Mountain View AcresCA
With 3,512 residents, it is a town in California.
Is Mountain View Acres a good place to live?
A tough set of grades. Where it falls short is incomes: the median household income is $79K, and 28% of residents live below the poverty line. Hazard risk is weaker too: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 75% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Homes run about $367K for a typical one, 4.1 times the Riverside metro’s $90K median household income. All told, that adds up to a D− overall and a rank of 718th of 841 in California. Nationally, it does better than 4% of U.S. towns. On cost of living, just 97 of California’s 1,058 towns do better. Only 101 of California’s 1,063 towns score lower on history.
Figures: incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · home values, Zillow · National Register of Historic Places.
99% of working residents leave Mountain View Acres for work
Where Mountain View Acres’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Mountain View Acres grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Mountain View Acres is from typical.
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Moving to Mountain View Acres: who provides what
Mountain View Acres is unincorporated, so San Bernardino 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 Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Mountain View Acres.
Mountain View Acres has more 90° days than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to Victorville and beyond, but it has poverty well above the California rate.
On state tests, Mountain View Acres’ schools trail 73% of California districts
Its public schools are run by the Victor Elementary school district. Mountain View Acres’ only public school teaches 793 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park View ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–6 | Grades K–6 | 793 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Health in Mountain View Acres trails 76% of U.S. towns
Mountain View Acres: 15% of adults have diabetes, above both the California town median (12%) and the median of U.S. towns (12%). The share of adults in Mountain View Acres who say their health is fair or poor: 30%. 27% of adults in Mountain View Acres worry about having enough food; 70% had a checkup this year.
| Mountain View Acres | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 22% | 19% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 16% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 9% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 70% | 72% | 79% |
| What stands out | Mountain View Acres | CA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 16.7% | 10.6% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 16.3% | 10.6% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 26.7% | 17.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Conservation land takes up 0.4% of Mountain View Acres
The trail density for Mountain View Acres comes to 0.9 miles per square mile, where California’s towns sit at 1.0 and U.S. towns at 0.4. Walkers can cover 1.5 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. One park or preserve covers 4 acres in the town.
| Mountain View Acres | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.4% | 4.3% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.9 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Parkview Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Most people working in Mountain View Acres commute elsewhere
Mountain View Acres has 306 jobs for its 1,048 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Employers in Mountain View Acres added 119 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 306. Just 1% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. In Mountain View Acres, the mean commuting time is 34 minutes. The median commute is under 32 miles.
| Mountain View Acres | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 28% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 34 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Median household income | $79,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Top of a high hazard risk in Mountain View Acres: inland flooding
FEMA puts 54% of Mountain View Acres’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 42% to earthquakes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Mild winters and hot summers: that is Mountain View Acres’ year
The Victorville weather station records that about 119 days a year reach 90°, more than in 98% of U.S. towns. July afternoons average 95.6°, hotter than in 97% of U.S. towns; January nights average 35.8°.
The January low in Mountain View Acres is 36°F. Snow is a rarity.
| Mountain View Acres | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 96°F | 89°F | 85°F |
| January low | 36°F | 41°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median home in Mountain View Acres sells for about $376K
The median property tax bill is $2,519, against $5,124 across California, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
81% of Mountain View Acres households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Mountain View Acres
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Mountain View Acres
About 5 of every 100 Mountain View Acres residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Mountain View Acres
Census-designated place in California, United States
Mountain View Acres is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Victor Valley of the Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California. As of the 2020 census, Mountain View Acres had a population of 3,337.
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- Area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 3,074 ft
- Area code
- 760
Questions about Mountain View Acres
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mountain View Acres, CA a good place to live?
Mountain View Acres grades D− overall, better than 4% of U.S. towns and #718 of 841 in California. It grades C− for health and C for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Mountain View Acres, CA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $367,000, 52% below the California 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+.