Commune · 01107

Alto HospicioAlto Hospicio

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Census population
142,086
42nd of 346
Population density
247.5/km²
67th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.1 yrs
211th of 346
Foreign-born share
26.5%
10th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Average age346th of 346 · Chile 38.1 yrs30.4 yrs
Ageing index345th of 345 · Chile 79.021.3
Households with children1st of 345 · Chile 33.2%50.7%
People within 5 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 97.0%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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.7 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.7 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 · 3,095 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
28.8%
315th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
24.5%
107th of 335
Came from another region
25.9%
40th of 335
Net internal migration
+71,521
+49.5 per 100 residents
Alto Hospiciothis commune · 42,707another region37,376 peopleelsewhere in the region35,335 peopleabroad30,145 peopleelsewhere in the region892 peopleanother region298 peopleAlto Hospiciothis commune · 144,373
Alto Hospiciothis commune · 42,707another region37,376 peopleelsewhere in th…35,335 peopleabroad30,145 peopleelsewhere in th…892 peopleanother region298 peopleAlto Hospiciothis commune · 144,373

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520243Construction1Construction▲26Transport2Transport▲44Education3Education▲12Manufacturing4Manufacturing▼25Administrative services5Administrative services1Retail and wholesale6Retail and wholesale▼59Mining7Mining▲27Professional services8Professional services▼113Other services9Other services▲48Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food▼214Information and communications11Information and communications▲311Real estate12Real estate▼110Agriculture and fishing14Agriculture and fishing▼412Finance and insurance15Finance and insurance▼3
2005202431Construction▲262Transport▲443Education▲124Manufacturing▼255Administrative services16Retail and wholesale▼597Mining▲278Professional services▼1139Other services▲4810Accommodation and food▼21411Information and communications▲31112Real estate▼11014Agriculture and fishing▼41215Finance and insurance▼3

The ten branches that employ most of Alto Hospicio

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.

010 k20 k30 k40 kprojection →30 k2029 · central2005201520242029
010 k20 k30 k40 kprojection →30 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval11.1% a year observed · 4.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

020 M40 M60 Mprojection →32 M2029 · central2005201520242029
020 M40 M60 Mprojection →32 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval13.8% a year observed · 0.5% projected

What Alto Hospicio is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Alto Hospicio employs more people in 80 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.

80
activities it is specialised in
23,496
formal workers
42/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.43.7Actividades de la administración …Transporte de carga por carreteraFabricación de otros productos el…Fabricación de productos metálico…Venta al por mayor de desechos me…Venta al por menor de alimentos e…Transporte urbano y suburbano de …Explotación de estacionamientos d…Venta al por menor de vehículos a…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.43.7Venta al por mayor de otros tipos…Cultivo de productos agrícolas en…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Alto Hospicio

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
Alquiler de equipos de transporte sin operario, excepto vehículos automotoresAlquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles28247.4×
Venta al por mayor de desechos metálicos (chatarra)Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada15335.8×
Otras actividades de transporte urbano y suburbano de pasajeros por vía terrestre n.c.p.Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre10524.3×
Tratamiento y revestimiento de metales, maquinadoFabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal; actividades de servicios de trabajo de metales21020.6×
Servicios de transporte de trabajadoresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre83916.9×
Alquiler de otros tipos de maquinarias y equipos sin operario n.c.p.Alquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles1,29413.7×
Reparación de maquinaria metalúrgica, para la minería, extracción de petróleo y para la construcciónReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo59713.2×
Fabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal n.c.p.Fabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal; actividades de servicios de trabajo de metales7449.8×
Otros servicios de ensayos y análisis técnicos (excepto actividades de plantas de revisión técnica)Ensayos y análisis técnicos1498.7×
Construcción de otras obras de ingeniería civilConstrucción de otras obras de ingeniería civil3,1517.8×
Fabricación de fibras de vidrioFabricación de vidrio y productos de vidrio97.3×
Otras actividades de transporte de pasajeros por vía terrestre n.c.p.Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre4506.9×

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.

