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This article shows that the notion of a “territorial divide” pitting metropolitan areas against other territories is reductive from the standpoint of the geography of poverty. Metropolitan areas are not only hubs of wealth, value-added companies, and qualified employees, but they are also home to poorer populations. And poverty is not confined to the outer fringes of cities. Poorer populations also have a major presence in central zones, even despite their increasing gentrification, which varies greatly from place to place. Central zones are therefore marked by particularly high levels of inequality. The analysis of the distribution of poorer populations in the centers of eight of France's main metropolitan areas reveals a dual phenomenon: a concentration in the priority districts of the cities' urban policies, but also a dispersion across all neighborhoods, including the most affluent ones. This focus on poverty in affluent neighborhoods brings to light an under-represented population facing a specific set of problems.