Mountain View, Arkansas.
Typical home $202,529 (+2.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$569 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,887 +2%
- $197,642$202,529 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,966 +16%
- $174,563$202,529 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Mountain View$1,063
- Arkansas$1,177
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Mountain View, AR rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mountain View, Stone County, Arkansas
Mountain View is a city of 2,877 people in Stone County. Unemployment in Stone County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Stone County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Mountain View is a small city in the Ozark hills of Stone County, Arkansas. Incomes in the county run below the typical American household's, and homes in town are priced modestly. Few adults here hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool, with highs near freezing at times and only a little snow, while summers are hot and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels also employing many people. The largest workplaces in town include the Mountain View School District, Walmart and Stone County Medical Center. Jobs across Stone County slipped a little last year, though unemployment has come down since a year ago.
Things to do. The Ozark Folk Center, a museum devoted to the region's crafts and music, is in or beside town. Blanchard Springs Caverns, a well-known tourist attraction, is a short drive away. Greers Ferry Lake, a reservoir good for boating and fishing, is a longer drive.
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- 1,325households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 10%work from home
What people in Stone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stone County had 2,632 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 48° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 5 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mountain View weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mountain View
- Mountain View School DistrictSchool district314FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters218
- Stone County Medical CenterHospitals, general pediatric133
- Blossoms at Mountain ViewHomes for the elderly with nursing care68
- Harp's Food StoreRetail grocery53
- Friendship Community Care623210 residential intellectual and developmental disability facilities25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 497 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mountain View’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Stone County.
Mountain View home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mountain View$202,529
- Arkansas$224,158
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Mountain View listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Mountain View14.96%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mountain View132
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mountain View20
Zip codes with a Mountain View address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mountain View — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.