What happens when two houses on the same street, a few doors apart, don't belong to the same town at all?
Drive along Burkitt Place Drive or Middlewick Drive in Nolensville and you won't see a sign, a fence, or a change in pavement to mark it. But somewhere along those streets, Williamson County ends and Davidson County begins. A buyer touring both sides sees matching rooflines and the same "Nolensville" address on the listing sheet. What they don't see is that the house on one side of the line is zoned for Williamson County Schools and the house on the other feeds into Metro Nashville Public Schools, with a different property tax bill attached to each. The ZIP code doesn't change. Almost everything else does.
This is the part that gets lost when a buyer starts their search with the town-wide median price. Nolensville's 37135 ZIP code isn't one market wearing a single number. It's three counties, Williamson, Davidson, and Rutherford, stitched into one mailing address, and the median you see on a search result is a blend of all three.
One Median, Three Markets
In the rolling 12 months reported this spring, Williamson County accounted for roughly 64 percent of Nolensville home sales at a median price near $926,000. Davidson County made up about 30 percent of sales with a median closer to $499,900. Rutherford County, the smallest slice at around 6 percent of sales, landed in between at a median near $725,000.
Put those three numbers in a blender and you get something close to the town-wide figure that shows up in a generic search. It's a real number. It just doesn't describe any actual house for sale in Nolensville, because no single house sits in all three counties at once.
| County | Share of 37135 Sales | Approx. Median | School District | Example Communities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williamson | ~64% | ~$926,000 | Williamson County Schools | Annecy, Telluride Estates, Fairington, Scales Farmstead |
| Davidson | ~30% | ~$499,900 | Metro Nashville Public Schools | Burkitt Commons, Burkitt Place, Carothers Farms |
| Rutherford | ~6% | ~$725,000 | Rutherford County Schools | The Ridge, McFarlin Pointe |
There's no fence and no sign where the county line runs. The listing address won't tell you which side you're on.
What Each Side Of The Line Actually Buys
The Williamson County side is where Nolensville's reputation was built. Nolensville High School opened in 2016 and quickly became one of the district's most sought-after zones, feeding demand into newer communities like Annecy and Telluride Estates. Over the trailing 24 months through early July 2026, subdivision medians on this side ranged widely: Stonebrook and Bent Creek sat closer to $595,000 and $640,000, Fairington ran near $922,000, and Annecy and Telluride Estates climbed above $1.4 million. Even within Williamson County alone, the spread between an entry-level subdivision and a luxury one is well over $800,000. The county line explains one layer of the pricing puzzle. The subdivision explains the next.
The Davidson County side, centered on the Burkitt corridor and Carothers Farms, is Nolensville's highest-volume submarket. Over the same rolling 12-month window, the combined Burkitt communities, Burkitt Village, Burkitt Place, and Burkitt Commons, posted 65 closed sales, more transaction depth than any other cluster in town, with individual community averages ranging from about $438,700 to $664,200. Carothers Farms alone recorded 42 closed sales averaging $462,000, the most active single neighborhood in the dataset. Buyers here are zoned for Metro Nashville Public Schools, including schools like A.Z. Kelley Elementary and Cane Ridge High, not Williamson County Schools. For buyers who don't need the Williamson County school zone, this is the most accessible way into a Nolensville address, and the sales volume tells you it's not a fringe choice. It's where a lot of Nolensville's actual transaction activity happens.
The Rutherford County side, made up of The Ridge and McFarlin Pointe off Lake Road, is the smallest slice and the easiest to overlook. Its median lands between the other two counties, but the more interesting number is price per square foot, which runs around $242, lower than either Williamson or Davidson. Buyers here are typically getting more finished space for the dollar in a more rural setting, zoned for Rutherford County Schools. A median price comparison alone would rank this county in the middle. A price-per-square-foot comparison tells a different story.
The Town Is Taxing Its Own Growth
There's a second layer to this that matters if you're buying on the Williamson County side specifically, because that's where the incorporated Town of Nolensville's own municipal tax applies, collected through the Williamson County Trustee.
For years, Nolensville has had a retail problem that shows up directly in its budget. The town manager told residents in the spring of 2025 that Nolensville collected roughly $2.7 million in local sales tax in 2023, compared to close to $63 million collected the same year in nearby Franklin. Fewer stores meant less sales tax revenue to fund police, fire, and road projects for a town that has been adding residents every year.
The fix has been twofold. First, retail. Publix opened its first Nolensville location at Village Green on Nolensville Road in November 2025, a 48,385-square-foot store that gave the town its first dedicated grocery store within town limits. A Kroger Marketplace is now planned nearby as part of the Nolensville Town Square project, a mixed-use development bringing 215 residential units and roughly 26,000 square feet of new retail and dining space along Nolensville Road, with developers targeting a 2027 opening. Town estimates from early 2025 projected that Publix and Kroger together could add $750,000 to $1 million a year in new sales tax revenue once both are operating.
Second, and less visible to a buyer scanning listings, the town raised its own property tax rate. In the budget adopted for the fiscal year that began July 1, 2025, Nolensville's board raised the municipal rate from $0.29 to $0.34 per $100 of assessed value. Here's the part that's easy to miss: Williamson County's four-year reassessment had already pushed home values up enough that holding revenue flat would have meant dropping the effective rate to about $0.19 per $100. The town chose $0.34 instead, a real increase stacked on top of already higher assessed values, with town officials pointing to additional police and fire staffing as the reason the growing town needed the added revenue. A planning commissioner writing in early 2025 estimated the town's population at around 17,000, with nearly 7,000 more residents expected from projects already approved. Growth is arriving faster than the retail base that's supposed to help pay for it, and the property tax line is absorbing the gap in the meantime.
None of this touches a buyer on the Davidson or Rutherford County side of the ZIP code, because that municipal rate is specific to parcels inside the Williamson County town limits. It's one more way the same address can mean a different bill depending on exactly where the parcel sits.
Before You Write An Offer
The county line inside Nolensville doesn't announce itself on a listing sheet, a plat map thumbnail, or a drive-by. Before getting attached to a specific house, it's worth confirming a few things at the parcel level rather than the neighborhood level:
- Which county the specific parcel sits in, not just which subdivision it's in, since communities like the Burkitt corridor and Carothers Farms have lots on both sides of the Williamson-Davidson line
- Which school zone applies to that parcel today, keeping in mind that Williamson County school zones are revisited periodically as new schools open
- Whether the municipal property tax rate applies, which depends on whether the parcel falls inside the incorporated Town of Nolensville limits
- What the subdivision-level pricing looks like, since the county-level median can still span hundreds of thousands of dollars between an entry-level community and a luxury one on the same side of the line
A median price is a useful starting point for a search. It's a poor stand-in for due diligence on a specific address.
If you're comparing what a Nolensville budget actually buys against options in Franklin, Brentwood, or elsewhere in Williamson County, that's exactly the kind of parcel-level comparison worth walking through with someone who tracks these lines closely. Robert Young works Williamson County and its surrounding towns daily and can pull the specific school zone, tax rate, and comparable sales for any address you're considering before you're standing in the driveway. Schedule your free market consultation to get that clarity before you write an offer, not after.
