These Are The 10 Laziest Places In Connecticut

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 Connecticut 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 Connecticut 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 Connecticut” 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, Stamford is the hardest-working place in CT.

How We Determined The Laziest Places In The Constitution 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 Connecticut:

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 21 places in Connecticut over 5,000 people, we ranked each place from 1 to 21 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 Connecticut”. And, at the end of the day, Hartford 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. Hartford

Population: 125,211College Educated: 15.0%
Unemployment Rate: 20.2%

2. New Britain

Population: 73,095College Educated: 18.4%
Unemployment Rate: 14.1%

3. Waterbury

Population: 109,887College Educated: 16.0%
Unemployment Rate: 13.7%

4. New London

Population: 27,536College Educated: 21.1%
Unemployment Rate: 15.5%

5. Norwich

Population: 40,378College Educated: 20.1%
Unemployment Rate: 11.4%

6. Ansonia

Source: Wikipedia

Population: 19,128College Educated: 16.3%
Unemployment Rate: 13.1%

7. New Haven

Population: 130,553College Educated: 33.6%
Unemployment Rate: 13.7%

8. Meriden

Population: 60,616College Educated: 18.8%
Unemployment Rate: 11.9%

9. Groton

Source: Wikipedia

Population: 9,348College Educated: 27.0%
Unemployment Rate: 9.1%

10. West Haven

Population: 55,290College Educated: 21.2%
Unemployment Rate: 13.1%

Slacking Your Way Off To The Bottom

Like we said earlier, trying to determine the laziest places in Connecticut 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 Connecticut

City	Rank	Population	College Educated	Unemployment Rate
Hartford	1	125,211	15.0%	20.2%
New Britain	2	73,095	18.4%	14.1%
Waterbury	3	109,887	16.0%	13.7%
New London	4	27,536	21.1%	15.5%
Norwich	5	40,378	20.1%	11.4%
Ansonia	6	19,128	16.3%	13.1%
New Haven	7	130,553	33.6%	13.7%
Meriden	8	60,616	18.8%	11.9%
Groton	9	9,348	27.0%	9.1%
West Haven	10	55,290	21.2%	13.1%
Torrington	11	35,774	20.8%	9.5%
Bristol	12	60,556	23.7%	10.6%
Bridgeport	13	146,680	16.5%	16.6%
Derby	14	12,837	26.7%	11.6%
Middletown	15	47,424	35.8%	7.4%
Naugatuck	16	31,790	24.5%	11.5%
Norwalk	17	87,214	41.1%	9.3%
Shelton	18	40,472	37.8%	8.6%
Milford	19	51,509	39.6%	8.1%
Danbury	20	82,781	30.5%	8.5%
Stamford	21	125,401	45.8%	10.2%

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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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