Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in Woodbine
Woodbine is a historic south Nashville neighborhood along Nolensville Pike, about five miles from downtown, which was called Flat Rock before it was renamed in 1939 after the David Hughes estate. Its commercial corridor is one of the most internationally diverse in the Southeast, and the Nashville Zoo sits at its southern end.
- County
- Davidson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~5 miles
- Transit
- On the Nolensville Pike All-Access corridor
What’s actually there
- A neighborhood generally bounded by Nolensville Pike, Thompson Lane, Glenrose Avenue and the I-440 corridor, with local usage running further south
- The Nolensville Pike commercial corridor, described in Metro’s own community plan as a major corridor of international restaurants and shops
- Nashville Zoo at Grassmere on 188 acres, with the Grassmere Historic Home on the grounds
- Whitsett Park and the Mill Creek Greenway
- A history marker placed in 1975 recording the area’s earlier name of Flat Rock, Mill Creek Baptist Church from 1797, and the opening of the L&N Radnor Yards in 1919
The housing stock
Older and more mixed than the neighborhoods further south: 1920s through 1940s bungalows and cottages alongside modest brick ranches, with a median build year around 1950 and an average size well under fifteen hundred square feet, plus newer townhomes and new construction layered in. That range means the price tiers here are genuinely wide, from original cottages through to new build. Redfin recorded a median of $405,000 for Woodbine in January 2025 and has not refreshed the neighborhood page since, so treat that figure as dated and ask me for a current one.
Getting around
About five miles from downtown, roughly twelve to fifteen minutes off-peak, on one of only two corridors Metro has designated for high-frequency transit investment.
Things to do in Woodbine
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Nashville Zoo at Grassmere
A 188-acre zoo at 3777 Nolensville Pike. Open 9am to 6pm in season and 9am to 4pm through the winter.
Grassmere Historic Home
A Federal farmhouse of about 1810 on the zoo grounds, with the historic farm.
Plaza Mariachi Music City
Latin cultural center, market and music venue at 3955 Nolensville Pike.
K&S World Market
International grocery at 4225 Nolensville Pike.
Edessa Restaurant
Kurdish and Turkish restaurant at 3802 Nolensville Pike.
Casa Azafrán
Community center and home of Conexión Américas at 2195 Nolensville Pike.
Whitsett Park and the Mill Creek Greenway
Park and greenway on the creek at 355A Wimpole Drive.
Coleman Park and Community Center
Metro Parks facility at 384 Thompson Lane.
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 Woodbine
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.
Sunrise Heights and Nolen Heights
Streetcar-era plats from 1910 to 1913, and the oldest ground in this part of town.
- Nolen Heights was recorded around 1910 and 1911, McLester’s addition in September 1915, and Sunrise Heights in March 1912 with a second section in June 1913.
- Sunrise Heights runs about 241 parcels on lots of roughly fifteen to twenty-nine hundredths of an acre, zoned RS7.5. Nolen Heights and McLester’s together run about 105 parcels at roughly seventeen hundredths.
- These are forty years older than anything in Whites Creek and a century older than the infill going up around them.
- Sunrise Heights centers on High Street, Nolen Heights on McCall Street.
Glencliff Estates
The large-lot anomaly, in a neighborhood otherwise platted small.
- Lots run from roughly half an acre to over an acre, zoned R15 and RS15, in a neighborhood where most plats are RS7.5.
- About 199 parcels across seven sections, recorded from August 17, 1945 through September 26, 1955.
- A ten year build across seven sections, so the housing changes noticeably from one end to the other.
- On Wimpole Drive and East Thompson Lane.
Glencoe Acres
A tight postwar build, and the largest single plat in Woodbine by parcel count.
- Sections 1 and 2 both recorded July 24, 1952, with Section 3 following May 4, 1955.
- About 241 parcels on remarkably uniform lots of roughly thirty-four to thirty-six hundredths of an acre, zoned RS10.
- That uniformity is the point. Two sections recorded the same day produce a consistent street.
- Along Glencliff Road and Antioch Pike.
Southlake and Parma Heights
Two 1950s plats that make up much of the middle of Woodbine.
- Southlake runs about 167 parcels across four sections recorded from September 1953 to November 1962, on lots of roughly sixteen to twenty-four hundredths of an acre, zoned RS7.5.
- Parma Heights runs about 145 parcels across three sections recorded 1952 through 1955, on slightly larger lots of roughly twenty-nine to thirty-eight hundredths, zoned RS10.
