Kentucky's figure is slightly lower than the U.S. unemployment rate of 3.8 percent.
Figures from the Kentucky Center for Statistics showed Oldham County with the state's lowest unemployment at 2.6 percent. Magoffin County recorded the highest level at 11.7 percent, the only county in double digits.
Western Kentucky county figures include:
Ballard 5.0 August 5.4 July
Caldwell 3.3 3.9
Calloway 3.9 4.6
Carlisle 3.6 4.1
Crittenden 4.3 4.6
Fulton 4.9 5.7
Graves 4.1 4.6
Hickman 4.2 4.6
Livingston 4.7 4.9
Lyon 4.1 4.1
Marshall 3.9 4.3
McCracken 4.0 4.4
Trigg 4.3 4.7
On the Net:
Complete unemployment report from KY Dept of Labor
