The incidence of living in a low-income family is higher among the self-employed in rural areas and higher among the low-paid in urban areas. [...] The labour market characteristics of the rural The objective of this paper is to document the working poor are also quite different. [...] By contrast, working sole earner in the family was the factor most poor women have similar work hours and wages, likely to be associated with being a member of a whether they live in rural areas or in urban low-income family in both urban and rural areas. [...] Living in the province of Quebec decreased the risk of living in a low-income family for both rural and urban workers. [...] Only 6% of those who were poor and lived hours of paid work than the urban working poor: in a rural area in 2000 moved to an urban centre, 9,300 hours over the 2000 to 2004 period, while 7% of those who were poor and lived in an compared with 7,900 hours for their urban urban centre in 2000 moved to a rural area during counterparts6.