These Are The 10 Laziest Places In Indiana

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 Indiana 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 Indiana 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 Indiana” based on data:

1. Peru
2. Gas City
3. East Chicago
4. Connersville
5. Portland
6. Richmond
7. New Castle
8. Wabash
9. Hartford City
10. Brazil

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, St. John is the hardest-working place in IN.

How We Determined The Laziest Places In The Hoosier 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 Indiana:

• 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 119 places in Indiana over 5,000 people, we ranked each place from 1 to 119 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 Indiana”. And, at the end of the day, Peru 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. Peru

Population: 11,199College Educated: 7.9%
Unemployment Rate: 14.4%

2. Gas City

Population: 6,093College Educated: 9.4%
Unemployment Rate: 13.5%

3. East Chicago

Population: 29,387College Educated: 7.5%
Unemployment Rate: 17.0%

4. Connersville

Population: 13,267College Educated: 7.9%
Unemployment Rate: 16.1%

5. Portland

Population: 6,408College Educated: 8.1%
Unemployment Rate: 11.5%

6. Richmond

Population: 36,527College Educated: 17.8%
Unemployment Rate: 12.5%

7. New Castle

Population: 17,859College Educated: 12.8%
Unemployment Rate: 14.1%

8. Wabash

Population: 10,534College Educated: 11.8%
Unemployment Rate: 11.2%

9. Hartford City

Population: 6,166College Educated: 9.3%
Unemployment Rate: 13.1%

10. Brazil

Population: 8,022College Educated: 13.1%
Unemployment Rate: 15.3%

Slacking Your Way Off To The Bottom

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

City	Rank	Population	College Educated	Unemployment Rate
Peru	1	11,199	7.9%	14.4%
Gas City	2	6,093	9.4%	13.5%
East Chicago	3	29,387	7.5%	17.0%
Connersville	4	13,267	7.9%	16.1%
Portland	5	6,408	8.1%	11.5%
Richmond	6	36,527	17.8%	12.5%
New Castle	7	17,859	12.8%	14.1%
Wabash	8	10,534	11.8%	11.2%
Hartford City	9	6,166	9.3%	13.1%
Brazil	10	8,022	13.1%	15.3%
Lake Station	11	12,369	5.4%	16.5%
Gary	12	79,165	13.1%	18.8%
Bedford	13	13,384	12.2%	10.3%
Crawfordsville	14	15,988	13.2%	11.6%
Michigan City	15	31,369	15.7%	15.5%
Anderson	16	55,789	14.1%	14.7%
Marion	17	29,403	16.3%	10.2%
Lawrenceburg	18	5,022	8.5%	13.8%
Kokomo	19	56,958	16.8%	11.8%
Plymouth	20	10,048	13.8%	15.1%
Vincennes	21	18,233	13.5%	8.3%
Logansport	22	17,933	12.5%	12.8%
La Porte	23	22,153	14.5%	12.3%
Muncie	24	70,035	22.4%	14.1%
Salem	25	6,264	13.3%	13.7%
Washington	26	11,758	13.3%	8.5%
Rushville	27	6,314	10.2%	7.7%
North Vernon	28	6,736	10.1%	12.2%
Martinsville	29	11,756	11.0%	11.8%
Westville	30	6,895	6.2%	17.7%
