(KNZA)--Unemployment was down in area northeast Kansas counties in April.
The Kansas Department of Labor released the latest unemployment rates Friday.
Nemaha County continued to have the lowest jobless rate among area counties at 2.2 percent and Atchison County the highest at 4.8 percent.
Elsewhere, Brown County unemployment rate was 3.3 percent; Jackson, 2.9 percent, Jefferson, 3.3 percent; Leavenworth, 3.6 percent; Marshall, 2.4 percent and Pottawatomie, 2.6 percent.
All the figures were down from March and from April 2015.
Statewide, the unemployment rate in April was 3.8 percent. That’s down from 3.9 percent in March and 4.2 percent in April 2015.
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