(KLZA)-- Unemployment rates were mostly down in Southeast Nebraska during November.  

Pawnee County has a 1.8 percent unemployment rate which is the best in the area and a full percentage point lower than in October. 

Richardson County had a jobless rate of 2.6 percent. Johnson County was 2.8 percent and Nemaha was 3.2 percent,  and was the only area county reporting an increase in unemployment, up two-tenths. 

Gage County unemployment was 2.4 percent down 1.6 percent and in Otoe County the unemployment figure was 2.2 percent.

Nebraska is tied for 6th in the nation with an unemployment figure of 2.8 percent, tied with Minnesota, North Dakota and Virginia.

The Missouri unemployment rate was 10th at three percent.  Kansas was 13th at 3.2 percent.