Neighborhood guide · South
Spring Hill.
One city, two counties, two school districts, two tax bills, and a state consent order deciding what gets built next. A village on the Columbia turnpike from 1809, the ground where Hood's army let Schofield walk past in the dark on November 29, 1864, a Saturn plant in 1990, 29,036 people in 2010 and about 63,000 today. This guide is the whole city and the 37174 zip: the Williamson side on Buckner Lane, Duplex Road and June Lake; Main Street and Rippavilla in the middle; the Maury side on Port Royal Road, Saturn Parkway and Kedron; and the acreage on both edges. Which county line your lot is on and what it costs, what $417,000 buys and what $750,000 buys, why the sewer plant is the real zoning map, how full Summit and Independence are and what Battle Creek High changed, what GM's slow year means on a street of 5,000 paychecks, and what 22 minutes to Franklin's square means at 7:30.
B-roll · coming soon
Neighborhood video. Ninety seconds of B-roll: the Saturn Parkway ramp at the plant gate on first shift, Main Street through the old town at 7:40, Rippavilla's lawn and the battlefield markers, the Crossings lot at noon, a framing crew in Wilkerson Place, the splash pad at Fischer Park, Southern Springs' pickleball courts at nine in the morning, and the Christmas parade turning past the Children's Home. No narration.
01 · The place
A city built on a county line, growing on a sewer permit it has already used up.
The first settlers came in 1808 and the town was laid out the year after, on the turnpike between Franklin and Columbia, where the springs are. Nathaniel Cheairs built Rippavilla on Main Street in the early 1850s, and Grace Episcopal put up its board-and-batten church down the road in 1878. On November 29, 1864, John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee stood across the fields east of the pike with Schofield's Union column trapped on it, and let the column march past in the dark to Franklin, where it dug in; the next afternoon cost the Confederacy six generals fourteen miles north. Historians have argued about the night at Spring Hill ever since, and the American Battlefield Trust has bought back more than 195 acres of the ground it happened on. Rippavilla belongs to the city now and is run by the Battle of Franklin Trust, which also runs Carnton and the Carter House.
The modern city starts in 1985, when General Motors picked 2,100 acres of Maury County farmland for Saturn. The plant built cars under that name from 1990 to 2007 and has been GM Spring Hill Manufacturing since; it employs about 5,000 hourly and salaried people, builds the Cadillac Lyriq, Vistiq and XT5, and sits next to the $2.3 billion Ultium Cells battery plant that GM and LG Energy Solution started running in March 2024. The town of 400 people in 1880 counted 29,036 in 2010, 50,005 in 2020, an estimated 59,398 in 2024, and is put above 63,000 now, across 29 square miles and two counties, which the Census Bureau has ranked the fourth-fastest growth in Tennessee. The compiler's last 12 months show 1,085 closed sales at a $550,000 median, 412 of them new.
What limits it is a pipe. The city treats its wastewater at a five-million-gallon-a-day plant that discharges to Richland Creek and then the Duck River, one of the most biodiverse rivers in North America and the same river the city drinks from. Between June 2023 and May 2025 Spring Hill self-reported 29 effluent violations, mostly nitrogen, and on August 5, 2025 the state issued a consent order with a $65,700 penalty and a moratorium on sewer connections for any project without vested rights. The moratorium does not lift until the plant runs clean for twelve straight months. The board suspended development applications by resolution, published the list of projects that already had their taps, and on January 5, 2026 passed Ordinance 25-29 unanimously to ration what capacity is left, meter every allocation, and let applications start again. Everything else in the city's 2026 runs through that order: the $151.7 million budget, the flat $0.739 rate, the 30 percent water and sewer increase, the reservoir land at Stone Creek.
Who moves here
Two different buyers on two sides of one line. On the Williamson side: families who wanted Williamson County Schools and could not clear Franklin's $790,000, taking a Dream Finders house in Wilkerson Place at $752,873, an all-brick 2010s house in Wades Grove at $589,000, or a Signature house in Saddlewalk at June Lake, which sold more units last year than any community in the zip. On the Maury side: the buyer for whom $490,000 is the number, in Brandon Woods or Quail Run Meadows or a Somerset Springs townhouse, and the Del Webb buyer at Southern Springs, 800 houses on 309 acres off Kedron with eight pickleball courts and a lifestyle director, at a $700,000 median. Across both: the plant. Five thousand GM and Ultium paychecks, Mars Petcare up the pike, and, from 2027, Medacta's North American headquarters and 200-plus jobs at the Commerce Center off Jim Warren Parkway.
What it is not
One place. Spring Hill is a single city government sitting on two counties, two school districts, two appraisal cycles, two development taxes, and three electric utilities, and almost every question a buyer asks here has two answers depending on the parcel. It is also not finished: U.S. 31 through the middle is the only continuous north-south street and its widening has no construction date, the plant is under a state order, and the city's own library is being redesigned because the one it has is too small. The Maury side's combined rate is now higher than the Williamson side's. And the big employer is in a slow year: GM ended the XT6, moved the Acadia out, and ran the XT5 and the two Cadillac EVs on one shift from January to May 2026, with about 700 temporary layoffs.
02 · The pockets
Six pockets, one line down the middle, and $225,000 of difference.
The Williamson–Maury line crosses Spring Hill between Duplex Road and Port Royal Road and settles almost everything: Buckner Lane, Duplex Road, Chapmans Retreat, Rippavilla and June Lake come back Williamson; Port Royal Road, Brandon Woods and Kedron Road come back Maury. The county column is the one to read first. The last column is the compiler's trailing 12 months, taken from its subdivision pages rather than its neighborhood roll-up, which counts a longer window.
| Where, and when | What you find | Last 12 months | |
|---|---|---|---|
| June Lake and the Buckner Road end1991–2026 · Williamson · $2.009 · Heritage or Spring Station, Summit or Independence | The north tip of the city, inside the 37179 zip and carrying Thompson's Station mailing addresses: June Lake and Saddlewalk, Brixworth, Newport Crossing, Emberly, Mountain View, Cameron Farms, Loopers Landing, off Buckner Road at the I-65 diverging diamond | The address says Thompson's Station and the tax bill says Spring Hill, which is the single most common surprise in this zip. June Lake is a 775-acre master plan around an 11-acre lake with a town centre still being built out, about 2,900 houses at completion, and Signature's Saddlewalk selling faster than anything else in the market; Brixworth's seven phases of 2004-to-2023 houses on a quarter to half an acre with pool, clubhouse and tennis in $110 a quarter; Dream Finders' Emberly and the 1990s and 2000s streets around it at $420,000 to $610,000. The diverging diamond that opened in May 2024 is why this end drives to work faster than the rest of the city. | Saddlewalk at June Lake 83, the zip's busiest; Brixworth 12 · $790K · $250 / sq ft; Emberly 41 · $607K; Mountain View 26 · $422K |
