Malnutrition among children under five has remained a major public health challenge in developing countries and has constituted a long-time barrier to a healthy life and a constant threat to human capital development. It is widely noted that children raised in urban areas are generally healthier than in rural areas. Therefore to know the gap between rural-urban children under five years a study was conducted in Jabalpur District. To find the prevalence of malnutrition, a house-to-house survey was conducted. Gomez classification was used to classify children on the basis of weight for age. Results showed that 53.44% of children were malnourished in urban areas while a maximum of 66.67% of children was found malnourished in rural areas.