GALLIPOLIS — As the state went, so did southern Ohio in terms of unemployment rates during June, and in one direction — up.

Joblessness increased in Gallia and Meigs counties last month, with surrounding counties seeing their number of unemployed head upward, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported.

ODJFS released county-by-county data on Tuesday. The agency announced last Friday that unemployment statewide for June was 11.1 percent.

Gallia County jumped 1.2 percent to 10.2 percent in June after posting 9 percent in May, its first double-dogit unemployment level in some time. Meigs County, which was 14.1 percent in May, surged to 15.9 percent for June.

Meigs was among 11 counties with joblessness at 15 percent or above for last month. The others were Adams (15.2), Carroll (15.1), Fulton (15.7), Highland (15.9), Huron (15), Morgan (16.2), Paulding (15),Trumbull (15.5), Van Wert (15.2) and Williams (17.6).

In the area, Athens County’s jobless rate increased seven-tenths of a percent from 8.2 in May to 8.9 in June, while Jackson County was up a full percentage point, from 11.1 in May to 12.1 last month. Unemployment in Lawrence County shot up 1.6 percent, from 7.7 in May to 9.3 in June.

Vinton County’s rate increased five-tenths of a percent to 13.5 percent after posting 13 percent in May. Washington County jumped from 9.1 in May to 10.4 in June, an increase of 1.4 percent.

A wide range of job losses has pushed Ohio unemployment higher for the seventh month in a row, to 11.1 percent in June, ODJFS reported.

Agency spokesman Brian Harter said that’s the highest since August 1983.

Unemployment rose last month from May’s rate of 10.8 percent. In June of last year, the state had joblessness of 6.4 percent.

Department Director Douglas Lumpkin says Ohio’s employment market weakened further last month due to major job losses in manufacturing, particularly the auto industry, as well as in services.

Officials say the number of unemployed in Ohio was 662,000 during June, up from 647,000 in May. The number of out-of-work Ohioans has increased by 279,000 in the last 12 months.

(The Associated Press contributed to this story).