These Places Are Where the Laziest CT Residents Live, Where Does New London Rank?

Your neighbor Bob, now he's lazy. And if you two live in Hartford, New Britain or Waterbury, you may be right.

According to career website Zippia, those three communities, in that order, are the laziest towns in Connecticut.

How is that, ahem, honor determined, you ask? Well, Zippia used United States Census Bureau data to crunch numbers under the following criteria:

• 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,” Zippia wrote.

Only communities with populations above 5,000 were considered. Click here to read the site's full methodology.

Rounding out the top five laziest communities in Connecticut are New London (4th) and Norwich (5th).

On the other end of the spectrum, Stamford is the hardest-working community in the state, followed by Danbury, Milford, Shelton and Norwalk.

Here is Zippia's full list of the laziest to hardest-working communities in Connecticut:

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

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