Commune · 05502

CaleraCalera

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Census population
50,631
90th of 346
Population density
854.6/km²
46th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.8 yrs
108th of 346
Foreign-born share
5.9%
87th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
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%
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 90.0%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.1 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.1 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 · 707 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
68.2%
92nd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
13.4%
238th of 335
Came from another region
11.8%
255th of 335
Net internal migration
-10,788
-20.0 per 100 residents
Calerathis commune · 61,141elsewhere in the region7,227 peopleanother region6,377 peopleabroad3,542 peopleelsewhere in the region15,450 peopleanother region8,942 peopleCalerathis commune · 53,895
Calerathis commune · 61,141elsewhere in th…7,227 peopleanother region6,377 peopleabroad3,542 peopleelsewhere in th…15,450 peopleanother region8,942 peopleCalerathis commune · 53,895

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Retail and wholesale1Retail and wholesale4Manufacturing2Manufacturing▲25Administrative services3Administrative services▲23Agriculture and fishing4Agriculture and fishing▼12Construction5Construction▼37Transport6Transport▲16Education7Education▼19Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▲111Health9Health▲210Other services10Other services8Professional services11Professional services▼316Arts and entertainment12Arts and entertainment▲412Finance and insurance15Finance and insurance▼3
2005202411Retail and wholesale42Manufacturing▲253Administrative services▲234Agriculture and fishing▼125Construction▼376Transport▲167Education▼198Accommodation and food▲1119Health▲21010Other services811Professional services▼31612Arts and entertainment▲41215Finance and insurance▼3

The ten branches that employ most of Calera

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.

10 k13 k15 k18 k20 kprojection →19 k2029 · central2005201520242029
10 k13 k15 k18 k20 kprojection →19 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.8% a year observed · 2.0% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

010 M20 M30 Mprojection →26 M2029 · central2005201520242029
010 M20 M30 Mprojection →26 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.3% a year observed · 2.5% projected

What Calera is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Calera employs more people in 77 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.

77
activities it is specialised in
16,938
formal workers
70/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.63.7Fabricación de otros productos el…Cría de aves de corral para la pr…Actividades de la administración …Limpieza general de edificiosSuministro industrial de comidas …Venta al por menor de artículos d…Venta al por mayor no especializa…Elaboración y conservación de car…Actividades de paisajismo, servic…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.63.7Fabricación de maquinaria para la…Venta al por mayor de productos q…Cría de ovejas (ovinos)Enseñanza culturalHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Calera

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
Cría de aves de corral para la producción de carneGanadería1,562222.2×
Fabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal n.c.p.Fabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal; actividades de servicios de trabajo de metales2,37343.4×
Otras industrias manufactureras n.c.p.Otras industrias manufactureras n.c.p.8624.8×
Venta al por mayor de huevos, lácteos, abarrotes y de otros alimentos n.c.p.Venta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco1,75521.5×
Organización de convenciones y exposiciones comercialesOrganización de convenciones y exposiciones comerciales2717.7×
Corretaje al por mayor de ganadoVenta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata3515.1×
Reparación de maquinaria para la elaboración de alimentos, bebidas y tabacoReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo1410.2×
Fabricación de vidrio planoFabricación de vidrio y productos de vidrio178.2×
Fabricación de otros productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.Fabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.567.6×
Gestión de salas de pool; gestión (explotación) de juegos electrónicosOtras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas266.0×
Limpieza general de edificiosActividades de limpieza1,0984.7×
Elaboración y conservación de carne y productos cárnicosElaboración y conservación de carne1204.6×

