It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Baxter 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. Baxter has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Baxter than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Baxter may be for you.
Baxter is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Baxter are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.65% of adults in Baxter have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Baxter in 2022 was $30,883, 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 $123,532 for a family of four. However, Baxter contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Baxter home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Baxter residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Baxter include English, Scottish, German, Irish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Baxter is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
