June’s unemployment rate for the Gary metro area was 4.7 percent in June, up slightly from May’s figure of 4.2 percent and an increase from June 2017’s reading of 4.5 percent.

The Gary metro area includes Lake, Porter, Newton and Jasper counties. The June unemployment figures for the state’s metro areas released by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development on July 23 are not seasonally adjusted.

Unemployment also saw increases in the Michigan City-La Porte metro area in June. That area’s jobless rate for the month was 4.4 percent, up from 4 percent in May and 4.2 percent in June 2017.

The South Bend-Mishawaka metro area’s jobless rate in June was 3.9 percent, up from 3.4 percent in May and an increase from 3.7 percent in June 2017.

Indiana’s overall seasonally adjusted jobless rate in June was 3.3 percent, which was up from 3.2 percent in May and a drop from June 2017’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate of 3.5 percent.

Indiana’s jobless rate still is below the nation’s unemployment rate. The seasonally adjusted U.S. jobless rate was 4.2 percent in June, up from 3.6 percent in May.

The nation’s June jobless rate was lower than it was a year ago. The U.S. jobless rate in June 2017 was 4.5 percent.