Hermitage is placed immediately to the east of Donelson, another Nashville borough which is named within honor of Jackson's father-around-law John Donelson, and upright to the west of Mount Juilet in adjacent Wilson County. The rural locality just thirty years ago, Hermitage is nowadays the thriving suburbithe sustaining a extremely-developed network of retail stores and average suburban tract houses ranging from either a "starter home" to the "executive residence". An array of apartments exists too. Major throughfares include U.S. Highway 70, Interstate 40, and Tennessee Highway 45.

Hermitage is divided from either Donelson per Stones River and its bottom lands, Clover Bottom. It has benefitted greatly from either a empoundment of the Stones by J. Percy Priest Dam, a nearby United States Army Corps of Engineers project, which provides a great deal of recreation opportunities, particularly in the summer months, and which has contributed greatly to the desirability and value of rhe area's real estate. Hermitage & Donelson come typically thought of when something of the unit, & potentially have a joint Chamber of Commerce and Christmas parade.

Hermitage is usually thought to become at least about coterminous by using its United States Postal Service ZIP Code of 37076.