These Are The 10 Laziest Cities In Tennessee

Everyone hates the lazy person in the office. The guy or gal who manages to offload all of their work to you, but somehow still takes the credit for it.

And if you live in one of these Tennessee towns, you might look in the mirror and see a lazy person staring right back at you.

Weâre not trying to be mean, it’s just that the lazy ethos can penetrate from the location into the workplace and no one wants to work with lazy people.

So we got to work late on a Friday night to figure out the places around Tennessee that spend the day on Reddit and get by with the bare minimum. Using data from the latest American Community Survey, we identified criteria associated with laziness for each city.

After crunching all the numbers, here are the ten “Laziest Places in Tennessee” based on data:

Newport
Bolivar
Rockwood
Dayton
La Follette
Humboldt
Jefferson City
Paris
Crossville
Bloomingdale

Read on to see where the couch potatoes call home or skip to the end to find where your town ranked.

How We Determined The Laziest Places In The Volunteer State

Like all problems here at Zippia, we start with the data to answer the hard questions. Some might even consider us the hardest working data-crunchers this side of the Mississippi.

In this particular case, we went to the latest version of the American Community Survey looking for answers. As luck would have it, the Census Bureau just released the 2009-2014 5-Yr Estimate which would make this analysis the first of it’s kind with the new data.

After scrolling through what seemed like hundreds of criteria, we settled on this set for the laziest places:

Lowest average hours worked
Shortest commute time
Fewest workers per household (Employed labor force divided by the number households)
Highest unemployment rate
Fewest adults with a college degree

Our thinking went something along the lines of if you can’t bother to go college, don’t spend any time at work, and have someone hang out at home all day, your town is probably pretty lazy.

After we got the data for the 102 places in Tennessee over 5,000 people, we ranked each place from 1 to 102 for each of the criteria with 1 being the “laziest”.

Next, we averaged the rankings for each to create a lazy index.

Finally, we crowned the state with the lowest lazy index the “Laziest Place In Tennessee”. And, at the end of the day, Newport slacked off its way to the top.

Read the detailed chart below to learn a bit more about why each place ranked where it did.

