Davidson and Sumner Counties · Middle Tennessee
Living in Goodlettsville
Goodlettsville is a city of its own about twelve miles north of downtown Nashville, and it sits in two counties at once. The north half is Sumner County and the south half is Davidson. That single fact changes your school district, your county tax rate and your closing math depending on which side of the line the house is on.
- Counties
- Davidson and Sumner
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~12 miles
- The thing to check first
- Which county the parcel is in
- Interstate
- I-65 at exits 96 and 97
What’s actually there
- A city line that runs across two counties, with different school districts and different county tax rates on each side
- Historic Mansker’s Station and the Bowen Plantation House at 705 Caldwell Drive
- Moss-Wright Park, the city’s main park, on Caldwell Drive
- The Rivergate area, now mid-demolition and being rebuilt as a mixed-use district
- Dollar General’s corporate headquarters at 100 Mission Ridge
- I-65 access at Rivergate Parkway and at Long Hollow Pike, with Dickerson Pike running through town
The housing stock
Established subdivision housing from the 1960s onward on the Davidson side, newer and larger construction on the Sumner side where the land was available, and a steady flow of new subdivisions on Long Hollow Pike and around Union Hill. Zillow put the typical Goodlettsville home value at $391,957 as of July 31, 2026, down 1.5 percent year over year, which is a city-wide index across both counties rather than a sold median for either side on its own.
Getting around
About twelve miles to downtown, twenty to twenty-five minutes off-peak on I-65, longer in the morning southbound. Rivergate Parkway and Long Hollow Pike are the two interchanges.
Things to do in Goodlettsville
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Historic Mansker’s Station
A reconstructed 1779 frontier fort and the Bowen Plantation House at 705 Caldwell Drive. Call ahead at 615-859-3678, hours have changed since the schedule most listings quote.
Moss-Wright Park
The city’s central park on Caldwell Drive, next to Mansker’s Station.
Goodlettsville Branch Library
Part of Nashville Public Library, at 205 Rivergate Parkway.
Dollar General Corporation headquarters
The Fortune 500 retailer’s corporate campus at 100 Mission Ridge, and the largest employer in town.
Checked against each business as of August 17, 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 Goodlettsville
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.
Windsor Green
The 1980s community on the Davidson County side, with an English naming scheme running through more than thirty courts: Buckingham, Cambridge, Cheshire, Dorchester, Oxford, Sheffield.
- 295 platted lots across ten plats recorded between June 1984 and March 1989. About 565 parcels today, which is the tell that this is not a uniform detached subdivision.
- Three products under one name: roughly 220 parcels are single family, about 80 are residential condominium and about 70 are zero lot line. Find out which one an address is before you compare it to anything.
- Davidson County side of Goodlettsville, confirmed by its presence in Metro’s Davidson only plat and parcel records.
- The condominium parcels necessarily sit under a regime, but I could not verify a single association covering the whole community.
Dry Creek Farms
A compact 2000s subdivision on the Davidson side, off Dry Creek Road, built and finished inside four years.
- 138 platted lots across three plats recorded between April 2004 and February 2007.
- About 150 parcels today, single family detached.
- HOA.
- Davidson County side, confirmed through Metro’s Davidson only records. That matters here because Goodlettsville straddles the county line and the two sides carry different school districts and different county tax rates.
Emerald Cove
A small 1988 filing at the north end of Goodlettsville, close to the county line.
- 56 lots on a plat recorded April 7, 1988, with a two lot resubdivision in 1995. About 60 parcels today.
- Davidson County side, confirmed through Metro records.
- Four streets: Dorr Drive, Dorris Avenue, Judith Court and Mavella Court.
- Housing type, HOA and amenities are not verifiable from an authoritative source. Small subdivisions like this one leave a thin public record.
Copper Creek and Braxton Park at Woodwyn
Two names that come up constantly in Goodlettsville searches and that both sit on the Sumner County side, which changes the school district and the tax rate.
- Neither appears anywhere in Metro’s Davidson County plat or parcel records, which is the cleanest available confirmation that they are on the Sumner side.
- Copper Creek addresses fall on Fall Creek Circle and Sydney Drive. Braxton Park addresses fall on Paige Park Lane, Rose Garden Lane and Lance Park Circle.
- Braxton Park’s housing type is contradicted between sources, listed as detached houses by one and as townhouses by another. Do not assume either way, check the parcel.
- Sumner County has no open plat data service equivalent to Metro’s, so plat dates and lot counts for both would have to come from the Sumner County Register of Deeds directly. That is a phone call, and I will make it worth your while if you have a client looking here.
Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools
Look up an address with the district →Sumner County Schools
Look up an address with the district →
Two districts serve one city. Addresses on the Davidson County side are Metro Nashville Public Schools, assigned by address. Addresses on the Sumner County side are Sumner County Schools, also assigned by address. Confirm the specific address with the district that actually serves it, because a Goodlettsville mailing address tells you nothing about which one that is.
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
The county line is the whole story here and most listings do not mention it. On the Davidson side you pay the Metro General Services District rate, which was $2.782 per $100 of assessed value for the 2025 tax year, plus the city of Goodlettsville rate on top, and your children are zoned to Metro schools. On the Sumner side you pay the Sumner County rate of $1.421 per $100 plus the same city rate, and you are zoned to Sumner County Schools. That is a materially different monthly payment and a completely different school assignment for two houses that can sit across the street from each other. I could not verify the current city rate from the city’s own published documents, so before you budget we call Goodlettsville City Hall at 615-851-2209 and get the current figure in writing. The second thing to know is Rivergate. The mall interior closed in February 2026, demolition began in March, and the site was bought for a phased mixed-use redevelopment running toward 2030. That is a long construction horizon next door to a lot of housing, and it is the single biggest variable in this market.
Common questions
Which county is Goodlettsville in?
Both. The north half is Sumner County and the south half is Davidson. It changes your school district and your county property tax rate, so it is the first thing I check on any address here, before we even talk about the house.
What are the property taxes in Goodlettsville?
It depends which side you are on. Davidson side is the Metro General Services District rate, $2.782 per $100 of assessed value for the 2025 tax year. Sumner side is the Sumner County rate, $1.421 per $100. Both sides also pay a city of Goodlettsville rate on top of the county rate. Tennessee assesses residential property at 25 percent of appraised value, so we run the math on the assessment. I could not verify the current city rate from a published city document, so we confirm it with City Hall rather than repeating a number off a listing.
What is happening at Rivergate Mall?
It is coming down. Interior tenants closed at the end of 2025, the mall interior closed in February 2026 and demolition started in March. The property sold in February 2026 and the approved plan is a mixed-use district with commercial space, apartments, senior housing, townhomes and a hotel, built in phases toward 2030. Dillard’s has remained open through it. If you are buying nearby, that is years of construction and then a very different neighbor.
What schools serve Goodlettsville?
Metro Nashville Public Schools on the Davidson side, Sumner County Schools on the Sumner side, both assigned by address. Each district publishes its own address lookup and those are the only sources I use. I do not send clients to rating sites.
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