Commune · 05602

AlgarroboAlgarrobo

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Census population
16,076
199th of 346
Population density
91.6/km²
98th of 346
Average years of schooling
11.2 yrs
15th of 346
Foreign-born share
4.4%
118th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Sought care when ill1st of 332 · Chile 92.1%100.0%
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.3 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 216 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
19.6%
324th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
25.1%
97th of 335
Came from another region
49.1%
9th of 335
Net internal migration
+9,887
+61.2 per 100 residents
Algarrobothis commune · 5,273another region7,941 peopleelsewhere in the region4,053 peopleabroad998 peopleelsewhere in the region1,175 peopleanother region932 peopleAlgarrobothis commune · 16,158
Algarrobothis commune · 5,273another region7,941 peopleelsewhere in th…4,053 peopleabroad998 peopleelsewhere in th…1,175 peopleanother region932 peopleAlgarrobothis commune · 16,158

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Public administration1Public administration4Other services2Other services▲22Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼13Accommodation and food4Accommodation and food▼15Construction5Construction8Manufacturing6Manufacturing▲27Administrative services7Administrative services14Transport8Transport▲613Education9Education▲410Real estate10Real estate12Arts and entertainment11Arts and entertainment▲16Electricity and gas12Electricity and gas▼611Professional services13Professional services▼29Agriculture and fishing14Agriculture and fishing▼5
2005202411Public administration42Other services▲223Retail and wholesale▼134Accommodation and food▼155Construction86Manufacturing▲277Administrative services148Transport▲6139Education▲41010Real estate1211Arts and entertainment▲1612Electricity and gas▼61113Professional services▼2914Agriculture and fishing▼5

The ten branches that employ most of Algarrobo

Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.

Dependent workers, projected

Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.

02 k4 k6 kprojection →5 k2029 · central2005201520242029
02 k4 k6 kprojection →5 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.3% a year observed · 2.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

UF is indexed to inflation, so this is a projection in real terms.

05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →12 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →12 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval10.5% a year observed · 3.7% projected

What Algarrobo is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Algarrobo employs more people in 85 of them than Chile does, proportionally. That comparison is Balassa's revealed comparative advantage: this place's share of an activity, over the country's share of it. Above one, the activity is over-represented here.

85
activities it is specialised in
4,370
formal workers
75/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.63.7Actividades de la administración …Consejo de administración de edif…Actividades de restaurantes y de …Actividades combinadas de apoyo a…Elaboración de productos de panad…Distribución de energía eléctricaVenta al por mayor de artículos e…Fabricación de otros productos el…Actividades de servicios vinculad…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.63.7Enseñanza culturalAdministradoras de fondos de inve…Extracción de maderaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Algarrobo

Ranked by how many times the national share this place reaches. The division each activity belongs to is a page of its own.

ActivityDivisionWorkers hereTimes the national share
Actividades combinadas de apoyo a instalacionesActividades combinadas de apoyo a instalaciones59127.4×
Enseñanza culturalOtros tipos de enseñanza1147.9×
Consejo de administración de edificios y condominiosActividades de otras asociaciones70336.5×
Cría de otros animales n.c.p.Ganadería1129.2×
Venta al por menor en comercios especializados de pescado, mariscos y productos conexosVenta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados3628.8×
Actividades de organizaciones y órganos extraterritorialesActividades de organizaciones y órganos extraterritoriales924.5×
Fabricación de productos primarios de aluminioFabricación de productos primarios de metales preciosos y otros metales no ferrosos1323.9×
Elaboración de comidas y platos preparados envasados, rotulados y con información nutricionalElaboración de otros productos alimenticios4222.3×
Distribución de energía eléctricaGeneración, transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica4819.0×
Actividades de otros clubes deportivos n.c.p.Actividades deportivas7217.3×
Servicios funerariosOtras actividades de servicios personales1716.8×
Venta al por menor de gas licuado en bombonas (cilindros) en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados3715.9×

The register files a firm at its tax address, so an activity can be over-represented here because the work happens here or because the head office does. Both are real facts about a place and they are not the same fact, and nothing in the register tells them apart: the communes where large firms keep their registered office carry activities that are physically elsewhere in Chile.

