Germantown
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Outdoors in Germantown
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About Germantown
City in Tennessee, United StatesGermantown is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 41,333 at the 2020 census, and was estimated at 40,128 in 2024, making it the 23rd-most populous city in Tennessee. It was given a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence in 2019. Germantown is an eastern suburb of Memphis. Germantown was founded in 1841 by mostly German emigrants. The town hosts festivals year-round to celebrate their history and German culture. In the city center is the "Old Germantown" neighborhood, anchored by a railroad depot (a 1948 reproduction of the 1868 original) and railroad tracks that recall the community's earliest days of development as an outpost al…
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How Germantown ranks
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Housing in Germantown
The typical Germantown home is worth about $486,000, down 1% in a year, 45% above the Tennessee typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Germantown
Safety Grade B-
Germantown reports less crime per resident than 53% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.
Schools in Germantown
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The public schools Germantown’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 94% of Tennessee’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within TN. Ratings are from neighbors.
Where Germantown is
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