Counties / Tennessee / Robertson County

Robertson County, TN

FIPS 47147 · population 75,539 · part of Nashville, TN

$374k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$374k
▲ 0.4% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
Median asking rent
$1,661
▼ 0.4% year over year
Zillow ZORI · direct
Gross yield
5.3%
annual rent ÷ price, before costs
derived: rent × 12 ÷ price ✓
HUD 2-bed standard
$1,730
market rent is 0.96x the standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

Both annual signals move in the same direction
FHFA five-year cumulative+57.4%not annualized · through 2025
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06+0.4%FHFA HPI2025+2.1%
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-07-28.
Owner-reported value$335k
Surveyed gross rent$1,199
Rent burden 30%+47.9%
Median year built1994
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
5.3%vacant
29,824estimated housing units
Occupied tenure22.4% renter
owner 77.6%renter 22.4%
Structure mix84.5% single-family
Single-family 84.5%20+ units 1.3%Mobile home 7.4%Other 6.8%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs23,027▲ 0.2% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments1,578annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$1,092▲ 3.0% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorTrade, transportation, and utilities30.5% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS+0.2%WEEKLY WAGE+3.0%Trade, transportation, and utilities30.5%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-07-31. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

Robertson County’s tension is a modest current-income case against visible seller concessions and inland-flood exposure. Investors able to verify property-level rent, insurance, and drainage should investigate; buyers relying on resale momentum or untested rent assumptions should be cautious. Zillow’s 2026-06 county median home value was $374,362, median asking market rent was $1,661 per month, and reported gross yield was 5.32% before costs. Zillow’s value reading increased 0.36% year over year.

02Housing economics

Carrying costs narrow the headline gross-yield case: the effective property-tax rate is 0.47%, with median annual tax of $1,577. The supplied market rent is below HUD Fair Market Rent, but HUD FMR is a payment standard rather than an estimate of asking rent and should not replace measured market rent in underwriting. FHFA’s 2025 repeat-transaction HPI gained 2.13%. That supports a positive price direction, but it is not a dollar home value and cannot be averaged with Zillow’s later county value measure.

03Demand & competition

Realtor.com’s 2026-06 MLS evidence shows 409 active listings, a median 49 days on market, and 21.69% of listings with price reductions. These are visible-supply, marketing-time, and seller-concession measures—not closed-sale prices or standalone proof of buyer demand. QCEW’s 2025 annual workplace data show covered-worker average weekly wage growth of 3.02%; its largest disclosed private supersector is Trade, transportation, and utilities. QCEW is covered employment at county workplaces, not resident employment, unemployment, or a forecast.

04Risk & next checks

Net tax-return migration of 448 coincided with inbound movers’ average AGI exceeding outbound movers’ by $12,125, a favorable demand context that does not establish tenant demand. Investor mortgage purchases represented 8.17% of 1,261 total purchases, indicating participation but not investor strategy, cash purchases, or rent-setting power. Inland flood is the dominant hazard, and modeled expected annual building-value loss is 0.12%. Vacancy, lease concessions, operating expenses, flood-insurance quotes, property-level flood exposure, and closed-sale evidence are not published; their absence prevents net-yield, liquidity, and property-specific hazard underwriting.

Cities & communities

Where people live within Robertson County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
Springfield city19.3KWhite House city*14.6KPortland city*13.4KGreenbrier town7KMillersville city*5.8KCoopertown town4.6KRidgetop city*2KCross Plains city1.9K
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

11 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    Springfield cityIncorporated place
    19,255
  2. 02
    White House cityIncorporated place · spans 2 counties
    14,631
  3. 03
    Portland cityIncorporated place · spans 2 counties
    13,449
  4. 04
    Greenbrier townIncorporated place
    6,971
  5. 05
    Millersville cityIncorporated place · spans 2 counties
    5,836
  6. 06
    Coopertown townIncorporated place
    4,640
  7. 07
    Ridgetop cityIncorporated place · spans 2 counties
    1,995
  8. 08
    Cross Plains cityIncorporated place
    1,922
  9. 09
    Orlinda cityIncorporated place
    1,214
  10. 10
    Adams cityIncorporated place
    888
  11. 11
    Cedar Hill cityIncorporated place
    395

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardinland flooding

0.116% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.47%

$1,577 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration+448

2,779 in · 2,331 out

Arriving vs leaving income+$12,125

$70,865 arriving · $58,740 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors8.2%

103 of 1,261 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings409▲ 15.7% year over year
Median days on market49▲ 30.7% year over year
Listings price-reduced21.7%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▼ 0.6% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

Same metro

The other counties in Nashville, TN

A metro is an average of these. Which side of a county line a property sits on can change the tax bill, the hazard profile and the tenant pool.

CountyPopulationPriceRentYieldHazard
Robertson County75,539$374k$1,6615.3%inland flooding
Davidson County715,388$435k$1,8245.0%inland flooding
Rutherford County360,646$420k$1,7244.9%inland flooding
Williamson County260,351$931k$2,1772.8%inland flooding
Sumner County204,424$448k$1,6694.5%inland flooding
Wilson County158,805$508k$1,8804.4%inland flooding
Maury County107,791$406k$1,6885.0%inland flooding
Dickson County55,983$366k$1,7165.6%inland flooding
Cheatham County41,829$400k$1,6535.0%inland flooding
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Property-level flood exposure and insurance costs may exceed the county modeled climate-loss ratio.
  2. Unpublished vacancy, lease concessions, operating expenses, and financing costs prevent net-cash-flow underwriting.
  3. MLS listing conditions and tax-return migration may not translate into durable tenant demand or resale liquidity.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

Is the reported gross yield based on market rent or HUD Fair Market Rent?

It uses the published median asking market rent; HUD FMR is a payment standard and is not used as a market-rent estimate.

Do the Realtor.com figures establish completed sale prices or buyer demand?

No. They describe MLS listing supply, asking-price conditions, marketing time, and price reductions rather than closed transactions.

What does the labor evidence measure?

QCEW measures annual covered jobs and wages at workplaces located in the county, not resident employment, unemployment, or a forecast.