- Southlake is on Southlake Drive and Tallwood Drive. Parma Heights is on Hewlett Drive and McCall Street.
- Metro’s own records carry contradictory dates on the Parma Heights sections, so treat the era as early to mid 1950s rather than any single day.
Woodbine Courts and Tuggle Heights
The plat the neighborhood is named for, and its 1940s neighbor.
- Woodbine Courts Block F recorded August 26, 1941. About 72 parcels on lots of roughly twenty-six to forty-one hundredths of an acre.
- Its Thompson Lane frontage is split zoned, commercial on the corner lots and RS10 residential behind them. That line is recorded, not a matter of opinion.
- Tuggle Heights recorded September 10, 1946, with a Hickerson addition in 1951 and Tuggle Trail in December 1969. About 70 parcels.
- Woodbine Courts is on Dobbs Avenue and Simmons Avenue. Tuggle Heights is on Tuggle Avenue and Wingate Avenue.
Grassmere and Elysian Fields, which are not neighborhoods
Two names that send people here, and neither one is a place you can buy in.
- There is no recorded subdivision plat named Grassmere and none named Elysian Fields anywhere in the Woodbine area. I checked Metro’s plat records directly.
- Grassmere is the zoo, the historic farm and an office park. Elysian Fields is a road.
- Both searches land on this guide on purpose, because what people are actually looking for when they type them is the Nolensville Pike side of Woodbine.
- Also worth knowing: Sterling Heights, Laurel Acres, Rosewood Estates and Barbara Heights are marketed as Woodbine and are in 37210, not 37211.
Flood exposure, in context
The number, so you can compare it to the river neighborhoods rather than guess.
- The 2010 flood damaged structures on about 43 parcels in the Woodbine area.
- For scale: Bordeaux recorded about 390 and Pennington Bend recorded over a thousand. Davidson County recorded 11,648 in total.
- So Woodbine carries an order of magnitude less flood exposure than the river bend neighborhoods, which is a genuine and permanent advantage.
- Airport impact and I-440 impact overlays do cover parts of this area, and those affect what can be built and what noise you inherit.
Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools
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Served by Metro Nashville Public Schools. Zoned assignment comes from the address, and the choice and magnet application is a separate process with its own deadlines. Look up the exact address before you rely on either.
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
Mill Creek is the thing to check first. The creek runs through Woodbine, the United States Geological Survey operates a gauge on it at Thompson Lane, and Metro’s own community plan records that the 2010 Mill Creek flood severely damaged hundreds of homes and businesses and killed two people. Whitsett Park sits on that creek. A parcel-level flood check here is not a formality, and Metro maintains a flood-risk buyout program for a reason. Second, Woodbine has no historic overlay and no conservation overlay, which means nothing restrains teardowns and infill on these blocks. That cuts both ways: freedom with your own house, no protection from what goes up next door. Third, the transit corridor is real and it is early. Metro designated only two All-Access corridors in the whole county and Nolensville Pike is one. It entered project development in June 2026, roughly nine miles from downtown into south Nashville, with high-frequency bus service, transit lanes where they fit, sidewalks and safer crossings. What is funded so far is two to three years of design and environmental work, not construction, so there is no opening date. Buy on the fundamentals and treat the corridor as upside.
Common questions
Does Woodbine flood?
Parts of it can, and this is not a question to skip here. Mill Creek runs through the neighborhood, there is a federal stream gauge on it at Thompson Lane, and Metro’s own plan records that the 2010 flood on this creek severely damaged hundreds of homes and businesses and cost two lives. I pull the FEMA flood zone on the specific parcel every time in Woodbine, without exception.
What is there to eat on Nolensville Pike?
Metro’s own community plan describes this as a corridor of international restaurants and shops, and I have not found a comparable concentration of them anywhere else in the county. Metro’s own community plan describes it as a major corridor of international restaurants and shops. Edessa at 3802 is Kurdish and Turkish, K&S World Market at 4225 is a genuine international grocery, and Plaza Mariachi at 3955 is a market, food hall and music venue in one. Casa Azafrán at 2195 anchors the community side of it. That corridor is a real reason to live here, not a footnote.
Is Woodbine protected from teardowns?
No. Woodbine has no historic overlay and no conservation overlay, so there is no design review on demolition or new construction. If you love the bungalow you are buying, understand that the lot next door has no such protection either. On a block that is changing, that is worth knowing before you write rather than after.
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