mountain View Acres on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.29 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.
The commute from Mountain View Acres, by distance
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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Mountain View Acres
306 jobs are based in Mountain View Acres.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mountain View Acres, 2013 → 2023: 187 → 306. 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 Acres’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Mountain View Acres gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mountain View Acres is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns, #722 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 7.1% across California.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,056 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 29% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 81% 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). 12.3% of Mountain View Acres households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mountain View Acres’ commuters take a bus or train.
Mountain View Acres is 3,350th of 4,221 U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 74 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,348 | Curry Township IN | 3,431 | $53K | 15.1% | 3.8% | 6% | C− |
| 3,349 | Pentland Township MI | 2,693 | $69K | 10.5% | 13.7% | 15% | C− |
| 3,350 | Mountain View Acres CA | 3,512 | $79K | 28.4% | 16.4% | 1% | C− |
| 3,351 | Zephyrhills North FL | 2,831 | $52K | 20.8% | 12.8% | <1% | C− |
| 3,352 | Mauriceville TX | 2,945 | $64K | 13.5% | 10.5% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,221 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Acres, the top three, the last and three more from California.
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 Acres: questions
What is the median household income in Mountain View Acres?
$78,793 (±$27,191) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mountain View Acres?
28.4%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mountain View Acres?
34 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mountain View Acres work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Victorville (19%, 2 mi), Hesperia (7%, 7 mi), Los Angeles (6%, 69 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mountain View Acres walkable?
Mountain View Acres is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 10.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mountain View Acres without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 29% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mountain View Acres, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mountain View Acres
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.