These Are The 10 Laziest Places In Idaho

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 Idaho towns, you might look in the mirror and see that lazy person staring right back at you.

We’re 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 Idaho 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 Idaho” based on data:

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

Oh, and by the way, Star is the hardest-working place in ID.

How We Determined The Laziest Places In The Gem 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 2010-2014 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 in Idaho:

Lowest average hours worked
Shortest commute time
Fewest workers per household (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 only one person per household bringing home the bacon, your town is probably pretty lazy.

After we got the data for the 32 places in Idaho over 5,000 people, we ranked each place from 1 to 32 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 place with the lowest lazy index the “Laziest Place In Idaho”. And, at the end of the day, Payette 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. Payette

Population: 7,447College Educated: 8.9%
Unemployment Rate: 16.7%

2. Weiser

Population: 5,407College Educated: 10.5%
Unemployment Rate: 12.9%

3. Rupert

Population: 5,583College Educated: 7.8%
Unemployment Rate: 8.1%

4. Emmett

Population: 6,546College Educated: 15.6%
Unemployment Rate: 22.9%

5. Sandpoint

Population: 7,497College Educated: 21.2%
Unemployment Rate: 6.7%

6. Burley

Population: 10,352College Educated: 14.1%
Unemployment Rate: 7.2%

7. Jerome

Population: 11,046College Educated: 9.5%
Unemployment Rate: 10.3%

8. Garden City

Population: 11,223College Educated: 35.6%
Unemployment Rate: 12.5%

9. Coeur D’Alene

Population: 45,848College Educated: 23.7%
Unemployment Rate: 9.9%

10. Lewiston

Population: 32,178College Educated: 22.2%
Unemployment Rate: 5.7%

Slacking Your Way Off To The Bottom

Like we said earlier, trying to determine the laziest places in Idaho is usually a subjective matter. But if you’re analyzing cities where people don’t, where a good education is rare, and no one’s willing to put in the long hours, then this is an accurate list of laziness.

Detailed List Of The Laziest Places In Idaho

City	Rank	Population	College Educated	Unemployment Rate
Payette	1	7,447	8.9%	16.7%
Weiser	2	5,407	10.5%	12.9%
Rupert	3	5,583	7.8%	8.1%
Emmett	4	6,546	15.6%	22.9%
Sandpoint	5	7,497	21.2%	6.7%
Burley	6	10,352	14.1%	7.2%
Jerome	7	11,046	9.5%	10.3%
Garden City	8	11,223	35.6%	12.5%
Coeur d’Alene	9	45,848	23.7%	9.9%
Lewiston	10	32,178	22.2%	5.7%
Rathdrum	11	7,046	18.8%	11.8%
Twin Falls	12	45,362	17.5%	7.4%
Rexburg	13	26,301	38.6%	12.1%
Mountain Home	14	13,871	13.7%	7.5%
Moscow	15	24,406	55.4%	9.2%
Hayden	16	13,588	20.3%	9.3%
Nampa	17	84,660	17.4%	10.4%
Pocatello	18	54,466	29.9%	7.7%
Caldwell	19	48,114	14.3%	11.0%
Idaho Falls	20	57,935	25.5%	6.7%
Blackfoot	21	11,891	22.3%	5.6%
Post Falls	22	28,786	20.1%	7.8%
Boise City	23	211,655	39.1%	7.7%
Middleton	24	5,898	14.5%	10.6%
Chubbuck	25	14,117	23.1%	5.8%
Preston	26	5,172	16.2%	6.6%
Eagle	27	21,102	45.9%	5.8%
Kuna	28	16,188	22.2%	9.3%
Ammon	29	14,257	33.0%	5.6%
Meridian	30	81,025	33.3%	7.3%
Hailey	31	7,961	36.1%	3.8%
Star	32	6,379	23.5%	5.1%

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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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