| Buckner Lane and Duplex Road2000–2026 · Williamson · $2.009 · Allendale, Bethesda or Chapman's Retreat; Spring Station; Summit | The Williamson middle, between Main Street and I-65: Wilkerson Place, Wades Grove, Chapmans Retreat, Autumn Ridge and the Arbors, Wyngate Estates, Cherry Grove, August Park, with Fire Station No. 4 at the corner of the two roads | Where a Williamson County buyer under $800,000 actually ends up. Wilkerson Place, 300 houses and townhouses started by Crescent and finished by Dream Finders from 2021, with a pool, dog park, trails and playground for $50 to $175 a month, at a $752,873 median and up to $1.03 million; Wades Grove, all-brick 2006-to-2018 houses on a sixth to a third of an acre with $40 to $48 a month in dues and no pool, at $589,000; Chapmans Retreat and Wyngate Estates for the resale under $500,000; Richmond American's August Park at the top, in the $700s and above. Buckner Lane is being widened from two lanes to five and finishes in December 2026; Duplex Road already has three lanes, sidewalks and a multi-use path. | Wilkerson Place 74 · $752,873 · $430K–$1.03M; Wades Grove 37 · $589,000 · $253 / sq ft; Wyngate Estates 19 under $500K; August Park 17 new |
| Main Street and the old town1809–2026 · mostly Williamson · $2.009 · by street | U.S. 31 through the middle: Rippavilla, Grace Episcopal, Ferguson Hall and the Tennessee Children's Home, the depot blocks, the battlefield ground east of the pike, and the older subdivisions off it, from Campbell Station and Spring Hill Estates to Belshire and Benevento East | The four blocks that make the city look like a town, and the road that makes it feel like a corridor. Rippavilla's lawn and tours, the 195 acres of preserved battlefield, the 1878 church, and the Children's Home whose front lawn holds the Christmas tree; then five lanes of chain retail either side. TDOT's project would widen U.S. 31 from Buckner Road to Johnson Parkway to five lanes and has no construction date; Thompson's Station's segment north of the line moved its engineering to 2026. Buy here for the walk to the parade and the history, not for quiet. | Resale stock, no single dominant subdivision; the city-wide resale median is $536,000 across 673 sales |
| Port Royal Road and the Crossings1998–2026 · Maury · $2.108 · Spring Hill or Battle Creek | The Maury side east and south of Main Street: Brandon Woods and its Enclave, Reserve at Port Royal, Quail Run Meadows, Sawgrass, Hardins Landing, Somerset Springs and Westview townhouses, Arbor Valley, Barton Hills, with Fischer Park at Port Royal and the new police headquarters on the same road | The volume market, and the reason the city's median is $550,000 and not $700,000. Ole South's Brandon Woods from about $425,000 and 1,625 square feet, Century's Barton Hills, New Home Group's Arbor Valley at $500,000 to $600,000, and the townhouse rows at Somerset Springs and Westview under $350,000; Quail Run Meadows led the under-$500,000 tier with 42 sales. Amenities are per subdivision and modest: a pool and a playground, $65 to $125 a month. Fischer Park's 30 acres, splash pad and half-mile trail are the neighbourhood park for all of it. | Brandon Woods 54 new (Ole South) and 39 under $500K; Quail Run Meadows 42 under $500K; Barton Hills 38 new; Somerset Springs 23 under $500K; Arbor Valley 20 new |
| Saturn Parkway, Kedron Road, and the plant1990–2026 · Maury · $2.108 · Spring Hill ES/MS/HS, or Battle Creek | Southwest of Main Street toward I-65 at exit 53: Harvest Point, Southern Springs, Kings Creek and The Cove, Oak Lake Estates, Golf View Estates, Hampton Springs, the TriStar medical park off Kedron, the Spring Hill Commerce Center on Jim Warren Parkway, and GM's 2,100 acres | The employment side. Harvest Point, Celebration and D.R. Horton from 2018 on a tenth to a half acre with a pool, clubhouse, tennis, dog park and trails in $65 to $90 a month, at $547,000 for a house and $400,000 for a townhouse; Del Webb's Southern Springs, about 800 houses on 309 acres off Kedron built 2017 to 2024, a 19,000-square-foot clubhouse, indoor and outdoor pools, eight pickleball and four tennis courts, more than 70 clubs and a full-time lifestyle director, $274 to $334 a month, at a $700,000 median, with at least one resident 55 or older and new construction finished. The freestanding TriStar ER is here, and so is the site of the $250 million, 68-bed hospital it has a certificate of need for. | Harvest Point 48 houses · $547,000 and 21 townhouses · $400,000; Southern Springs 49 · $700,000 · $514,900–$927,820 |
| The edges, and outside the line1900s–2026 · both counties · $1.30 or $1.369 with no city rate | Rutherford Creek Acres, Mahlon Moore Estates, Derryberry Estates, Windward Estates, Sharp Manor and Cedar Brooke, and the unincorporated county on both sides toward Thompson's Station, Columbia, and the Duck River | One to five acres and up, wells and septic fields, no city services and no city rate: a Williamson-side lot outside the line pays $1.30 and a Maury-side lot $1.369, against $2.009 and $2.108 inside. The custom tier lives here. Sharp Manor and Cedar Brooke on one- to two-acre homesites are the compiler's million-plus new-construction communities, with dues of $180 to $200 a year rather than a month. This is also where the city's future water comes from: the Stone Creek land it bought in March 2025 is the reservoir site for the Advanced Purification project. | 69 sales above $1M city-wide, 6.4% of the year; the year's top close $3.25M |
Sources: MLS closed sales, trailing 12 months as of the compiler's 2026 refresh, as compiled by nashvillehome.guru for Spring Hill (1,085 sales) and for Wilkerson Place, Wades Grove, Harvest Point, Southern Springs, Brixworth, Emberly and Mountain View; its under-$500,000 and new-construction pages for the tier counts. The compiler publishes three different Spring Hill polygons: a city page (1,085 sales, $550,000 median), a 37174 zip page (1,247 sales, $515,000), and a neighborhood roll-up whose per-community counts run several times the 12-month subdivision figures. Its 37174 page also files Harvest Point and Saddlewalk under the wrong counties. Where they conflict, the city page and the individual subdivision pages are used and the roll-up is not. Jurisdiction from Nominatim reverse-geocoding of OpenStreetMap street points, September 9, 2026: Williamson County for Buckner Lane, Duplex Road, Chapmans Retreat Drive, June Lake Boulevard and Rippavilla Way; Maury County for Port Royal Road, Brandon Woods Drive and Kedron Road. Good enough to choose a road; confirm any one lot on the county's parcel map.
03 · Homes & market
What a house costs, and which county you paid it in.
Spring Hill closed 1,085 sales in the compiler's trailing 12 months at a $550,000 median and a $619,815 average, from a $190,000 townhouse to a $3.25 million place on acreage, about nine in ten with an association. The number that matters is the split: 509 Williamson sales at a $715,000 median against 576 Maury sales at $490,000, a 46 percent gap inside one city. New construction was 412 sales, 38 percent of the year, at $659,484, and the entry market is real: 544 sales in the zip closed under $500,000 at a $417,342 median, nearly three quarters of them on the Maury side. February 2026, the compiler's most recent single-month read, put single-family days on market at 38 against 27 a year earlier, supply at 4.65 months, and 47 percent of sales below asking. What you are buying is Williamson County Schools at the bottom of the county's price ladder, or Maury County's price with a city's services on top.
Sources: MLS closed sales, trailing 12 months as of the compiler's 2026 refresh, as compiled by nashvillehome.guru in its Spring Hill community guide (1,085 sales, with the county split, the price bands and the new-versus-resale cut), its under-$500,000 page (544 sales) and its 37174 zip page (1,247 sales, with the concession figures and the per-county price per foot). Days on market, months of supply and the below-ask share are from the compiler's February 2026 monthly report, a one-month figure. Middle Tennessee's July 2026 county roll-up put Williamson at 313 closings, a $1,035,000 median and 28 days, and Maury at 203 closings, a $422,100 median and a 125-day list-to-close pipeline; those are whole counties, not this city. Everything refreshes monthly; figures move.