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
1,771
hectares in holdings
60.6%
of them under a named use
99.9%
of the crop land is irrigated
192
holdings with land here
Not farmed 62%Orchards and vineyards 30%Pasture 4.5%Annual crops 3.8%Scrub, barren ground and buildings39%Untilled land22%Fruit trees30%Pasture4.5%Vegeta…1.4%Fodd…cropsCutflowe…Nur…and…
Not farmed 62%Orchards and vineyards 30%Pas… 4.5%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings39%Untilled land22%Fruit trees30%Pasture4.5%
Orchards and vineyardsPastureWoodlandhover 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
CaleraChile% of each territory's own population · 50,631 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
50,631
213,74518,480,43290th of 346
Average age
38.8 yrs
38.6 yrs38.1 yrs203rd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
89.6
85.679.0172nd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
854.6/km²
192.1/km²24.7/km²46th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
17,419
73,9446,596,52795th of 346
Dwellings
19,635
82,5027,642,716105th of 346
People per household
2.91
2.892.8070th of 345
Women
51.6%
51.6%51.5%79th of 346
Men per 100 women
93.9
93.994.3268th of 346
Under 15
17.9%
18.1%17.7%165th of 346
65 and over
16.0%
15.5%14.0%162nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
51.4
50.546.5160th of 346
One-person households
19.4%
19.0%21.8%271st of 345
Households with children
34.9%
35.4%33.2%102nd of 345
Indigenous peoples
4.8%
4.8%11.4%272nd of 346
Female-headed households
52.1%
50.2%49.9%45th of 345
Land area
59 km²
1,113 km²748,041 km²315th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Calera44%Arrived since 202056%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Calera44%Arrived since 202056%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
5.9%
6.4%8.7%87th 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.
68.2%
60.0%50.5%92nd 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.
13.4%
20.2%23.9%238th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
11.8%
14.1%17.2%255th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
2,991
13,7561,608,65079th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
31.3 yrs
31.5 yrs33.5 yrs277th of 345
Women among foreign-born
48.7%
49.7%51.7%265th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
80.1%
80.6%83.1%218th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
44.4%
41.1%34.4%90th 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.
7.2%
7.8%10.6%86th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.1 yrs
12.6 yrs12.9 yrs211th 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.
-10,788
1,0000289th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-20.0
0.40.0226th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Calera24%Higher42%Secondary26%Primary only5.2%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Calera24%Higher42%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
9.8 yrs
10.0 yrs10.4 yrs108th of 346
Reached higher education
24.3%
27.7%31.1%115th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.8%
99.7%98.6%231st 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.
61.6%
65.1%55.6%60th 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%
100.8%99.8%231st of 346
Literacy rate
97.8%
97.8%97.8%101st of 346
Reached secondary education
41.9%
39.0%36.7%37th of 346
Primary education only
25.6%
25.2%24.1%264th of 346
Never attended school
2.98%
2.85%3.01%248th 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
11.7 yrs12.1 yrs112th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.4 yrs
11.8 yrs12.1 yrs119th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
2.20%
2.22%2.18%246th of 345
Households lacking schooling
15.4%
17.4%15.1%256th 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.
743
2,655217,56577th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
34.1%
21.0%33.9%195th 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.
72.5%
68.9%67.2%72nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
13.3%
15.2%19.7%240th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
14.2%
15.8%13.1%186th 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.
2.4%
4.6%13.0%259th 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.
52.6%
51.4%49.7%129th 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.

743left secondary school in 2024
458enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
61.6%continued immediately
72%of those, to a university
2%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico Universitario en Mantenimiento IndustrialIngenieria Civil IndustrialDerechoEnfermeriaPsicologiaIngenieria en Mantenimiento IndustrialKinesiologiaMedicina VeterinariaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en Informatica
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico Universitario en Mantenimiento IndustrialIngenieria Civil IndustrialDerechoEnfermeriaPsicologiaIngenieria en Mantenimiento IndustrialKinesiologiaMedicina VeterinariaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en Informatica
CaleraChile

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 lawServicesEducationInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesNatural sciences
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawServicesEducationInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesNatural sciences
CaleraChile

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

0200400600800200620152024743458
0200400600800200620152024743458
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 Calera'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 Calera 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

