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The poverty rates for metro and nonmetro areas are not dramatically different (12.5% vs 15.4%).

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB59/EIB59.pdf

Some quick math suggests about 30% of poor people live in nonmetro areas.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Population/

Since you seem unwilling to browse any sources I cite, I'm not going to bother looking up suburban poverty.

If you are interested in understanding poverty in the US, you should skim that 642 page report. It's a fantastic report and it answers many questions one might have about the material conditions of the poor (and many other categories of people).



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