Moving to Collierville: Pros, Cons & What to Know
Moving to Collierville means moving into one of the most affluent Memphis-area suburbs, built around a real, preserved historic Town Square and a genuine in-town corporate anchor -- a family- and corporate-relocation-oriented community with a genuinely top-tier public school district, not a retirement-skewing market.
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Learn moreA real, documented railroad-era town, not a manufactured suburb
Collierville was founded in 1836 by entrepreneur Jesse R. Collier as the hamlet of Oak Grove, first incorporated in 1850, and grew rapidly after the Memphis and Charleston Railroad reached town in 1857 -- population doubled to 500 within a few years. Nearly destroyed during the Civil War, the town was REINCORPORATED in 1870 and rebuilt into an agricultural and railroad trade center (Town of Collierville official history, retrieved 2026-08-22) -- a real, documented commercial history behind today's historic Town Square.
A genuine, current corporate anchor: Mueller Industries
Mueller Industries, Inc. (NYSE: MLI), a publicly traded manufacturer with roughly 5,168 employees company-wide, is headquartered at 150 Schilling Blvd in Collierville itself -- a real, current, in-town corporate anchor (ZoomInfo, Dun & Bradstreet, Greater Memphis Chamber, retrieved 2026-08-22). This session also found and explicitly discarded an older, inaccurate claim that ServiceMaster/Terminix/TruGreen were headquartered in Collierville -- that company was actually based in Memphis proper and relocated its headquarters to Atlanta, GA in 2020.
The strongest school district in this entire Memphis-metro batch
Collierville Schools -- the town's own separate municipal school district -- ranks #1 among Best School Districts in Tennessee AND #1 in the Memphis Area per Niche 2026 (A+ grade, 9,263 students, 72% math proficiency, 71% reading proficiency). This is a genuinely top-tier, independently sourced result, stronger than the school outcome found for Germantown Municipal School District (#21 in Tennessee), built alongside this record.
A genuinely younger, still-growing Memphis suburb
Collierville's population grew a real, sourced 1.82% since the 2020 Census, and its 65-plus population share (roughly 13.7%-16%) sits at or below the national average -- a genuine, disclosed contrast with Germantown's declining population and older demographic profile, both documented in that record built alongside this one.
Key takeaways
- Collierville was founded in 1836, first incorporated in 1850, and reincorporated in 1870 after Civil War-era destruction -- a real, documented railroad-era commercial history.
- Mueller Industries (NYSE: MLI) is headquartered in Collierville itself -- a real, current corporate anchor; an older claim about ServiceMaster/Terminix being headquartered here was checked and found inaccurate (Memphis, then Atlanta since 2020).
- Collierville Schools ranks #1 in Tennessee AND #1 in the Memphis Area per Niche 2026 -- the strongest school-district result in this entire Memphis-metro batch.
- Collierville's population is still growing (+1.82% since the 2020 Census) with a below-national-average 65-plus share -- a genuinely younger, more family-oriented profile than Germantown's.
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