7. Albany, Georgia

With more people trying to leave some of the cities listed here to search for better opportunities and quality of life, none of them can compare to how fast Albany’s residents are packing up. In the past half-decade, the city’s population shrank by as much as 5% despite the country’s average rising by 3.7%. almost 25,000 of its 75,000 residents are poor, owing to the lack of jobs being offered in the city, making Albany rank as the city with the highest unemployment rate in all of Georgia.