(MSC News)--Unemployment was down in all but one area northeast Kansas county in February from the previous month.  

According to the Kansas Department of Labor, Atchison County had the highest jobless rate among area counties at 6.1 percent while Nemaha County had the lowest at 2.8 percent.

Elsewhere, Brown County’s unemployment rate in February stood at 3.8 percent; Doniphan, 4 percent; Jackson, 3.7 percent; Jefferson, 4.3 percent; Leavenworth, 4.5 percent; Marshall, 3.9 percent and Pottawatomie, 3.4 percent;

All the figures were down from January except in Marshall County.   

Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in February was 4 percent.  That’s down from 4.1 percent in January and down from 4.1 percent in February 2016.