Parkway Village is a predominantly
African-American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. ...
community in southeast
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Tenne ...
,
United States
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. Parkway Village is bounded by Getwell Road and Lamar Avenue on the west, Winchester Road on the south,
I-240 on the north, and Mendenhall Road on the east. The former
Mall of Memphis
The Mall of Memphis was a shopping mall in Memphis, Tennessee, containing of retail space and 5,564 parking spaces. The mall opened October 7, 1981, closed on December 24, 2003, and was demolished in 2004. Among other things, the mall was ho ...
was in the Parkway Village community.
In 1956, developers began to develop the farmland that is now Parkway Village for "gracious suburban living". Parkway Village remained a quiet community with little crime and well-kept neighborhoods throughout most of the 1980s. In the late 1980s it became a neighborhood in transition and crime rates began to rise.
Parkway Village is in the 38118
zip code. The population is primarily African-American, younger, and mostly single. in 2025, the average listed home value ($135,800) is lower than in the Memphis metro area as a whole ($219,900).
References
Neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee
African-American history in Memphis, Tennessee
Populated places in Tennessee established by African Americans
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