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Nolensville.

The dairy town that became the fastest-growing city in Tennessee. Fourteen dairies and five grocery stores in 1960, 3,099 people in 2000, 13,829 in 2020, and a Publix, a fire station, a freestanding ER, and a $200 million town square since. This guide is the whole town, split the way residents split it: the Rocky Fork side along Nolensville Road, the Sunset Road side toward Brentwood, the York Road side where the three schools are, and the Davidson County side of the zip that is not Nolensville at all. What the price break against Brentwood is now, why the tax bill is no longer part of it, which subdivisions zone which elementary, and what it means to live on one road while the state widens it.

Nolensville, TN 37135 Town of Nolensville, Williamson County · No special school district Built 1979 to 2026 Updated September 7, 2026

Neighborhood video. Ninety seconds of B-roll: Nolensville Road at Rocky Fork at 7:30 on a school morning with the widening barrels still up, the Saturday farmers market on the lawn of the 1937 school, the Feed Mill's porch, the York Road campus letting out at 3:15, a Benington half-acre on Sunset Road, and the Town Square site from the cemetery fence. No narration.

B-roll in production
$922K
Median, Williamson side
314 sales; the whole zip $781K on 474; the Davidson side $490K
$312
Price per sq ft
Williamson side; $261 across the county line; Brentwood is $374
0.2–0.5 ac
Typical lot
A fifth of an acre since 2015; half an acre in Benington, Catalina, and Stonebrook
39 days
On market
Zip median; 98.1% of ask; 328 of 474 closed below the original list
$50–$135
Dues per month
92% of sales carry an HOA; none in Stonebrook; $295 to $320 at the Nolen Mill cottages
28 min
To downtown Nashville
Free-flow, 16.1 miles; 35 to 50 at 8 a.m. Cool Springs is 24
Good fit for Nolensville High families Buyers priced out of Brentwood New-construction buyers 55-plus cottage buyers Half-acre buyers without a gate

01 · The place

A dairy town on one road, tripled in a decade, and now paying for it.

William Nolen, a veteran of the Revolution, bought the land in 1797, and for the next two hundred years the town he named was a crossroads with a mill. In 1960 it had about 300 families, five grocery stores, and 14 dairies. It reincorporated in 1996 with roughly 3,000 people, had 5,861 at the 2010 census, and 13,829 at the 2020 one, a 136 percent jump that made it the fastest-growing city in Tennessee and, by one 2023 count, the tenth fastest in the country. The estimates for 2025 and 2026 run between 15,800 and 16,200, on 10.4 square miles. What the growth did not erase is the reason people chose it: the 1937 school on Nolensville Road, built to a Rosenwald plan and now the farmers market's front lawn; the Feed Mill that ground from 1890 to 1986 and sells Amish butter and cheese today; Martin's Bar-B-Que, which opened its first location here in October 2006; and a Little League program that went to Williamsport three years running.

Residents describe it by road, because there is one. Nolensville Road, US 31A, runs the length of the town from the Davidson County line at Burkitt Road to the historic district at Rocky Fork Road and on south past the Town Hall, the Feed Mill, and Martin's. Everything hangs off it. Rocky Fork Road goes east past Nolensville Park and Nolensville Elementary to Bent Creek, Burberry Glen, and Annecy. Sunset Road goes northwest toward Brentwood through Benington, Winterset Woods, Brittain Downs, Catalina, and Telluride, where the lots are half an acre and the schools say Sunset. York Road goes south to the campus where Mill Creek Elementary, Mill Creek Middle, and Nolensville High sit within a walk of each other, with Summerlyn, Telfair, the Enclave at Dove Lake, Scales Farmstead, and Southern Land's Fairington around them. And the zip keeps going: 139 of last year's 474 sales with a Nolensville address were in Davidson County, and 21 were in Rutherford.

The last three years put the town's bill on the table. The state began widening 6.5 miles of Nolensville Road in December 2023 and will not finish the first phase until July 2027, with the two phases through town dated 2035 and 2036. The board raised the town's tax rate from $0.29 to $0.34 in June 2025 on a 3-to-2 vote, after a reappraisal that would have let it fall to $0.19, and has discussed going to $0.55 over five years. A chancery court ruled in October 2025 that the town lost its authority to charge impact fees when it changed its charter in 2020 and ordered about $8 million refunded; the town has appealed. Metro Nashville, which runs the sewer, paused new development approvals in 2025 while it expands capacity. Meanwhile the Publix opened in November 2025, the TriStar ER a month before it, the first municipal fire station in June 2024, and the 27-acre Town Square broke ground on the other side of the historic cemetery that November. The town that sold the price break between Brentwood and the county line is becoming a town, and the invoice is arriving in the same years as the amenities.

