Memphis
What’s happening
Weather
Forecast →Upcoming events
Put the next local happening — a market, a meeting, a concert — on the map.
Local news
Headlines via Google News · Articles belong to their publishers.
The Memphis album
Outdoors in Memphis
Parks & trails →Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
About Memphis
City in Tennessee, United StatesMemphis (, MEM-fis) is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Tennessee, the fifth-most populous in the Southeast, and the 29th-most populous in the US. While being the most populous single municipality on the Mississippi River, Memphis anchors the third largest metropolitan area by population behind only the Twin Cities and St. Louis. Metropolitan Memphis includes parts of Arkansas and Mississippi, the 45th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. with 1.34 million residents. European exploration of the area began with Spani…
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
How Memphis ranks
All →Town numbers
Housing in Memphis
The typical Memphis home is worth about $145,000, down 2.8% in a year, 57% below the Tennessee typical home.
A balanced market
Safety in Memphis
Safety Grade D-
Memphis reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 100% report less.
Schools in Memphis
All Memphis schools →School Grade D-
The public schools Memphis’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 99% of Tennessee’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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.