The City of Nashville has the most generous yard sizes of any of the 50 largest U.S. cities, according to recent research analyzed by online nationwide self-storage search website StorageCafe.
The study found that the average lot size in Nashville is approximately 11,813 square feet, comparable to about twice the area of a basketball court.
Music City’s large lot sizes compare to the smallest lot sizes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of just 1,419 square feet – about 10 times smaller than Nashville’s median lot size, according to the study.
Meanwhile, regarding home sizes, the median home in Nashville has about 1,830 square feet of living space, which only covers about 15.5 percent of the median lot, which, as StorageCafe notes, “leaves plenty of land devoted to green space.”
“Nashville’s single family homes expanded over the past decade, registering a hefty median size of 2,435 square feet in 2023, 25% more than the overall inventory,” the study explains.
Out of the 50 largest U.S. cities, the study also ranks Music City as the fifth city for spacious living, enhanced by a “welcoming job market and good commute times.”
“The cities that boast the most spacious homes in the country today are the modern-day American boomtowns — places where new home-building activity has soared in the last decade,” StorageCafe said in an emailed statement to The Tennessee Star. “According to our report, Nashville equals size, ranking fifth overall for home space and outranking all other cities for outdoor space — making Music City great not only for live entertainment but for backyard fun as well.”
The online search website ranked all 50 cities based on a combined metric of the average size of homes and the average size of the lots they’re sitting on to determine the most “attractive urban destinations for Americans in a search of both generous homes and expansive backyards.” The website also considered additional factors – such as home prices, median household income, safety and commute times – to see “how accessible and desirable those cities are for home buyers.”
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
The liberals will stop this nonsense. They want us stacked like firewood and totally dependent upon public transport. The ideal 15-minute city.