Mountain View, Oklahoma.
Typical home $93,018 (+19.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$302 (+162%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,289 +20%
- $77,729$93,018 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,814 +55%
- $60,204$93,018 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$488
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Mountain View, OK rose 19.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mountain View, Kiowa County, Oklahoma
Mountain View is a town of 740 people in Kiowa County. Half its households earn more than $53,438 a year and half less, against $44,962 across Kiowa County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Kiowa County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 very small town in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, where most people are older than in a typical American community. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, far more than across most of the country, and homes cost less than the national norm. Household incomes run above the county's, though a fair number of residents still live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, or in shops. Across Kiowa County, the largest workplaces include Hobart Schools, Elkview General Hospital and Snyder Schools. Few people work from home, and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is Elmer Thomas Lake. Fort Cobb State Park is also a longer drive away, and has water and open land nearby. Winters here are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest, so spring and fall are the easiest seasons for time outdoors.
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- 233households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kiowa County had 1,909 jobs in 2025, 3.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carnegie Northeast weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kiowa County
- Hobart SchoolsSchool district91FTE
- Elkview General HospitalGeneral hospital73FTE
- Snyder SchoolsSchool district71FTE
- Mountain View-gotebo SchoolsSchool district56FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores54
- Elk Creek Kiowa CasinoCasinos40
- SesacoOilseed and grain combination farming, field and seed production36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 130 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) 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 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 Kiowa 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$93,018
- Oklahoma$220,801
- 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.
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.