The metro-region’s labour market is characterised by a high degree of geographic segmentation that reduces low-income residents’ access to employment, since they are likely to find it hardest to bear the cost of commuting. Eight % of the residents in Cook County and 5% of residents in the metro-region live in high poverty neighbourhoods (in which 35% or more of residents live in poverty). Residents in high-poverty areas typically have access to fewer jobs, in part because businesses tend not to locate in them (Figure 10).