The phrase "a poor part of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a section or area that is economically disadvantaged or lacking in resources.
Example: "The city has a poor part of town that struggles with high unemployment rates and limited access to services."
Alternatives: "an impoverished area of" or "a disadvantaged section of".
The family came from Zhoukou, in Henan Province, a poor part of central China.
It had always been a poor part of Sichuan Province and the roads were bad.
Perhaps more troubling is Toobin's view that B.C.D.C.'s location in a poor part of Baltimore is "inevitably problematic".
Ozick completes the list with Foreign Bodies, the story of Bea Nightingale, who finds her self middle-aged and alone in a poor part of 1950s New York.
He was tough from a poor part of town, I imagined, honed by years on the icy runs of the East.
I'm still fascinated by his first few years -- how he came out of a poor part of town and then was at the top of the music world.
"Rent and just everything else is too expensive now," said Edson Carvalho, a migrant who moved to Luís Eduardo from a poorer part of the state of Bahia.
Those living near a station in a poorer part of Newcastle (Byker) on average contract an ailment at 64 – 11 years before others only a few miles away near the wealthier suburb of Ponteland.
In a poorer part of Queens, the tracks passed a public elementary school where, Matsil said, the only exercise for some of the students consisted of teacher-supervised walks around the block.
It's about a rich girl from the Chelsea set of the 60s, who decides to give that up and live in Battersea, a poorer part of London, where Dennis Waterman becomes her boyfriend.
Because the husband's father has Alzheimer's, the family hire a carer called Razieh (Sareh Bayat), a woman they scarcely know, from a poorer part of the city, and who, we later discover, is pregnant.
