Best PlacesCapitol View, Nashville, TN Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Capitol View, Nashville, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Capitol View, Nashville ranks 4,796th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state finances by a wide margin, and crime is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Capitol View, Nashville

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Capitol View, Nashville area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Capitol View, Nashville's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%State finances
Top 5%Fast internet
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Capitol View, Nashville with other neighborhoods.

Where Capitol View, Nashville ranks high

  • State fiscal healthBetter than 98% of neighborhoods
  • Internet speedBetter than 96% of neighborhoods
  • Low vacancyBetter than 90% of neighborhoods
  • Cheap childcare$811 a month, better than 88% of neighborhoods
  • Tree shadeBetter than 82% of neighborhoods

Where Capitol View, Nashville ranks low

  • Crime safetyBetter than only 4% of neighborhoods
  • School gradeD−, better than only 7% of neighborhoods
  • BikingBetter than only 16% of neighborhoods
  • Health outlookBetter than only 17% of neighborhoods
  • Big-city accessBetter than only 18% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Capitol View, Nashville

A household needs to earn about $111,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Capitol View, Nashville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $69,506, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$111,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,591
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $434,721 home
Median rent
$1,327
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$2,217
Property tax$230
Homeowners insurance$145

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 Capitol View, Nashville's effective rate of 0.64%, 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.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Capitol View, Nashville

Capitol View, Nashville runs younger than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
30
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
7%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.1
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1823%
18 to 3440%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6410%
65 and older7%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Capitol View, Nashville.


Who works in Capitol View, Nashville, and how

Work in Capitol View, Nashville centers on hospitality & food and manufacturing. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
16%
about the national average
Unemployment
7.0%
above the national average
Job growth
+6.7%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Hospitality & food16%
Manufacturing14%
Health care & social13%
Wholesale trade8%
Professional & technical8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 80%
  • Work from home 16%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in Capitol View, Nashville

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Capitol View, Nashville.


What the weather is like in Capitol View, Nashville, month by month

Capitol View, Nashville sees roughly 68 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.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January49°39°32°
April72°61°50°
July91°80°71°
October74°63°52°

Flying in and out of Capitol View, Nashville

Nashville International sits about 8 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 12.6 million passengers in 2025, with 158 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
BNA
Nashville International, about 8 miles
Airport size
Large hub
25th-busiest in the US, 158 nonstop destinations
Average drive
11 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Capitol View, Nashville

Schools across Capitol View, Nashville average a D−, better than 7% of neighborhoods.

Top elementary schools

Top middle schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Capitol View, Nashville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Capitol View, Nashville 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 Capitol View, Nashville against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Capitol View, Nashville

Is Capitol View, Nashville a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Capitol View, Nashville ranks 4,796th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on state finances, fast internet, and few empty homes, and lowest on crime and the schools. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Capitol View, Nashville expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $434,721. The overall cost of living runs about 7% below the national average. Set against a $69,506 median income, cost of living beats 44% of neighborhoods.

Is Capitol View, Nashville safe?

Capitol View, Nashville is safer than 4% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $2,072 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Capitol View, Nashville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Capitol View, Nashville 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.

Capitol View, Nashville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Capitol View, Nashville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Capitol View, Nashville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Capitol View, Nashville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Capitol View, Nashville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Capitol View, Nashville detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.