Davidson County · Middle Tennessee
Living in Woodycrest
Woodycrest is a small residential pocket in south Nashville, in zip 37210 off Polk Avenue, sitting immediately east of Berry Hill and south of Wedgewood-Houston. It is a genuinely mixed pocket: a few blocks of housing alongside light industrial and flex space, which is unusual and worth knowing before you look here.
- County
- Davidson
- Distance to downtown Nashville
- ~4 miles
- Character
- Small, mixed residential and light industrial
What’s actually there
- A compact grid around Woodycrest Avenue, Polk Avenue, Rosemary Lane, Whitney Avenue and Hutton Drive
- Housing with a median build year around 1950, from wartime cottages to new construction
- Office, warehouse and flex space on parts of Woodycrest Avenue itself
- Berry Hill immediately west, with its studio and restaurant cluster
- Fast access to Nolensville Pike, I-440, I-65 and I-24
The housing stock
A median build year around 1950, running from Minimal Traditional and Craftsman-era cottages through to contemporary infill and new luxury construction, with townhome and condominium product mixed in. It is a small population, somewhere around a thousand people. I am not publishing a median sale price for Woodycrest: the vendor figures available swung by more than sixty percent in a single year, which in a pocket this size is a sample-size artifact rather than a market move. Ask me and I will pull a proper comparable set.
Getting around
Roughly four miles south of downtown, about nine to twelve minutes off-peak, with unusually good access to Nolensville Pike, I-440, I-65 and I-24 for a pocket this small.
Things to do in Woodycrest
Places worth knowing before you decide whether you want to live here.
Coleman Park and Community Center
Metro Parks facility at 384 Thompson Lane, just south of the pocket.
Berry Hill
The recording studio and restaurant cluster on Bransford Avenue and Azalea Place, immediately west.
Geodis Park
501 Benton Avenue. Nashville SC’s stadium at the fairgrounds, the largest soccer-specific stadium in the country when it opened.
The Fairgrounds Nashville and the Nashville Flea Market
401 Wingrove Street, the monthly flea market and expo center.
Melrose Billiard Parlor
2600 8th Avenue South, a basement pool hall on the western edge.
Game Terminal
201 Terminal Court, an arcade bar.
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 Woodycrest
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.
The word-order trap that hides two thirds of the neighborhood
A search that looks complete and is not.
- Metro records the same plat under two different word orders. A search on WOODYCREST SEC 1 returns about 15 parcels. A search on SEC 1 WOODYCREST returns about 32. The true Section 1 total is about 47.
- Section 2 is worse in proportion. WOODYCREST SEC 2 returns 1 parcel. SEC 2 WOODYCREST returns 4. The section has about 5.
- Section 3 carries about 12 parcels across both orders. Every parcel with WOODYCREST anywhere in the legal description comes to about 87.
- So a comparable-sales pull built on one word order is missing roughly two thirds of Section 1. That is not a rounding error, it is a different neighborhood.
The three sections, in the order they were recorded
Plat book and page, which is the only reliable dating here.
- Woodycrest Section 1 is recorded in plat book 1835 at page 25. Section 2 follows in the same book at page 56.
- A resubdivision of part of Section 1 is recorded in book 2083 at page 3, and Section 3 follows in the same book at page 21.
- Page order within a book is chronological, so the sequence runs Section 1, Section 2, the Section 1 resubdivision, then Section 3. Part of Section 1 was already being redrawn before Section 3 was laid out.
- Two modern resubdivisions were recorded against Section 1 more recently, covering lot 78 in 2017 and lot 93 in 2018.
The Hagan plats and the parcels with no plat at all
What else your title commitment can say on this street.
- Woodycrest Avenue parcels also sit on plats recorded as L. P. Hagan and T. P. Hagan, including lot 4, lots 7 and 8, blocks E and F, and part of lot G.
- Whether those two initials are one family plat with a transcription error or genuinely two plats is not something I could verify, so I am telling you both spellings exist rather than guessing.
- Some parcels here carry no plat name whatever. Their legal descriptions read as metes and bounds: north side of Woodycrest Avenue west of Polk Avenue, south side west of Foster Avenue, north side west of Fesslers Lane.
- A metes-and-bounds description is not a defect. It does mean the survey matters more than usual, and it is worth ordering one rather than relying on a plat that does not exist.
Nobody reviews what gets built here
The regulatory answer, and it is a short one.
- A zoning overlay query over the Woodycrest core returns exactly two features, and neither is a design review instrument.
- One is the I-440 Impact overlay, ordinance O84-532, effective December 19, 1984. The other is the countywide Urban Zoning Overlay, ordinance BL2000-476, effective December 1, 2000.
- There is no neighborhood conservation overlay, no historic preservation overlay, no Urban Design Overlay and no contextual overlay anywhere over Woodycrest.
- New construction here answers to Codes and to base zoning, and to nobody else. That cuts both ways, and which way it cuts depends entirely on whether you are the one building.
Browns Creek is close, and Woodycrest stayed dry
A correction to something people repeat about this pocket.
- A tight FEMA query over the Woodycrest core returns exactly one polygon: zone X, area of minimal flood hazard, outside the special flood hazard area.
- Widen the box and Browns Creek appears immediately, with zone AE, AE floodway and zone X at the 500-year level. The floodplain is close. It does not reach the Section 1 lots.
- In the May 2010 flood, the number of parcels with a Woodycrest address recorded as having a damaged structure was zero.
- Zip 37210 as a whole recorded about 387 damaged parcels out of 11,648 countywide. None of them were on this street. Still pull the panel for your specific address, because the AE line is not far away.
The three small townhome regimes
The newer for-sale product on the avenue.
- 341 Woodycrest Avenue Townhomes is recorded as Units A and B with a separate common area parcel. 343 Woodycrest Avenue Townhomes is recorded the same way.
- Woodycrest Avenue Residences follows the same structure again: Unit A, Unit B and a recorded common area.
- These are genuine divided-fee units. Each one is its own tax parcel with its own owner, which is what separates them from a rental building.
- They are two-unit regimes, which means shared documents and a shared common element with exactly one neighbor. Read the regime papers, because with two owners there is nobody to outvote.
Schools
Metro Nashville Public Schools
Look up an address with the district →
Served by Metro Nashville Public Schools. Zoning here is by street address, not by neighborhood name, and Metro runs a choice and magnet application separately from it. I pull the assignment for the exact address before you write an offer.
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 honest things. First, Woodycrest has no commercial core of its own. Search sites will attach Wedgewood-Houston coffee shops and bars to it, and one of them lists Radnor Lake and Geodis Park as its parks, which are miles away. What genuinely sits next to Woodycrest is Berry Hill, a short walk west, and that is a real amenity but it belongs to a different city. Second, and more practically, parts of Woodycrest Avenue are office, warehouse and flex space. That is not a criticism, it is a disclosure: a buyer expecting a purely residential street should walk the block first, because the mix changes address to address. On the upside, that same mix is why this pocket is four miles from downtown at a price that would not buy the same distance to the west.
Common questions
Where is Woodycrest?
South Nashville, zip 37210, off Polk Avenue, just east of Berry Hill and south of Wedgewood-Houston. People sometimes place it in East Nashville, which is wrong. It is small, roughly a thousand people, and it sits with unusually good access to Nolensville Pike, I-440, I-65 and I-24.
Does Woodycrest have restaurants and shops?
Not of its own, and I would rather say that plainly. Search sites attach Wedgewood-Houston businesses to it because of a generous radius. What actually sits next door is Berry Hill, a short walk west, with its studios and restaurants. That is a genuine amenity, it is just in a different city.
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