Cities in Tennessee by civilian labor force, 2025

Memphis, TN had the highest civilian labor force of 29 cities in 2025, at 285,440. Shelbyville, TN had the lowest, at 12,457. The median was 25,593. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Highest285,440Memphis, TN

Lowest12,457Shelbyville, TN

Median25,59329 cities

All cities, 2025

persons. Source: BLS, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Cities	2025 persons	Change on 2024
1	Memphis, TN	285,440	+1.1%
2	Knoxville, TN	104,254	+2.9%
3	Chattanooga, TN	100,540	+1.8%
4	Murfreesboro, TN	99,042	+2.6%
5	Clarksville, TN	79,856	+2.7%
6	Franklin, TN	50,042	+2.3%
7	Johnson City, TN	36,965	+2%
8	Hendersonville, TN	36,258	+2.5%
9	Smyrna, TN	34,250	+2.4%
10	Spring Hill, TN	33,547	+2.5%
11	Jackson, TN	30,742	+2.2%
12	Bartlett, TN	28,238	+1%
13	Gallatin, TN	27,879	+2.5%
14	Lebanon, TN	27,071	+2.7%
15	Collierville, TN	25,593	+1%
16	Columbia, TN	25,370	+3.2%
17	Kingsport, TN	25,123	+4.1%
18	Mount Juliet, TN	24,329	+2.4%
19	La Vergne, TN	23,371	+2.5%
20	Brentwood, TN	22,835	+2.2%
21	Cleveland, TN	21,655	+1.1%
22	Germantown, TN	18,517	+1%
23	Cookeville, TN	16,923	+2%
24	Maryville, TN	16,147	+2.9%
25	Oak Ridge, TN	15,305	+2.8%
26	Farragut, TN	13,018	+3%
27	Bristol, TN	13,003	+3.8%
28	Morristown, TN	12,978	+1.6%
29	Shelbyville, TN	12,457	+1.3%

Other periods

About this ranking

Employed plus unemployed residents, annual average. People aged 16 and over by place of residence, from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Active-duty military personnel and people living in institutions are excluded.

United States cities only for now. Counts people where they live, not jobs: for wage and salary jobs by state use oews_employment. BLS estimates cities by splitting county estimates with Census Bureau employment and population data and unemployment insurance claims, so city figures are less precise than state ones. BLS publishes cities of 25,000 or more, and smaller cities in New England.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the cities are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2026). Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average (Cities in Tennessee by civilian labor force, 2025) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29

MLA 9

Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average, Cities in Tennessee by civilian labor force, 2025. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 30 Sept. 2026, https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/civilian-labor-force/tennessee-cities. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2026. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average. Cities in Tennessee by civilian labor force, 2025. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/civilian-labor-force/tennessee-cities.

Harvard

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2026) Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average, Cities in Tennessee by civilian labor force, 2025 [Dataset]. Available at: https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/civilian-labor-force/tennessee-cities (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  urldate = {2026-10-12},
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Memphis, TN, with 285,440 in 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Shelbyville, TN, with 12,457 in 2025.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12.