(KLZA)-- Nebraska had the lowest unemployment rate in the nation for the month of October at 3 percent.  That was down from 3.6 percent in September.

Locally unemployment figures were mostly lower for the month.

In Richardson county the unemployment rate was 2.1 percent;  Pawnee and Nemaha counties had jobless rates of 2 percent.  In Johnson County the unemployment rate was 2.5 percent. 

The Otoe County figure was 2.3 percent. Gage County had an unemployment figure of 2.5 percent,  up two-tenths,  making it the only county with a jobless rate higher than in September.  

Nebraska's unemployment figure is less than half the national rate of 6.9 percent.