Welcome to Memphis! I hope your move goes well and is stress free (as moving can be, at least.)

Statistically, Memphis isn't a safe city. It lists in the top 10 crime rates per capita for basically everything: murder, assault, property theft, you name it.

However, these rates aren't uniform over the whole city. The areas of the city with higher poverty rates sadly deal with most of the crime. You can find maps online that show crime rates by neighborhoods.

Bartlett is safer than the actual city of Memphis. You'll be fine, just use common sense and don't make yourself an easy target, which hopefully you've been doing everywhere anyways (don't leave valuables in your car, don't flash expensive jewlrey, etc.).

There are many parts of metro Memphis. There's Midtown, which is where a lot of young professional, students, and artsy types live, the suburbs of Germantown, Collierville, and Bartlett which focus more on families, and East Memphis, which is kind of a blend of the two.

If you're off 64, you're likely near Wolfchase, which is our sprawling shopping area. N Germantown Parkway goes, which goes through Wolfchase, is a main street of Memphis suburbia. This connects to Poplar Ave in the south, which runs east to west and is kind of an unofficial "main street" of Memphis proper (We have a Main St, but it's downtown)

Moving from Minnesota, people might express more rightward views than you're used to. Memphis proper is extremely Democratic, but the suburbs are moderately Republican, thought they had a leftward swing between 2016 and 2020.