| Tier | What you get | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| The townhouse, and the entry houseSomerset Springs, Westview, Arbor Valley, Harvest Point's townhouses, the Maury rows | A 1,000-to-2,400-square-foot attached house with the exterior, the grounds and the building insurance in $200 to $300 a month, or a small detached house on a tenth of an acre. Thirty-one sales closed under $300,000 and another 173 between $300,000 and $400,000, nearly all of it Maury County and nearly all of it townhouses. The cheapest way into the city, and the only tier in this series where a $275,000 close is still normal. | $275K–$425K |
| The Maury production houseBrandon Woods, Quail Run Meadows, Sawgrass, Hardins Landing, Barton Hills | Ole South, Century, D.R. Horton or Lennar from 2018 to 2026: 1,600 to 2,800 square feet on a sixth to a quarter acre, partial brick with fibre cement, an open plan, a two-car garage, a pool and a playground in $65 to $90 a month. Brandon Woods starts around $425,000 at 1,625 square feet. Three hundred and forty of the year's sales landed in the $400,000s, the single biggest band in the market, and this row is most of them. | $420K–$600K |
| The Williamson resaleWades Grove, Chapmans Retreat, Wyngate Estates, Autumn Ridge, Campbell Station, Cherry Grove | A 2000s-to-2010s brick two-storey of 1,800 to 3,400 square feet on a sixth to a third of an acre, $40 to $60 a month in dues, often with no pool, zoned Spring Station Middle and Summit High. Wades Grove's all-brick 2006-to-2018 houses at $589,000 and $253 a foot are the reference price. This is the cheapest detached route into Williamson County Schools, and it is why the Williamson side's median is $126,000 above the city's. | $500K–$720K |
| The new Williamson house, and the 55-plus houseWilkerson Place, Saddlewalk at June Lake, Harvest Point's houses, Southern Springs | Dream Finders, Signature, Celebration or Del Webb from 2017 to 2026: 2,000 to 4,100 square feet, a main-floor primary, a covered porch, and real amenities in the dues: a pool and dog park at $50 to $175 a month in Wilkerson Place, a 19,000-square-foot clubhouse and eight pickleball courts at $274 to $334 at Southern Springs. Wilkerson Place's $752,873 median and Southern Springs' $700,000 are the two poles of the tier, and the 412 new sales at $659,484 sit between them. | $550K–$900K |
| The custom acreAugust Park, Sharp Manor, Cedar Brooke, Rutherford Creek Acres, the unincorporated edges | Richmond American's August Park in the $700s and above inside the city, or a one- to two-acre homesite at Sharp Manor or Cedar Brooke with dues of $180 to $200 a year rather than a month, or an older place on five acres outside the line paying no city rate at all. Sixty-nine sales cleared $1 million, 6.4 percent of the year, and the top close was $3.25 million. Above about $1.2 million the buyer is usually choosing between here and Thompson's Station's T2 country. | $900K–$3.25M |
- The production two-storeyBrandon Woods, Quail Run Meadows, Barton Hills, Hardins Landing: a 2015-to-2026 house of 1,600 to 2,800 square feet on a sixth to a quarter acre, partial brick with fibre cement or vinyl above, an open plan and a two-car garage. Seventy-two percent of the city's houses are two-storey and about a quarter are all brick; this is the other three quarters.
- The all-brick Williamson houseWades Grove, Chapmans Retreat, Wyngate Estates: 2004-to-2018, 1,460 to 3,450 square feet on a sixth to a third of an acre, brick on all four sides or brick and stone, an attached two-car garage, $40 to $48 a month in dues and no clubhouse. The style Williamson County built before it started building porches.
- The new master-plan houseWilkerson Place, Saddlewalk at June Lake, Harvest Point: 2018 to 2026, 1,777 to 4,084 square feet, board-and-batten and brick fronts, a main-floor primary, a bonus room, and a pool, dog park, trails and playground in the dues. June Lake adds the lake, the greenway and a town centre still under construction.
- The 55-plus ranchSouthern Springs: Del Webb's Passport, Expedition, Estates and Pinnacle plans from 2017 to 2024, 1,374 to 3,652 square feet, single-storey with an optional loft, lawn care in the dues, at least one resident 55 or over. New construction is finished, so everything now comes through resale at $514,900 to $927,820.
- The townhouseSomerset Springs, Westview, Arbor Valley, Harvest Point and Wilkerson Place's attached rows: 1,240 to 2,460 square feet, two or three bedrooms, a one- or two-car garage, the exterior and the grounds in $200 to $300 a month. The whole sub-$350,000 market in this zip is here.
- The old house, and the acreMain Street and the depot blocks, Rutherford Creek Acres, Mahlon Moore, Derryberry and Windward Estates: 1900s farmhouses and 1990s brick ranches on one to five acres or more, wells and septic outside the line, and the antebellum and 1878 landmarks that give the four blocks their frontage.
| Line item | Notes | 2026 rate or cost |
|---|---|---|
| Property tax, the Williamson side | Assessed at 25% of appraisal. Williamson's $1.27 inside-city rate plus the city's $0.7390, held flat in the budget adopted June 2026. The county's third-highest combined total, above Nolensville and Brentwood and below Fairview and the Franklin special school district. Billed by the city, not the county trustee | $2.009 per $100 |
| Property tax, the Maury side | Maury's $1.369, the revenue-neutral certified rate the commission adopted in July 2026 after the reappraisal, down 28% from $1.91, plus the same city $0.7390. Of the county's 137 cents, 55 go to schools, 40 to the general fund, 12.7 to debt and 8 to capital. Higher than the Williamson side for the first time, on a base that has just been reset | $2.108 per $100 |
| Property tax, outside the city line | The unincorporated county on either side, where a lot on the edges of this guide may sit: no city rate, no city trash, no city police, and a volunteer or county fire district | $1.30, or $1.369, per $100 |
| HOA dues | About nine in ten sales carry one. Wades Grove $40 to $48 a month; Harvest Point $65 to $90 for a house and $215 to $225 for a townhouse; Wilkerson Place $50 to $175; Brixworth $110 a quarter; Southern Springs $274 to $334 with lawn care; the custom communities $180 to $200 a year. The compiler's city-wide range is $10 to $504 a month | $120–$6,000 / yr |
| Water | Spring Hill Water, from the Duck River. Inside-city base plus a three-tier volume charge: $6.98 per 1,000 gallons to 4,000, $8.72 to 10,000, $10.47 above. Up about 30% on July 1, 2026, the third and last year of the adopted schedule; from July 2027 it rises by the greater of 3% or CPI. Outside-city base is $39.03 | $20.71 / mo + $6.98–$10.47 per 1,000 gal |
| Sewer | The same 30% increase on the same date, on the plant that is under the state consent order. There is no septic alternative inside the city, and a new tap needs an allocation under Ordinance 25-29 (see the rules section) | $25.51 / mo + $9.56 per 1,000 gal |
| Stormwater, sanitation and electric | Stormwater rose 25 cents to $8.00 a month for most households on July 1, 2026. Sanitation, which covers trash, recycling and a city-services line for brush and yard waste, is contracted to Waste Management and was reworked with the new contract, up under a dollar. Electricity is one of three utilities depending on the street: Middle Tennessee Electric, Columbia Power and Water Systems, or Duck River Electric | $8.00 / mo stormwater; three power companies |
| Taxes and fees on a new house | Which county again. On the Williamson side, the county's $2.00-a-square-foot privilege tax plus its education impact fee, which runs to $12,399 at 3,400 square feet and up. On the Maury side, the $1.50-a-square-foot development tax adopted under the County Powers Relief Act effective November 1, 2024, three times the $0.50 cap it replaced. The city's own connection and capacity fees rose again in the July 2026 schedule | $3,750–$17,000+, priced into the house |
Worked example on the city-wide $550,000 median: assessed $137,500. On the Williamson side, about $2,762 a year; on the Maury side, about $2,899. On each side's own median the bills diverge: a $715,000 Williamson house pays about $3,591, a $490,000 Maury house about $2,582. The same $550,000 house would pay about $1,929 in Thompson's Station, about $2,153 inside Franklin outside the FSSD, about $1,788 in the unincorporated county, and about $2,943 in Fairview. Utilities on top: a household using 5,000 gallons a month pays about $57 for water, about $73 for sewer and $8.00 of stormwater, roughly $139 a month before sanitation. Rates from Williamson County's 2026 property tax rates page, the City of Spring Hill's tax-rate page and Ordinance 25-12, Maury County's FY2026-27 budget as reported July 8, 2026, and the city's water, sewer and stormwater rate schedule, all verified September 9, 2026; dues from the compiler's subdivision pages.
04 · The city, and its rules
A board of nine, two counties, and a consent order that outranks the zoning map.