Who moves here

Families who chose Nolensville High before they chose a subdivision: 1,491 students, opened in 2016, twelfth in the state on U.S. News' 2026 list, with the elementary and middle schools on the same campus. Households priced out of Brentwood, which is 18 percent more per square foot and $700,000 more at the median, ten minutes up Split Log Road. Nashville commuters whose desk is south of downtown or along I-24, for whom Nolensville Road and Old Hickory Boulevard are a shorter day than I-65. Buyers who want a builder's warranty: 85 new-construction closings last year, and Fairington, Annecy, Sagebrook, and the Mill at McFarlin still selling. And, at Nolen Mill and Bent Creek's 55-plus section, people who want a cottage within a walk of the Publix and the library for $500,000.

What it is not

Cheap, walkable, or on an interstate. The Williamson-side median is $922,500, and the under-$600,000 market is Stonebrook's 1980s ranches, the cottages, and the Davidson side. Summerlyn walks to the schools and Nolen Mill walks to the Publix; everywhere else the errand is a drive on the one road. I-65 is 17 minutes away at Concord Road and I-24 is 25 at Old Hickory, with no ramp in between. The town does not pick up the trash, does not run the water or the sewer, does not allow a short-term rental in a residential zone, and has no bus. And a Nolensville address is not Nolensville: a third of the zip's sales are in another county, with other schools and another tax bill.

02 · The sides

Three roads off the one road, a cottage ring, and a zip that crosses two county lines.

North to south, then across the line. The elementary column is the one to read first, because in Nolensville the high school is almost always the same and the elementary is what the road decides. The build-year column explains the lot size: half an acre before 2015, a fifth of one after.

