Living Near Adams

31 of the 101 towns sit within fifty driving minutes of Adams, and roughly 851 people across the region already commute to work there. Minutes are town centre to workplace on open roads, without traffic, your street and your rush hour will differ.

Adams, the point the drive times are measured to

Within 20 Minutes

Town	Drive	Median Home (Assessed)	Tax on Median	Wired Internet	Schools Through 12	Already Commute
Cheshire Berkshire	11 min	$305,000	$3,227/yr	cable	yes	≈128
North Adams Berkshire	11 min	$191,450	$3,057/yr	cable	yes	≈286
Clarksburg Berkshire	14 min	$211,100	$2,594/yr	cable	tuitions out	≈50
Savoy Berkshire	19 min	$207,950	$3,019/yr	cable	tuitions out	≈23
Lanesborough Berkshire	20 min	$309,850	$5,357/yr	cable	yes	≈26
Williamstown Berkshire	20 min	$466,450	$6,728/yr	cable	yes	≈45

20 to 35 minutes

Town	Drive	Median Home (Assessed)	Tax on Median	Wired Internet	Schools Through 12	Already Commute
Windsor Berkshire	24 min	$289,650	$2,731/yr	town fibre	yes	≈8
Plainfield Hampshire	26 min	$244,850	$4,300/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Dalton Berkshire	27 min	$315,300	$5,319/yr	cable	yes	≈40
Florida Berkshire	29 min	$213,000	$1,764/yr	cable	tuitions out	≈40
Pittsfield Berkshire	29 min	$256,500	$4,516/yr	cable	yes	≈129
Monroe Franklin	30 min	$146,400	$1,483/yr	cable	tuitions out	below the count floor
New Ashford Berkshire	31 min	$442,500	$2,505/yr	town fibre	tuitions out	below the count floor
Cummington Hampshire	35 min	$330,000	$4,122/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor

35 to 50 minutes

Town	Drive	Median Home (Assessed)	Tax on Median	Wired Internet	Schools Through 12	Already Commute
Hawley Franklin	39 min	$250,300	$4,055/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Hancock Berkshire	40 min	$352,600	$769/yr	cable	tuitions out	≈4
Worthington Hampshire	41 min	$350,300	$4,880/yr	cable	tuitions out	below the count floor
Peru Berkshire	42 min	$267,800	$4,309/yr	cable	yes	≈6
Ashfield Franklin	43 min	$359,500	$5,116/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Hinsdale Berkshire	43 min	$355,700	$3,781/yr	cable	yes	≈9
Charlemont Franklin	44 min	$277,400	$4,663/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Goshen Hampshire	44 min	$338,000	$4,700/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Lenox Berkshire	44 min	$543,800	$5,488/yr	cable	yes	≈5
Richmond Berkshire	45 min	$531,400	$5,447/yr	cable	tuitions out	≈10
Chesterfield Hampshire	46 min	$360,500	$5,501/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Washington Berkshire	46 min	$336,450	$4,650/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Buckland Franklin	48 min	$315,300	$5,278/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
West Stockbridge Berkshire	48 min	$535,700	$5,629/yr	cable	yes	below the count floor
Becket Berkshire	49 min	$328,200	$3,170/yr	town fibre	yes	below the count floor
Lee Berkshire	49 min	$371,350	$4,208/yr	cable	yes	≈10
Rowe Franklin	49 min	$285,550	$1,496/yr	town fibre	tuitions out	below the count floor

Reading This Honestly

Drive times are computed town centre to workplace over the open road network, free of traffic. A hilltown's own roads, snow, and rush hour all add real minutes.
Median home values are assessed values from the towns' own rolls, asking prices run different, usually higher.
"Already commute" counts come from the federal commute census, which counts jobs by workplace, small flows fall below its floor and show as such, never as zero.
"Tuitions out" means older students attend a neighbouring district by arrangement, every grade has a school.

Sources

Drive times over the open road network (OpenStreetMap); town assessment rolls and certified tax rates. Checked 2026-08-05.
Federal commute census (LODES). Figures through 2022.

"Figures through" is the period the publisher's data describes; "checked" is only when we last asked. The full sourcing: sources and method.