Work & commute · Mountain View

Work & commute in Mountain View, NC

Most working residents leave Mountain View for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Hickory (29%), Charlotte (8%) and Newton (6%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

5 of 1,617 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,612 Mountain View residents head out of town to work, 5 work right here, and 136 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mountain View.

1,612live here, work elsewhere

5live and work here

136work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mountain View goes to work

Hickory4.5 mi away

29%472

Charlotte44.6 mi away

8%128

Newton7.8 mi away

6%102

Conover8.9 mi away

5%74

Morganton19 mi away

2%40

Claremont12.1 mi away

2%39

Long View2.9 mi away

2%39

Lenoir17.6 mi away

2%38

Raleigh153.3 mi away

2%29

Maiden9.9 mi away

2%28

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%628

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Mountain View commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

50%

17%

16%

50%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mountain View is a commuter town

0.09jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.09 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Mountain View are

141 jobs are based in Mountain View. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mountain View’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mountain View

141 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month48%

Over $3,333 a month32%

Jobs Mountain View residents hold

1,617 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month56%

−54%

Jobs based in Mountain View, 2013 → 2023: 305 → 141. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.