SideWhere, and whenWhat you findLast 12 months
The historic core, and the old stock1979–2019 · Nolensville Elementary · the middle of townNolensville Road from the Town Hall to Rocky Fork Road, and the streets behind itStonebrook's 13 sections from 1979 into the 2000s on 0.47 to 0.82 acres with no HOA, the cheapest detached house in the county's part of the zip; McFarlin Woods' 1997 to 2002 houses on half an acre, a walk from the Feed Mill; Sherwood Green's 77 houses from 2015 to 2019 on Burris Drive; the historic district itself, the school, the Morton-Brittain House moved to Sam Donald Court in 2019, and the Town Square site. Nolensville Elementary, Mill Creek Middle, Nolensville High.Stonebrook 21 · $565K · $292 / sq ft; McFarlin Woods 6 · $730K; Sherwood Green 7 · $875K
The Rocky Fork side2004–2026 · Nolensville or Mill Creek Elementary · east of the roadRocky Fork Road east past Nolensville Park, and Sam Donald RoadBent Creek, 15-plus phases from 2005 to 2016 by Goodall, DAC, Patterson, and Meritage, with a pool, clubhouse, tennis, a dog park, townhomes, and a 55-plus section, the town's biggest seller; Silver Stream Farm and Ballenger Farms' 2004 to 2017 Beazer-era streets with a path to Nolensville Elementary; Burberry Glen's 2017 to 2024 houses and its all-brick Woods section; Annecy's 278 lots by Celebration, AR Homes, Turnberry, Drees, and the Jones Company, 2022 to 2025, the side's ceiling; the Williamson half of Burkitt Place, where the county line runs through the streets.Bent Creek 36 · $725K (the Reserve $937,500); Burberry Glen 22 · $792,500; Silver Stream 10 · $727,500; Annecy 25 · $1.36M
The Sunset Road side2006–2026 · Sunset Elementary · toward BrentwoodSunset Road northwest to the Brentwood line, and Rocky Fork Road's north sideBenington's 194 houses in ten sections from 2006 to 2020 on half an acre, sharing a pool, clubhouse, and tennis with Winterset Woods' all-brick 2006 to 2014 streets and their splash pad; Brittain Downs' 170 all-brick houses with three-car garages and no pool, still building on Hibiscus Lane in 2025; Sunset Park's 93 on half an acre with a trail to the schools; Catalina's half- to two-thirds-acre lots by Turnberry and D.R. Horton's Emerald line; Telluride by Barlow and Turnberry, the highest new-construction closings in the zip. Sunset Elementary, Sunset Middle, Nolensville High, and the Brentwood-side edge of Sunset Middle to Ravenwood.Benington 13 · $1.335M; Brittain Downs 8 · $1.12M; Catalina 9 · $995K; Winterset Woods 13 · $750K; Telluride 9 · $1.895M
The York Road side2015–2026 · Mill Creek or Jordan Elementary · the campusYork Road, Clovercroft Road, and McFarlin Road, around the three schoolsSummerlyn's 250 Jones Company houses from 2015 to 2020 within a walk of all three schools; Telfair and the Enclave at Dove Lake, 2018 to 2024, each with a pool; Scales Farmstead's Drees streets on Clovercroft with a zero-entry pool, zoned Jordan and Sunset Middle rather than Mill Creek; Fairington, Southern Land's 373 acres on McFarlin Road with 700-plus houses planned, 160 acres of parks, and a club with pickleball, the developer of Westhaven doing it again; Beazer's Mill at McFarlin; John Wieland's Willow Ridge with basements; Toll Brothers' 26-house Sagebrook opening this fall from about $1.2 million.Fairington 24 · $922K; Summerlyn 19 · $1.0M; Scales Farmstead 19 · $990K; Enclave 17 · $1.03M; Telfair 8 · $1.05M; Mill at McFarlin 10 · $936K
The cottage ring2005–2022 · mixed zones · a walk from the PublixNolen Mill off Nolensville Road, and Bent Creek's 55-plus and townhome sectionsNolen Mill's 2018 to 2022 cottages for the 55-plus buyer, with the exterior in dues of $295 to $320 a month, a walk from the Publix and the library, plus its single-family and townhome streets; Bent Creek Active Adult and the Bent Creek townhomes at $195 a month. The Williamson side of the zip closed only ten attached sales; the other 52 were across the line.Nolen Mill cottages 6 · $529K; Bent Creek 55-plus 3 · $495K; Bent Creek townhomes 2 · $462K; Williamson attached 10 · $497,500
The Davidson and Rutherford sides of 371352007–2026 · Metro or Rutherford schools · not the townNorth of Burkitt Road into Nashville, and east of McFarlin Road into Rutherford CountyCarothers Farms, Regent's 2024 and 2025 townhomes, cottages, and condos, the highest-volume neighborhood in the zip; Burkitt Village, still building at $45 to $55 a month; Burkitt Commons and Burkitt Springs; the Davidson half of Burkitt Place with its three pools and five parks. Henry Maxwell or A.Z. Kelley Elementary, Thurgood Marshall Middle, Cane Ridge High, and Metro's $2.81 rate. The Ridge and McFarlin Pointe off Lake Road are Rutherford County: Rock Springs schools and Stewarts Creek High.Davidson 139 · $490K · $261 / sq ft; Carothers Farms 37 · $427,525; Burkitt Village 40 · $589K; Rutherford 21 · $675K; The Ridge 10 · $822K

Sources: MLS closed sales by subdivision, trailing 12 months to late August 2026 (nashvillehome.guru subdivision pages, refreshed at different dates, so counts differ by one or two from the zip cut); nolorealestate.com's school-zone list, checked against the zoning recorded on the MLS closings. Jurisdiction: the town's own annexation history and the county line as recorded on each sale. OpenStreetMap's town boundary is out of date for Nolensville, so a point-in-boundary check was not used; confirm town limits by parcel with the county. Bands are for choosing a side, not pricing a house.

03 · Homes & market

What a house costs, and what you get for it.

The 37135 zip closed 474 sales last year from $270,000 to $6.1 million, at a $781,000 median and $294 a foot. Strip out the two counties that are not Williamson and the town's own market is 314 sales at $922,500 and $312 a foot, in 39 days. The number that explains the rest is the county: the same zip is a $490,000 market on the Nashville side, and the two never meet on the same street except in Burkitt Place.

