(KLZA)-- Unemployment figures increased in Southeast Nebraska during the month of June but held steady statewide.

Johnson County has the highest unemployment rate in the area at 2.8% up a half-a-percentage point from May.

The largest increase in unemployment for the month was in Nemaha County with a jobless rate increase of one-percent to 2.6%.

Other unemployment rates included 2.1% in Richardson County, up half-a-percent; Pawnee County 1.8% up three-tenths; Otoe County, 2.4% up six-tenths and Gage county at 2.5%, up seven-tenths of a point for the month.

Statewide the jobless rate remained steady at 1.9 percent, second in the country, behind the 1.8% unemployment rate in Minnesota. Kansas is tied for the seventh best rate at 2.4%; Iowa is tied for 11th with a 2.6% unemployment rate and Missouri is 15th with a jobless rates of 2.8%.