Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a large area in northwest Davidson County sitting on Hardins Bend, across the Cumberland River from North Nashville. It was named in 1886 by Dr. M.O. Randall, a New York dentist, after the French region where he had practiced, and it developed slowly from Revolutionary War land grants and farmland.
- County
- Davidson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~6 to 7 miles
- Character
- Large area on a river bend, with Clarksville Pike as its spine
What’s actually there
- Hardins Bend, the loop of the Cumberland River that the area sits on
- Clarksville Pike, historically the commercial spine and the location of family-owned businesses and churches
- The Enchanted Hills subdivision, built in the 1950s as a planned subdivision of architect-designed midcentury homes
- Early homebuilding concentrated along Ewing Drive, Whites Creek and Eaton Creek
- Hartman Park, one of the larger Metro community centers in the county
The housing stock
Mostly mid-twentieth-century housing, ranging from working and middle-class stock to distinctly affluent professional housing in subdivisions such as Enchanted Hills, with new construction arriving in recent years. Redfin recorded a median of $489,900 for the Bordeaux area in July 2025, up 11.4 percent year over year, with days on market moving from 43 to 58. Bordeaux is a region rather than a tight neighborhood, so a single median covers a lot of ground and I would not lean on it for any one street.
Getting around
Six to seven miles to downtown, roughly twelve to fifteen minutes off-peak via Clarksville Pike, Rosa L. Parks Boulevard or Briley Parkway.
Things to do in Bordeaux
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Hartman Park and Regional Community Center
At 2801 Tucker Road, with a fitness center, a 25-meter indoor pool, a gym, indoor and outdoor tracks, tennis and a greenway trailhead.
Nashville Public Library, Bordeaux Branch
Open seven days a week at 4000 Clarksville Pike.
Bordeaux Garden Park
Neighborhood park on Snell Boulevard.
Ted Rhodes Golf Course
Public course on the river at 1901 Ed Temple Boulevard, opened in 1953 and renamed in 1969 for Ted Rhodes, the Nashville-born professional golfer. Note this address is in North Nashville, adjacent to Bordeaux rather than inside it.
Checked against each business as of August 14, 2026. Nashville loses restaurants faster than most cities, so if something here has closed since, tell me and I’ll get it corrected.
Subdivisions and named developments in Bordeaux
Once you are actually looking, you stop searching by city and start searching by subdivision. These are the names that come up, and what is true about each one that will still be true in three years. No prices, no dues, no days on market, because those change and this page would go stale telling you about them.
Bordeaux Hills
The largest subdivision here, platted across seven years in the 1960s.
- About 554 parcels, more than any other named plat in Bordeaux.
- Section 2 recorded May 7, 1963, running through Section 9 on March 20, 1970, with a Section 8-A added in 1977.
- Lots run roughly eighteen to twenty-eight hundredths of an acre under R10 zoning.
- Centered on Olsen Lane. This is the mid-century core of the neighborhood.
Haynes Park
The large-lot exception, and the reason people are surprised by what an acre costs here.
- Zoned RS40, a 40,000 square foot minimum, with lots running roughly fifty-eight to seventy-eight hundredths of an acre.
- That is about three times the lot size of Bordeaux Hills or Buena Vista Estates barely a mile away.
- About 242 parcels. Section 1 recorded August 18, 1971, with sections through 1975.
- Fronts Kings Lane. The zoning is what protects the lot sizes, and it is not going to change on its own.
Buena Vista Estates
A tight late-1960s build on Sunnyview Drive.
- About 309 parcels. Section 1 recorded September 5, 1968, running through Section 6 in May 1972 and a Section 6-A in January 1973.
- Lots run roughly nineteen to twenty-three hundredths of an acre under RS10 zoning, so this is the smaller-lot end of Bordeaux.
- Centered on Sunnyview Drive.
- Do not confuse it with Buena Vista, the separate inner-city neighborhood north of downtown, which has its own guide on this site.
Treppard Heights
The oldest of the large Bordeaux plats, and the lots vary more than the others.
- Earliest plat recorded July 17, 1958, with Sections 3 through 9 following through 1960 and a Section 7-A in 1979.
- About 272 parcels, on lots running roughly twenty-nine to fifty-four hundredths of an acre under RS10.
- That spread, from under a third of an acre to over half, is wider than the 1960s and 1970s plats around it.
