'poverty areas' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to geographic areas that have high rates of poverty. For example, "Many cities have large poverty areas with limited resources."
"You have many rural areas that are persistent poverty areas, in essence rural ghettos," said Joseph Donnermeyer, professor of rural sociology at Ohio State University.
Boston is experimenting on two fronts; first, by working to reimagine and reorganize youth employment opportunities available to young people from high poverty areas of the city.
The company offers its programs for free and partners with schools in high poverty areas of New York City where 50% of students or more are eligible for free lunch.
Expansion of modern food retail formats is limited by geography or socioeconomic groups, while traditional formats are equally present in urban, peri-urban and rural settings, including high poverty areas.
MAUP effects were not observed in models predicting preterm incidence in high racial clusters or IUGR or preterm incidence in high poverty areas, demonstrating the stability-reliability of these estimates.
It is possible that violence within high poverty areas may not gain as many ratings as violence that crosses its economic, social and racial divide.
How many high-poverty areas gentrified?
Other high-poverty areas also got the short end of the stick.
There is also evidence that subjects like art and foreign language are being cut back, especially in high-poverty areas.
In high-poverty areas, as many as 50percentt of the math teachers have not studied math.
African American children were twice as likely to live in high-poverty areas and to live in single-parent homes compared to white children.