$922K
Median, Williamson side
314 sales; $312 / sq ft; the zip $781K on 474 at $294
$490K
Median, Davidson side
139 sales; $261 / sq ft; Carothers Farms and the Burkitts
$1.03M
New construction, Williamson side
53 closings; the zip's 85 at $880K; 26 days to contract at 100% of ask
$725K
Bent Creek
36 sales, the most of any subdivision; $256 / sq ft; the Reserve $937,500
$1.34M
Benington
13 sales on half an acre; $310 / sq ft; Telluride $1.9M is the ceiling
$565K
Stonebrook
21 sales, 1979 to the 2000s, no HOA; the floor for a Williamson-side house
$422K
Attached median
62 sales; 52 of them in Davidson County; $497,500 on the Williamson side
98.1%
Sale to list
328 of 474 below the original ask; 4.2 months of supply in September, 6.8 in March

Sources: MLS closed sales, trailing 12 months to August 24, 2026, as compiled by nashvillehome.guru for the 37135 zip (474), its three county halves, new construction (85), the attached-home cut (62), and its subdivision pages; its March 2026 report for months of supply and the 72 percent of single-family sales that closed below ask that month; Grant Hammond's Nolensville page on September 7, 2026 for 153 active listings, 4.2 months of supply, a 49-day list-to-contract median, and the top sale, $3,977,271 on Arrington Creek Lane; Nolensville Realty's June 2026 report for the Williamson-side June median of $901,500 against $939,000 a year earlier, and 158 closings in the first half of 2026 against 131. The medians move with the window: $850,000 to $935,000 depending on who cuts it and when.

04 · The town, and its rules

What $0.34 buys, what Metro runs, and what is in court.

Nolensville is a town that until recently ran on a volunteer fire department, a sales-tax base a fortieth of Franklin's, and the county for most of the rest. The last three years changed that faster than the tax rate could follow. As of September 2026:

QuestionThe answerWhat it means for you
The rate$0.29 to $0.34, June 2025The board adopted $0.34 on June 5, 2025, by a 3-to-2 vote, after the county reappraisal would have let a revenue-neutral rate fall to $0.19. The five-year plan presented at the 2025 annual address discussed reaching about $0.55. The town collected about $2.7 million in sales tax in 2023 against Franklin's $63 million and Brentwood's $23 million, which is the arithmetic behind the vote.$1.64 combined, now above Brentwood and Franklin outside the FSSD. Budget for the next increase.
Impact feesIn the Court of AppealsThe Home Builders Association sued in December 2023. On October 28, 2025, the Williamson County Chancery Court ruled that the town's 2020 charter change, which moved it to a manager-commission government, removed its authority to charge impact fees, and ordered refunds of the fees collected since August 6, 2020, about $8 million. The town voted to appeal; briefing is under way. The county's own privilege tax and education impact fee are not affected.If the town loses, the roads and the fire station the fees paid for come out of the rate instead.
Sewer, and the pauseMetro Water ServicesThe town runs no utilities. Water is the Nolensville/College Grove Utility District; sewer is Metro Nashville's under an agreement. In 2025 Metro paused approvals for new development in Nolensville while it expands capacity, on about a three-year timeline. Roughly 2,200 houses already approved will build through it.Two utility bills from two governments, and a builder's schedule that depends on Nashville.
GarbageNot a town serviceEach household contracts a hauler. The county convenience center at 1525 Owen Road takes garbage, brush, and recycling, weekdays 7 to 5 and weekends 7 to 6.One more bill; the HOA sometimes names the hauler.
Fire and policeNew since 2024Nolensville Fire & Rescue, a combination paid and volunteer department, opened the town's first municipal station on June 22, 2024: 18,000 sq ft on Haley Industrial Drive, $12 million, the largest capital project in the town's history, with a 107-foot ladder truck added in 2025. Nolensville Police hired Chief Dale Armour in August 2024, and the FY2026 budget added three officers and firefighters.A paid engine company in town for the first time; ask the insurer what the rating did.
Short-term rentalsNot a listed useThe zoning ordinance is exclusionary: if a use is not listed, it is not allowed, and short-term rental is not listed in a residential zone. The board rejected an ordinance that would have said so explicitly, 3 to 2, and left the rule as it was. A 4 percent occupancy tax names Airbnb and Vrbo for the commercial zones.No Airbnb income on a Nolensville house. Plan the numbers without it.
The roadSR 11, 2023 to 2036TDOT is widening Nolensville Road from Old Hickory Boulevard to near Sunset Road, 6.5 miles, to five lanes with bike lanes and sidewalks. Phase I, the 4.4 miles from Old Hickory to north of Mill Creek, began in December 2023 and is due in July 2027. Phase II, Mill Creek to Burkitt Road, is dated 2035, and Phase III, Burkitt to Sunset, 2036. Sugar Valley Drive is closed from June to mid-October 2026 for a culvert. The town is signalizing York Road and rebuilding Rocky Fork at Newsom Lane.The Davidson end gets its lanes first. The stretch through town waits a decade.
What is comingThe square, the Kroger, the lineNolensville Town Square: 27 acres beside the historic cemetery, 404 homes over 70,000 sq ft of shops and restaurants, half of it green, $200 million, broke ground November 21, 2024, seven to ten years to build, with residential builders named in March 2026. A 78,000 sq ft Kroger Marketplace on 36 acres across from Summerlyn, cleared in March 2026 and due April 2027. And a fight over the growth boundary: the county commission asked the legislature in February 2026 to change the annexation law, and the town passed Resolution 26-024 opposing it, with Franklin, Brentwood, Spring Hill, and Thompson's Station.A downtown by the mid-2030s, a second grocery next spring, and a decade of construction between.

