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This paper studies how development and its attributes are distributed across the territories that make up the region of Hauts-de-France. For this purpose, we adopt two typologies: the first distinguishes the territories of the region according to their degrees of urbanity, and the second focuses on the influence of the major employment hubs. Based on these two typologies, we show that not all rural areas are losing employment in favor of major urban centers, and that the large cities (except the Lille metropolis and the north side of the Paris metropolis) appear to be in a less favorable situation in terms of employment loss. We then present the indicator we have designed in order to measure the development of the region’s territories. We study the distribution of the indicator’s attributes by mobilizing the two typologies adopted. We show that the large urban centers of Hauts-de-France present quite low disadvantages in terms of “Transportation-Employment,” attracting more and more jobs, whereas other non-isolated rural areas (suburban areas in particular) manage to do well in terms of “Housing-Environment,” which could explain the high rates of population growth in their constituent municipalities. These results show that there is no single model of local development that is based solely on the size of territories and the economies of agglomerations offered by metropolization.