1. Newport

Population: 6,890
Hours Worked: 35.9
Workers Per Household: 0.91

2. Bolivar

Population: 5,275
Hours Worked: 36.8
Workers Per Household: 1.14

3. Rockwood

Population: 5,480
Hours Worked: 38.8
Workers Per Household: 0.88

4. Dayton

Population: 7,316
Hours Worked: 38.0
Workers Per Household: 1.07

5. La Follette

Population: 7,304
Hours Worked: 37.6
Workers Per Household: 0.82

6. Humboldt

Population: 8,363
Hours Worked: 37.5
Workers Per Household: 0.95

7. Jefferson City

Population: 8,342
Hours Worked: 36.5
Workers Per Household: 1.25

8. Paris

Population: 10,165
Hours Worked: 38.1
Workers Per Household: 1.03

9. Crossville

Population: 11,125
Hours Worked: 36.5
Workers Per Household: 1.01

10. Bloomingdale Cdp

Population: 9,882
Hours Worked: 36.7
Workers Per Household: 1.13

Detailed List Of Laziest Places In Tennessee

Place	Overall Rank	Total Population	Unemployment	Workers Per Household
Newport	1	6,890	15.3%	0.9
Bolivar	2	5,275	23.7%	1.1
Rockwood	3	5,480	9.7%	0.9
Dayton	4	7,316	15.7%	1.1
La Follette	5	7,304	18.3%	0.8
Humboldt	6	8,363	10.1%	1.0
Jefferson City	7	8,342	13.6%	1.3
Paris	8	10,165	15.7%	1.0
Crossville	9	11,125	10.1%	1.0
Bloomingdale Cdp	10	9,882	14.3%	1.1
Brownsville	11	10,079	13.1%	1.1
Ripley	12	8,350	22.6%	1.0
Savannah	13	7,029	21.2%	1.0
Kingston	14	5,888	8.0%	1.0
Morristown	15	29,152	12.7%	1.1
Covington	16	9,033	18.5%	1.2
Sparta	17	5,036	11.3%	0.9
Kingsport	18	52,835	10.1%	1.0
Athens	18	13,603	10.3%	1.1
Lawrenceburg	18	10,440	17.6%	1.0
Shelbyville	21	20,616	8.7%	1.1
Lenoir City	21	8,867	17.6%	1.2
Sweetwater	23	5,856	15.5%	1.0
Church Hill	24	6,742	8.8%	1.2
Erwin	25	6,052	16.1%	0.9
Elizabethton	26	14,322	10.4%	1.0
Lewisburg	27	11,252	14.3%	1.2
Pulaski	28	7,734	8.4%	1.0
Union City	29	10,791	16.5%	1.0
Jackson	30	67,190	11.7%	1.3
South Cleveland Cdp	31	5,951	11.0%	1.4
Cookeville	32	31,004	13.7%	1.1
Fayetteville	33	6,991	13.3%	1.0
Harriman	34	6,296	16.7%	0.9
Soddy-Daisy	35	13,109	9.7%	1.2
Clinton	35	9,874	6.4%	1.0
Loudon	37	5,606	7.8%	1.2
Chattanooga	38	171,863	10.7%	1.2
Dyersburg	38	16,998	10.0%	1.0
Martin	40	11,396	16.2%	1.4
Memphis	41	656,715	13.4%	1.3
Cleveland	41	42,331	11.1%	1.3
Tullahoma	43	18,900	12.5%	1.1
Bristol	44	26,705	9.4%	1.1
Greeneville	45	15,015	10.0%	1.0
Hartsville/Trousdale County	46	7,859	9.9%	1.3
Henderson	46	6,429	19.2%	1.4
Munford	48	6,001	10.7%	1.6
Millington	49	11,152	8.5%	1.3
Manchester	49	10,223	8.5%	1.1
Mckenzie	49	5,561	10.2%	1.1
Knoxville	52	181,759	7.9%	1.1
Milan	53	7,826	12.1%	1.2
Goodlettsville	54	16,466	9.8%	1.3
Columbia	55	35,207	10.7%	1.2
Greenbrier	56	6,550	11.7%	1.4
Sevierville	57	15,592	8.1%	1.4
Lebanon	58	27,847	11.1%	1.3
Mcminnville	59	13,600	7.0%	1.0
Dickson	60	14,814	7.2%	1.2
Lexington	61	7,771	13.7%	1.1
Alcoa	62	8,556	8.9%	1.1
Oak Ridge	63	29,301	9.5%	1.2
East Ridge	64	21,220	6.4%	1.2
Tellico Village Cdp	65	6,385	7.6%	0.5
Lynchburg	65	6,348	10.8%	1.4
Springfield	67	16,598	10.2%	1.3
Red Bank	68	11,759	8.2%	1.3
Fairfield Glade Cdp	69	7,754	6.0%	0.4
Maryville	70	27,824	7.5%	1.2
Seymour Cdp	71	10,703	7.4%	1.3
Harrison Cdp	71	7,595	7.3%	1.4
Collegedale	73	9,488	10.5%	1.6
Atoka	73	8,727	9.8%	1.6
Johnson City	75	64,614	6.2%	1.2
Mount Carmel	76	5,443	9.3%	1.1
Winchester	77	8,493	9.3%	1.0
Clarksville	78	140,563	10.8%	1.6
Murfreesboro	79	114,660	8.4%	1.5
Gallatin	79	31,800	7.7%	1.3
Nolensville	81	6,131	4.3%	1.5
Portland	82	11,853	10.0%	1.4
Nashville	83	624,261	8.2%	1.4
La Vergne	84	33,637	8.8%	1.7
Middle Valley Cdp	85	13,282	7.2%	1.3
Green Hill Cdp	86	6,667	3.0%	1.5
Fairview	87	8,020	6.2%	1.4
Oakland	88	6,944	8.7%	1.4
Lakeland	89	12,549	4.6%	1.4
Hendersonville	90	53,257	5.6%	1.4
Smyrna	91	42,235	7.6%	1.5
Millersville	92	6,481	8.4%	1.5
Jonesborough	93	5,138	5.7%	1.1
Mount Juliet	94	27,053	6.3%	1.5
Signal Mountain	95	8,416	3.1%	1.2
Bartlett	96	57,805	6.3%	1.6
Pigeon Forge	96	6,004	8.0%	1.4
Farragut	98	21,111	5.4%	1.4
Germantown	99	39,207	4.2%	1.4
Arlington	100	11,623	2.3%	1.8
Collierville	101	46,780	6.2%	1.6
Spring Hill	102	31,467	3.6%	1.6
Franklin	103	66,596	5.3%	1.4
White House	104	10,618	7.1%	1.5
Brentwood	105	39,059	4.0%	1.5

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Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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