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    From a real estate perspective, the city of Mountain View, California is a great place to live and own a business. It is located in the San Jose/Silicon Valley and is 10 miles north of San Jose and approximately 35 miles south of San Francisco. To the north of Mountain View is the city of Palo Alto and to the west is the city of Los Altos and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Sunnyvale and Cupertino is south and Alviso is west. The total area of Mountain View is 22.6 square miles and the average elevation is 105 feet above sea level.

High Tech Companies
     Since Mountain View is in the heart of Silicon Valley, numerous high tech companies are located in within the city limits. They include; Adobe Systems, Actel, AOL, Google, Intuit, Mozilla, Nokia, Pinnacle Systems, Red Hat, Synopsys, Symantec and VeriSign.

Real Estate Market
     The real estate market is considered high as compared to other metropolitan markets in the United States. This is mostly due to the high salaries, quality of life, great schools and its location in the heart of Silicon Valley. As of 2006, the population is 75,518 with the average sales price of a home (includes town houses, condos and single family units) at $685,000. The medium household income is listed at $80,599.

Agents and Agencies
     If plan to buy a home or start your business in Mountain View, please visit our below are local real estate agents and agencies for names, addresses and telephone numbers.

Relevant Statistics
     Listed below are some statistics that may be helpful in your real estate search in Mountain View The statistics were taken from the 2006 U.S. Census Bureau of Statistics. The median value of housing (single family units and condos) in Mountain View is $685,000. Please view other San Jose/Silicon Valley towns and cities on San-Jose-Real-Estate.org to compare and contrast other statistics.

• About the Mountain View Population
  Total population - 75,518
  Median household income in 1999 (dollars) $80,599
  Percent of households below poverty level 6.4%
• Education Attainment Levels (ages 25 and older)
  Less than 9th grade - 6.4%
  9th to 12th grade, no diploma - 5.1%
  High school graduate (includes equivalency) - 11.9%
  Some college, no degree - 13.1%
  Associate degree - 5.6%
  Bachelor's degree - 29.5%
  Graduate or professional degree - 28.4%
• About the Real Estate
  Total housing units - 32,776
  - Owner-occupied housing units - 42.0%
  - Renter-occupied housing units - 58.0%
  Vacant housing units - 4.0.%
  Median value of single-family owner-occupied homes - $685,000
  

Historical Information
     The Ohlone Indians were indigenous to the Santa Clara Valley for thousands of years. In the 1770's the Spaniards had arrived and built several missions in the area including Mission Santa Clara de Asís and Mision San Jose. In the 1800's Mountain View was a stagecoach stop in between San Jose (then the capital of California) and San Francisco. During that time orchards and vineyards started to cover the area around Mountain View. With the mild climate the town and the Santa Clara Valley became an important agricultural center for the area exporting fruits, wine and other food staples outside of the valley. In 1902, Mountain View was incorporated with a population of 611.

Mountain View after World War II
     After the war in the late 1940's the population exploded with the growth of the aerospace and electronic industries in the Santa Clara Valley. Mountain View went from a small agricultural town in the early 1940's to an area saturated with government and high tech industries. Some of the industries included aerospace (NASA Ames Research) and telecommunications. Today, Mountain View is still growing and diversifying its industries with the explosive growth of the Internet and biotechnology.