# Cities in Tennessee by unemployed people, 2025

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

- Indicator id: `unemployed_persons`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Residents with no job who were available for work and had looked for work in the previous four weeks, or were waiting to be recalled from a layoff, 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: unemployment (measure 04), 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: unemployment (measure 04), 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/unemployed-people/tennessee-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Memphis, TN | 14,375 |
| 2 | Chattanooga, TN | 3,606 |
| 3 | Knoxville, TN | 3,354 |
| 4 | Clarksville, TN | 3,129 |
| 5 | Murfreesboro, TN | 2,987 |
| 6 | Franklin, TN | 1,391 |
| 7 | Jackson, TN | 1,277 |
| 8 | Johnson City, TN | 1,210 |
| 9 | Hendersonville, TN | 1,058 |
| 10 | Columbia, TN | 1,040 |
| 11 | Bartlett, TN | 995 |
| 12 | Smyrna, TN | 972 |
| 13 | Kingsport, TN | 959 |
| 14 | Spring Hill, TN | 944 |
| 15 | Gallatin, TN | 891 |
| 16 | Cleveland, TN | 886 |
| 17 | Lebanon, TN | 867 |
| 18 | Collierville, TN | 804 |
| 19 | La Vergne, TN | 685 |
| 20 | Mount Juliet, TN | 671 |
| 21 | Brentwood, TN | 649 |
| 22 | Cookeville, TN | 634 |
| 23 | Germantown, TN | 568 |
| 24 | Oak Ridge, TN | 526 |
| 25 | Morristown, TN | 506 |
| 26 | Maryville, TN | 481 |
| 27 | Bristol, TN | 433 |
| 28 | Shelbyville, TN | 423 |
| 29 | Farragut, TN | 367 |