Mountain View, Colorado.
Typical home $507,529 (-5.2% in a year). Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,226 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $27,705 -5%
- $535,234$507,529 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,569 +1%
- $500,960$507,529 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$2,664
- Colorado$2,777
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Mountain View, CO fell 5.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mountain View, Jefferson County, Colorado
Mountain View is a town of 541 people in Jefferson County. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 very small town, with a population far smaller than most in the county, and its residents are on the younger side. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of snow each year, while summers turn properly warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly dry year overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, other services and manufacturing. Across Jefferson County, the largest workplaces include the county's public school district, Lockheed Martin's Waterton Campus and the Colorado School of Mines. Commutes are short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Empower Field at Mile High is a stadium in or beside town, and Cherry Creek, a river, runs in or beside town too. A short drive away, the Denver Zoo and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science make easy outings. For a longer day out, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a theatre, is a longer drive away.
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- 260households
- 18 mintypical commute
- 29%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 247,248 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 57°. About 76 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wheat Ridge weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Jefferson County School District No. R-1School district10,331FTE
- Lockheed Martin Corporation Waterton Campus (1004)Developing and producing prototypes for complete guided missiles and space vehicles5,390
- BAE System Inc. Space and Mission SystemAeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing1,893
- Lockheed Martin Corporation US CO Littleton Deer Crk Cnyn (1003)1,566
- Colorado School of MinesUniversity or college1,509
- St. Anthony HospitalGeneral hospital1,399FTE
- Terumo BCT - LakewoodBlood transfusion equipment manufacturing1,365
- Encore ElectricElectric contracting1,272
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 380 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 54,216 people in all across the county; Mountain View has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 moderate. 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 Jefferson County and the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO 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$507,529
- Colorado$529,013
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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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.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.