(MSC News)--Unemployment was down in area northeast Kansas counties in September.

According to the latest figures from the Kansas Department of Labor, Atchison County had highest unemployment rate among area counties at 5.4 percent while Nemaha County had the lowest at 2.2 percent.

Elsewhere, Brown County’s jobless rate in September was 3 percent; Doniphan County, 3.5 percent; Jackson, 2.8 percent; Jefferson, 3.2 percent; Leavenworth, 3.7 percent; Marshall, 2.5 percent and Pottawatomie, 2.8 percent.

All the figures were down from August and also from September 2016.

Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in September was 3.8 percent.  That’s down slightly from the August rate of 3.9 percent and lower than the 4.3 percent rate for September 2016.       

The state Department of Labor says monthly unemployment rates this year have remained below those for last year.