Urban poverty is more acute than rural poverty and threatens to become worse as the rural
exodus increases. This study compares poverty among peri-urban households by
decomposing different poverty groups into sub-groups using Foster, Greer and Thorbecke
weighted poverty measure. Eighty peri-urban households were sampled through multi-stage
procedure. Results reveal that 0.48 of peri-urban farming households were impoverished
whereas the poorest of the poor were 0.29. Poverty disparity shows that male headed
households were poorer than female headed households. The incidence of poverty increased
with age and household size, but decreases with years of education.