In one line

Nolensville does police, fire, parks, and zoning, and leaves water, sewer, trash, and the road to a district, a city, a hauler, and the state. The rate is catching up with the town.

05 · Schools

One high school, four elementaries, and a county line that changes all of it.

Inside Williamson County the high school is almost always Nolensville High, and the question is which elementary: Nolensville or Mill Creek on the Rocky Fork and York Road sides, Sunset on the Sunset Road side, Jordan at Scales Farmstead. The two middle schools follow the elementaries. The exceptions sit at the edges: a band of Sunset Middle neighborhoods on the Brentwood side that go on to Ravenwood, and the Arrington Elementary zone at the south end that goes to Page. Across the line, a Nolensville address means Cane Ridge High in Metro Nashville or Stewarts Creek in Rutherford County, and 160 of last year's 474 sales did.

SchoolGradesNeighborhoodsNotes
Nolensville ElementaryRocky Fork Road · WCSPK–5Stonebrook, McFarlin Woods, Sherwood Green, Silver Stream, Ballenger Farms, Burberry Glen, Annecy, Fairington, Kingsbarns, Burkitt Place's Williamson sideAbout 880 students, the largest elementary in the zone. 134 sales zoned here last year at a $962,400 average.
Mill Creek ElementaryYork Road · WCSK–5Summerlyn, Telfair, Enclave at Dove Lake, most of Bent CreekAbout 700 students; 76th of 1,009 Tennessee elementaries on SchoolDigger. On the campus with the middle and high schools.
Sunset ElementarySunset Trail · WCSK–5Benington, Winterset Woods, Brittain Downs, Sunset Park, Catalina, TellurideAbout 620 students; top 5 percent in the state. The highest-priced zone: 67 sales at a $1,181,247 average.
Jordan ElementarySplit Log Road · WCSPK–5Scales Farmstead, Farm at Clovercroft, Brooksbank Estates17th of 1,018 in Tennessee on SchoolDigger; feeds Sunset Middle. A Brentwood address for the school, a Nolensville one for the house.
Mill Creek MiddleYork Trail · WCS6–8Every Nolensville and Mill Creek Elementary addressAbout 910 students, the town's largest school below the high school.
Sunset MiddleSunset Trail · WCS6–8Sunset and Jordan Elementary addressesAbout 710 students; 12th in Tennessee. Splits to Nolensville High and Ravenwood by address.
Nolensville HighSummerlyn Drive · WCS9–12Nearly every Williamson-side subdivision in this guideOpened 2016; about 1,490 students, 19 to 1; U.S. News' 12th-ranked Tennessee high school for 2026. Classroom additions are planned for 2028.
Ravenwood HighWilson Pike, Brentwood · WCS9–12The Brentwood side of the Sunset Middle zone: Morgan Farms, Rosebrooke, Taramore, Owl Creek, and neighbors with Brentwood addressesA+ on Niche, third public high school in the state. Not a Nolensville-address school in practice; the Brentwood guide covers it.
Page Middle and HighArno Road, Franklin · WCS6–12The Arrington Elementary zone at the south end of the zip14 sales at a $1,007,971 average. The Arrington and College Grove guide covers Page.
Not Williamson's schoolsWith a Nolensville addressK–12Carothers Farms, Burkitt Commons, Burkitt Springs, most of Burkitt Village, Burkitt Place's north half; The Ridge and McFarlin PointeMetro Nashville: Henry Maxwell or A.Z. Kelley Elementary, Thurgood Marshall Middle, Cane Ridge High, 139 sales at $490K. Rutherford County: Rock Springs Elementary and Middle, Stewarts Creek High, 21 sales at $675K.