Revealed comparative advantage (Balassa, 1965) and the space of activities (Hidalgo, Klinger, Barabási and Hausmann, 2007), computed on formal employment because that is what a Chilean commune has. Built from the 500-worker activities and the communes above 1,000 formal workers; the floors are on /datos with everything else.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
3,585
hectares in holdings
74.6%
of them under a named use
60.4%
of the crop land is irrigated
114
holdings with land here
Woodland 35%Not farmed 33%Pasture 29%Annual crops 2.5%Orcha… 1.3%Forest plantations23%Native woodland11%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings25%Untilled land7.4%Pasture29%Fruit trees
Woodland 35%Not farmed 33%Pasture 29%Forest plantations23%Native woodland11%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings25%Untilled land7.4%Pasture29%Fodd…cropsFru…tre…
Pasturehover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MenWomen001122334455%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
MenWomen00224466%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
AlgarroboChile% of each territory's own population · 16,076 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
16,076
185,84718,480,432199th of 346
Average age
44.6 yrs
40.7 yrs38.1 yrs7th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
166.1
109.079.08th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
91.6/km²
123.9/km²24.7/km²98th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
6,430
69,5626,596,527192nd of 346
Dwellings
21,324
133,1107,642,71697th of 346
People per household
2.50
2.672.80307th of 345
Women
52.3%
51.5%51.5%27th of 346
Men per 100 women
91.3
94.294.3320th of 346
Under 15
15.0%
17.4%17.7%319th of 346
65 and over
25.0%
18.9%14.0%4th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
66.6
57.046.56th of 346
One-person households
26.0%
24.0%21.8%64th of 345
Households with children
25.5%
30.8%33.2%322nd of 345
Indigenous peoples
7.4%
7.8%11.4%188th of 346
Female-headed households
49.2%
52.1%49.9%137th of 345
Land area
175 km²
1,499 km²748,041 km²275th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Algarrobo23%Arrived since 202077%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Algarrobo23%77%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born share
4.4%
4.8%8.7%118th of 346
Lives in the commune where they were born · Casen 2024 asks in which comuna each person's mother lived when they were born. It is lifetime migration, not last year's, and it measures origin, not moves: someone born here who left and came back counts as living where they were born.
19.6%
55.5%50.5%324th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region · Of those who live here, the ones born in another comuna of this same region. It is the short move: within the metropolitan area, the valley or the neighbouring province.
25.1%
7.0%23.9%97th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
49.1%
32.2%17.2%9th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
701
8,9591,608,650145th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
40.1 yrs
33.3 yrs33.5 yrs19th of 345
Women among foreign-born
51.1%
50.3%51.7%167th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
77.0%
79.2%83.1%291st of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
22.8%
40.5%34.4%302nd of 345
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna.
5.6%
6.0%10.6%111th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.9 yrs
12.4 yrs12.9 yrs27th of 345
Net internal migration · People who arrived from another comuna minus people born here who live in another comuna. It is a lifetime balance, not a year's. Chile adds to zero by construction: nobody leaves the country in this count.
9,887
25,032047th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
61.2
13.30.08th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Algarrobo38%Higher35%Secondary20%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Algarrobo38%Higher35%Secondary20%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
11.2 yrs
10.1 yrs10.4 yrs15th of 346
Reached higher education
38.1%
26.3%31.1%23rd of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.2%98.6%1st of 333
Continues to higher education · Of young secondary-school graduates, those enrolled in first-year undergraduate studies the following March. By the comuna of the school where they finished secondary school, which is the approximation to origin that Mineduc publishes.
48.6%
52.3%55.6%261st of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.
98.4%
100.4%99.8%298th of 346
Literacy rate
98.4%
98.0%97.8%52nd of 346
Reached secondary education
34.9%
41.7%36.7%259th of 346
Primary education only
20.0%
24.3%24.1%321st of 346
Never attended school
2.91%
3.00%3.01%263rd of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
12.9 yrs
11.7 yrs12.1 yrs27th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.7 yrs
11.7 yrs12.1 yrs33rd of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.57%
1.93%2.18%295th of 345
Households lacking schooling
10.3%
12.4%15.1%303rd of 335
Secondary school leavers · Secondary education for children and young people, by the comuna of the school where they took it. Adults are counted apart.
177
2,125217,565181st of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
41.2%
29.6%33.9%146th of 331
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates.
0.0%
0.9%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
68.6%
61.3%67.2%109th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
26.7%
25.0%19.7%76th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
4.7%
13.7%13.1%306th of 331
Of those continuing, studies outside their region · Compares the region of the school they graduated from with the region of the campus where they enrol. A campus is not necessarily where the student lives.
33.7%
35.3%13.0%80th of 331
Of those continuing, women · The graduates module does not publish sex, so there is no continuation rate by sex: only the make-up of those who do continue.
45.3%
53.6%49.7%282nd of 331

