(KLZA)-- Unemployment rates were up slightly in most counties around Southeast Nebraska for the month of June.

Gage County was the exception where the jobless rate dipped a tenth of a percent to 2.1 percent.

Elsewhere the unemployment figures were up four-tenths in Pawnee County to 2.1 percent; Johnson County to 3 percent and Nemaha County, Nebraska to 2.7 percent.

In Richardson County unemployment was up two-tenths to 2.6 percent. Otoe County had the biggest increase in unemployment, up a half a percentage point to 2.6 percent.

Statewide the jobless rate dropped a tenth of a point to 2.5 percent in June. In June 2020 the unemployment rate was 6.6 percent in Nebraska.