# Cities in Tennessee by employed residents, 2025

All 29 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `employed_residents`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Residents who did any work for pay or profit in the reference week, or were temporarily absent from a job, 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.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/tennessee-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Memphis, TN | 271,065 |
| 2 | Knoxville, TN | 100,900 |
| 3 | Chattanooga, TN | 96,934 |
| 4 | Murfreesboro, TN | 96,055 |
| 5 | Clarksville, TN | 76,727 |
| 6 | Franklin, TN | 48,651 |
| 7 | Johnson City, TN | 35,755 |
| 8 | Hendersonville, TN | 35,200 |
| 9 | Smyrna, TN | 33,278 |
| 10 | Spring Hill, TN | 32,603 |
| 11 | Jackson, TN | 29,465 |
| 12 | Bartlett, TN | 27,243 |
| 13 | Gallatin, TN | 26,988 |
| 14 | Lebanon, TN | 26,204 |
| 15 | Collierville, TN | 24,789 |
| 16 | Columbia, TN | 24,330 |
| 17 | Kingsport, TN | 24,164 |
| 18 | Mount Juliet, TN | 23,658 |
| 19 | La Vergne, TN | 22,686 |
| 20 | Brentwood, TN | 22,186 |
| 21 | Cleveland, TN | 20,769 |
| 22 | Germantown, TN | 17,949 |
| 23 | Cookeville, TN | 16,289 |
| 24 | Maryville, TN | 15,666 |
| 25 | Oak Ridge, TN | 14,779 |
| 26 | Farragut, TN | 12,651 |
| 27 | Bristol, TN | 12,570 |
| 28 | Morristown, TN | 12,472 |
| 29 | Shelbyville, TN | 12,034 |