Sources: WCS zoning as recorded on 2025–26 MLS closings by subdivision and nolorealestate.com's zone list, which disagree on Catalina (Nolensville or Sunset Elementary) and a corner of Bent Creek; the elementary-zone price averages from nashvillehome.guru's 37135 cut; WCS 2024–25 enrollment figures; U.S. News, SchoolDigger, and Public School Review ratings; the Williamson Scene on the 2028 additions and the district's statement that it redraws lines about every three years. Confirm any address with the WCS zone finder; the district opened its 2026–27 open-zoning list in the spring.

06 · Getting around

The drive, honestly timed.

Times are from the Town Hall on Nolensville Road on a weekday morning between 7 and 8:30. The Sunset Road side is five minutes closer to I-65 and Cool Springs; the Davidson side of the zip is five to ten minutes closer to everything in Nashville. No interstate touches the town: I-65 is 8.4 miles west at Concord Road, I-24 is 12.3 miles north at Old Hickory, and I-840 is 9.3 miles south at Arrington, and every one of them is reached on a two-lane road.

Downtown NashvilleNolensville Road to I-24, or Concord Road to I-65; 28 min free-flow, 16.1 miles; 24 from Burkitt Place35–50min
Cool SpringsClovercroft or Split Log to Moores Lane; 24 min free-flow, 13.5 miles, the same from Bent Creek28–40min
I-65 at Concord RoadSunset or Split Log Road through Brentwood; 17 min free-flow, 8.4 miles20–30min
I-24 at Old Hickory BoulevardNolensville Road north, or Burkitt Road across; 25 min free-flow, 12.3 miles, 19 from the Burkitts30–40min
Downtown FranklinClovercroft Road and Murfreesboro Road to the square; 29 min free-flow, 14.3 miles32–45min
Nashville International (BNA)Nolensville Road and Old Hickory to I-24; 27 min free-flow, 14.8 miles30–45min

Mobility scores

Walkable2/10

Summerlyn to the three schools, Nolen Mill to the Publix and the library, and McFarlin Woods to the Feed Mill. Everywhere else the errand is a drive on Nolensville Road, and the road has no sidewalk yet.

Bikeable3/10

Subdivision trails link Winterset Woods to the Rec Complex and the library, Sunset Park to the schools, and the Mill Creek greenway starts at the Gregory Park kiosk. The widening adds bike lanes to 6.5 miles of Nolensville Road, most of it after 2027.

Transit0/10

None. WeGo's Route 52 ends at Nolensville Pike and Hickoryview Drive in Davidson County, and Franklin Transit does not come this far east.

Traffic painHigh

One road in and out, under construction from 2023 to 2036. Nolensville Road from Burkitt to the historic district at 7:30 and 5:15, Rocky Fork Road at the school bells, and Sunset Road at Concord when Brentwood backs up. Peak adds 10 to 20 minutes to every row above.

07 · Daily life

Where the week actually happens.

  • Martin's Bar-B-Que JointThe original, at 7223 Nolensville Road since October 2006, before the chain: whole hog, a drive-through, and the reason out-of-towners know the name.Walk from Stonebrook · Drive 3–10 min
  • Mill Creek Brewing & Wheeler's RaidThe brewery since 2014 and the distillery, side by side on Johnson Industrial Boulevard: the taproom the town meets at, and September's festival lawn.Drive · 3–8 min
  • The Feed MillThe Amish Country Market in the 1890 mill at 7280 Nolensville Road: butter, cheese, jams, and the porch. Lunch is a sandwich and a rocking chair.Drive · 3–8 min
  • The weeknight roomsAmico's New York Pizza since 2011, Oscar's Taco Shop, Cabo's, Mad for Galbi, Yuno Sushi, Wabash Southern Kitchen, Outlanders Southern Chicken, Better Days Diner, and the Regal Room for a cocktail, all on or just off the one road.Drive · 3–10 min
  • Village GreenThe row beside the new Publix at 7344 Nolensville Road: First Watch, Chipotle, Jersey Mike's, Mountain Mike's, Abbott's Frozen Custard, Tropical Smoothie. The chains arrived with the grocery.Walk from Nolen Mill · Drive 3–10 min
  • Main Street, and the musicDowntown Franklin's rooms are 30 minutes west by Clovercroft Road; we track the shows nightly.Tonight's shows

08 · The year

What the town does together.

