Antofagasta — PuroChile

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.

Households heating with wood337th of 345 · Chile 24.4%0.1%

Internet access10th of 345 · Chile 93.2%97.4%

Annual sales11th of 342 · Chile 34,347,683,688 UF411,819,135 UF

Average monthly pay13th of 342 · Chile 32.0 UF35.1 UF

Dependency ratio331st of 346 · Chile 46.540.1

Literacy rate16th of 346 · Chile 97.8%99.1%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 6,175 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

59.4%

190th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

8.4%

308th of 335

Came from another region

16.6%

137th of 335

Net internal migration

+6,933

+1.6 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Antofagasta

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

BranchWorkersShare of total2005–2024Change

01Administrative servicesAdvanced services28,45017.0%+314%02ConstructionIndustry and construction27,94316.7%+43%03ManufacturingIndustry and construction19,89611.9%+233%04EducationState and social services17,10610.2%+85%05TransportTrade and logistics13,9198.3%+140%06Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics12,6117.5%−4%07Professional servicesAdvanced services11,4436.8%+371%08Public administrationState and social services8,6555.2%+151%09MiningNatural resources5,9283.5%+55%10Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics5,8613.5%+93%

Dependent workers, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.8% a year observed · 1.3% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.4% a year observed · 0.2% projected

What Antofagasta is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Antofagasta employs more people in 129 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.

129

activities it is specialised in

167,197

formal workers

28/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Each dot is one activity. Filled, Antofagasta is already specialised in it; hollow, it is not. Size is how many people work in it here.

Across: how much of what tends to sit beside that activity this place already does. Up: how few and how diversified the places that do it are. Two activities are counted as close when the places good at one tend also to be good at the other — that co-occurrence is the whole of it.

The corners are not labelled on purpose. Which one is worth being in depends on what a place wants and can afford, and neither is in the tax register. The dashed lines are this place's own medians; the axes are the same on every commune's page, so two of them can be laid side by side. The named ones are those whose name fits without covering another dot; the rest are a hover away.

Most over-represented in Antofagasta

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

Activity	Division	Workers here	Times the national share
Transporte de carga por ferrocarril	Transporte por ferrocarril	1,191	23.0×
Fabricación de cemento, cal y yeso	Fabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.	1,393	22.3×
Generación de energía eléctrica en centrales termoeléctricas	Generación, transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica	1,172	19.9×
Extracción de otros minerales metalíferos no ferrosos n.c.p. (excepto zinc, plomo y manganeso)	Extracción de minerales metalíferos no ferrosos, excepto cobre	2,032	19.8×
Reparación de otros tipos de equipo	Reparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo	219	16.1×
Reparación de otros efectos personales y enseres domésticos	Reparación de efectos personales y enseres domésticos	624	12.7×
Reparación de maquinaria metalúrgica, para la minería, extracción de petróleo y para la construcción	Reparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo	4,091	12.7×
Fabricación de maquinaria para la explotación de minas y canteras y para obras de construcción	Fabricación de maquinaria de uso especial	1,690	11.4×
Servicios prestados por concesionarios de carreteras	Actividades de apoyo al transporte	255	9.7×
Alquiler de equipos de transporte sin operario, excepto vehículos automotores	Alquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles	404	9.5×
Tratamiento y eliminación de desechos peligrosos	Tratamiento y eliminación de desechos	137	9.3×
Fabricación de componentes y tableros electrónicos	Fabricación de componentes y tableros electrónicos	246	9.0×

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

2,551,721

hectares in holdings

11.2%

of them under a named use

57.4%

of the crop land is irrigated

119

holdings with land here

PastureOrchards and vineyardshover 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.

The agricultural census measured 2,551,721 hectares of holdings in Antofagasta in the 2020/2021 agricultural year, and this is how it divided them.

Fourteen of the fifteen tiles are categories the census publishes. The fifteenth is not: it is the censused surface less the other fourteen, and what it holds is scrub, barren ground, roads and buildings. Across Chile it is half of everything, because most of the censused surface is Patagonian scrub and northern desert inside very large holdings.

Irrigation is asked of eleven of the uses and not of forest, native woodland, natural pasture or untilled ground — so the 57.4% above is a share of the 24 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 119 holdings with land here, 16 are self-consumption plots — under two hectares and with nothing sold in the year. These counts are the census's own for this territory and they are not added to anything: a holding with land in two comunas is counted in both.

VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal 2021, INE

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

AntofagastaChile% of each territory's own population · 401,096 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	401,096	428,749	18,480,432	4th of 346
Average age	35.2 yrs	35.1 yrs	38.1 yrs	328th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	51.5	51.1	79.0	324th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	13.1/km²	6.3/km²	24.7/km²	239th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	134,059	143,380	6,596,527	4th of 346
Dwellings	139,824	151,674	7,642,716	6th of 346
People per household	2.99	2.99	2.80	39th of 345
Women	50.6%	50.6%	51.5%	213th of 346
Men per 100 women	97.5	97.6	94.3	134th of 346
Under 15	18.9%	19.1%	17.7%	90th of 346
65 and over	9.7%	9.8%	14.0%	326th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	40.1	40.6	46.5	331st of 346
One-person households	20.1%	20.2%	21.8%	242nd of 345
Households with children	37.5%	37.8%	33.2%	46th of 345
Indigenous peoples	8.0%	8.6%	11.4%	178th of 346
Female-headed households	47.1%	47.3%	49.9%	204th of 345
Land area	30,711 km²	67,586 km²	748,041 km²	2nd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	19.1%	19.2%	8.7%	21st 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.	59.4%	58.6%	50.5%	190th 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.	8.4%	9.0%	23.9%	308th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	16.6%	16.9%	17.2%	137th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	76,793	82,411	1,608,650	2nd of 346
Average age, foreign-born	32.2 yrs	32.1 yrs	33.5 yrs	239th of 345
Women among foreign-born	53.0%	53.0%	51.7%	100th of 345
Foreign-born of working age	84.4%	84.1%	83.1%	47th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	35.2%	35.2%	34.4%	198th 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.	22.6%	22.7%	10.6%	20th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	11.8 yrs	11.7 yrs	12.9 yrs	255th 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.	6,933	7,516	0	58th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	1.6	1.6	0.0	147th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	10.7 yrs	10.6 yrs	10.4 yrs	37th of 346
Reached higher education	32.3%	31.3%	31.1%	47th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	97.7%	97.6%	98.6%	268th 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.	60.3%	60.0%	55.6%	75th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
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%	98.6%	99.8%	299th of 346
Literacy rate	99.1%	99.1%	97.8%	16th of 346
Reached secondary education	39.8%	40.2%	36.7%	73rd of 346
Primary education only	19.9%	20.3%	24.1%	323rd of 346
Never attended school	2.94%	2.98%	3.01%	254th 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.	12.8 yrs	12.7 yrs	12.1 yrs	30th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	12.6 yrs	12.5 yrs	12.1 yrs	38th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	0.89%	0.93%	2.18%	329th of 345
Households lacking schooling	12.0%	12.1%	15.1%	291st 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.	5,059	5,431	217,565	4th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	37.6%	38.8%	33.9%	162nd 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%	0.0%	3.1%	114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	62.2%	62.2%	67.2%	174th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	18.8%	18.4%	19.7%	158th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	19.0%	19.4%	13.1%	133rd 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.	11.6%	12.6%	13.0%	167th 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.	50.2%	50.2%	49.7%	179th 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.

5,059left secondary school in 2024

3,050enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

60.3%continued immediately

62%of those, to a university

12%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

AntofagastaChile

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

AntofagastaChile

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

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 Antofagasta'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.

Health

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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 Antofagasta 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

FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	7.7%	7.8%	10.6%	320th of 346
Public health insurance	78.9%	79.8%	82.6%	304th 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.	86.0	84.6	82.5	71st of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	123	123	100	57th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	30,704	33,633	1,950,388	9th of 346
Average age, people with a disability	51.6 yrs	51.4 yrs	56.4 yrs	330th of 346
Disability among 65+	35.7%	35.2%	43.0%	324th of 346
Difficulty walking	3.10%	3.16%	4.92%	320th of 346
Difficulty seeing	3.38%	3.53%	4.58%	319th of 346
Difficulty hearing	1.52%	1.55%	2.16%	319th of 346
Difficulty concentrating	1.96%	1.97%	2.70%	316th of 346
Private health insurance	16.4%	15.3%	13.2%	32nd of 335
No health coverage	2.57%	2.70%	1.98%	96th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	95.0%	94.9%	92.1%	136th of 332
Households lacking health access	4.0%	4.0%	6.0%	220th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	34,492	36,279	1,523,716	6th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	718	771	36,698	6th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	2.08%	2.13%	2.41%	265th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	5.5 days	5.6 days	6.1 days	278th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	17.9	18.0	19.9	194th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	111	109	100	51st of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	2,003	2,084	89,723	7th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	5.8%	5.7%	5.9%	148th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	49.9	48.6	48.6	77th 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.	121	118	100	27th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