The class of 2024

Mineduc (SIES), by the comuna they went to school in

Approximation: the comuna is the one this cohort was enrolled in for secondary school, which is what Mineduc publishes — not a home address, which it does not.

177left secondary school in 2024
86enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
48.6%continued immediately
69%of those, to a university
34%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%PsicologiaDerechoArquitecturaIngenieria Civil en InformaticaQuimica y Farmacia
0.0%5.0%10.0%PsicologiaDerechoArquitecturaIngenieria Civil en InformaticaQuimica y Farmacia
AlgarroboChile

Each bar is that programme's share of everyone who continued, here and in the country — not a headcount, so a commune of a few hundred can be read beside a country of 121,050. Programme names as the register writes them: in capitals and without accents, and unmerged, since SIES publishes 1,481 distinct names in a single year and two spellings of one degree stay two rows. Only the capitals are undone here.

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareInformation technologySocial sciencesEducationServicesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareInformation technologySocial sciencesEducationServicesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
AlgarroboChile

The ten broad fields of ISCED-F 2013, as SIES classifies each programme, as a share of everyone who continued, here and in the country.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

05010015020020062015202417786
05010015020020062015202417786
left secondary schoolenrolled the following year

Only enrolment the following March counts — someone who works for a year and starts after that is not here, so the rate is a floor under how many ever study, not an estimate of it. Adult secondary education is counted separately and is not in these figures. What the approximation above does not settle is catchment: this is the cohort Algarrobo's schools taught, and where schools draw pupils from next door that is not the same set of children as the ones the territory raised.

The hospital figures come from DEIS's discharge register: one row per completed stay, in any establishment in the country, counted in the commune where the patient lives rather than where the hospital is. It counts stays, not people — someone admitted three times is three of them.

The deaths it records are the ones that happened during a stay. Deaths at home or in the street are in the vital statistics register, which is a different DEIS release and is not in PuroChile — so nothing here is this place's mortality, and every label says «hospitalaria» for that reason.

The two standardised ratios are the ones meant for comparing places: they hold Algarrobo against what its own age and sex structure would produce at the country's rates, with Chile fixed at 100. A commune of older people buries more people than a commune of young families, and that is demography, not health.

In 2024, 7.5% of the country's discharges arrive with every identifying field replaced by an asterisk and cannot be attached to any commune; what is counted here is the 91.4% that carries one.

Which health system

Algarrobo83%Fonasa13%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Algarrobo83%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.3%
12.9%10.6%253rd of 346
Public health insurance
83.4%
91.3%82.6%290th of 335
Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents · Not age-adjusted. It mixes how much illness there is with how much hospital there is nearby.
60.3
65.382.5217th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
42
78100302nd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,661
23,9111,950,388232nd of 346
Average age, people with a disability
61.3 yrs
57.9 yrs56.4 yrs53rd of 346
Disability among 65+
53.1%
45.9%43.0%35th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.15%
6.28%4.92%226th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.02%
5.47%4.58%288th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.29%
2.60%2.16%224th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.73%
3.20%2.70%194th of 346
Private health insurance
12.8%
4.6%13.2%40th of 335
No health coverage
2.02%
2.23%1.98%134th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
100.0%
90.9%92.1%1st of 332
Households lacking health access
0.0%
2.6%6.0%310th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
969
12,1371,523,716208th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
21
36036,698231st of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.17%
2.97%2.41%260th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.4 days
7.3 days6.1 days178th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
13.1
19.419.9273rd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
64
75100245th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
73
70989,723175th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
7.5%
5.8%5.9%55th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
45.4
38.148.6112th of 330
Cancer hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. It is the only one of the four made for comparing places.
69
68100202nd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 21%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones a… 19%Tumours, blood a… 18%Pregnancy, birth… 11%Infec… 6.6%Digestivesystem12%Genitouri…system8.6%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem9.9%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskeletal7.0%Cancers andtumours12%Endocrine andmetabolic5.4%Pregnancy andchildbirth10%Contact withhealthservicesInfectiousandparasiticMentaland…NervoussystemEye1.2%
Digestive and urinar… 21%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, … 19%Tumours,… 18%Pregnancy, b… 11%Inf… 6.6%Digestivesystem12%Genitour…system8.6%Circulato…system11%Respirat…system9.9%Injuriesandpoisoning11%Musculoske…7.0%Cancers andtumours12%EndocrineandmetabolicPregnancy andchildbirth10%Contactwith…Infectio…and…Mentaland…NervoussystemEye
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