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 HospicioChile% of each territory's own population · 142,086 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
142,086
341,67318,480,43242nd of 346
Average age
30.4 yrs
34.0 yrs38.1 yrs346th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
21.3
43.379.0345th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
247.5/km²
119.3/km²24.7/km²67th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
42,150
111,9506,596,52748th of 346
Dwellings
46,573
121,9457,642,71648th of 346
People per household
3.37
3.052.803rd of 345
Women
50.3%
50.5%51.5%247th of 346
Men per 100 women
98.9
97.994.3100th of 346
Under 15
25.5%
21.6%17.7%2nd of 346
65 and over
5.4%
9.3%14.0%345th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
44.7
44.846.5307th of 346
One-person households
15.2%
20.7%21.8%335th of 345
Households with children
50.7%
41.2%33.2%1st of 345
Indigenous peoples
29.1%
21.8%11.4%69th of 346
Female-headed households
51.4%
47.9%49.9%61st of 345
Land area
574 km²
2,863 km²748,041 km²187th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Alto Hospicio36%Arrived since 202064%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Alto Hospicio36%Arrived since 202064%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
26.5%
22.9%8.7%10th 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.
28.8%
42.7%50.5%315th 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.
24.5%
11.7%23.9%107th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
25.9%
27.1%17.2%40th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
37,628
78,2831,608,6507th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
31.0 yrs
31.8 yrs33.5 yrs289th of 345
Women among foreign-born
52.5%
53.3%51.7%115th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
81.4%
82.6%83.1%162nd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
35.5%
36.2%34.4%193rd 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.
31.2%
27.4%10.6%11th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
10.9 yrs
11.5 yrs12.9 yrs324th 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.
71,521
47,62208th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
49.5
12.60.011th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Alto Hospicio16%Higher46%Secondary26%Primary only7.2%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Alto Hospicio16%46%Secondary26%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.1 yrs
10.2 yrs10.4 yrs211th of 346
Reached higher education
16.5%
27.0%31.1%273rd of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.1%
98.6%98.6%213th 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.
53.5%
54.5%55.6%181st 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.
100.0%
99.1%99.8%231st of 346
Literacy rate
98.7%
99.0%97.8%38th of 346
Reached secondary education
45.9%
41.9%36.7%8th of 346
Primary education only
26.5%
22.0%24.1%248th of 346
Never attended school
3.90%
3.08%3.01%131st 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.
11.4 yrs
12.4 yrs12.1 yrs112th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.4 yrs
12.2 yrs12.1 yrs119th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.32%
0.98%2.18%310th of 345
Households lacking schooling
22.7%
15.1%15.1%181st 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.
1,801
4,502217,56535th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
72.9%
48.9%33.9%27th 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.
16.8%
7.3%3.1%60th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
55.5%
63.4%67.2%235th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
21.1%
19.0%19.7%132nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
23.5%
17.6%13.1%88th 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.
13.2%
22.3%13.0%160th 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.
53.3%
49.1%49.7%118th 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.

1,801left secondary school in 2024
963enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
53.5%continued immediately
55%of those, to a university
13%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%PsicologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialDerechoEnfermeriaIngenieria en Maquinaria Pesada y Vehiculos AutomotricesGastronomiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en InformaticaIngenieria en MinasIngenieria Civil Electrica
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%PsicologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialDerechoEnfermeriaIngenieria en Maquinaria Pesada y Vehiculos AutomotricesGastronomiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en InformaticaIngenieria en MinasIngenieria Civil Electrica
Alto HospicioChile

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%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
Alto HospicioChile

