Mountain View, Hawaii.
Typical home $337,373 (+0.7% in a year). Hilo, HI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$864 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,311 +1%
- $335,062$337,373 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,407 +11%
- $302,966$337,373 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$1,771
- Hawaii$4,372
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Mountain View, HI rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mountain View, Hawaii County, Hawaii
Mountain View, in Hawaii County, had 4,215 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Hawaii County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hawaii County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 community on the Hawaiʻi Island side of Hawaii County, home to a modest number of residents. Household incomes in the county run at a modest level, and more people here live below the poverty line than is typical, while fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country. Winters are mild and summers only a little warmer, with no real cold season, almost no snow, and a great deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Hawaii County, some of the largest workplaces are Hilo Medical Center, the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hilton Waikoloa Village. The trip to work is long for most people, and very few work from home. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is a national park a longer drive away, and it is the best known of the places nearby. Rainbow Falls is a waterfall, and Akaka Falls State Park is a protected area, both also a longer drive away. Kehena Beach, a beach, is another longer drive from town.
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- 1,304households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 40 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Hawaii County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hawaii County had 74,168 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in February, with highs near 72° and lows near 56°; warmest in September, with highs near 78° and lows near 61°. About 229 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glenwood #2 weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hawaii County
- Hilo Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,239FTE
- Mauna LaniHotel resort noncasino671
- Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc.Hotels641
- HPM Building SupplyHome centers, building materials559
- University of Hawaii at HiloUniversity or college556
- WalmartDiscount department stores540
- TargetDiscount department stores466
- Kona Community HospitalGeneral hospital454FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 152 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,198 people in all across the county; Mountain View has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Volcanic activityVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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, very 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 Hawaii County and the Hilo, HI 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$337,373
- Hawaii$832,932
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mountain View listings — 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 View23.95%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mountain View42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mountain View8
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.