Adams, Wisconsin.
Typical home $191,020 (+0.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$588 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,659 +1%
- $189,361$191,020 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,274 +26%
- $151,746$191,020 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.
- Adams$1,003
- Wisconsin$1,770
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Adams, WI rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Adams, Adams County, Wisconsin
Adams is a city of 1,761 people in Adams County. Half its households earn more than $43,364 a year and half less, against $59,442 across Adams County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Adams County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in government, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Adams is a small city where incomes run well below the county's, and more households live below the poverty line than most would expect. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm in July and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in government, shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and manufacturing. Across Adams County, some of the largest workplaces are resorts such as Kalahari Development and Sand Valley Golf Resort, along with the Adams-Friendship Area School District. Unemployment in the county is higher than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has been about level. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Close by, the Roche-a-Cri Petroglyphs are an archaeological site a short drive away, and Castle Rock Lake is a lake just as near. Roche-a-Cri State Park, also a short drive away, is a protected area good for a walk. A longer drive brings you to the International Crane Foundation, a zoo devoted to cranes.
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- 858households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adams County had 4,411 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 52 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Friendship weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adams County
- Kalahari DevelopmentHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities1,083
- Sand Valley Golf ResortHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities482
- Chula Vista ResortHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities325
- Mt. Olympus ResortsHotels, resort, without casinos262
- Holiday Wholesale, Inc. WarehouseGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers215
- Adams-Friendship Area School DistrictSchool district201FTE
- WestRock CPCorrugated and solid fiber box manufacture197
- Heartland Farms Headquarters111211 potato farming168
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,316 people in all across the county; Adams has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Adams County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Adams County.
Adams home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Adams$191,020
- Wisconsin$337,196
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Adams15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Adams6
Zip codes with a Adams address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Adams — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.