Living in Westhaven

What’s actually there

• Westhaven Golf Club, an eighteen hole course laid out with no homes on it, at 4000 Golf Club Lane
• A completed town center holding more than thirty businesses and services, so groceries, a meal and an errand do not require leaving the community
• A residents club of roughly fifteen thousand square feet with a fitness center, a movement studio, an art center, a theater and drop in childcare
• Multiple pools, plus tennis and pickleball courts
• About nine miles of trails and roughly twenty parks, including Magli Green, the lakefront park named when the town center was completed
• A fifty five and older section with its own separate club
• Detached homes, townhomes and condominiums in the same community, including newer three story townhomes built with elevators
• Highway 96 West at the front door, which is the road to both the Franklin square and interstate 65

The housing stock

Four product types inside one community, which is the thing to understand before you shop here. There are detached single family homes, townhomes including newer three story plans built with elevators, condominiums, and a separate fifty five and older section with its own club. Roughly thirty-five hundred residences are planned across the fifteen hundred acres, and more than twenty-four hundred households were occupied at the twenty year mark, so this is a community still being built rather than a finished one. Each product type has its own resale pool and its own association rules, and they do not move together. I am not going to quote you a median off a subdivision name, because a townhome and a golf course lot in the same community are not the same market. Ask me for the comparable set on the specific product type you want.

Getting around

The developer puts downtown Nashville at fourteen miles. In practice you take Highway 96 West east to interstate 65 at Franklin, then north, and the Franklin square is about three miles the other direction. The distance is not the issue here, the road is: 96 West carries the whole west side of Franklin and it backs up at school release and at rush hour. Drive it at the hour you would actually be driving it before you decide, and drive it in both directions, because leaving in the morning and coming home in the evening are two different roads.

Things to do in Westhaven

Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.

• Westhaven Golf Club

  4000 Golf Club Lane. An eighteen hole core course playing to a par of 72 and 7,000 yards from the championship tee, designed by Arthur Hills, Steve Forrest and Associates and opened in 2009. It was configured separately from the neighborhood so that no homes line the fairways, which is unusual in a community course. It was named to the Golfweek and Golf Digest 2010 best new courses lists. The club runs its own membership program with full golf, national and dining categories, and its own inquiry form asks separately whether you are a Westhaven resident, so treat living here and playing here as two different questions and confirm the current arrangement with the club.

• The Westhaven Town Center

  The mixed use district at the center of the community, which the developer completed and describes as carrying more than thirty businesses and services. Tenants turn over the way they do in any commercial district, so check what is open now rather than relying on a list.

• Magli Green

  The lakefront park, named by the developer when the town center was finished. It is the newest of roughly twenty parks inside the community.

• The Residents Club

  Roughly fifteen thousand square feet holding a fitness center, a movement studio, an art center, a theater and drop in childcare, alongside the pool and racquet facilities.

Checked against each business as of September 5, 2026. Nashville loses restaurants faster than most cities, so if something here has closed since, tell me and I’ll get it corrected.

Schools

• Williamson County Schools

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• Franklin Special School District · PreK-8

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Franklin is served by two separate school districts and which one an address falls into is not obvious from a map. Franklin Special School District covers PreK through 8 only, has no high school, and its boundaries were set in 1986 and do not cover the city as a whole. Everything outside those 1986 lines is Williamson County Schools from kindergarten. Zoning is assigned by address rather than by subdivision name, and a community this large can cross a zone line, so confirm the specific address with the district before you rely on anything, including anything on this page.

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.

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