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The median home value in Germantown, TN is $490,684 as of 2026-07-31, down 1.11% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$490,684
Year-over-Year
-1.11%
Population
39,938
Germantown ranks #11 of 89 Tennessee cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 55.3% above the state's city median of $315,874. It sits in Shelby County, where the county-wide median is $219,859.
Median household income in Germantown is $149,920, so the typical home value is about 3.3× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Germantown police recorded a violent crime rate of 168 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,177 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Germantown, that value is $490,684. That's down 1.11% from a year earlier. It is about 55.3% above the typical Tennessee city tracked here.
Homes in Germantown are more expensive than Shelby County as a whole, where the median is $219,859 — a difference of about 123.2%.
Median household income here is $149,920, so the typical home value is about 3.3× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Germantown police reported 168 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 39,938. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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