TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Department of Labor released the latest unemployment numbers. The number for Hutchinson dropped to 3.4% last month. That’s a drop from 4.6% in May and lower than the 4.2% in June of last year.

For Reno County, the rate last month was at 3.2%, down from 4.2% in May and 3.9% in June of last year.

There were 642 residents looking for work in Reno County last month, most of those in Hutchinson.

“The unemployment rate in Kansas fell to 3.4 percent in June as the result of a significant decline in the number of unemployed people in the state,” Labor Economist Emilie Doerksen said. “This also reverses the slight upward trend over recent months and extends the current period of low unemployment.”