New Hampshire and South Dakota posted the lowest jobless rates among all US states in June at 1.8% each, the US Bureau of Statistics reported today. Nebraska and Vermont followed at 1.9% each.

Both New Hampshire and South Dakota’s jobless rates were at their lowest since 1976. Other states with their lowest rates since that year were Arkansas, 2.6%; Maryland, 2.0%; Massachusetts, 2.6%; Mississippi, 3.1%; Ohio, 3.4%; Oklahoma, 2.7%; and Pennsylvania, 3.8%.

Nevada ranked as the state with the highest jobless rate in June at 5.4%.

In total, 22 states had unemployment rates lower than the national figure of 3.6%.

Maryland posted the largest year-over-year jobless rate decrease among all states in June, down 1.2 percentage points to 2.0%.

Conversely, California and the District of Columbia had the largest year-over-year unemployment rate increases in June, up 0.7 percentage points each to 4.6% and 5.1%, respectively.