Spring Hill is a full city, with its own police, fire, water, sewer, sanitation, parks and library, laid across a county line it does not control, running a wastewater plant the state has put under order. What a buyer needs to know about how it works, as of September 2026:
| Question | The answer | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| Who runs itMayor and eight aldermen | A mayor elected at large and eight aldermen, two from each of four wards, all elected at large to four-year staggered terms, with municipal elections in April. Mayor Matt Fitterer, who beat the incumbent Jim Hagaman on April 10, 2025; Vice Mayor Trent Linville of Ward 4; Aldermen John Canepari and Alex Jimenez in Ward 1, Jaimee Davis and Scott Wernert in Ward 2, Erinn Hartwell and Brent Murray in Ward 3; City Administrator J. Carter Napier, hired July 7, 2025. The board's voting meeting is the third Monday at 6 and its work session the first Monday at 6, in the courtroom at City Hall, 199 Town Center Parkway; the planning commission meets the second and fourth Mondays at 5:30 | A nine-member board with wards; the sewer allocations and the rezonings are voted on the third Monday |
| The county lineWilliamson north, Maury south | One city, two of everything else. The school district, the property tax rate, the reappraisal cycle, the development tax on a new house, the trustee who bills the county share and the sheriff's office all change at the line, which crosses the city between Duplex Road and Port Royal Road. Williamson reappraised in 2025 and charges $1.27 inside its cities; Maury reappraised in 2026 and cut its rate 28 percent to a revenue-neutral $1.369. The city's own $0.7390 is the same on both sides, and the city bills it itself | Ask for the parcel number, not the mailing address; the answer sets your school and your bill |
| The sewer orderTDEC Consent Order WPC2025-0093 | The plant treats five million gallons a day, discharges to Richland Creek and the Duck River, and was running around four million when the order landed. Between June 1, 2023 and May 31, 2025 the city self-reported 29 effluent exceedance violations, mostly nitrogen. On August 5, 2025 TDEC issued the consent order with a $65,700 civil penalty, $13,140 of it due in 30 days, and a moratorium on new sewer connections for every project without vested rights under state law; the board accepted it by Resolution 25-183. It lifts only after the plant meets the order's performance standards for twelve consecutive months. The city published the list of vested projects, suspended development applications under Resolutions 25-238, 25-259 and 25-268, and then passed Ordinance 25-29 unanimously on second reading on January 5, 2026, which set a capacity-allocation framework, required a flow meter on every project that gets an allocation, and lifted the application suspension. Applications for the remaining capacity go to the board | A finished house on an existing tap is fine; a lot, a lot split or an addition that needs a new tap is a board decision |
| The long fixAdvanced Purification, and the Duck River | Spring Hill draws its drinking water from the Duck River and discharges to it, and the state will not let it send more nitrogen down. The Advanced Purification project would treat wastewater to a high standard, blend it with raw river water in a reservoir, and run the blend back through the water plant, so the same water is used more than once instead of the city asking for a larger withdrawal. TDEC approved the pilot in August 2024, the commissioner toured in February 2025, and the city bought the Stone Creek land in March 2025 as the reservoir site, with state SWIG grant money behind it. In the meantime the 2026 Sewer Rehabilitation Project is chasing inflow and infiltration through the 150-plus miles of collection system into early 2027, and the utility added ten positions and a new engineering division | The capacity question is a decade-long project, not a quarter; price the constraint into anything unbuilt |
| The codeUnified Development Code, 2018; revised November 2025 | The zoning ordinance and the subdivision regulations were folded into a single Unified Development Code in August 2018, with a user's manual, and the board approved revisions to it in November 2025. The long-range document is Spring Hill Rising: 2040, the comprehensive plan that replaced the 2011 plan's long list of land-use categories with a smaller set of character areas and set the principles the UDC is written against. The major thoroughfare plan sits alongside it | One code for zoning and subdivision; check the character area as well as the zone before you plan anything |
| What the rate buys$151.7 million, adopted June 2026 | A fiscal 2027 budget of $151.7 million with the rate held at $0.7390, eleven new positions and three reclassifications, a $27.4 million general-fund opening balance and $36.2 million in the water and sewer fund, and a second consecutive Distinguished Submission from the state comptroller. The recent capital is visible: a 60,000-square-foot police headquarters off Port Royal that opened in May 2025, and Fire Station No. 4 at Buckner Lane and Duplex Road, the Mitchell Earwood Memorial Station, opened November 21, 2025: the city's first two-storey firehouse, its first new station since 2015, ten more firefighters and an expected 25 percent cut in response times on that side | Seventy-four cents buys a real city: police, fire, water, sewer, trash, parks, a library |
| The roadsU.S. 31, Buckner Lane, Duplex, Port Royal | TDOT's project would widen U.S. 31 to five lanes from Buckner Road to Johnson Parkway, and has no construction date; the segment north of the line in Thompson's Station moved its preliminary engineering to 2026 after that town put in $15 million. The city's own list: Buckner Lane's widening from two lanes to five, whose northern half finished in September 2025 and whose southern half is projected complete in December 2026; the Port Royal Road and Buckner Lane intersection; the Peter Jenkins Greenway Connector; and the Southside Water Tank, with a Countess Road roundabout and further Port Royal Road work pending. Duplex Road was rebuilt years ago as a 3.2-mile three-lane with sidewalks and a multi-use path, and the Buckner Road diverging diamond at I-65 opened in May 2024 | The city is fixing its cross streets; the state has not started on Main Street |
| Short-term rentalsMunicipal code, title 20 | The city code carries a short-term rental chapter, with section 20-501 defining them and 20-504 setting minimum standards, and hosts report permit, inspection and occupancy requirements on top of the usual zoning limits. The code library refused our requests at press time, so we have not read the current text and are not quoting fees or districts from a secondary source. The codes department is the authority, and the association's covenants are usually the tighter of the two | Regulated, with a permit; verify the district and the HOA before you buy for it |
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Spring Hill charges seventy-four cents and delivers a whole city, which is the difference between it and Thompson's Station. What it cannot deliver on demand is a sewer tap, and until the plant runs twelve clean months the state, not the board, is the last word on what gets built.
05 · Schools
Two districts, one city, and a line that decides which.
No other guide in this series has this problem. North of the county line the address is Williamson County Schools, with five elementaries, two middles and Summit High serving the city, and Independence taking the far north end; south of it the address is Maury County Public Schools, with Spring Hill's own elementary, middle and high school and the Battle Creek campuses that opened in 2024. Williamson publishes projected enrollment, building capacity and open-zoning seats for every school; for 2026-27 Summit sits at 76 percent and Independence at 96, and Spring Station Middle is the tightest of the local schools at 88. Maury publishes an out-of-zone enrollment process but no comparable capacity sheet. Both districts' zone finders are the only authority for a specific lot.
| School | Grades | Neighborhoods | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allendale ElementarySpring Hill · Williamson County Schools | K–5 | The Williamson middle, including the edges of Wades Grove | 522 projected for 2026-27 against 890 seats, 59 percent, the emptiest elementary in the cluster with 168 open-zoning spots |
| Longview ElementarySpring Hill · WCS | EC, K–5 | The Williamson side west and north of Main Street | 630 against 890, 65 percent, 110 open spots; carries one of the district's early-childhood programmes |
| Chapman's Retreat ElementarySpring Hill · WCS | PK, K–5 | Chapmans Retreat and the Duplex Road subdivisions | 521 against 790, 66 percent, 119 open spots; one of the two local elementaries with a pre-K class |
| Bethesda Elementary4907 Bethesda Road · WCS | K–5 | Wades Grove and Wilkerson Place, per the compiler's subdivision pages | 630 against 760, 83 percent, 30 open spots; a 2024-25 Reward School, with a $6 million renovation on the district's plan for fall 2029. The drive is east, not north |
| Heritage Elementary, and Heritage Middle4801 and 4803 Columbia Pike · WCS | PK–5; 6–8 | The Buckner Road end and the 37179 streets: Brixworth, Emberly, Mountain View, part of June Lake | Heritage Elementary 580 against 760, 76 percent, 30 open spots; Heritage Middle 853 against 1,060, 80 percent, 57 spots. Both campuses are in Thompson's Station, north of the city line |
| Spring Station MiddleSpring Hill · WCS | 6–8 | Wades Grove, Wilkerson Place, Chapmans Retreat and most of the Williamson side | 757 against 860, 88 percent, 28 open-zoning spots, the tightest of the schools this guide covers, and the one to check before you buy on the Williamson side |
| Summit High2830 Twin Lakes Drive · WCS | 9–12 | Almost all of the Williamson side | 1,671 projected against 2,200 seats, 76 percent, 529 seats free with 400 reserved for growth and 129 open-zoning spots; a 2024-25 Reward School, U.S. News' 23rd high school in Tennessee, 53 percent AP participation. The most room of any high school in the south of the county |
| Independence High1776 Declaration Way · WCS | 9–12 | Part of the Buckner Road end and the 37179 streets | 2,120 against 2,200, 96 percent, 40 open-zoning spots; U.S. News' 21st in Tennessee. Heritage Middle eighth-graders who live in the Summit zone get first call on those 40 seats under board policy |
| Spring Hill Elementary, Middle and HighMaury County Public Schools | K–5; 6–8; 9–12 | Harvest Point, Southern Springs, the Kedron and Saturn Parkway side, much of Port Royal Road | Spring Hill High, on Raider Lane with a Columbia mailing address, had 907 students in 2024-25 and ranks in the top half of Tennessee high schools at U.S. News. Marvin Wright Elementary, PK–4, had about 605 students in 2023-24. Maury does not publish projected enrollment against building capacity |
| Battle Creek Elementary, Middle and High130 Battle Creek Way · MCPS | K–4; 5–8; 9–12 | The old Spring Hill High zone east of U.S. 31 and south of Saturn Parkway, plus part of the Columbia Central zone south of Bear Creek Pike | The county's answer to Spring Hill's growth: the high school opened August 5, 2024 with grades 9 and 10 and 402 students, added a grade a year, and is a full 9–12 for the first time in 2026-27. A new school with a first senior class, which is either the appeal or the objection |
Sources: Williamson County Schools' Open Zoned Schools 2026-27 sheet dated January 7, 2026 for projected enrollment, building capacity, fill rate, reserved growth spaces and available open-zoned spots, and its board policy 1.703 for the Heritage-to-Independence priority; the Williamson Herald and Williamson Source on the January 20, 2026 approval and the February 4 to April 15 application window; the state's 2024-25 Reward Schools list and U.S. News for Summit, Independence and Spring Hill High; Wikipedia and Main Street Media for Battle Creek High's opening, enrollment and attendance zone; GreatSchools and the district for Marvin Wright's 2023-24 enrollment; the compiler's subdivision pages for zoning by neighborhood, which we did not verify address by address. Each district's zone finder is the authority for a specific lot.
