East Memphis is the densest block of established single-family housing inside the Memphis city limits, and it is the one launch market on this site where no competing company holds a dedicated page.
Which East Memphis ZIP codes does this cover?
The core is 38117, 38119 and 38120. That grouping is this site’s own, and the honest version matters: no City of Memphis or Shelby County document defines an East Memphis boundary, and the Memphis 3.0 East District page names no ZIP codes.1 Nothing here should be read as an official line on a map.
What the Census does publish is the housing stock behind those ZIP codes.
| ZCTA | Households | Owner-occupied | Median home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38117 | 11,393 households | 76.2% owner-occupied | median home value of $287,500 |
| 38119 | 9,792 households | 60.2% owner-occupied | median home value of $279,100 |
| 38120 | 6,230 households | 73.3% owner-occupied | median home value of $421,500 |
All three figures come from the American Community Survey 2023 five-year estimates.2 Colonial Acres and Sea Isle Park are the two East Memphis neighborhoods with their own association pages.3
What does the Memphis code require?
Memphis Code Sec. 8-3-7, adopted in 2023, requires a dog or cat owner to “promptly remove and dispose in a sanitary manner of feces” the animal leaves on property other than the owner’s.4 The reach of that section stops at the property line: Memphis has no own-lot feces section, and the nearest general provision, Sec. 8-8-1, bars keeping animals so as to be a nuisance by odor or contagion of disease.
The city’s fine schedule at Sec. 8-24-4 lists $50.00 for a dog running at large and carries no line item for defecation at all.5 Any page quoting a specific Memphis fine for failing to pick up waste is quoting something the schedule does not contain.
Germantown’s Sec. 5-8 is the only pet-waste section in this market with an own-lot clause. The pet waste ordinance guide compares all four local codes.
What do published rates look like here?
Rate cards in this market are metro-wide, so the East Memphis figure is the Memphis-area figure. Most homes with 1 dog on weekly service pay about $74–$87 per month, based on 3 published Memphis-area rate cards, Sept 2026.6 The estimator on this page covers the other schedules, and returns a no-published-rate message wherever fewer than two companies publish a figure.
Service also reaches Germantown, Collierville and Cordova.
Sources
- Memphis 3.0, East District — memphis3point0.com — East District. No ZIP codes are named on the page.
- U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates, ZCTAs 38117 / 38119 / 38120, tables DP02 and DP04 — data.census.gov.
- Colonial Acres Neighborhood Association — colonialacres.org. Sea Isle Park Neighborhood Association — sipna.org.
- Memphis Code of Ordinances Sec. 8-3-7, Defecation by dogs or cats (Ord. 5843, 2023) — library.municode.com — Memphis Sec. 8-3-7.
- Memphis Code of Ordinances Sec. 8-24-4, fine schedule — library.municode.com — Memphis Sec. 8-24-4.
- ON DOODY residential rate table — ondoody.com/residential/; Zippy Scoops — zippyscoops901.com; Scoop 901 — scoop901.com. All captured Sept 15 2026.
