The latest unemployment numbers for the Lake Cumberland Area are out for the month of May. Russell County had a 5.2 percent rate and Adair County at 5 percent rate, according to the newly released data from the Kentucky Center for Statistics.

McCreary County had the highest jobless rate in May at 5.4 percent, followed by Wayne County at 5.3 percent, Clinton 4.8 percent, Pulaski 4.7 percent, Casey 4.1 percent, Green and Taylor counties each at 3.6 percent, and Cumberland County at 3.2 percent. The average unemployment rate in the Lake Cumberland district was 4.5 percent.

Carroll County recorded the state’s lowest unemployment rate at 2.8 percent while Magoffin County, at 8.9 percent, had the state’s highest unemployment rate.