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

05001,0001,5002,0002006201520241,801963
05001,0001,5002,0002006201520241,801963
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 Hospicio'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 Hospicio 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 Hospicio91%Fonasa4.8%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Alto Hospicio91%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
9.5%
8.7%10.6%286th of 346
Public health insurance
91.0%
85.8%82.6%195th 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.
58.9
82.182.5224th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
97
96100142nd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
13,536
29,8281,950,38843rd of 346
Average age, people with a disability
45.0 yrs
50.4 yrs56.4 yrs344th of 346
Disability among 65+
22.1%
33.1%43.0%345th of 346
Difficulty walking
3.61%
3.62%4.92%312th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.66%
3.95%4.58%234th of 346
Difficulty hearing
1.45%
1.54%2.16%325th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.52%
2.26%2.70%238th of 346
Private health insurance
2.8%
7.9%13.2%179th of 335
No health coverage
4.79%
3.42%1.98%25th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
91.7%
88.8%92.1%206th of 332
Households lacking health access
6.6%
7.3%6.0%116th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
8,368
28,0541,523,71657th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
131
45736,69882nd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
1.57%
1.63%2.41%303rd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.4 days
5.2 days6.1 days285th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
9.2
13.419.9306th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
82
107100177th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
225
1,05389,72393rd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
2.7%
3.8%5.9%320th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
15.8
30.848.6304th 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.
48
77100274th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 25%Pregnancy, birth and newborns 22%Heart and lungs 15%Injuries, bone… 14%Tumours… 8.7%Infections and othe… 8.3%Mind, nerves and se… 6.7%Digestive system17%Genitouri…system8.7%Pregnancy and childbirth22%Respiratorysystem8.7%Circulatorysystem5.9%Injuries andpoisoning8.5%Musculoskel…4.1%SkinCancers andtumours4.6%Endocrineandmetabolic3.6%Contact withhealthservicesInfecti…andparasit…Ill-de…Mental andbehaviouralEyeNervo…system1.5%
Digestive and urinary… 25%Pregnancy, birth a… 22%Heart a… 15%Injurie… 14%Tum… 8.7%Inf… 8.3%Mind, nerves and… 6.7%Digestivesystem17%Genitou…system8.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth22%Respiratorysystem8.7%Circulatorysystem5.9%Injuriesandpoisoning8.5%Musculo…4.1%CancersandtumoursEndocri…andmetabol…Contactwithhealth…5.2%Infect…and…Mental and…EyeNer…sys…
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

