What makes Arlington different
Almost everything here is new.
Roughly three out of four homes in Arlington were built since 2000, which makes it one of the newest housing stocks of any Memphis suburb. Homes here also run larger than average — Arlington has a notably higher share of big, four-plus bedroom single-family homes than most communities in the country.
It runs its own municipal school district, similar to Germantown, Collierville, and Arlington's neighbor Lakeland, and it retains a small original town core even as new subdivisions have grown up around it.
The trade-off is distance. Arlington sits further from Memphis proper than Cordova or Bartlett, so it suits buyers who are comfortable with a longer commute in exchange for more space and newer construction.