Latter-day Saint wards around Nashville area

[ashdavis1229]

Hello. I know you wrote this post a few years back so I am hoping this message still gets to you. My husband and 2 children are moving to Nashville this summer for schooling. We are LDS and moving from Utah so finding a place with people in our same situation (lds and a young family) would be really great. We need a 3 bed 2 bath as well. Can you tell me if you did move to Nashville and the area that you lived in. We are looking into apartments and townhomes around 800 dollars as well. We would love any suggestions. Thank you!

[welch5rwe]

I currently just moved from Columbia, tn to the Goodletsville Area and have tried getting ahold of the church with no luck. Is this a rare accurance??

[JMT]

Originally Posted by welch5rwe

I currently just moved from Columbia, tn to the Goodletsville Area and have tried getting ahold of the church with no luck. Is this a rare accurance??

If you're calling the church building, there may or may not be someone there to answer the phone depending on when you call. I just sent you the phone number of the LDS bishop for Goodlettsville via Direct Message.

[JMT]

Originally Posted by JMT

Do you have a price range or the kind of housing in mind that you'd like? The Nashville Temple is in Franklin, but the cost of living there is considerably higher than elsewhere in Middle Tennessee. It's a great town, but you pay for it.

Mount Juliet (1 ward), Hendersonville (1 ward) and Smyrna (2 wards) are all popular places for transplants. In all, here's the LDS breakdown by county:
Davidson (Nashville): 4 wards, 2 branches, 2 Spanish branches
Rutherford (Murfreesboro and Smyrna): 4 wards, 1 Spanish branch
Williamson (Brentwood, Franklin, Spring Hill): 4 wards
Sumner (Gallatin and Hendersonville): 2 wards
Wilson (Mount Juliet and Lebanon): 1 ward and 1 branch

Cookeville is an hour east of the airport, a straight shot up I-40, it has 2 wards, much lower cost of living and lower taxes than in the Nashville area, excellent (outstanding) public schools (it's a college town), and it has very low crime. Quite a few people live in Cookeville because of its proximity to the Nashville airport and its more family-friendly atmosphere, lower taxes, excellent schools, beautiful countryside, and lack of traffic.

(And one of the LDS bishops in Cookeville is a good friend of mine...)

Since this thread has been resurrected, here are some updates.

Davidson: 6 wards (including a Spanish ward), 5 branches (including 2 Spanish branches and a YSA branch)
Rutherford: 5 wards and 2 branches (1 Spanish branch and 1 YSA branch)
Williamson: 5 wards and 1 branch
Sumner: 3 wards
Wilson: 2 wards
Maury: 2 wards
Dickson: 1 ward

[akm4]

Originally Posted by ashdavis1229

Hello. I know you wrote this post a few years back so I am hoping this message still gets to you. My husband and 2 children are moving to Nashville this summer for schooling. We are LDS and moving from Utah so finding a place with people in our same situation (lds and a young family) would be really great. We need a 3 bed 2 bath as well. Can you tell me if you did move to Nashville and the area that you lived in. We are looking into apartments and townhomes around 800 dollars as well. We would love any suggestions. Thank you!

She did move here, but has since moved back. They bought a home in Franklin near Ravenwood High. It was fun reading back through this thread. We became friends through City Data!

[BrendaJG]

I am a single Sr. woman wanting to move somewhere in the Nashville area to be near a daughter and family who live in Bentwood, but that immediate area is out of my means financially. I, too, am LDS, don't drive much (eyesight), want to attend the temple, and need to rent. Need two bedrooms, or one xtra room for genealogy files, etc., and prefer 1-1/2 baths, and need a miracle for the rent of $600 or under to not bust my fixed income budget.

Any suggestions? Very appreciated.
I have spent uncountable hours over weeks and months searching online with no success.