[2][3][4][5] It is between the Glenn Highway and Elmendorf Air Force Base, west of McCarrey Street and east of Post Road.
[6] The neighborhood began in the 1940s as housing for Elmendorf Air Force Base construction workers.
As of 2021, the largest ethnic group in Mountain View were Alaska Natives at 18.3% of the population, followed by Hispanics at 17.4%, Pacific Islanders at 15.5%, Africans at 15%, Asians at 13%, Multiracial people at 10.9%, and Whites at 9.8%.
As of 2018, the largest countries of origin of immigrants in Mountain View were Samoa, the Dominican Republic, Nepal, the Philippines, Mexico, Honduras, Laos, and Sudan.
On October 23, 2017, it was split into two routes: The primary #20 route which runs from Downtown to the Alaska Native Medical Center via Commercial Drive & Bragaw Street, and the #21 which circulates through the neighborhood before continuing down Mountain View Drive to the Northway Mall and downtown Anchorage.