Sitios reservados60%Órganos digestivos27%Mama13%
Sitios reservados60%Órganos digestivos27%Mama13%
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosMamahover 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.
28.0%
21.0%17.3%70th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
20.7 UF
25.0 UF32.0 UF252nd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
95.0%
83.8%78.9%203rd 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.
46.0
70.985.6331st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
56.3%
57.9%54.4%73rd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.4%
8.3%8.6%122nd of 345
Self-employed
41.9%
38.1%33.8%64th of 345
Extreme poverty
12.1%
9.3%6.9%58th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
27.9%
22.7%17.7%42nd of 335
Unemployment rate
9.3%
7.7%8.8%156th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 498,018
CLP 665,851CLP 783,124208th 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.
0.396
0.4370.488264th of 321
Registered firms
6,533
24,2301,582,39063rd of 346
Annual sales
31,001,036 UF
301,589,907 UF34,347,683,688 UF75th 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.
23,496
104,9139,699,16471st of 346
Sales per firm
4,745 UF
12,447 UF21,706 UF129th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.2
2.93.9147th of 346
Women among employees
30.5%
37.9%40.6%313th of 345
Independent contractors
8,777
37,5723,958,26962nd of 346
Contractors as share of workers
27.2%
26.4%29.0%170th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 39%Industry and constr… 18%State and social… 17%Natural resour… 11%Advanced… 8.6%Retail and wholesale24%Transport9.6%Accommod…and food5.9%Construction10%Manufacturing6.0%WaterandwasteElect…and…Education7.6%Health5.4%Publicadminis…3.9%Mining10%Administrat…services5.1%Prof…serv…Realest…Inf…and…Fina…Otherservices3.3%Domest…work1.6%
Trade and logistics 39%Industry … 18%State and soci… 17%Natura… 11%Advanced … 8.6%Other ser… 5.5%Retail andwholesale24%Transport9.6%Accommodati…and food5.9%Constructi…10%Manufact…6.0%Education7.6%Health5.4%Pub…adm…Mining10%Adminis…services5.1%Profes…Real…Info…OtherservicesDom…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 63%Elementary occupations 19%Managers and profession… 18%Service and sales25%Craft and trades18%Plant and machine operators13%Clericalsupport5.6%Elementaryoccupations19%Technicians9.3%Profession…7.0%Managers
Skilled occupations 63%Elementary occupatio… 19%Managers and profe… 18%Service andsales25%Craft andtrades18%Plant andmachineoperators13%Clerical supportElementaryoccupations19%Technicia…9.3%Professi…7.0%
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 Hospicio80%House17%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Alto Hospicio80%House17%Chile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
13.1%
10.2%5.7%11th of 345
Internet access
95.2%
95.9%93.2%47th 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.
1.0
1.02.3318th 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.
0.6
1.01.6306th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
40,506
106,9506,408,17250th of 346
Critically overcrowded
1.45%
1.38%0.57%15th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
7.38%
4.32%1.13%14th of 345
Public water network
76.9%
90.3%92.3%236th of 345
Electricity access
98.9%
99.5%99.6%261st of 345
Detached houses
79.5%
66.3%78.7%311th of 345
Apartments
17.0%
27.2%19.9%43rd of 345
Precarious wall materials
1.20%
0.70%0.23%9th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
6.1%
7.7%11.9%299th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
7,077
16,538491,90416th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
16.8%
14.8%7.5%15th of 345
Renting households
23.0%
36.2%26.2%77th of 345
Owner-occupiers
55.8%
47.3%61.1%297th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
0.4%
0.2%24.4%310th of 345
Commute by public transport
47.3%
41.1%42.1%40th of 345
Walks to work
8.5%
12.6%10.2%278th of 345
Households with a computer
43.3%
52.3%54.9%166th 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.
0.7
0.61.1303rd 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.
100.0%
99.3%97.0%1st 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%
99.8%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.
100.0%
99.2%89.4%1st 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%
99.6%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%
99.8%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.
1.4
1.45.9306th 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.
98.3%
98.2%80.3%41st 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.
100.0%
99.3%90.0%1st 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%
99.4%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.
0.5
0.40.6292nd 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.
100.0%
99.4%99.0%1st 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%
99.8%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.
100.0%
98.9%91.6%1st 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%
99.3%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%
99.4%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Public transport 47%Private vehicle 35%On foot or by … 9.0%Other means 8.2%Public transport47%Car35%Walking8.5%Other8.2%
Public transport 47%Private vehicle 35%On foot o… 9.0%Other mea… 8.2%Public transport47%Car35%Walking8.5%Other8.2%
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 56%Rented 23%Other 14%Owned outright48%Owned, still paying8.0%Rented, withcontract14%Rented, nocontract9.3%Otherarrangement14%Providedby family6.0%
Owned 56%Rented 23%Other 14%Owned outright48%Owned,stillpaying8.0%Rented,withcontract14%Rented,nocontract9.3%Otherarrangement14%Provi…byfamily6.0%
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 71%Fossil fuels 20%Electricity 7.9%No heating71%Gas20%Electricity7.9%
No heating 71%Fossil fuels 20%Electri… 7.9%No heating71%Gas20%Electricity7.9%
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
84.3%
of the registered voted in the first round
83.8%
voted in the runoff
72,210
registered voters on the roll
10.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman35.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist64.8%58.3%
Alto HospicioChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez42.9%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman17.1%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.6%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist20.1%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet4.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.9%1.3%
Alto HospicioChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile28.6%30.6%
KCambio por Chile17.6%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido26.8%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente20.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.8%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%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
Alto HospicioChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile28.4%
KCambio por Chile29.0%
JChile Grande y Unido14.4%
IPartido de la Gente22.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.6%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.6%
Alto Hospicioshare of the valid vote

No sister communes

How this is computed

No commune in Chile resembles Alto Hospicio 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

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