Companies scouting new locations to do business want to know about workforce quality and population growth. The two maps below show both. The 10 Most Hardworking Cities map, for example, shows that Plano, TX, has some of the nation's most diligent employees, who log an average of 40.6 hours a week. At the same time, the state's population is growing at a 0.8% clip. The 10 Least Hardworking Cities map includes Baton Rouge, where people only work an average of 37 hours a week and the population isn't growing at all.
The workforce data comes from three-year-old personal finance website Wallethub, which relied on data from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Corporation for National and Community Service and a sleep-monitoring outfit called SleepBetter.org, to come up with a formula based on average workweek hours, commute time, labor force participation rate, workers holding multiple jobs, hours volunteered per resident, average days each month people get inadequate sleep and average daily leisure time. The migration data is from the Census Bureau.
