Best PlacesBelle Meade, TN Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Belle Meade, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Belle Meade ranks 1,600th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Belle Meade
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Belle Meade's strengths and weaknesses
Where Belle Meade ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 99% of towns
- Household income$243,319 median, better than 99% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 97% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 97% of towns
Where Belle Meade ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 9% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 15% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 17% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 69 pleasant days a year, better than only 24% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Belle Meade
A household needs to earn about $482,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Belle Meade home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $243,319, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Belle Meade's effective rate of 0.55%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Belle Meade
Belle Meade runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Belle Meade.
Who works in Belle Meade, and how
Work in Belle Meade centers on health care & social and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 72%
- Work from home 24%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Belle Meade
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Belle Meade.
What the weather is like in Belle Meade, month by month
Belle Meade sees roughly 69 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 49, with lows near 32. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49° | 39° | 32° |
| April | 72° | 61° | 50° |
| July | 91° | 80° | 71° |
| October | 74° | 63° | 52° |
Flying in and out of Belle Meade
Nashville International sits about 10 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 12.6 million passengers in 2025, with 158 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Belle Meade
Schools across Belle Meade average a C, better than 49% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Julia Green ElementaryA+ · 80% proficient
- Percy Priest ElementaryA · 65% proficient
- Sylvan Park ElementaryB+ · 55% proficient
Top middle schools
- Haynes MiddleF · 2% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Belle Meade school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Belle Meade measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Belle Meade against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Belle Meade
Is Belle Meade a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Belle Meade ranks 1,600th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, what local pay buys, and high incomes, and lowest on an overheated housing market and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Belle Meade expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,908,425. The overall cost of living runs about 6% above the national average. Set against a $243,319 median income, cost of living beats 100% of towns.
Is Belle Meade safe?
Belle Meade is safer than 36% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $454 per resident a year.
Compare Belle Meade with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Belle Meade. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Belle Meade represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Belle Meade detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Belle Meade: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Belle Meade: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Belle Meade: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Belle Meade: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Belle Meade detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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