- Columbia AcademyThe K-12 Church of Christ school with its main campus in Columbia and a campus in Spring Hill itself: the private school this end of the county actually uses.
- Spring Hill Christian AcademyK-6 and under 100 students, the small option inside the city.
- Agathos ClassicalThe PreK-12 classical school in Columbia, about 330 students, 18 minutes south on U.S. 31.
- Battle Ground Academy, and the Franklin schoolsBGA on Mack Hatcher, New Hope Academy, Franklin Classical and Grace Christian at Leiper's Fork, 25 to 40 minutes north; the drive runs against the commute in the morning and with it at three.
- The district pre-K, on the Williamson sideChapman's Retreat and Heritage carry pre-K classes and Longview an early-childhood programme; Williamson's Voluntary Pre-K seats are applied for each spring, for four-year-olds by August 15, with priority to families who qualify by income.
- Marvin Wright, on the Maury sideMaury's Marvin Wright Elementary runs PK through 4, so a Maury-side family's first school year can start a year earlier than a Williamson-side neighbour's.
- The church and chain preschoolsThe weekday programmes run out of the Main Street churches and the newer campuses off Duplex and Port Royal; the chains are on U.S. 31 and at the Crossings. The Goddard School is among the tenants approved for June Lake's commercial corner.
- The librarySpring Hill Public Library at 144 Kedron Parkway runs the story times, and serves the parts of both counties around the city as well as the city itself.
06 · Getting around
The drive, honestly timed.
Times are from City Hall at 199 Town Center Parkway on a weekday morning between 7 and 8:30. The Buckner Road end subtracts five to eight minutes from everything north and uses the diverging diamond at I-65; the Kedron and Port Royal side adds five and uses the Saturn Parkway. Three ways out: the Saturn Parkway east to I-65 at exit 53, Buckner Road to the diamond, and U.S. 31 north through Thompson's Station. The Census puts the city's mean commute at 30 minutes, about ten percent above the metro's 27.8. Free-flow figures are OSRM's; the ranges add the rush.
Mobility scores
Four blocks of old Main Street work, and June Lake is being built to work, with a lake, a greenway and a town centre planned so residents can walk or take a cart to dinner, but the town centre is still under construction. Everything else is a subdivision with sidewalks inside it and a five-lane road outside it.
Duplex Road's rebuild put a multi-use path along 3.2 miles of the city's main cross street, the Harvey Park Greenway adds 1.3 paved miles from Miles Johnson Parkway to Wilkes Lane on a federal grant, and the Peter Jenkins Greenway Connector is on the current project list. U.S. 31 is not for bicycles.
None. Franklin Transit stops well north of the city line, and the county commuter association's nearest listed park-and-ride is the Kroger lot here. The plant runs shifts; the city runs no bus.
U.S. 31 is the only continuous street through the city and carries the retail, the schools and the through traffic between Franklin and Columbia; the five-lane widening from Buckner Road to Johnson Parkway has no construction date. After that it is I-65 north from exit 53 with Columbia and Spring Hill on the same ramp, and it does not loosen until Brentwood.
07 · Daily life
Where the week actually happens.
- The Crossings of Spring HillMore than 85 shops and restaurants at the Saturn Parkway end: Panera, Olive Garden, Cracker Barrel, Moe's and the rest of the national list, with Target and Kohl's anchoring it. It is where the city eats on a Friday, and it is a parking lot, not a street.
- U.S. 31 through townThe independents, the Mexican rooms, the barbecue and the breweries are strung along Main Street between Duplex and Kedron rather than gathered anywhere. Nothing here is a walk from a subdivision; everything is a five-minute drive from most of them.
- June Lake's town centreThe dining and retail core of the 775-acre master plan, planned around the 11-acre lake and still being built; a credit union, a salon and a daycare were the first approvals at the Buckner Road and Buckner Lane corner. Worth watching, not yet worth choosing a house for.
- Thompson's Station, nine minutes northCirca Grill and Company Distilling on Thompson's Station Road West, and Village Pizza and Mojo's Tacos in Tollgate's village centre, the closest thing to a walkable dinner within ten minutes of the north end.
- Columbia's squareEighteen minutes south on U.S. 31: the real courthouse square, the restaurants that came with its revival, and the county seat's Friday night. Closer than Franklin, and cheaper.
- Franklin, and the rooms with musicBerry Farms' restaurants 18 minutes north, Main Street 22, Leiper's Fork's Fox & Locke about 35. We track the shows nightly.
- Main Street and the CrossingsThe drive-throughs and the grocery counters are on U.S. 31 and at the Crossings; the independents open and close on that road faster than a guide can keep up, so we do not name them here.
- 1819 Coffee, Thompson's StationIn Homestead Manor at 4683 Columbia Pike, open from six in the morning: the nearest coffee shop worth the drive from the north end, in a house built in 1819.
- Franklin, and ColumbiaThe county's best cups are 22 minutes north and Columbia's square is 18 south. We rank them and keep the list current.
- The Crossings, and what is comingTarget, Kohl's, Books-a-Million, Old Navy, Bath & Body Works and 80-odd more on the Saturn Parkway side; L.L. Bean was announced for 2026. This is the retail centre of gravity for everything south of Berry Farms.
- GroceriesKroger, Publix, Walmart and Aldi are all on or just off U.S. 31, and the Tollgate Publix at 4935 Columbia Pike serves the Buckner Road end from the Thompson's Station side of the line.
- Spring Hill Public Library144 Kedron Parkway: Monday to Thursday 8:30 to 7:30, Friday and Saturday 9 to 5, closed Sunday. It serves the city and the parts of both counties around it, and the board has hired an architect for the concept design of a replacement.
- Trash, recycling and brushThe city contracts sanitation to Waste Management and bills it with the water: trash, recycling, and a city-services line that covers brush and yard waste. Unlike Thompson's Station, you do not have to arrange your own hauler.
- Cool Springs, and ColumbiaThe Galleria and everything around it 29 minutes north on I-65; Columbia's square, its hardware, feed and antique stores 18 minutes south.
- The county seat you actually useA Maury-side buyer records a deed in Columbia and a Williamson-side buyer in Franklin, 18 minutes one way and 22 the other. The city collects its own property tax from both.
- Fischer Park at Port RoyalThirty acres on Port Royal Road: a playground, three covered pavilions, a half-mile walking trail, courts for basketball and tennis and a football field, and the splash pad that runs 10 to 7 in season. The city's busiest park and the Maury side's front lawn.
- Harvey Park, and its greenwayPavilions, a playground, a walking trail and restrooms on Miles Johnson Parkway, with 1.3 paved miles of greenway being built from the park to Wilkes Lane on Transportation Alternatives grant money, linking neighbourhoods to the retail.
- Evans Park, and the Bark ParkMulti-use athletic fields and a concession stand, and the city's only off-leash dog park, recently rebuilt.
