Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Germantown is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 38,844 at the 2010 census. Germantown is a suburb of Memphis, bordering it to the east. Germantown's economy is dominated by the retail and commercial service sectors; there is no heavy industry in Germantown. In the city center is the "Old Germantown" neighborhood, anchored by a railroad depot and railroad tracks that recall the community's earliest days of development as an outpost along the Memphis and Charleston Railroad.