( MSC News)--Unemployment was down in area northeast Kansas counties in April, except one.

According to a report issued Friday by the Kansas Department of Labor, Nemaha County was the only area counties to see an increase in its jobless rate from March---up one-tenth of a percent to 2.5 percent. Still the county had the lowest unemployment rate in the area.

Atchison County saw the highest unemployment rate at 5.1 percent.

Elsewhere, Brown County’s jobless rate stood at 3.3 percent; Doniphan, 3.2 percent; Jackson, 3 percent; Jefferson, 3.7 percent; Leavenworth, 3.7 percent; Marshall, 2.8 percent and Pottawatomie at 2.8 percent.

Statewide, the report says the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.7 percent. That’s down from 3.8 percent in March and 4.1 percent in April 2016.