- Rippavilla, and the battlefield5700 Main Street: the early-1850s house the city owns and the Battle of Franklin Trust operates, with guided tours of the house and of the enslaved community that built and worked it, and more than 195 acres of the November 29, 1864 battlefield preserved around it by the American Battlefield Trust.
- The community amenitiesSouthern Springs' 19,000-square-foot clubhouse with indoor and outdoor pools, eight pickleball and four tennis courts; Harvest Point's pool, clubhouse, tennis, dog park and trails; Wilkerson Place's pool and dog park; June Lake's lake and greenway system. Most of this city's recreation is bought with the dues.
- Farther afieldPreservation Park's battlefield trails in Thompson's Station 12 minutes north, the Duck River and Maury County's parks to the south, and the Natchez Trace west by I-840.
- TriStar Spring Hill ERThe freestanding, round-the-clock emergency department at 3001 Reserve Boulevard, on the TriStar Medical Park campus north of Saturn Parkway off Kedron Road, affiliated with TriStar Centennial. Under ten minutes from most of the city, and the nearest ER for Thompson's Station too.
- The hospital that is approvedTriStar holds a certificate of need, granted 6–2 by the state Health Facilities Commission on June 26, 2024, for a $250 million, 68-bed acute-care hospital on the same campus, over the joint objection of Maury Regional, Williamson Medical and Vanderbilt. We found no construction or opening date announced as of September 2026.
- Maury Regional, and Williamson HealthMaury Regional runs three physician practices in Spring Hill plus adult and paediatric therapy, with its medical centre in Columbia 18 minutes south; Williamson Medical Center in Franklin is 26 minutes north and is in the middle of a $200 million expansion.
- The walk-in clinicsVanderbilt Health and Williamson Medical's walk-in clinic at 3098 Campbell Station Parkway, the urgent care Maury Regional added to its Spring Hill footprint, and the pharmacy counters on U.S. 31.
- Police and fireThe city's own, which is the thing the tax rate buys: a 60,000-square-foot police headquarters off Port Royal opened in May 2025, and Fire Station No. 4 at Buckner Lane and Duplex Road opened November 21, 2025 with ten new firefighters and an expected 25 percent cut in response times on that side.
- The gymsSouthern Springs' fitness centre and Harvest Point's amenities for members, and the chains on U.S. 31 and at the Crossings for everyone else.
08 · The year
What the city does together.
Spring Hill runs a longer parks-and-recreation calendar than any town in this series, from a splash pad opening and a skate jam to movies in the park, a campout and a trunk-or-treat, but the dates that anchor the year are these. What we could verify:
- SaturdaysThe farmers marketThe Hidden Gem Farmers Market at 863 Old Military Road, 11 to 2, Saturdays through October.
- 1st & 3rd MonThe board meetsWork session the first Monday at 6, voting meeting the third Monday at 6, in the courtroom at City Hall; the planning commission the second and fourth Mondays at 5:30. The sewer allocations and the rezonings are decided in public, on that calendar.
- JuneHill FestSaturday, June 6, 2026, 2 to 7 at Fischer Park, with a daytime fireworks show, the city's own summer festival.
- JulyThe Fourth, for the first timeFor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration in 2026 the city and the chamber put on Spring Hill's first city-wide Fourth of July with fireworks; The Well Outreach ran a 5K at 7 and a bike and stroller parade at 9 alongside it.
- July–AugustThe State of the CityGiven twice: to the chamber's luncheon on July 30 in 2026 and to the public at City Hall on August 5, with the mayor, vice mayor and city administrator on water, roads and the budget. Where the growth numbers come from.
- OctoberThe Whole Hog FestivalThe 21st John Maher Builders' Whole Hog Festival, October 17, 2026 at Oaklawn, benefiting The Well Outreach: live music, fireworks, food trucks, a kids' zone, a petting zoo and a hog-calling contest. It started in 2005 as the Country Ham Festival and is the city's oldest party.
- DecemberThe Christmas parade, and the treePresented by Parks and Recreation with Kiwanis Spring Hill and Thompson's Station: the tree lighting on the front lawn of the Tennessee Children's Home from 4:20, the lights on at 5, and the parade down Main Street at 5:30, with food trucks and music on Ferguson Hall's porch.
09 · Trade-offs
The case for, and the case against.
What you gain
- A whole city, for seventy-four cents. Police with a new 60,000-square-foot headquarters, a fire department with a new station, water, sewer, trash and recycling on one bill, parks with a splash pad, and a library: everything Thompson's Station contracts out or does without, on a city rate of $0.7390.
- The price. A $550,000 city median against $690,000 in Thompson's Station and about $790,000 in Franklin, and a Maury side at $490,000; 544 sales in the zip closed under $500,000 at a $417,342 median, which no other guide in this series can say.
- Williamson schools with room in them. Summit High at 76 percent of capacity with 129 open-zoning spots and 400 seats reserved for growth, Allendale at 59 percent, Chapman's Retreat at 66: the least crowded corner of the district, at the bottom of its price ladder.
- The jobs are here. About 5,000 at GM and Ultium on 2,100 acres, Mars Petcare up the pike, Medacta's North American headquarters and 200-plus jobs coming to the Commerce Center in 2027, and I-65 in eight minutes for everyone else.
- What is already built. Eighty-five-plus shops and restaurants at the Crossings, a round-the-clock ER with an approved hospital behind it, 30 acres and a splash pad at Fischer Park, an antebellum house and 195 acres of battlefield, and Columbia 18 minutes one way with Franklin 22 the other.
What you give up
- A single answer to anything. Two counties means two school districts, two tax rates, two reappraisal cycles, two development taxes and two courthouses, and the line runs through the middle of the city. A listing that says "Spring Hill" has told you nothing that matters.
- The tax bill. $2.009 on the Williamson side and $2.108 on the Maury side, the county's third-highest combined rate and well above Franklin outside its special school district; on the same $550,000 house that is about $833 a year more than Thompson's Station on the Williamson side and about $970 more on the Maury side, and about $600 more than Franklin outside its special school district.
- The sewer. A state consent order, a moratorium on new connections that cannot lift until the plant runs twelve clean months, capacity handed out project by project by the board, and a 30 percent increase in the water and sewer rate two years running with more to come.
- The road. U.S. 31 is the only continuous street through the city, it carries the retail and the schools and the traffic between Franklin and Columbia, and its widening has no construction date. There is no bus, and the Census puts the mean commute at 30 minutes.
- The employer's slow year. GM ended the XT6, moved the Acadia out, and ran the XT5 and the two Cadillac EVs on a single shift from January to May 2026 with about 700 temporary layoffs. The new product allocations and the LFP conversion are 2027 and later.
The verdict
Decide the county first and the subdivision second. If the reason is Williamson County Schools and you cannot clear Franklin's median, Wades Grove or Chapmans Retreat for resale and Wilkerson Place or Saddlewalk at June Lake for new, and you will pay $2.009 for the privilege. If the reason is the number, the Maury side, Brandon Woods or Quail Run Meadows or Harvest Point, is the cheapest new house within half an hour of Cool Springs, with a different district and a rate that has just been reset. If the reason is a clubhouse and pickleball at 55, Southern Springs is the only community in this series built for it. Get the parcel number before the inspection, ask the city in writing whether the lot has a sewer tap or needs an allocation, and read the third-Monday agenda before you close. If you need one school district, one tax bill and a four-lane road, Berry Farms is 18 minutes north at the price of the difference.
10 · Map
Where it sits.
Thirty miles south of Nashville on U.S. 31, between Thompson's Station and Columbia, with I-65 along the east at exits 53 and 46 and the Saturn Parkway connecting them to the city. City Hall and the town centre are west of Main Street; the county line crosses between Duplex Road and Port Royal Road, putting Buckner Lane, June Lake and Chapmans Retreat in Williamson County and Port Royal Road, Kedron Road and the GM complex in Maury. Rippavilla and the battlefield are on Main Street south of the old town.
11 · Questions
What people ask before they move here.
Which county am I buying in, and why does it matter?
