Lakeland is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and a part of the Memphis metropolitan area.

The city was the location of the now defunct Lakeland Amusement Park.

In June 2024, Lakeland resident and US Navy veteran Julie Pereira sued the city of Lakeland for violating her First Amendment rights when it fined Pereira hundreds of dollars for violating the city's regulation against obscene content on signs, after she displayed a political sign in her yard that read 'Fuck Em' Both 2024', referring to 2024 US presidential election candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

[8][9] In July 2024, US District Judge Mark Norris ruled that Pereira's sign was not obscene and that it was unconstitutional for the city to regulate political points of view, citing as precedent the 1971 decision by the US Supreme Court in the case of Cohen v. California, and ordered the city to reimburse Pereira nearly $700 in fines and to pay her $31,000 in legal fees and $1 in damages.

As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 13,904 people, 4,148 households, and 3,322 families residing in the city.

At the 2000 census there were 6,862 people, 2,748 households, and 2,025 families living in the city.