All Franklin events →

The calendar happens on the school lawn, at the park, and at the brewery. The town's own days, and the two county ones that pull Nolensville west:

09 · Trade-offs

The case for, and the case against.

What you gain

  • The school, and the campus. A 2016 high school ranked 12th in the state, with its elementary and middle schools on the same York Road campus, and four elementaries that all rank. Summerlyn walks to all three.
  • The price against Brentwood. $922,500 at the median against $1,637,500, and $312 a foot against $374, for the same all-brick house on the same half acre, ten minutes down Split Log.
  • The choice of new. 85 new-construction closings last year and Fairington, Annecy, the Mill at McFarlin, Willow Ridge, and Sagebrook still selling, most of it between $850,000 and $1.5 million.
  • A town arriving. A Publix in 2025, an ER the same fall, a paid fire station in 2024, a Kroger in 2027, and a town square with 404 homes over shops by the mid-2030s, on a main street that already has a mill, a barbecue joint, and a brewery.
  • The half acre without a gate. Benington, Catalina, Sunset Park, and Stonebrook: half an acre and more, $70 a month or nothing, no guardhouse, and Sunset Elementary.

What you give up

  • The road. One way in and out, no interstate within eight miles, and the state's widening runs from 2023 to 2036 with the stretch through town last. Peak adds 10 to 20 minutes to every drive.
  • The rate. $1.64 combined after the 2025 increase, above Brentwood's $1.49 and Franklin's $1.566 outside the FSSD, with a plan on the table to go higher and an $8 million impact-fee refund in the Court of Appeals.
  • Service. No trash pickup, no water or sewer of the town's own, a sewer pause imposed from Nashville, no transit, no Airbnb, and sidewalks that stop at the subdivision entrance.
  • The address that is not the town. A third of the zip's sales are in Davidson or Rutherford County, with other schools, another rate, and a $432,500 gap at the median; the mailing label will not tell you which side you are on.
  • Selling into a cooler market. 328 of 474 sales closed below the original ask, supply ran from four to seven months through 2026, and the Williamson-side median slipped from $939,000 to $901,500 in June. The 2021 seller's market is gone.

The verdict

Buy the elementary, then the house. The Sunset Road side if the reason is a half acre, Sunset Elementary, and the shortest run to I-65. The York Road side if it is a new house within a walk of all three schools. The Rocky Fork side if it is Bent Creek's pool and the park at the end of the street for $725,000. Stonebrook if it is an acre of trees and no HOA for the price of a Bent Creek house. And the cottages at Nolen Mill if the reason is the zip and the Publix for $530,000. Whatever the reason, check the county before the school line, budget for the rate to move again, and drive Nolensville Road at 7:30 before you sign, because it will look like that until 2036.

10 · Map

Where it sits.

Ten square miles on Nolensville Road between the Davidson County line at Burkitt Road and the Arrington farms south of Sunset Road, with Brentwood's Split Log frontier to the west and Rutherford County across McFarlin Road to the east. Rocky Fork Road runs east from the historic district, Sunset Road northwest, and York Road south to the schools. The 37135 zip keeps going north past Burkitt Road into Nashville.

Town Hall, the Feed Mill, and the historic school on Nolensville Road at Rocky Fork; the Publix and the Town Square site to the north Nolensville High, Mill Creek Middle, and Mill Creek Elementary on York Road; Sunset Elementary and Middle on Sunset Trail Mill Creek through the middle of town; the county line at Burkitt Road

11 · Questions

What people ask before they move here.

Is every 37135 address in Nolensville?

