TGFOA 2026 Fall Conference · Booth 59

Town of Collierville

Shelby County. Population 51,324 (Census 2020). 3 people from Collierville at the conference.

This page is built only from public records: the Tennessee Comptroller's certified property tax tables, the Department of Revenue's retail sales activity, and the 2020 Census. Every figure names its source and year. It is what a resident, a reporter, or a bond analyst can already see about Collierville. The question the booth is asking is whether they can see it in a form they can use.

What the numbers show

Town of Collierville had 51,324 residents in the 2020 Census. Its city property tax rate was $1.62 per $100 of assessed value in 2025, against $1.83 in 2018. The largest one-year change in the city rate in the period came in 2025, when it moved from $1.84 to $1.62. On a $300,000 home inside Collierville, the combined city and county bill is $3,232 for 2025; in 2018 it was $4,410. The city's own rate is 38% of the combined rate of $4.31, and Shelby County's rate is the other 62%. The same home in unincorporated Shelby County pays $2,018 in 2025, county rate only.

Shelby County's certified rate was $2.69 in 2025, against $4.05 in 2018. Its most recent reset, which follows a reappraisal, was in 2025, when the rate moved from $3.39 to $2.69. A reset lowers the rate because assessed values rose; it is not a tax cut. The county had 2 resets between 2018 and 2025: 2021 and 2025. Among the 22 Tennessee counties with a latest reset in 2025, Shelby's rate is the highest, and their average is $1.4598. Collierville's combined rate is the 4th lowest of the 7 Shelby County municipalities with their own rate, and the 3rd highest of 8 in its comparison group. Retail sales activity in Shelby County was $19.16 billion in 2025, up 3.1% from 2024.

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A $300,000 home in Shelby County, 2025

Everyone knows their rate. Almost nobody has seen the bill side by side with the city next door, or watched it move through a reappraisal. Certified property tax rates, tax years 2018 to 2025, Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury. Residential assessment 25%. Tap a bar to put it in the cards.

Your combined rate, 2025 4.31 per $100 assessed
Your council set 37.6% of the combined rate
Your bill on this house, 2025 $3,232 county $2,018, was $4,410 in 2018

Drag the year back to 2018. A lower bill after a reappraisal year is a certified-rate reset, not a tax cut: the rate falls because the appraisals rose. The bars keep one scale across years so the change is real.

Rates behind these bars, 2025
MunicipalityCounty rateCity rateDistrictCombined
Memphis2.692.58085.2708
Germantown2.691.794.48
Bartlett2.691.664.35
Collierville2.691.624.31
Millington2.691.203.89
Arlington2.691.133.82
Lakeland2.690.943.63
Unincorporated2.690.002.69

Compare within your county only; appraisal levels differ by county. The county rate that applies inside a city can differ from the unincorporated rate where a city sits outside a county fire or road district.


Shelby County reset its rate in 2025, with 21 others

Peer groups are always by size. Nobody groups counties by reappraisal year, yet that is the group whose budget conversation matches yours this year. Tennessee's certified tax rate law rolls the county rate down after a reappraisal, so a drop is a reset, not a cut. The one place a change is a real increase is the year right after. Tap a county in the cohort list to draw its line over yours.

County rate, 20252.69was 4.05 in 2018
Resets since 201922021, 2025
In the room from your cohort15of 22 counties that reset in 2025
1.252.002.753.504.2520182019202020212022202320242025reset -15%reset -21%
2025: 2.69(-20.6% on the year before) Shelby County rate average of the 2025 cohort reset year
The 2025 cohort, county rate 2025. Tap to overlay.

* someone from this county is at TGFOA 2026. Up to four overlays at once. Reset years are inferred from the rate path; the Comptroller's reappraisal schedule is the authoritative list.

Shelby County's retail base against Tennessee, 2024 to 2025

Is the sales tax base growing faster or slower than the state's, which months carried it, and what is it made of. Tennessee Department of Revenue retail sales activity by county, January 2024 to December 2025. Tap a sector below to redraw the chart for that sector.

Shelby County, 2025 vs 2024+3.1%$18.58B to $19.16B
Tennessee, 2025 vs 2024+1.84%$154.43B to $157.27B

All retail, Shelby County vs Tennessee, 2025 by month

9095100105110115120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Shelby County Tennessee 100 = the same month of 2024

What the base is made of, 2025

Each sector's share of Shelby County retail sales minus its share statewide, in points. Right means over-weight versus Tennessee. Tap a sector to chart it.

County-level retail activity as reported to the Department of Revenue. A city page shows its host county. Sector categories are DOR's; a single dealership cluster or outlet mall can dominate a small county.


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Shelby County last rate reset 2025 county rate 2025: 2.69 24 at TGFOA from this county
2019202020212022202320242025 none Year of the latest certified-rate reset, county rate, TN Comptroller tables 2018 to 2025. Tap a county.

Compare with a neighbour

Same county first, then the nearest by 2020 population. Everyone listed is in the room this week.

Every figure here is public and dated.

If one is wrong, tell me and it is fixed on this page tonight. You will know before I do. This is the free version, built from public records in a week. The paid version runs on your own ERP data: budget to actual, overtime and position control, revenue forecasting, as a fixed-price budget dashboard or the full reporting platform. Ask at booth 59.

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Sources: Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, certified property tax rates, tax years 2018 to 2025. Tennessee Department of Revenue, retail sales activity by county, 2024 and 2025. U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 decennial count. Sound BI, Nashville, Tennessee. aaron@soundbi.com.

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