Unemployment rates throughout East Central Illinois jumped about a percentage point in June as the school year came to an end.

Champaign County's rate climbed to 7.7 percent from 6.7 percent in May, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security.

Meanwhile, Vermilion County's rate rose to 10.9 percent from 10.1 percent in May.

Statewide, the unemployment rate was 10.5 percent, and the national rate was 9.7 percent, the department said.

In Champaign County, an estimated 8,077 people were out of work and looking for a job in June, while 96,314 were employed.

Vermilion County had 4,084 jobless residents looking for work and 33,426 people employed, according to department figures.

Compared with last June, unemployment rates for most area counties were about 2 percentage points higher. A notable exception was Champaign County, where the rate was only 1 percentage point higher than a year ago.

Nineteen counties in Illinois had lower unemployment rates than Champaign County in June. The lowest rates were in Brown (4 percent); Schuyler (5.7 percent) and Cass (6.2 percent). All three counties are clustered in western Illinois.

Eighteen Illinois counties had higher rates than Vermilion County. The highest were clustered in the Rockford area – Boone County at 14.1 percent and Winnebago County at 14 percent. Grundy County, southwest of Chicago, had the third-highest, 13.7 percent.

Here are the June unemployment rates for other East Central Illinois counties:

– Coles, 8.8, up from 7.5 in May.

– DeWitt, 8, up from 7.6.

– Douglas, 8.3, up from 7.8.

– Edgar, 9.6, up from 9.4.

– Ford, 8.8, up from 7.7.

– Iroquois, 8.6, up from 8.4.

– McLean, 6.7, up from 6.

– Moultrie, 8.2, up from 7.3.

– Piatt, 7.6, up from 6.4.

Among area cities, Champaign had the lowest rate: 7.4 percent, up from 6.3 percent in May. Urbana's rate was 7.8 percent, up from 6.4 percent, while Danville's was 12.2 percent, up from 11.1 percent.

Of 12 Illinois metropolitan areas, Champaign-Urbana had the third-lowest rate (7.8 percent), behind Bloomington-Normal (6.7 percent) and Springfield (6.9 percent).

Rockford had the highest rate (14 percent), followed by Chicago-Naperville-Joliet and Decatur, (both at 11.3 percent). Kankakee-Bradley came in fourth-highest at 11.1 percent.

All 12 metropolitan areas reported job decreases in four job sectors: manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, information and financial activities. But seven metro areas reported year-to-year growth in educational and health services. The Champaign-Urbana metro area had year-to-year job growth in the leisure-hospitality sector, as well as in education-related government employment. The Danville area saw year-to-year growth in the transportation-warehousing-utilities sector.