Regional Location
Located in southeast Shelby County, Germantown is convenient to Memphis International Airport and downtown Memphis. It is one of six suburban municipalities adjacent to Memphis. The distance from Germantown City Hall to downtown Memphis is approximately 17 miles. Map

Germantown is also part of the Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area, which contains more than a million people in five counties: Crittenden County, Arkansas; DeSoto County, Mississippi; and Fayette, Shelby and Tipton Counties in Tennessee.

Demographics 

The City of Germantown's 2020 census recorded a city population of 41,333.
Racial make-up: Caucasian 86.5%, Asian 5.4%, African-American 4.8%
Owner-occupied housing units rate: 87.6%
Median home value: $402,300
Median age: 43.5 years
98.5% over age 25 have a high school diploma
69.6% have a bachelors degree or higher

There are 15,376 households in Germantown with an average size of 2.66 people. 

Germantown is one of only 100 cities in the nation that can take pride in its triple-A Bond rating from both Moody's and Standard & Poor's.

Germantown consistently has one of the lowest crime rates in the state of Tennessee. Germantown police and fire departments have an average emergency response time of just less than 3 and 5.4 minutes, respectively.

At $71,070, Germantown has the highest per capita income of all the municipalities in Shelby County. The median household income is $140,429.