By tumour site

Órganos digestivos29%Sitios reservados23%Mama21%Sangre ysistemalinfático12%Víasrespiratorias8.2%Sitios maldefinidos6.8%
Órganos digestivos29%Sitiosreservados23%Mama21%Sangre ysistemalinfático12%Víasrespiratorias8.2%Sitios maldefinidos6.8%
Órganos digestivosSitios reservadosMamaSangre y sistema linfáticoVías respiratoriasSitios mal definidoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
12.6%
20.7%17.3%287th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
22.3 UF
27.9 UF32.0 UF181st of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
104.6%
85.5%78.9%127th of 342
Firms per 1,000 residents · Firms with their registered address or head office in the territory; in comunas where large firms are registered the figure reflects the head office, not the activity.
140.4
95.285.627th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
50.0%
49.7%54.4%187th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.4%
8.9%8.6%233rd of 345
Self-employed
53.6%
45.7%33.8%8th of 345
Extreme poverty
1.0%
7.0%6.9%321st of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
15.6%
14.9%17.7%210th of 335
Unemployment rate
5.5%
7.9%8.8%285th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 847,168
CLP 604,011CLP 783,12435th of 335
Gini coefficient · 0 is a perfectly equal split and 1 a perfectly unequal one. On household per-capita income (ypchtotcor). A survey estimate: in comunas with a small sample the interval is wide.
0.482
0.4330.48855th of 321
Registered firms
2,257
17,6951,582,390130th of 346
Annual sales
9,653,157 UF
134,461,183 UF34,347,683,688 UF139th of 342
Employees reported · People reported at some point in the tax year, not average employment: the national total exceeds the employed because someone who worked two months counts the same as someone who worked twelve.
4,407
47,2599,699,164194th of 346
Sales per firm
4,277 UF
7,599 UF21,706 UF144th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.3
1.93.9294th of 346
Women among employees
40.5%
36.0%40.6%183rd of 345
Independent contractors
2,198
21,2143,958,269145th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
33.3%
31.0%29.0%89th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 28%State and social services 20%Advanced services 19%Industry and cons… 19%Other servi… 12%Natural re… 2.9%Retail andwholesale15%Accommodati…and food8.6%Transport3.8%Education7.5%Health6.7%Publicadminist…5.5%Administrat…services6.5%Professio…services5.8%Informationand…Realestate2.1%Finan…andinsur…1.8%Construction11%Manufacturing5.7%Elect…andgas1.6%Water…Other services6.4%Domesticwork3.3%Artsandenter…2.3%Agricultu…Mining
Trade and logistics 28%State and socia… 20%Advanced ser… 19%Industry and… 19%Other s… 12%Retail andwholesale15%Accommodat…and food8.6%Transport3.8%Educati…7.5%Health6.7%Public administrationAdminis…services6.5%Profes…servic…5.8%Infor…andcommu…Realesta…Fin…andins…Construction11%Manufactur…5.7%Ele…andgasWate…Otherservices6.4%Domes…work3.3%Artsandente…Agricul…and…Mining
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Skilled occupations 51%Managers and professionals 36%Elementary occupations 13%Service and sales25%Craft and trades14%Clericalsupport4.8%Plant andmachineoperators4.5%Skilledagricu…2.8%Professionals19%Technicians11%Managers6.4%Elementary occupations13%
Skilled occupations 51%Managers and professionals 36%Element… 13%Service and sales25%Craft andtrades14%Clericalsupport4.8%Plant andmachineoperatorsSkilledagriculturalProfessionals19%Technicians11%Managers6.4%Elementaryoccupations13%
Elementary occupationsArmed forceshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itCIUO-08 (ISCO) skill levels.

