innercity

Adjective

inner-city (comparative more inner-city, superlative most inner-city)

1. Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.
   • Four years later, when the site of cultural panic had shifted from the threat of inner-city black youth to the moral decay and deviant behavior of relatively privileged, middle-class white youth, Kids was released.2005, George Lipsitz, Youthscapes, The Popular, the National, the Global, page 207