It is the first question here, and it changes four things: the school district, the tax bill, the appraisal cycle and the price. The Williamson–Maury line runs through the middle of the city, roughly between Duplex Road and Port Royal Road. North of it, on Buckner Lane, Duplex Road, Chapmans Retreat, June Lake, Wades Grove and Wilkerson Place, the answer is Williamson County: Williamson County Schools, a $2.009 combined rate, and a $715,000 median across 509 sales. South of it, on Port Royal Road, Kedron Road, Brandon Woods, Harvest Point and Southern Springs, it is Maury County: Maury County Public Schools, a $2.108 combined rate after the 2026 reappraisal, and a $490,000 median across 576 sales. Same city hall, same police, same fire, same water bill, same Main Street. The listing's "Spring Hill" tells you none of it. Ask for the parcel number and check it on the county map before you write the offer.
What is the property tax?
The city's rate is $0.7390 per $100 of assessed value on both sides, held flat in the $151.7 million budget the board adopted in June 2026. On top of it, Williamson County charges $1.27 inside its cities, for $2.009 combined; Maury County charges $1.369, the revenue-neutral certified rate the commission adopted in July 2026 after the reappraisal cut it 28 percent from $1.91, for $2.108. Assessment is 25 percent of appraisal. On the city-wide $550,000 median that is about $2,762 a year on the Williamson side and about $2,899 on the Maury side; on each side's own median, about $3,591 in Williamson and about $2,582 in Maury. The same $550,000 house pays about $1,929 in Thompson's Station, about $2,153 inside Franklin outside the special school district, and about $1,788 in the unincorporated county. Two cautions: the Maury rate is now the higher of the two, which is new, and the counties reappraised in different years, so compare actual bills rather than rates. The city bills its own share; the counties bill theirs.
What is the sewer moratorium, and can I still build?
The city treats its wastewater at a five-million-gallon-a-day plant that discharges to Richland Creek and then the Duck River, and between June 1, 2023 and May 31, 2025 it self-reported 29 effluent violations, mostly nitrogen. On August 5, 2025 the state issued Consent Order WPC2025-0093 with a $65,700 civil penalty and a moratorium on new sewer connections for any project without vested rights under Tennessee law; it lifts only after the plant meets the order's standards for twelve consecutive months. The city published the list of vested projects, suspended development applications by resolution, and then on January 5, 2026 passed Ordinance 25-29 unanimously on second reading, which set up a capacity-allocation framework, required a flow meter on every allocation, and lifted the application suspension. In practice: a finished house on an existing tap is unaffected, and so is a lot in a subdivision whose taps are already committed. A lot that needs a new connection needs an allocation the board votes on. The long-term fix is Advanced Purification: treat the wastewater, blend it with raw Duck River water in a reservoir on the Stone Creek land the city bought in March 2025, and run it back through the water plant. That is a decade, not a quarter. Ask the city in writing, not the listing.
Which schools?
Two districts, split by the county line. On the Williamson side, Williamson County Schools: Allendale, Longview and Chapman's Retreat elementaries in the city, Bethesda and Heritage taking parts of it, Spring Station and Heritage middles, Summit High on Twin Lakes Drive, and Independence High for the far north end. For 2026-27 the district projects Summit at 1,671 against 2,200 seats, 76 percent, with 129 open-zoning spots and 400 seats held for growth; Independence at 2,120 against 2,200, 96 percent, with 40 spots that Heritage Middle eighth-graders in the Summit zone get first call on; Spring Station Middle at 88 percent, the tightest local school; and Allendale, Longview and Chapman's Retreat all under 70 percent. On the Maury side, Maury County Public Schools: Spring Hill, Marvin Wright and Battle Creek elementaries, Spring Hill and Battle Creek middles, and either Spring Hill High, which had 907 students in 2024-25, or Battle Creek High, which opened in August 2024 with grades 9 and 10 and reaches a full 9–12 in 2026-27. Battle Creek's zone is the old Spring Hill High zone east of U.S. 31 and south of Saturn Parkway plus part of the Columbia Central zone. Maury publishes an out-of-zone enrollment process but no capacity-and-open-seats sheet, so the two districts cannot be compared on the same numbers.
Is Spring Hill cheaper than Franklin or Thompson's Station?
Cheaper than Franklin, and it depends against Thompson's Station. The city's 1,085 sales in the compiler's trailing 12 months closed at a $550,000 median against about $790,000 for the city of Franklin and $690,000 for Thompson's Station, and 544 sales in the zip closed under $500,000 at a $417,342 median. But the county line splits that in half. The Williamson side's $715,000 median is above Thompson's Station's, and the same house pays about $833 a year more in tax; what the extra buys is a police department, a fire department, trash pickup, a library and a sewer system. The Maury side's $490,000 median is the cheapest new-construction market in this series, and it buys a different school district. New construction ran 412 sales at $659,484, 38 percent of the year, and the builder list is the one Franklin buyers already know: Dream Finders, Ole South, Century Communities, Del Webb, Signature, Richmond American, D.R. Horton.
How is the commute?
Short to the interstate, long to everything north of it. From City Hall it is 8 minutes free-flow to I-65 at exit 53 by the Saturn Parkway, 9 to Thompson's Station, 12 to the GM plant, 18 to Columbia's square, 22 to Franklin's square by U.S. 31, 29 to Cool Springs, 34 to Maryland Farms, 45 to downtown Nashville and 49 to the airport. Add ten to 30 minutes for a weekday morning; the Census puts the city's mean commute at 30 minutes, about ten percent above the metro average. U.S. 31 through the middle of town is the pinch: TDOT's project would widen it to five lanes from Buckner Road to Johnson Parkway and has no construction date, while the city's own Buckner Lane widening to five lanes finishes in December 2026 and Duplex Road is already three lanes with a multi-use path. The Buckner Road diverging diamond at I-65 opened in May 2024 and is the north end's back door. There is no bus.
What is happening at the GM plant?
It is still the largest employer and it is in a slow year. Spring Hill Manufacturing covers about 2,100 acres, employs roughly 5,000 hourly and salaried people, and builds the Cadillac Lyriq, Vistiq and XT5; the Ultium Cells joint venture with LG Energy Solution, a $2.3 billion plant, started cell production in March 2024. GM ended the XT6 in 2025, moved the GMC Acadia out, and ran the XT5 on a single shift from January to May 2026 with about 700 temporary layoffs, cutting Lyriq and Vistiq to one shift over the same months. Against that, GM has committed $275 million across the complex, more than $150 million of it for a future Cadillac combustion product, allocated the next-generation XT5 and the gas Chevrolet Blazer to the plant, and Ultium is converting lines to lower-cost LFP cells with commercial production expected in late 2027. The other 2026 announcement is Medacta, the Swiss orthopaedic implant maker, moving its North American headquarters from Franklin to the Spring Hill Commerce Center off Jim Warren Parkway with $85 million and more than 200 jobs, occupying about July 2027.
How does it compare to Thompson's Station, Berry Farms and Columbia?
Thompson's Station is the same road nine minutes north with the services subtracted: a $690,000 median, all-Williamson schools, the county's lowest municipal rate at $1.403, and no police department, no trash pickup, no library and sewer in eight subdivisions. Spring Hill is the city version of the same market: more house for the money on the Maury side, a full set of services, and a bill about $833 a year higher. Berry Farms is 18 minutes north inside Franklin at Franklin's prices and $1.566, with a town centre that is built and exit 59 at the door. Columbia is 18 minutes south: a real courthouse square, historic houses at a fraction of the price, Maury County Schools, and a longer drive to everything in Williamson. Spring Hill is the one of the four that gives you a choice of county without changing your address.
12 · Compare
If you like Spring Hill, also look at.
Thompson's Station.
Nine minutes north on the same road: a $690K median, all-Williamson schools, the county's lowest municipal rate at $1.403, and a town that contracts out almost everything a city does.
The town versionBerry Farms & South Franklin.
The same builders 18 minutes north inside Franklin, at Franklin's prices and $1.566, with a town centre that is finished and exit 59 at the door.
What the difference buysFranklin.
The city-level guide: six character areas, the whole tax stack including the special school district, both school districts, and what the commute actually costs from each side of town.