Housing and services

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House or flat

Algarrobo93%House7.1%Chile79%House20%Flat
Algarrobo93%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
3.9%
5.4%5.7%309th of 345
Internet access
95.5%
92.9%93.2%36th of 345
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
3.3
2.22.3200th of 345
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
3.1
1.61.6181st of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
6,307
67,8266,408,172192nd of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.32%
0.50%0.57%188th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.86%
0.98%1.13%240th of 345
Public water network
66.8%
83.9%92.3%279th of 345
Electricity access
99.8%
99.7%99.6%48th of 345
Detached houses
92.3%
91.6%78.7%256th of 345
Apartments
7.1%
7.6%19.9%78th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.20%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
67.0%
44.3%11.9%7th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
296
4,097491,904201st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.6%
5.9%7.5%231st of 345
Renting households
18.2%
16.2%26.2%122nd of 345
Owner-occupiers
64.8%
65.5%61.1%243rd of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
31.3%
23.7%24.4%218th of 345
Commute by public transport
22.5%
35.7%42.1%209th of 345
Walks to work
16.2%
13.7%10.2%164th of 345
Households with a computer
56.5%
44.4%54.9%48th of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.9
1.11.1142nd of 345
People within 5 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
95.9%
98.5%97.0%145th of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
76.8%
90.2%89.4%155th of 345
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
97.7%98.1%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
22.3
7.35.9115th of 345
People within 5 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
0.0%
61.9%80.3%194th of 345
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
2.5%
76.2%90.0%236th of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
99.6%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.4
0.80.6121st of 345
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
99.8%
98.9%99.0%99th of 345
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
73.7%
93.9%91.6%191st of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
99.9%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 55%Public transport 23%On foot or by bicycle 18%Car54%Public transport23%Walking16%Other
Private vehicle 55%Public transport 23%On foot or by … 18%Car54%Public transport23%Walking16%
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 65%Rented 18%Provided rent-free 14%Owned outright55%Owned, still paying10%Rented, withcontract13%Rented,nocontra…5.1%Provided byfamily11%Prov…byempl…
Owned 65%Rented 18%Provided rent-… 14%Owned outright55%Owned,stillpaying10%Rented, withcontract13%Rente…nocontr…5.1%Provided byfamily11%Pro…byemp…
Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

Fossil fuels 42%Wood and biomass 33%Electricity 14%No heating 11%Gas31%Paraffin11%Firewood31%Electricity14%No heating11%
Fossil fuels 42%Wood and biomass 33%Electricity 14%No heating 11%Gas31%Paraffin11%Firewood31%Electricity14%No heating11%
ElectricityNo heatingOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
88.0%
of the registered voted in the first round
88.9%
voted in the runoff
17,787
registered voters on the roll
6.7%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman38.6%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist61.4%58.3%
AlgarroboChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez12.1%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman26.4%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen19.2%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist22.8%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet16.6%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.5%1.3%
AlgarroboChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile28.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile29.2%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido24.0%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente9.2%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.7%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios1.3%0.6%
HPopular1.6%0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
AlgarroboChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile30.5%
KCambio por Chile27.0%
JChile Grande y Unido30.3%
IPartido de la Gente8.4%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.8%
Algarroboshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Algarrobo across the 28 figures PuroChile publishes for the 345 communes with complete data, grouped into seven dimensions of equal weight. This is not proximity: nothing in the computation knows where any commune is.

ScalePopulation structureMigrationEducationHealthEconomyHousing and services

The figure beside each name is the distance between the two communes: 0 would be identical, and 1.48 is what separates any two communes in the country. Each bar is one of the seven dimensions, and reaches the end when the two differ on it by twice what two communes picked at random do. Location is not part of the computation: 52% of these pairings cross into another region.

Inside the commune

Census districts
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