TOPEKA, Kan. — The latest unemployment numbers were released Friday and show Hutchinson at 3.4 percent, a rate that has improved from the 4 percent rate in August. It’s slightly better than the 3.6 percent rate from September of last year.

The county’s rate was at 3.1 percent last month compared to 3.8 percent in August and 3.5 percent in September of last year.

There were 958 residents of the county looking for work last month. Most of them live in Hutchinson.

The state reported a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.3 percent in September. This was unchanged from August and down from 3.6 percent in September of 2017.