Commune · 03302

Alto del CarmenAlto del Carmen

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Census population
4,788
307th of 346
Population density
0.8/km²
317th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.6 yrs
300th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.8%
225th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Leaves from technical-vocational school1st of 331 · Chile 33.9%100.0%
Leaves from a rural school1st of 331 · Chile 3.1%100.0%
Cancer hospitalisation, standardised ratio330th of 330 · Chile 1007
Average age, people with a disability3rd of 346 · Chile 56.4 yrs66.1 yrs
Sought care when ill330th of 332 · Chile 92.1%60.5%
Continues to higher education3rd of 331 · Chile 55.6%77.8%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.6 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.6 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 · 114 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
72.6%
54th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
14.6%
223rd of 335
Came from another region
12.9%
230th of 335
Net internal migration
-200
-3.5 per 100 residents
Alto del Carmenthis commune · 5,992elsewhere in the region843 peopleanother region746 peopleelsewhere in the region910 peopleanother region879 peopleAlto del Carmenthis commune · 5,792
Alto del Carmenthis commune · 5,992elsewhere in th…843 peopleanother region746 peopleelsewhere in th…910 peopleanother region879 peopleAlto del Carmenthis commune · 5,792

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Public administration2Public administration8Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲53Construction4Construction▼17Water and waste5Water and waste▲25Accommodation and food6Accommodation and food▼14Manufacturing7Manufacturing▼310Professional services8Professional services▲29Other services9Other services6Administrative services10Administrative services▼4
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Public administration83Retail and wholesale▲534Construction▼175Water and waste▲256Accommodation and food▼147Manufacturing▼3108Professional services▲299Other services610Administrative services▼4

The ten branches that employ most of Alto del Carmen

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.

4006008001 k1 kprojection →6882029 · central2005201520242029
4006008001 k1 kprojection →6882029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval-1.7% a year observed · 1.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

100 k300 k500 k700 kprojection →423 k2029 · central2005201520242029
100 k300 k500 k700 kprojection →423 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.2% a year observed · -1.3% projected

What Alto del Carmen is specialised in

2024 · SII

PuroChile does not compute this for Alto del Carmen. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 628 formal workers here that division is a statement about a handful of people: one worker would move it further than a whole industry moves it in Santiago. The floor is 1,000 workers, and it is a floor rather than a caveat because a spectacular number nobody should read is worse than no number.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
184,018
hectares in holdings
1.7%
of them under a named use
99.4%
of the crop land is irrigated
668
holdings with land here
Not farmed 99%Scrub, barren ground and buildings98%
Not farmed 99%Scrub, barren ground and buildings98%
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
Alto del CarmenChile% of each territory's own population · 4,788 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
4,788
75,95618,480,432307th of 346
Average age
43.0 yrs
38.8 yrs38.1 yrs21st of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
129.9
81.679.027th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
0.8/km²
4.2/km²24.7/km²317th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
1,919
26,7546,596,527306th of 346
Dwellings
3,164
38,3357,642,716300th of 346
People per household
2.50
2.842.80311th of 345
Women
48.7%
50.8%51.5%321st of 346
Men per 100 women
105.1
96.894.326th of 346
Under 15
16.5%
19.2%17.7%266th of 346
65 and over
21.4%
15.7%14.0%19th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
60.9
53.446.515th of 346
One-person households
31.3%
22.8%21.8%27th of 345
Households with children
27.3%
35.3%33.2%309th of 345
Indigenous peoples
60.5%
31.2%11.4%17th of 346
Female-headed households
44.5%
49.3%49.9%273rd of 345
Land area
6,159 km²
18,211 km²748,041 km²30th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Alto del Carmen47%Arrived since 202053%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Alto del Carmen47%Arrived since 202053%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
1.8%
3.9%8.7%225th 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.
72.6%
67.2%50.5%54th 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.
14.6%
12.0%23.9%223rd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
12.9%
16.1%17.2%230th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
86
2,9661,608,650297th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
34.3 yrs
31.2 yrs33.5 yrs120th of 345
Women among foreign-born
60.5%
53.3%51.7%7th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
76.7%
78.7%83.1%297th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
46.5%
47.8%34.4%73rd 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.
2.2%
4.7%10.6%225th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
10.7 yrs
12.1 yrs12.9 yrs329th 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.
-200
-16,6470158th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-3.5
-20.30.0173rd of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Alto del Carmen12%Higher43%Secondary35%Primary only6.1%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Alto del Carmen43%Secondary35%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.6 yrs
9.6 yrs10.4 yrs300th of 346
Reached higher education
12.5%
20.7%31.1%335th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
90.4%
99.3%98.6%330th 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.
77.8%
59.1%55.6%3rd 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.
105.3%
100.7%99.8%37th of 346
Literacy rate
93.5%
97.1%97.8%317th of 346
Reached secondary education
42.8%
43.1%36.7%31st of 346
Primary education only
35.3%
27.0%24.1%114th of 346
Never attended school
6.14%
3.72%3.01%17th 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.
9.5 yrs
11.2 yrs12.1 yrs304th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.0 yrs
11.2 yrs12.1 yrs290th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
6.53%
2.89%2.18%27th of 345
Households lacking schooling
12.3%
18.2%15.1%285th 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.
45
1,061217,565294th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
100.0%
42.5%33.9%1st 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.
100.0%
4.2%3.1%1st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
54.3%
73.4%67.2%244th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
11.4%
15.6%19.7%261st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
34.3%
11.0%13.1%29th 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.
82.9%
68.6%13.0%9th 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.
57.1%
50.1%49.7%59th 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.

