These Are The 10 Laziest Places In Kentucky

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 Kentucky 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 Kentucky 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 Kentucky” 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, Union is the hardest-working place in KY.

How We Determined The Laziest Places In The Bluegrass 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 Kentucky:

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 78 places in Kentucky over 5,000 people, we ranked each place from 1 to 78 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 Kentucky”. And, at the end of the day, Middlesborough 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. Middlesborough

Population: 10,035College Educated: 10.9%
Unemployment Rate: 14.1%

2. Monticello

Population: 6,163College Educated: 8.5%
Unemployment Rate: 17.1%

3. Central City

Population: 5,932 College Educated: 5.6%
Unemployment Rate: 8.6%

4. Lebanon

Population: 5,594College Educated: 13.3%
Unemployment Rate: 9.0%

5. Leitchfield

Population: 6,781 College Educated: 7.9%
Unemployment Rate: 16.9%

6. Corbin

Population: 7,051College Educated: 18.2%
Unemployment Rate: 16.1%

7. Mayfield

Population: 10,091College Educated: 15.6%
Unemployment Rate: 15.0%

8. Russellville

Population: 6,998College Educated: 14.1%
Unemployment Rate: 7.9%

9. London

Population: 8,062College Educated: 14.7%
Unemployment Rate: 12.7%

10. Princeton

Population: 6,274College Educated: 16.8%
Unemployment Rate: 13.8%

Slacking Your Way Off To The Bottom

Like we said earlier, trying to determine the laziest places in Kentucky is usually a subjective matter. But if you’re analyzing cities where people don’t work, 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 Kentucky

City	Rank	Population	College Educated	Unemployment Rate
Middlesborough	1	10,035	10.9%	14.1%
Monticello	2	6,163	8.5%	17.1%
Central City	3	5,932	5.6%	8.6%
Lebanon	4	5,594	13.3%	9.0%
Leitchfield	5	6,781	7.9%	16.9%
Corbin	6	7,051	18.2%	16.1%
Mayfield	7	10,091	15.6%	15.0%
Russellville	8	6,998	14.1%	7.9%
London	9	8,062	14.7%	12.7%
Princeton	10	6,274	16.8%	13.8%
Harrodsburg	11	8,359	16.2%	21.7%
Franklin	12	8,563	13.8%	11.3%
Glasgow	13	14,152	17.4%	10.5%
Hopkinsville	14	32,507	17.5%	16.4%
Cynthiana	15	6,388	13.5%	9.9%
Ashland	16	21,551	18.8%	12.5%
Flatwoods	17	7,483	16.4%	8.7%
Maysville	18	8,951	14.3%	10.6%
Paducah	19	25,046	22.7%	8.8%
Somerset	20	11,311	15.8%	6.4%
Campbellsville	21	11,126	17.4%	11.0%
Frankfort	22	27,389	25.5%	11.4%
Murray	23	18,375	34.3%	13.5%
Shively	24	15,450	12.3%	8.8%
Madisonville	25	19,807	15.1%	7.5%
Henderson	26	28,840	16.7%	10.7%
Dayton	27	5,382	9.5%	9.8%
Owensboro	28	58,000	19.0%	7.9%
Newport	29	15,467	18.7%	13.1%
Danville	30	16,471	25.0%	10.1%
Bardstown	31	12,833	16.9%	18.0%
Bowling Green	32	60,660	26.4%	11.7%
Williamsburg	33	5,260	32.9%	8.4%
Paris	34	9,746	14.8%	10.4%
Hazard	35	5,453	27.1%	10.8%
Pikeville	36	7,313	36.5%	6.1%
Winchester	37	18,363	18.0%	11.1%
Covington	38	40,712	19.0%	12.1%
Oak Grove	39	7,522	14.1%	10.8%
Mount Sterling	40	7,030	23.1%	13.7%
Hillview	41	7,785	10.1%	11.2%
Berea	42	14,209	27.5%	7.2%
Morehead	43	6,896	35.8%	7.2%
Radcliff	44	22,939	18.5%	12.3%
Richmond	45	32,706	30.0%	10.6%
Highland Heights	46	7,152	31.6%	10.0%
Louisville	47	605,762	27.4%	10.2%
Elizabethtown	48	29,464	27.0%	8.5%
Vine Grove	49	5,296	27.7%	12.0%
Shelbyville	50	14,558	18.8%	7.2%
Georgetown	51	30,349	25.6%	8.2%
Shepherdsville	52	11,573	12.5%	8.8%
Nicholasville	53	28,483	21.2%	11.2%
La Grange	54	8,283	21.8%	8.9%
Lexington-Fayette	55	304,473	40.2%	8.0%
Florence	56	31,038	26.6%	6.6%
Erlanger	57	18,370	23.1%	8.6%
Douglass Hills	58	5,566	42.2%	5.8%
Versailles	59	8,908	22.3%	7.5%
Lawrenceburg	60	11,014	16.5%	6.8%
Bellevue	61	5,933	27.4%	7.9%
St. Matthews	62	17,686	49.9%	4.8%
Cold Spring	63	6,093	37.2%	3.6%
Elsmere	64	8,451	16.8%	7.3%
Lyndon	65	11,167	40.3%	5.1%
Wilmore	66	5,995	55.2%	4.2%
Fort Thomas	67	16,250	44.1%	6.3%
Fort Mitchell	68	8,209	45.0%	4.0%
Middletown	69	7,333	43.1%	4.6%
Mount Washington	70	11,956	19.2%	8.2%
Jeffersontown	71	26,862	35.9%	6.9%
Taylor Mill	72	6,682	27.8%	6.7%
Villa Hills	73	7,359	47.7%	9.1%
Edgewood	74	8,665	49.4%	5.1%
Fort Wright	75	5,726	46.3%	4.0%
Independence	76	25,638	29.1%	6.9%
Alexandria	77	8,654	30.1%	6.1%
Union	78	5,569	50.0%	4.1%

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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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