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 digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariasMamaTiroides y endocrinasSitios reservadoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	16.0%	16.2%	17.3%	255th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	35.1 UF	35.8 UF	32.0 UF	13th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	81.7%	79.0%	78.9%	299th 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.	71.8	72.1	85.6	213th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	57.8%	57.9%	54.4%	59th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	7.9%	7.8%	8.6%	205th of 345
Self-employed	34.5%	34.8%	33.8%	188th of 345
Extreme poverty	6.6%	6.6%	6.9%	210th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	15.6%	16.1%	17.7%	209th of 335
Unemployment rate	7.3%	7.4%	8.8%	234th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 788,534	CLP 777,636	CLP 783,124	42nd 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.	0.441	0.441	0.488	151st of 321
Registered firms	28,811	30,910	1,582,390	8th of 346
Annual sales	411,819,135 UF	470,867,064 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	11th 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.	167,293	176,321	9,699,164	10th of 346
Sales per firm	14,294 UF	15,233 UF	21,706 UF	40th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	3.7	3.7	3.9	42nd of 346
Women among employees	31.4%	31.5%	40.6%	309th of 345
Independent contractors	54,737	57,632	3,958,269	10th of 346
Contractors as share of workers	24.7%	24.6%	29.0%	213th of 346

Employment by industry

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

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

HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	6.7%	6.8%	5.7%	49th of 345
Internet access	97.4%	97.1%	93.2%	10th 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.	1.3	1.3	2.3	305th 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.	0.8	1.0	1.6	301st of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	126,861	135,652	6,408,172	6th of 346
Critically overcrowded	0.81%	0.82%	0.57%	31st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	2.61%	2.72%	1.13%	56th of 345
Public water network	97.6%	96.9%	92.3%	47th of 345
Electricity access	99.6%	99.6%	99.6%	118th of 345
Detached houses	71.3%	71.9%	78.7%	323rd of 345
Apartments	26.5%	25.7%	19.9%	21st of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.50%	0.52%	0.23%	39th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	5.6%	6.4%	11.9%	308th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	15,808	17,093	491,904	2nd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	11.8%	11.9%	7.5%	35th of 345
Renting households	34.4%	33.6%	26.2%	17th of 345
Owner-occupiers	48.4%	49.3%	61.1%	319th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	0.1%	0.1%	24.4%	337th of 345
Commute by public transport	45.7%	43.7%	42.1%	45th of 345
Walks to work	8.7%	10.1%	10.2%	275th of 345
Households with a computer	60.6%	59.6%	54.9%	29th 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.	0.9	0.9	1.1	289th 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.	98.8%	98.7%	97.0%	87th 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.	99.8%	99.7%	99.9%	259th 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.	99.9%	99.8%	100.0%	309th 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.	97.5%	97.4%	89.4%	57th 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.	99.5%	99.3%	98.1%	130th 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.	99.9%	99.7%	99.7%	256th 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.	1.2	4.8	5.9	312th 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.	98.7%	95.4%	80.3%	38th 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.	99.8%	96.5%	90.0%	80th 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.	99.9%	96.6%	96.2%	162nd 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	0.6	0.6	281st 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.	99.3%	99.1%	99.0%	137th 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.	99.8%	99.7%	99.9%	282nd 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.	99.9%	99.8%	100.0%	316th 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.	98.9%	98.5%	91.6%	54th 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.	99.8%	99.4%	98.5%	136th 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.	99.9%	99.5%	99.8%	258th of 345

How people commute

Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

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 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

83.6%

of the registered voted in the first round

82.8%

voted in the runoff

307,083

registered voters on the roll

10.2%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman45.1%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist54.9%58.3%

AntofagastaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez32.6%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman24.7%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.0%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist18.0%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.4%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.7%1.3%

AntofagastaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile47.7%30.6%

KCambio por Chile15.0%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido9.9%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente17.0%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.8%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista1.7%2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios4.0%0.6%

HPopular0.8%0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

AntofagastaChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Antofagasta 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.

Copiapó0.61Atacama · 168,831 peopleAlike in Economy; apart in Migration.Calama0.61Antofagasta · 166,334 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Housing and services.Iquique0.71Tarapacá · 199,587 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Health.Arica0.84Arica y Parinacota · 241,653 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Economy.

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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