45left secondary school in 2024
35enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
77.8%continued immediately
54%of those, to a university
83%of those, outside their region

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryEducationBusiness and lawAgriculture and veterinaryServicesNatural sciencesHealth and welfareSocial sciencesInformation technology
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryEducationBusiness and lawAgriculture and veterinaryServicesNatural sciencesHealth and welfareSocial sciencesInformation technology
Alto del CarmenChile

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. The list of individual programmes is withheld here: fewer than 30 of this territory's leavers continued, and a ranking built on that few names people.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

02040602006201520244535
02040602006201520244535
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 Alto del Carmen'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 Alto del Carmen 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

Alto del Carmen99%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Alto del Carmen99%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapre% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
9.6%
10.9%10.6%283rd of 346
Public health insurance
99.2%
93.7%82.6%5th 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.
18.6
71.582.5321st of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
34
102100310th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
458
8,3091,950,388316th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
66.1 yrs
57.8 yrs56.4 yrs3rd of 346
Disability among 65+
60.9%
46.1%43.0%5th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.18%
5.13%4.92%223rd of 346
Difficulty seeing
3.76%
4.83%4.58%307th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.23%
2.36%2.16%233rd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
1.63%
2.40%2.70%328th of 346
Private health insurance
0.8%
4.5%13.2%287th of 335
No health coverage
0.00%
0.90%1.98%279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
60.5%
93.0%92.1%330th of 332
Households lacking health access
4.2%
5.6%6.0%214th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
89
5,4311,523,716318th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
5
17336,698306th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
5.62%
3.19%2.41%14th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.4 days
6.8 days6.1 days82nd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
10.4
22.819.9296th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
20
85100324th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
2
23389,723323rd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
2.2%
4.3%5.9%324th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
4.2
30.748.6328th 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.
7
60100330th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 30%Injuries, bones and skin 29%Heart and lungs 20%Tumours, bloo… 9.0%Pregnancy, birth an… 6.7%Mind, nerves and se… 4.5%Digestive system21%Genitourinary system9.0%Injuries and poisoning20%Musculoskeletal7.9%Circulatory system11%Respiratorysystem9.0%Endocrine andmetabolic4.5%Cancers andtumours3.4%Blo…andimm…Pregnancy andchildbirth5.6%Con…mal…Mental andbehavioural2.2%Nervoussystem2.2%
Digestive and urinar… 30%Injuries, bones and… 29%Heart and lungs 20%Tum… 9.0%Pregna… 6.7%Mind, … 4.5%Digestive system21%Genitourinary system9.0%Injuries andpoisoning20%Musculoskeletal7.9%Circulatorysystem11%Respirat…system9.0%EndocrineandmetabolicCance…andtumou…PregnancyandchildbirthMentaland…Nervo…system
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.

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
27.2%
23.0%17.3%74th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
20.6 UF
24.9 UF32.0 UF256th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
105.5%
94.1%78.9%122nd 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.
95.0
78.185.681st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
48.2%
51.7%54.4%221st of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
10.7%
9.5%8.6%69th of 345
Self-employed
46.0%
37.9%33.8%33rd of 345
Extreme poverty
8.6%
11.1%6.9%150th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
28.3%
26.6%17.7%38th of 335
Unemployment rate
17.6%
10.5%8.8%6th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 490,202
CLP 573,919CLP 783,124220th 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.
0.407
0.4430.488236th of 321
Registered firms
455
5,9331,582,390302nd of 346
Annual sales
451,408 UF
16,508,287 UF34,347,683,688 UF320th 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.
631
16,8509,699,164317th of 346
Sales per firm
992 UF
2,782 UF21,706 UF334th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
0.8
1.93.9335th of 346
Women among employees
37.6%
38.3%40.6%232nd of 345
Independent contractors
518
7,2653,958,269303rd of 346
Contractors as share of workers
45.1%
30.1%29.0%28th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 36%State and social services 23%Industry and construction 19%Trade and logist… 16%Agriculture and fishing26%Mining9.5%Education11%Publicadministrat…7.1%Health4.4%Construction9.7%Manufacturi…5.9%Water andwasteRetail andwholesale9.1%Accommoda…and food4.0%Transpo…2.9%Admini…servic…2.6%Profes…servic…Dom…work
Natural resources 36%State and soc… 23%Industry and cons… 19%Trade and log… 16%Agriculture andfishing26%Mining9.5%Education11%Publicadminist…7.1%Health4.4%Construc…9.7%Manufact…5.9%Water andwasteRetailandwholesa…9.1%Accom…andfood4.0%Trans…2.9%Admin…servi…Prof…serv…Dom…work
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 62%Elementary occupations 20%Managers and professiona… 18%Skilledagricultural16%Service andsales15%Craft and trades15%Plant and machineoperators11%Clerical support4.3%Elementaryoccupations20%Technicians8.4%Professiona…7.5%Managers
Skilled occupations 62%Elementary occupations 20%Managers and profes… 18%Skilled agricultural16%Service and sales15%Craft and trades15%Plant andmachineoperators11%Cleric…support4.3%Elementaryoccupations20%Technic…8.4%Profession…7.5%Managers
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

