Mountain View, California.
Typical home $1,929,681 (+2.5% in a year), asking rent $4,535 (+9.7%). San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,339 (+75%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $46,657 +2%
- $1,883,024$1,929,681 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $181,992 +10%
- $1,747,689$1,929,681 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$10,128
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Mountain View, CA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Mountain View, CA rose 9.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Mountain View runs $8,738/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $9,755 in Jan 2025.
That is $13,273 a month against $4,535 rent: a $10,128 mortgage payment, plus $1,079 property tax and $2,066 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Mountain View
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$13,273
- Renting$4,535
- Mortgage only$10,128
Property tax · $1,079/mo 0.67% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Santa Clara County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $2,066/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California
Mountain View is a city of 82,376 people in Santa Clara County. Half its households earn more than $189,917 a year and half less, against $164,281 across Santa Clara County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 39% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 61% are rented. Unemployment in Mountain View was 3.7% in August 2026, and Santa Clara County had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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 city in Santa Clara County, home to a young-leaning population for a place with so many established households. Incomes run above the county's, and a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Most households rent rather than own, and typical home values and rents are among the highest anywhere in the country.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in media and telecoms, and in manufacturing. Waymo, El Camino Hospital and Wisk Aero are among the largest workplaces in town. Nearly all adults hold a four-year degree, a fair number work from home, and the typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. The Computer History Museum sits in or beside town and is one of the better-known museums of its kind. A short drive away, the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve offers protected shoreline for walking, and the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum is another short drive off. Winters are mild and fairly dry, with cool days in December and warm ones by September, so outings are comfortable much of the year.
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- 35,767households
- 75%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 31%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Santa Clara County had 1,119,582 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 59° and lows near 42°; warmest in September, with highs near 78° and lows near 57°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moffett Federal Airfield weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mountain View
- El Camino HospitalGeneral hospital3,206FTE
- Waymo HQEngineering research and development laboratories or services2,103
- Sutter Bay Medical FoundationHealthcare1,541
- City of Mountain ViewPublic property management services, government900
- Wisk AeroAircraft manufacturing712
- Mountain View Whisman SchoolsSchool district532FTE
- Mountain View-Los Altos Union High SchoolsSchool district438FTE
- Coupang Mountain View OfficeWeb retailers402
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 75 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,856 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
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 Santa Clara County and the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro.
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$1,929,681
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Mountain View listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 days — the market is cooling.
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 View18.83%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Mountain View15
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mountain View115
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mountain View48
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Mountain View$1,750,635
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Mountain View104.06%
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.
Zip codes in Mountain View
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94040 | Mountain View | 35,632 | $4,440 | $2,782,759 |
| 94043 | Mountain View | 33,176 | $4,594 | $1,513,645 |
| 94041 | Mountain View | 16,050 | $4,652 | $2,229,903 |