Overall, Adams’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Adams has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Adams has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Adams than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Adams may be for you.
Being a small city, Adams does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Adams are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.53% of adults in Adams having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Adams in 2022 was $27,194, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,776 for a family of four. However, Adams contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Adams home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Adams residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Adams include English, German, Irish, French, and Swiss.
The most common language spoken in Adams is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
