Nashville is home to some of the most working seniors in America

Early retirement? That’s not in the cards for Nashville’s workforce, which recently took the 9th spot in cities with the most working seniors.

According to research from Provision Living, 22.4 percent of Nashville’s senior population (age 65 and over) is still clocking in and out five days a week. For context, Nasvhille is home to over just over 73,000 seniors.

That’s no small feat, seeing as a recent Gallup poll shows that most people expect to retire by 66.

While cities like Washington, D.C. (24.1%), Minneapolis, Minnesota (23.4%) and Durham, North Carolina (22.6%) also cracked the top 10, half of those cities can be found in Texas. Plano, Garland, Dallas, Austin and Irving took five of the top spots with an average of 23% of seniors in the workforce. Plano came in first at 25.4 percent.

Larger cities, like New York, Atlanta and Chicago didn’t crack the list - or even the top 25, according to Provision. In fact, less than half of the cities in the top 25 are home to 500,000 people or more.

Data collected also includes senior workforce growth since 2009, and by the looks of it, seniors across the country are still going strong. The 25 cities with the most growth include Durham, North Carolina (109%), followed by Plano, Texas (99%), Austin, Texas (95%), Gilbert Town, Arizona (86%) and Portland, Oregon (86%). Alaska rounds out the list at 61 percent.

While there’s no word on whether seniors are working due to financial strains or because they simply enjoy it, one thing is clear: They’re not going anywhere.