Alto del Carmen98%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Alto del Carmen98%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.4%
5.6%5.7%275th of 345
Internet access
80.2%
90.4%93.2%306th 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.
21.7
4.52.318th 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.
20.1
4.31.615th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
1,885
26,0116,408,172306th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.37%
0.37%0.57%127th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
6.84%
3.36%1.13%16th of 345
Public water network
84.8%
84.5%92.3%171st of 345
Electricity access
97.7%
98.5%99.6%317th of 345
Detached houses
98.0%
95.3%78.7%183rd of 345
Apartments
0.0%
3.3%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.30%
0.71%0.23%100th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
38.5%
26.9%11.9%40th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
202
2,388491,904251st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
10.5%
8.9%7.5%40th of 345
Renting households
9.0%
14.1%26.2%311th of 345
Owner-occupiers
67.2%
68.0%61.1%204th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
18.8%
5.1%24.4%245th of 345
Commute by public transport
30.2%
36.1%42.1%118th of 345
Walks to work
29.9%
16.5%10.2%33rd of 345
Households with a computer
29.7%
42.6%54.9%325th 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.
4.9
1.71.115th 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.
55.8%
88.8%97.0%336th 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.
98.1%
99.2%99.9%303rd 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.
99.4%
99.9%100.0%318th 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.
15.0%
82.8%89.4%327th 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.
30.7%
91.9%98.1%329th 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.
73.6%
95.1%99.7%327th 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.
52.6
13.75.937th 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%
64.8%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.
0.0%
70.1%90.0%249th 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.
1.6%
76.2%96.2%300th 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.
3.7
1.10.619th 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.
77.1%
95.6%99.0%329th 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.
97.4%
99.1%99.9%317th 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.
99.4%
99.9%100.0%322nd 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.
15.5%
83.3%91.6%332nd 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.
34.1%
91.0%98.5%334th 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.
74.5%
95.2%99.8%331st of 345

How people commute

On foot or by bicycle 33%Private vehicle 33%Public transport 30%Walking30%Bic…Car32%Public transport30%OtherBoat
On foot or by bicycle 33%Private vehicle 33%Public transport 30%Walking30%Car32%Public transport30%Oth…Boat
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 67%Provided rent-free 14%Other 9.4%Rented 9.0%Owned outright67%Provided byfamily10%Provi…byemplo…4.1%Other arrangement9.4%Rented, nocontract5.6%Rented,withcontract3.3%
Owned 67%Provided rent-fr… 14%Other 9.4%Rented 9.0%Owned outright67%Provided byfamily10%Provi…byemplo…4.1%Otherarrangement9.4%Rented, nocontract5.6%Rented, with…
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

No heating 51%Wood and biomass 24%Fossil fuels 15%Electricity 8.8%No heating51%Firewood19%Coal4.9%Gas15%Electricity8.8%
No heating 51%Wood and biomass 24%Fossil fuels 15%Electricity 8.8%No heating51%Firewood19%CoalGas15%Electricity
No heatingElectricityOther 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
85.6%
of the registered voted in the first round
84.4%
voted in the runoff
4,863
registered voters on the roll
12.6%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman39.6%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist60.4%58.3%
Alto del CarmenChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez43.1%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman21.3%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.4%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen11.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist16.5%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet5.6%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.4%1.3%
Alto del CarmenChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile37.3%30.6%
KCambio por Chile11.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido6.0%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente15.7%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas26.5%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 Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular3.4%0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
Alto del CarmenChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile54.3%
KCambio por Chile9.4%
JChile Grande y Unido18.4%
IPartido de la Gente15.5%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista2.4%
Alto del Carmenshare of the valid vote

No sister communes

How this is computed

No commune in Chile resembles Alto del Carmen closely enough: its best match sits further away than the best match of nine out of ten communes in the country. These four are the least unlike it, which is not the same thing as sisters.

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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