Mountain ViewHI
The town was settled in 1900 and has 3,756 residents today.
Is Mountain View a good place to live?
Mountain View’s weakest subject grade is a D− for hazard risk. Mountain View’s average trip to work is 40 minutes, against 28 minutes in Hawaii’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. No town in Hawaii scores lower than Mountain View on hazard risk. The median household income is $69K, and 21% of residents live below the poverty line. 38% of the land in Mountain View is conserved, against 12% in Hawaii’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. Puʻu Makaʻala Natural Area Reserve, at 5,917 acres with 1.6 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve. On history, just 1 of Hawaii’s 125 towns do worse. Mountain View has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and schools, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
97% of working residents leave Mountain View for work
Where Mountain View’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Mountain View grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Hawaii), ordered by how far Mountain View is from typical.
Mountain View has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and schools, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
How TownRatings grades towns →
Kīlauea and 16 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Mountain View. Close and well known come first.
Big draw10 mi MountainKīlauea
Big draw27 mi MountainMauna Kea
Big draw27 mi MountainMauna Loa
8 mi National ParkHawai'i Volcanoes National Park1.9M visitors a year
10 mi CaveKazumura Cave
14 mi WaterfallRainbow FallsPhoto credits
Kīlauea: Hawaii Land Cover Analysis project, NOAA Coastal Services Center, Public domain · Mauna Kea: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mauna Loa: Gordon Joly, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park: Jos-uit-boston at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Kazumura Cave: Dave Bunnell / Under Earth Images, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Rainbow Falls: Kyle Hawton, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Mountain View: who provides what
Mountain View is unincorporated, so Hawaii 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.
Homes in Mountain View are worth about $337K, by Zillow’s estimate
In Mountain View, 73% of households own their home.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The schools Mountain View’s kids attend
One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. The Hawaii Department of Education school district runs its public schools.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain View Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 468 | D− |
NCES · EDFacts
Natural hazards: very high risk in Mountain View, mostly inland flooding
Federal aid has come to Mountain View households in 4 declared disasters; the latest was in 2026. Compared with 100% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage locally is higher. Expected losses in Mountain View break down as 48% from inland flooding and 40% from earthquakes.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Open space protected for good: nearly a third of Mountain View
54 miles of trail in 4 parks and preserves. Mountain View’s density of trails comes in at 1.0 miles per square mile. Parks and preserves in the town: 4, covering 11,427 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. ʻŌlaʻa Forest Reserve | 5.6 mi | 5,406 |
| 2. Puʻu Makaʻala Natural Area Reserve | 1.6 mi | 5,917 |
| 3. Upper Waiākea Forest Reserve | — | 103 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Most of Mountain View’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.5 jobs for each of them
Employers in Mountain View added 72 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 171. Just 3% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. Only 6 of the 93 Hawaii towns we compare have a lower typical household income than Mountain View. For half of commuters, work is under 56 miles away.
| Mountain View | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $69,000 | $100,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.5% | 3.7% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and pleasant summers: that is Mountain View’s year
The peak summer temperature for Mountain View comes to 77°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Health in Mountain View trails 62% of U.S. towns
Among 93 Hawaii towns, just 7 have a higher share of adults who smoke cigarettes than Mountain View. Of 32 CDC measures, Mountain View beats the Hawaii average on 1 and trails it on 20. For adults in the town, the share who had a checkup this year is 73%.
| Mountain View | Hawaii towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 18% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 12% | 14% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 76% | 79% |
| What stands out | Mountain View | HI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults sleeping under 7 hours | 40.7% | 45.7% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 10% | 5.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about Mountain View
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Mountain View
About 4 of every 100 Mountain View residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Hawaii.
About Mountain View
Census-designated place in Hawaii, U.S.
Mountain View is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States located in the District of Puna. As of the 2020 census, Mountain View had a population of 4,215.
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- Area
- 56 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,434 ft
- ZIP code
- 96771
- Area code
- 808
Mountain View’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Mountain View.
| Town | HI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain View | — | — | B− | — | — | C+ |
| Fern Forest | — | — | A+ | — | — | C+ |
| Kurtistown | — | — | B− | — | — | B− |
| Eden Roc | — | — | A+ | — | — | C+ |
| Fern Acres | — | — | C | — | — | C− |
| Hawaiian Acres | — | — | B− | — | — | C |
| Volcano | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Fern Forest, Eden Roc and Fern Acres have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Mountain View, Fern Forest, Kurtistown, Eden Roc, Fern Acres and Hawaiian Acres report no FBI crime data of their own. Mountain View, Kurtistown, Hawaiian Acres and Volcano aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Mountain View with a neighbor →
Questions about Mountain View
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mountain View, HI a good place to live?
Mountain View has no overall grade: it has no figures for safety and schools, and an overall grade needs at least three of the four big subjects (cost of living, safety, schools and health).
Is Mountain View, HI expensive?
That is 4.3 years of the area's median household income ($78,639 across the Hilo-Kailua, HI area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.