SALEM — Unemployment rates were essentially flat across Northeastern Oregon last month, with jobless levels unchanged in three of the region’s six counties and moving by just one-tenth of one percentage point in the other three, according to the latest data from the Oregon Employment Department.

October’s numbers were the same as September’s in Grant (4.5%), Morrow (3.3%) and Union (4.1%) counties, the department reported. The jobless rate dipped slightly in Baker (3.5%, down from 3.6% in September) and Umatilla (3.6%, down from 3.7) counties and rose slightly in Wallowa County (3.3%, up from 3.2).

Using a formula that adjusts for normal seasonal fluctuations in employment, the jobless rate showed a slight uptick across five Northeastern Oregon counties.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Grant County was 5.9% in October, up from 5.7% in September; 3.8% in Morrow, up from 3.7% a month earlier; 4.1% in Umatilla, up from 4.0%; 4.7% in Union, up from 4.6%; and 4.4% in Wallowa, up from 4.3%.

In Baker County, the seasonally adjusted jobless rate was unchanged last month at 4.2%.

Baker County had 250 unemployed workers in October out of a civilian labor force of 7,228, the department reported. Elsewhere in the region, Grant County had 141 unemployed out of a labor force of 3,126, Union had 505 out of 12,269, Wallowa 122 out of 3,649, Morrow 206 out of 6,250, and Umatilla 1,408 out of 39,113.

Statewide, 88,602 Oregon workers were out of a job last month from a civilian labor force of just under 2.2 million, the department reported. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.0%, unchanged from September.

That was a titch lower than the seasonally adjusted rate for the nation as a whole, which remained unchanged at 4.1%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.