- Runs along Kings Lane and Hummingbird Drive.
Royal Hills and Creekwood North
Two 1970s plats, and one of them was substantially rebuilt as attached housing later.
- Royal Hills runs about 242 parcels, with Section 1 recorded February 1, 1974 and sections through 1975, zoned RS15, on Putnam Drive.
- Much of Royal Hills Section 1 was later converted through sixteen separate zone lot division plats recorded between 1985 and 1988, which means attached or zero lot line product replaced part of the original layout.
- Creekwood North is a single plat recorded August 3, 1973, about 103 parcels on Kings Lane, zoned RS15.
- A zone lot division changes what you own and what you share. It is not the same as a conventional lot and the documents do not explain themselves.
What gets called Bordeaux and is not
Five names marketed as Bordeaux that sit in a different zip code entirely.
- Parmley Cove, Park Preserve, Chateau Valley, Haynes Manor and Trinity Hills Village are all in 37207, not 37218.
- Bordeaux proper is 37218, on Hardins Bend across the Cumberland from North Nashville.
- It matters because those 37207 areas have their own conservation overlays, Haynes Manor and Haynes Heights, which do not apply here. An overlay decides what you can build and what review you go through.
- The name itself dates to 1886, given by Dr. M.O. Randall, a dentist from New York, after the region of France where he had practiced.
Flood exposure, in numbers
The river question, answered with the county’s own damage records rather than a feeling.
- The 2010 flood damaged structures on about 390 parcels in the Bordeaux core, against 11,648 across all of Davidson County.
- So Bordeaux carries real exposure, and it is far below the river bend neighborhoods. Pennington Bend alone accounts for more than a thousand.
- That is a neighborhood-level number and it is not a substitute for the FEMA panel on a specific parcel, which is what I pull before contingencies come off.
- Several design and contextual overlays now cover parts of 37218, including corridor and two story overlays adopted in 2024, which affect what can be built next to you.
Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools
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Served by Metro Nashville Public Schools. Metro zones by address, so two houses on the same block can differ. There is also a separate choice and magnet application. Verify the address in the district’s own Zone Finder.
I publish district and school zoning as published fact and nothing more. No ratings, no rankings, no comparisons. School zones are set by the district, assigned by address rather than by subdivision or city name, and they change. Confirm any address with the district itself, and evaluate the schools yourself against what matters to your family.
What a buyer needs to know here
Two physical facts drive cost here. First, the river. Bordeaux sits on Hardins Bend, which is the classic geometry for flood deposition, and Metro acquired more than four hundred flood-affected homes across the county after 2010. On any parcel near the water, pull the FEMA panel and Metro’s floodplain layer before you go firm, and price flood insurance into the payment rather than treating it as a footnote, because on a riverside parcel a lender will require it. Second, the terrain. Bordeaux has substantial bluff and hillside ground above the river, and building or adding on steep lots means engineered foundations, retaining walls and rock excavation. I am not quoting a slope percentage because I could not verify the figure that circulates online against Metro’s own code. Call Metro Planning before you commit to a build. On the upside, appreciation has been running well ahead of the county off a comparatively low base, and there is no historic overlay here, so what you can do with your own house is limited by county code rather than by a design commission.
Common questions
How did Bordeaux get its name?
From a dentist. Dr. M.O. Randall, who came from New York, named it in 1886 after the region of France where he had practiced. As late as the 1890s the area had one business, one church and one school. It is a genuinely older piece of Nashville than most people assume.
Does Bordeaux flood?
Parts of it can, and the geography is the reason. Bordeaux sits on Hardins Bend, a loop of the Cumberland, which is exactly the shape that collects water. Metro bought out more than four hundred flood-affected homes countywide after 2010. On any address near the river I pull the FEMA panel and Metro’s floodplain layer first, and I price the flood insurance into the monthly payment rather than leaving it as a surprise at closing.
What is there to do in Bordeaux?
The civic assets are the strength here rather than a restaurant strip, and I would rather tell you that than invent one. Hartman Park at 2801 Tucker Road is a large community center with a 25-meter indoor pool, a gym, indoor and outdoor tracks and a greenway trailhead. The library branch at 4000 Clarksville Pike is open seven days. Ted Rhodes Golf Course is on the river just over the line in North Nashville.
Thinking about Bordeaux?
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