MARQUETTE, MI-- The Upper Peninsula jobless rate edged up slightly in February to 10.5 percent, a gain of 0.2 percentage points over January’s rate of 10.3 percent.
Eleven of the U.P.’s 15 counties posted higher jobless rates in February, ranging from 0.1 of percentage point in Ontonagon and Dickinson counties to 1.5 percent in Mackinac County.
Seasonally unadjusted unemployment rates were down by 0.4 percent in Luce County and 1.1 percent in Keweenaw County.
Menominee County had the lowest jobless rate in the U.P. in February, at 7.2 percent, while Mackinac County had the highest rate in Michigan at 24.6 percent.