Madison	31	12,033	21.4%	11.0%
Shelbyville	32	19,216	13.0%	11.2%
Elkhart	33	51,539	13.5%	12.8%
Linton	34	5,368	11.1%	7.4%
Huntington	35	17,284	16.1%	11.4%
Monticello	36	5,355	15.2%	7.6%
South Bend	37	100,422	23.5%	13.7%
Decatur	38	9,511	13.9%	7.9%
Alexandria	39	5,100	11.7%	8.4%
Mount Vernon	40	6,607	19.8%	6.9%
Princeton	41	8,600	12.3%	7.9%
Angola	42	8,610	20.5%	10.4%
Beech Grove	43	14,301	14.4%	10.5%
Scottsburg	44	6,700	16.9%	14.4%
Kendallville	45	9,847	15.7%	11.2%
New Albany	46	36,496	16.6%	10.7%
Terre Haute	47	61,040	20.0%	9.8%
Evansville	48	120,220	18.8%	8.2%
Columbia City	49	9,057	18.6%	9.4%
Seymour	50	18,686	17.0%	9.5%
Frankfort	51	16,488	10.9%	10.9%
Rochester	52	6,151	14.3%	6.1%
Bluffton	53	9,621	16.3%	5.2%
Tipton	54	5,288	15.7%	6.7%
Tell City	55	7,251	14.1%	4.7%
Greensburg	56	12,160	15.1%	9.4%
Hammond	57	79,585	13.2%	13.7%
Mishawaka	58	48,120	24.0%	10.6%
Goshen	59	32,297	21.3%	8.7%
Elwood	60	8,569	11.1%	10.1%
West Lafayette	61	30,843	69.7%	7.0%
Warsaw	62	14,179	24.9%	8.5%
Lafayette	63	69,982	25.5%	8.7%
Fort Wayne	64	255,784	25.8%	10.0%
Speedway	65	12,012	26.5%	10.7%
Boonville	66	6,220	12.9%	5.2%
Mooresville	67	9,459	13.1%	7.8%
Rensselaer	68	5,787	17.0%	3.9%
Bloomington	69	81,963	56.4%	8.8%
Auburn	70	12,972	23.7%	6.2%
Clarksville	71	21,579	18.7%	6.9%
North Manchester	72	6,080	27.2%	5.4%
Garrett	73	6,213	12.9%	8.6%
New Haven	74	15,612	19.1%	7.7%
Charlestown	75	7,802	15.3%	10.3%
Greencastle	76	10,307	20.8%	6.5%
Portage	77	37,008	15.4%	11.0%
Indianapolis	78	835,097	27.6%	11.2%
Columbus	79	45,522	34.5%	6.3%
Huntingburg	80	6,489	12.4%	5.8%
Merrillville	81	35,262	20.2%	11.2%
Hobart	82	29,136	15.8%	10.1%
Greenfield	83	21,012	20.6%	7.7%
Jeffersonville	84	45,869	21.4%	8.8%
Ellettsville	85	6,352	26.2%	6.2%
Yor	86	11,265	34.9%	6.3%
Jasper	87	15,177	21.7%	4.1%
Griffith	88	16,765	16.3%	8.9%
Lebanon	89	15,688	19.1%	5.8%
Cedar Lake	90	11,653	14.3%	11.8%
Valparaiso	91	31,745	35.9%	6.8%
New Whiteland	92	5,646	16.3%	9.4%
Franklin	93	24,193	21.7%	7.3%
Batesville	94	6,397	34.0%	2.4%
Cumberland	95	5,243	18.7%	9.9%
Plainfield	96	29,220	27.5%	8.1%
Lawrence	97	46,796	32.5%	11.2%
Greenwood	98	52,799	26.1%	8.1%
Nappanee	99	6,639	17.0%	6.0%
Sellersburg	100	8,004	21.6%	7.0%
Chesterton	101	13,894	32.3%	8.8%
Crown Point	102	28,259	31.3%	8.6%
Highland	103	23,429	27.0%	5.9%
Danville	104	9,258	26.8%	7.2%
Lowell	105	9,347	17.5%	8.8%
Hunte	106	5,326	27.4%	6.6%
Munster	107	23,325	40.5%	6.5%
Dyer	108	16,322	30.3%	7.6%
McCordsville	109	5,037	49.0%	8.5%
Brownsburg	110	22,618	37.5%	5.6%
Schererville	111	29,082	32.8%	6.7%
Bargersville	112	6,324	27.7%	3.2%
Carmel	113	83,474	68.8%	5.0%
Zionsville	114	24,559	68.9%	3.4%
Noblesville	115	56,576	45.7%	4.7%
Westfield	116	32,426	57.8%	3.5%
Fishers	117	81,060	61.1%	5.0%
Avon	118	14,570	36.6%	3.6%
St. John	119	15,456	39.1%	3.9%