No. The 37135 zip crosses two county lines. Of last year's 474 closed sales with a Nolensville address, 314 were in Williamson County at a $922,500 median, 139 were in Davidson County at $490,000 with Metro Nashville schools (Henry Maxwell or A.Z. Kelley, Thurgood Marshall, Cane Ridge) and Metro's rate of about $2.81, and 21 were in Rutherford County at $675,000 with Rock Springs schools and Stewarts Creek High. The Town of Nolensville is entirely in Williamson County. Carothers Farms, Carothers Crossing, Burkitt Commons, Burkitt Springs, and most of Burkitt Village are on the Nashville side, and the county line runs through Burkitt Place's streets. Check the county on the tax card, not the mailing label.

What is the property tax?

$1.64 per $100 of assessed value for tax year 2026: Williamson County's $1.30 plus the town's $0.34, raised from $0.29 on June 5, 2025 by a 3-to-2 vote, after a reappraisal that would have let the rate fall to $0.19. Assessment is 25 percent of appraisal, so the Williamson-side median house at $922,500 pays about $3,780 a year, $2,998 of it to the county. The same house would pay about $3,610 inside Franklin outside the special school district, about $3,440 in Brentwood, and about $3,000 in the unincorporated county. No Nolensville address pays a special school district. The town's five-year plan has discussed a rate near $0.55.

Which schools does Nolensville zone?

Almost every Williamson-side subdivision zones Nolensville High, opened in 2016 on Summerlyn Drive. The elementary follows the road: Stonebrook, Silver Stream, Ballenger Farms, Burberry Glen, Annecy, Fairington, and Sherwood Green go to Nolensville Elementary; Summerlyn, Telfair, the Enclave at Dove Lake, and most of Bent Creek go to Mill Creek Elementary, and both feed Mill Creek Middle. Benington, Winterset Woods, Brittain Downs, Sunset Park, Catalina, and Telluride go to Sunset Elementary and Sunset Middle; Scales Farmstead and the Farm at Clovercroft go to Jordan Elementary and Sunset Middle. The Brentwood-address edge of the Sunset Middle zone goes on to Ravenwood, and the Arrington Elementary zone at the south end goes to Page. The district redraws lines about every three years; confirm the address with the WCS zone finder.

Does the town pick up the trash, or run the sewer?

Neither. Nolensville provides no water, sewer, electric, gas, or garbage service. Households contract a private hauler or drive to the county convenience center at 1525 Owen Road. Water is the Nolensville/College Grove Utility District, and sewer is Metro Nashville Water Services under an agreement, which is why Metro was able to pause approvals for new development in Nolensville in 2025 while it expands capacity on a roughly three-year timeline. What the town does run: its police department, and since June 2024 Nolensville Fire & Rescue, a combination paid and volunteer department in a new $12 million station on Haley Industrial Drive with a ladder truck added in 2025.

Can I rent it on Airbnb?

Not in a residential zone. Nolensville's zoning ordinance is exclusionary, which means a use that is not listed is not allowed, and short-term rental is not a listed residential use. The board considered an ordinance that would have banned them explicitly and rejected it 3 to 2, leaving the rule as it was. The town's 4 percent occupancy tax names Airbnb and Vrbo, but it is aimed at the commercial zones. Long-term leases are governed by each subdivision's covenants, and 92 percent of the houses sold last year have one.

Is Nolensville still cheaper than Brentwood?

By about $700,000 at the median and 18 percent per square foot. The Williamson side of Nolensville closed at a $922,500 median and $312 a foot against Brentwood's $1,637,500 and $374, and the same all-brick house on a half acre in Benington sells for $1.34 million where Brentwood's Rosebrooke, two miles up Split Log, sells for $4.9 million. What is no longer part of the discount is the tax rate: Nolensville's $1.64 combined is above Brentwood's $1.49. And the market has cooled: 328 of last year's 474 sales closed below the original ask, supply ran from four to seven months through 2026, and June's Williamson-side median was $901,500 against $939,000 a year earlier.

What about the impact-fee lawsuit?

On October 28, 2025, the Williamson County Chancery Court ruled that Nolensville lost its authority to charge impact fees when voters changed the charter to a manager-commission government in August 2020, and ordered the town to refund the road, fire, and facilities fees it collected from Home Builders Association members since then, about $8 million. The town voted to appeal to the Tennessee Court of Appeals, and the case was in briefing in 2026. The county's privilege tax and education impact fee, which run to $12,399 on a large house, are separate and unaffected. If the town loses, the refund and the fees it can no longer collect come out of the general fund, which is the tax rate.

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