Wilson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in Mount Juliet
Mount Juliet is a Wilson County city about seventeen miles east of downtown Nashville, bisected by I-40 with two interchanges and bounded on the west and south by Percy Priest Lake. It grew from around 12,000 people in 2000 to nearly 40,000 by 2020, and it has something almost nowhere else in the region does: a commuter rail station.
- County
- Wilson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- 17 miles
- Property tax
- Wilson County $1.1657 plus city $0.29
What’s actually there
- Two I-40 interchanges and the US-70 corridor running through the city
- The WeGo Star commuter rail station, on the 32-mile Nashville to Lebanon line
- Providence, the master-planned community anchored by Providence Marketplace, including Del Webb Lake Providence for active adults
- Percy Priest Lake frontage on the western and southern edges
- Substantial rebuilding following the EF3 tornado of March 3, 2020
The housing stock
Predominantly late 1990s through 2020s suburban subdivision housing, with a large post-2020 rebuild and new-construction component following the tornado. Providence is the community people search by name, and it includes Del Webb Lake Providence and the Cottages of Providence for active adults. RealtyTrac put the Mount Juliet median at $592,100 in July 2026, up 5.08 percent year over year, against a Wilson County median of $510,058 for the same month from RealTracs.
Getting around
Seventeen miles east of downtown, roughly twenty to twenty-five minutes off-peak by I-40, with westbound morning traffic as the real constraint. The commuter rail is the differentiator, but read the buyer note before you plan around it.
Things to do in Mount Juliet
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Providence Marketplace
Open-air retail center at 401 South Mt Juliet Road, the commercial heart of the city.
Charlie Daniels Park
The city’s main park, with ball fields, trails and a community events schedule.
Cedar Creek Marina
Percy Priest Lake marina at 9120 Saundersville Road.
Long Hunter State Park
Percy Priest shoreline and Couchville Lake at 2910 Hobson Pike, just across the water.
WeGo Star Mt. Juliet station
Commuter rail stop on the Nashville to Lebanon line, where some trips terminate.
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 Mount Juliet
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.
Providence
The master planned development that reshaped Mount Juliet, containing eleven named sections plus the Providence MarketPlace retail center.
- Named sections under the Providence association: The Cottages, The Village, Bradford Park, The Reserve, Arbor Springs, Legacy Park, Autumn Ridge, Sterling Woods, Bridgemill, Shadow Creek, and Del Webb Lake Providence.
- Housing type varies by section, mostly detached with attached product in the Del Webb portion. Which section you are in decides what you are buying.
- HOA, professionally managed, with a swim club reserved for owners and residents and a community trail system.
- The governing rules currently include a ten percent rental cap per section, which matters if you are buying to hold. Confirm it is still in force, since a rule like that can be amended.
Del Webb Lake Providence
The 55 and over community inside Providence, and the first Del Webb active adult community in Tennessee.
- 1,029 homes on a 340 acre site. Construction ran from 2006 to 2015, so it is fully built out.
- Age restricted 55 and over. That is a legal restriction under the Housing for Older Persons Act, not a preference.
- A 24,000 square foot community center with indoor and outdoor pools and a spa, a fitness center with an indoor walking track, roughly five miles of trails, tennis, pickleball, bocce and half court basketball, an amphitheater and event lawn.
- A lake with a fishing dock and paddle craft, and a pedestrian bridge from the clubhouse to the sports complex across it.
Nichols Vale
Off Lebanon Road about five miles from I-40, acquired and completed by Ashlar Development from 2018.
- 402 home sites with 32 acres of open space at completion. Ashlar announced the acquisition April 24, 2018.
- Single family detached plus townhomes.
- HOA, with a swimming pool and a 2,000 square foot pool house, a breezeway clubhouse, a community front porch, a pond and a trail system.
- Beazer Homes and Eastland Construction were the production builders.
Windtree
A golf course that closed and became houses, which is a specific thing to buy into and worth understanding.
- Windtree Golf Club operated 27 years and closed permanently on November 23, 2017, with the last public play day the day before.
- The Mount Juliet Board of Commissioners approved rezoning of the former course on a three to one vote for Windtree Pines: 373 single family homes and 50 townhouses on 193 acres.
- The approval carried eight public works provisions tied to the community’s proximity to Cedar Creek, an amendment requiring a developer contribution toward a new pump station, and a condition that any phase involving floodplain cut and fill requires FEMA involvement before work begins. That last one is the sentence to read twice.
- M/I Homes builds Windtree and Windtree Pines, Beazer builds Windtree Trace. The M/I community lists a pool with cabanas, clubhouse, fitness center, sports court, trails, playground and a nine hole disc golf course.
Schools
Wilson County Schools
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Served by Wilson County Schools. Zoning is assigned by address rather than by subdivision name, and the district publishes its own address lookup, so confirm the specific address with the district rather than inferring it from a listing.
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
Be realistic about the train, because it is the reason a lot of people look here. The WeGo Star runs 32 miles between Nashville and Lebanon with seven stations, and Mount Juliet is a key stop where some trips end. But the service is roughly six round trips a day on a line that is mostly single track, which caps how much can be added, and ridership is still well below where it was before 2020: about 298,800 in 2018, down to 57,500 in 2021, back to roughly 153,900 in 2025. This is peak-hour weekday commuter service, not all-day transit. If you are buying on the assumption you can leave the car at home, ride it first at the times you would actually be riding. Second, taxes moved recently. Mount Juliet’s city rate went from eleven cents to twenty-nine cents per hundred of assessed value for the 2026 fiscal year, so anyone quoting you the old number is understating your bill, while Wilson County cut its own rate to $1.1657 after the 2026 reappraisal. Ask for both current figures before you run your payment. Third, and this is the newest thing, Wilson County reappraised in 2026 and property values across the county rose about 66 percent. The county then certified a rate of $1.1657 per $100 effective July 1, 2026 to keep the budget close to neutral. A big value increase paired with a big rate cut does not automatically mean your bill stays flat, because your own assessment moved by its own amount, so pull the new assessment on the specific parcel rather than assuming. Fourth, Wilson County has been running roughly four and a half months of supply with the fastest days on market of the outer counties, so it is more balanced than Williamson but it still moves.
Common questions
Can I really commute by train from Mount Juliet?
At peak hours on weekdays, yes, and that is genuinely rare in this region. But set expectations properly: the WeGo Star runs about six round trips a day on a line that is mostly single track, and ridership is still below where it was before 2020. It is commuter service, not all-day transit. Ride it at the hours you would actually use it before you buy a house on the strength of it.
Did Mount Juliet property taxes go up?
The city rate did, from eleven cents to twenty-nine cents per hundred of assessed value for the 2026 fiscal year. At the same time Wilson County cut its own rate to $1.1657 after the 2026 reappraisal. So the two moved in opposite directions and any figure you saw a year ago is wrong in both places. Ask me for the current numbers and I will pull them.
What is Providence?
The master-planned community that anchors Mount Juliet, built around Providence Marketplace at 401 South Mt Juliet Road. It includes Del Webb Lake Providence and the Cottages of Providence, which are age-restricted for active adults, so it is worth knowing which part of Providence a listing is actually in before you get attached to it.
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