These Are The 10 Laziest Places In Oklahoma

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 Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma” 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, Piedmont is the hardest-working place in OK.

How We Determined The Laziest Places In The Sooner 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 Oklahoma:

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 74 places in Oklahoma over 5,000 people, we ranked each place from 1 to 74 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 Oklahoma”. And, at the end of the day, Hugo 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. Hugo

Population: 5,294College Educated: 10.3%
Unemployment Rate: 10.0%

2. Henryetta

Population: 5,848College Educated: 10.1%
Unemployment Rate: 12.3%

3. Sallisaw

Population: 8,761College Educated: 12.5%
Unemployment Rate: 9.1%

4. Okmulgee

Population: 12,398College Educated: 15.9%
Unemployment Rate: 17.2%

5. Vinita

Population: 5,637College Educated: 11.5%
Unemployment Rate: 8.8%

6. Cushing

Population: 7,870College Educated: 14.0%
Unemployment Rate: 10.9%

7. Anadarko

Population: 6,786College Educated: 17.1%
Unemployment Rate: 17.6%

8. Seminole

Population: 7,493College Educated: 14.7%
Unemployment Rate: 11.9%

9. Holdenville

Population: 5,768College Educated: 7.6%
Unemployment Rate: 11.3%

10. Del City

Population: 21,756College Educated: 11.9%
Unemployment Rate: 8.4%

Slacking Your Way Off To The Bottom

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

City	Rank	Population	College Educated	Unemployment Rate
Hugo	1	5,294	10.3%	10.0%
Henryetta	2	5,848	10.1%	12.3%
Sallisaw	3	8,761	12.5%	9.1%
Okmulgee	4	12,398	15.9%	17.2%
Vinita	5	5,637	11.5%	8.8%
Cushing	6	7,870	14.0%	10.9%
Anadarko	7	6,786	17.1%	17.6%
Seminole	8	7,493	14.7%	11.9%
Holdenville	9	5,768	7.6%	11.3%
Del City	10	21,756	11.9%	8.4%
Grove	11	6,658	24.1%	9.5%
Idabel	12	7,015	21.6%	9.4%
McAlester	13	18,354	17.1%	6.1%
Muskogee	14	38,937	19.8%	8.1%
Miami	15	13,669	15.6%	8.5%
Wagoner	16	8,499	13.1%	13.0%
Poteau	17	8,563	17.3%	10.0%
Pryor Creek	18	9,479	20.8%	9.2%
Ponca City	19	24,951	21.6%	8.1%
Altus	20	19,716	17.9%	8.7%
Duncan	21	23,364	19.3%	8.5%
Tecumseh	22	6,556	9.4%	8.0%
Pauls Valley	23	6,054	15.5%	6.4%
Ada	24	17,061	30.9%	8.2%
Durant	25	16,507	22.7%	10.0%
Perry	26	5,087	21.8%	7.1%
Blackwell	27	6,957	15.1%	8.7%
Tahlequah	28	16,190	31.6%	10.1%
Claremore	29	18,849	20.5%	8.8%
Lawton	30	97,788	19.3%	10.0%
El Reno	31	17,515	11.7%	7.6%
Sapulpa	32	20,308	17.1%	8.0%
Lone Grove	33	5,142	11.9%	6.7%
Ardmore	34	24,877	20.8%	7.4%
Bartlesville	35	36,193	30.4%	5.4%
Shawnee	36	30,609	22.5%	7.7%
Enid	37	50,232	20.8%	6.2%
Skiatook	38	7,571	12.7%	7.5%
Chickasha	39	16,195	19.1%	6.1%
Tulsa	40	395,599	30.1%	7.7%
Stillwater	41	46,851	48.5%	6.1%
Midwest City	42	55,964	20.4%	6.9%
Guymon	43	11,921	18.2%	6.4%
Bethany	44	19,390	25.6%	6.5%
Clinton	45	9,281	20.6%	4.5%
Elk City	46	12,198	19.1%	3.7%
Harrah	47	5,412	17.2%	2.6%
Purcell	48	6,259	17.3%	5.5%
Warr Acres	49	10,268	19.2%	5.8%
Guthrie	50	10,668	24.0%	6.9%
Oklahoma City	51	600,729	28.5%	6.6%
Catoosa	52	7,407	18.5%	6.5%
Collinsville	53	5,970	28.8%	8.9%
The Village	54	9,147	40.0%	3.8%
Coweta	55	9,483	17.8%	6.1%
Weatherford	56	11,410	34.7%	5.1%
Glenpool	57	11,398	21.2%	7.9%
Noble	58	6,602	17.7%	5.7%
Woodward	59	12,389	20.8%	4.4%
Norman	60	115,521	42.9%	5.8%
Sand Springs	61	19,277	20.9%	5.4%
Owasso	62	31,738	30.0%	5.5%
Broken Arrow	63	101,917	31.7%	5.9%
Yukon	64	24,127	26.6%	4.4%
Choctaw	65	11,619	27.3%	5.8%
Moore	66	57,563	22.2%	6.0%
Edmond	67	85,084	51.9%	4.7%
Blanchard	68	7,625	24.6%	6.3%
Mustang	69	18,575	21.9%	5.0%
Tuttle	70	6,252	18.3%	4.6%
Bixby	71	22,480	40.2%	4.6%
Jenks	72	18,312	46.8%	3.1%
Newcastle	73	8,383	29.0%	3.3%
Piedmont	74	6,232	41.9%	2.8%

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