(KLZA)-- Only minimal changes in the July unemployment figures in Southeast Nebraska according to the latest report from the Nebraska Labor Department. 

The only county with a decrease in the jobless rate for the month was Johnson County, which dipped two-tenths to 3.2-percent. 

Unemployment figures crept up a tenth of a percent in both Richardson and Gage counties.  Both had an unemployment rate of 3.5 percent in July.

Nemaha County has the highest unemployment rate in the area at 4.6 percent. Pawnee County was steady at 3.2 percent and Otoe County was steady at 3.6 percent.

Statewide the unemployment rate was 2.8 percent, down from 2.9 percent in June.  In July 2016 the jobless figure was 3.2-percent.