The reference guideSources & method
- Sales, medians, ranges, price per square foot, house and lot sizes, build years, builders, dues and tiers: MLS closed sales as compiled by nashvillehome.guru in its Spring Hill community guide (1,085 sales, trailing 12 months as of its 2026 refresh, with the Williamson and Maury split, the seven price bands and the new-versus-resale cut), its 37174 zip page (1,247 sales, with the per-county price per foot, the concession figures and the HOA share), its under-$500,000 page (544 sales), its new-construction page (builders and community tiers), and its pages for Wilkerson Place, Wades Grove, Harvest Point, Southern Springs, Brixworth, Emberly and Mountain View. The compiler publishes three overlapping Spring Hill polygons whose totals do not reconcile, its neighborhood roll-up counts a longer window than its subdivision pages, and its 37174 page files Harvest Point and Saddlewalk at June Lake under the wrong county; where they conflict we use the city page and the individual subdivision pages. Days on market, months of supply and the below-ask share are from its February 2026 monthly report, a one-month figure. County-level July 2026 figures are from Grant Hammond's Middle Tennessee update. All of it refreshes; figures move.
- City facts and history: the city's own pages for the board, the administrator, tax rates, projects, parks, the library and the calendar; Wikipedia and the Census for the 1808 settlement, the 1809 establishment, the 1880, 2010 and 2020 counts, the 2024 estimate of 59,398, the 29.14 square miles and the two-county split, with World Population Review's 2026 estimate above 63,000; the American Battlefield Trust and the Battle of Franklin Trust for the November 29, 1864 battle, the 195-plus preserved acres, and Rippavilla's history, ownership and tours; the Williamson Herald for the April 10, 2025 election of Mayor Fitterer; the city's July 7, 2025 announcement of City Administrator J. Carter Napier.
- Tax rates and fees: Williamson County's 2026 property tax rates and combined totals (Spring Hill $2.009: county $1.27, city $0.7390; Thompson's Station $1.403; Franklin $1.566 and $2.2433; Nolensville $1.64; Brentwood $1.49; Fairview $2.1404; county only $1.30), verified September 9, 2026; the City of Spring Hill's tax-rate page and Ordinance 25-12 for the $0.7390 city rate on both sides; Main Street Media's July 8, 2026 report on Maury County's approved FY2026-27 budget for the $1.369 certified rate, the 28 percent reduction from $1.91, the 55/40/12.7/8-cent split and the $307.7 million budget; Main Street Media on Spring Hill's $151.7 million FY2026-27 budget, the flat rate and the eleven new positions; the Tennessee impact-fee resource for Williamson's $2.00-per-square-foot privilege tax and its education impact fee to $12,399, and for Maury's $1.50-per-square-foot County Powers Relief Act development tax effective November 1, 2024.
- Water, sewer and the consent order: the city's water, sewer and stormwater rate schedule for the July 1, 2024, 2025 and 2026 rates and the 2027-onward escalator; its May 2026 utility-rate notice for the roughly 30 percent increases, the $8.00 stormwater charge and the Waste Management sanitation contract; the city's August 5, 2025 announcement of TDEC Consent Order WPC2025-0093, Resolution 25-183, the 29 self-reported violations from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2025, the $65,700 penalty and the $13,140 first instalment; its list of projects with vested sewer rights; its January 5, 2026 announcement of Ordinance 25-29 and the Williamson Herald, WKRN and Williamson Source coverage of the framework, the flow-meter requirement and Resolutions 25-238, 25-259 and 25-268; NewsChannel 5 and WSMV on the five-million-gallon capacity, the nitrogen and Richland Creek, and the mayor's statements; the city's Advanced Purification page for the pilot's August 2024 approval, the February 2025 TDEC visit, the March 2025 Stone Creek purchase and the SWIG grants; its June 2026 notice of the sewer rehabilitation project and the 150-plus miles of collection system.
- Schools: Williamson County Schools' Open Zoned Schools 2026-27 sheet dated January 7, 2026 for projected enrollment, building capacity, fill rate, reserved growth spaces and available open-zoned spots at Allendale, Longview, Chapman's Retreat, Bethesda, Heritage, Spring Station, Heritage Middle, Summit and Independence, and board policy 1.703 for the Heritage-to-Independence priority; the Williamson Herald, Williamson Source and WSMV on the January 20, 2026 approval and the February 4 to April 15 window; the state's 2024-25 Reward Schools list and U.S. News for Summit, Independence and Spring Hill High; Wikipedia and Main Street Media for Battle Creek High's August 5, 2024 opening, its 402 students, its grade progression to a full 9–12 in 2026-27 and its attendance zone; Maury County Public Schools for its school list and out-of-zone enrollment; GreatSchools for Marvin Wright's 2023-24 enrollment. Neither district's zoning was verified address by address; each district's zone finder is the authority.
- Employers: GM Authority, GM's own newsroom, WSMV and CNBC on Spring Hill Manufacturing's products, the end of the XT6, the Acadia move, the single-shift XT5 and Cadillac EV schedule from January to May 2026 and the roughly 700 temporary layoffs, the $275 million commitment and the $150 million-plus for a future Cadillac combustion product; NewsChannel 5 for the roughly 5,000 employees and the 2,100-acre campus; the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, electrive and Ultium Cells for the $2.3 billion battery plant, the March 2024 start of cell production and the LFP conversion expected in commercial production by late 2027; the city's July 31, 2026 announcement, TNECD, the Nashville Post and WKRN on Medacta's $85 million headquarters and manufacturing hub, its 200-plus jobs, the Spring Hill Commerce Center site off Jim Warren Parkway and the mid-2027 occupancy.
- Rules and plans: the city's Unified Development Code and its user's manual for the August 2018 consolidation of the zoning ordinance and subdivision regulations, and the November 2025 revisions; the Spring Hill Rising: 2040 comprehensive plan and its character areas; the municipal code's short-term rental sections 20-501 and 20-504, whose current text the code library would not serve us at press time; the city's board and planning commission meeting schedules.
- Roads and commute: TDOT and Williamson Source on the U.S. 31 widening to five lanes from Buckner Road to Johnson Parkway; the Town of Thompson's Station's page on the same corridor's northern segment and the move of preliminary engineering to 2026; the city's Buckner Lane widening page for the two-to-five-lane project and the December 2026 completion; Gresham Smith and Spring Hill Home Page on the Duplex Road rebuild; WKRN on the May 2024 Buckner Road diverging diamond; the city's projects page for the Port Royal and Buckner Lane intersection, the Peter Jenkins Greenway Connector, the Southside Water Tank, the Countess roundabout and the pending Port Royal work; Census Reporter for the 30-minute mean commute against the metro's 27.8; OSRM free-flow routing from City Hall (35.7482, -86.9406), September 9, 2026, with a weekday allowance added by the compiler.
- Daily life and events: the city's parks pages and Friends of Spring Hill Parks for Fischer Park at Port Royal, Harvey Park and its greenway, and Evans Park and the Bark Park; the Harvey Park Greenway Plan for the 1.3 paved miles and the Transportation Alternatives grant; the city's library pages for the Kedron Parkway address and hours and the architect's concept design; the Crossings of Spring Hill's own site and FranklinIs for the tenant list and the L.L. Bean announcement; TriStar, Maury Regional, Vanderbilt Health and Williamson Health's location pages; the Williamson Herald, Main Street Media and Nashville Post on the June 26, 2024 certificate-of-need vote for the $250 million, 68-bed TriStar hospital and the joint opposition; the city's May 2025 police headquarters and November 21, 2025 Fire Station No. 4 announcements and WSMV's coverage; the city's 2026 calendar of events, the Hill Fest listing, WKRN on the first city Fourth of July, The Well Outreach and Main Street Media on the October 17, 2026 Whole Hog Festival, and the city's Christmas parade and tree-lighting pages.
- Jurisdiction: Nominatim reverse-geocoding of OpenStreetMap street centroids on September 9, 2026, which returns Williamson County for Buckner Lane, Duplex Road, Chapmans Retreat Drive, June Lake Boulevard and Rippavilla Way, and Maury County for Port Royal Road, Brandon Woods Drive and Kedron Road; the compiler's per-subdivision county labels where they agree with it. Good enough to frame a guide and choose a road; confirm any one lot on the county's parcel map before you write an offer.
- Photographs: Spring Hill City Hall (December 2013) by Skyrunner75, CC BY-SA 3.0; Rippavilla (December 2009) by Hlj, public domain; Grace Episcopal Church (December 2013) by Skyrunner75, CC BY-SA 3.0; all via Wikimedia Commons, cropped to 4:3. The BY-SA crops are derivatives and carry the same licence.