Calera88%Fonasa6.6%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Calera88%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.2%
11.2%10.6%168th of 346
Public health insurance
87.8%
86.5%82.6%253rd 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.
78.7
67.082.5114th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
125
8310052nd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
6,182
23,9751,950,38890th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
57.3 yrs
57.4 yrs56.4 yrs204th of 346
Disability among 65+
45.6%
46.1%43.0%174th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.71%
5.46%4.92%189th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.45%
4.64%4.58%167th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.40%
2.27%2.16%203rd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.84%
2.87%2.70%170th of 346
Private health insurance
6.6%
6.7%13.2%96th of 335
No health coverage
3.88%
4.12%1.98%49th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
91.9%
89.4%92.1%198th of 332
Households lacking health access
3.5%
4.8%6.0%228th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
3,987
14,3131,523,71697th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
139
38136,69878th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.49%
2.66%2.41%96th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.3 days
6.4 days6.1 days200th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
27.5
17.819.955th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
94
80100109th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
235
94289,72391st of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.9%
6.6%5.9%138th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
46.4
44.148.699th 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.
91
87100104th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 24%Injuries, bones and skin 18%Heart and lungs 18%Pregnancy, birt… 16%Tumours, blood and m… 14%Infections a… 5.4%Mind, nerves… 4.8%Digestivesystem14%Genitourin…system10.0%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculosk…5.0%SkinCirculatory system9.9%Respiratory system8.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Perinatal…Con…Cancers andtumours9.1%Endoc…andmetab…3.7%Conta…withhealt…Infe…andpara…Ill-d…sympt…1.5%Nervo…system1.7%Mentalandbehav…Eye
Digestive and urinary tr… 24%Injuries, bones… 18%Heart and… 18%Pregnancy, birth and… 16%Tumours, blood and m… 14%Digestivesystem14%Genitour…system10.0%Injuriesandpoisoning11%Muscu…5.0%SkinCirculatorysystem9.9%Respiratorysystem8.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Cancers andtumours9.1%Endocr…andmetabo…Contact…Infecti…Ill-def…Ner…sys…Eye
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 digestivos26%Sangre y sistemalinfático17%Vías urinarias12%Mama9.4%Sitiosreservados8.5%Víasrespiratorias7.7%Genitales femeninos7.2%Tiroides yendocrinas4.7%Sitios maldefinidos4.3%Genita…mascul…3.4%
Órganos digestivos26%Sangre y sistemalinfático17%Vías urinarias12%Mama9.4%Sitiosreservados8.5%Víasrespirator…7.7%Genitalesfemeninos7.2%Tiroidesyendocri…4.7%Sitiosmaldefini…4.3%Genitales…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariasMamaSitios reservadosVías respiratoriashover 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.
16.8%
18.0%17.3%243rd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
22.1 UF
22.1 UF32.0 UF194th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
90.4%
90.1%78.9%244th 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.
73.5
78.385.6199th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
47.7%
51.7%54.4%227th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
11.0%
9.0%8.6%59th of 345
Self-employed
34.7%
33.7%33.8%177th of 345
Extreme poverty
4.9%
5.8%6.9%259th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
14.5%
14.5%17.7%225th of 335
Unemployment rate
13.2%
11.1%8.8%48th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 571,177
CLP 567,477CLP 783,124132nd 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.
0.469
0.4160.48873rd of 321
Registered firms
3,723
16,7411,582,39096th of 346
Annual sales
23,145,292 UF
88,030,506 UF34,347,683,688 UF90th 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.
16,940
64,2439,699,16485th of 346
Sales per firm
6,217 UF
5,258 UF21,706 UF98th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.9
2.43.980th of 346
Women among employees
33.6%
37.4%40.6%291st of 345
Independent contractors
4,286
18,9783,958,26995th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
20.2%
22.8%29.0%282nd of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 34%Industry and construction 21%State and social services 17%Natural resources 15%Advanced se… 6.8%Other se… 5.7%Retail and wholesale24%Transport6.2%Accommoda…and food4.2%Manufacturing10%Construction8.8%Ele…andgasWat…andwas…Education7.8%Health5.9%PublicadministrationMining8.5%Agricultureand fishing6.7%Admin…servi…3.0%Professio…servicesInf…and…Finan…Otherservic…2.9%Domest…work2.0%Arts an…
Trade and logistics 34%Industry and … 21%State and soc… 17%Natural res… 15%Advanc… 6.8%Other … 5.7%Retail andwholesale24%Transpo…6.2%Accommo…and food4.2%Manufacturing10%Construction8.8%Education7.8%Health5.9%Publicadmini…3.3%Mining8.5%Agriculture andfishing6.7%Admi…serv…Profess…servicesFin…Otherservic…2.9%Domes…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 61%Managers and professionals 23%Elementary occupations 16%Service and sales23%Craft and trades19%Plant and machineoperators10%Clericalsupport5.3%Skilledagricu…3.5%Professiona…10%Technicians10%Elementary occupations16%
Skilled occupations 61%Managers and professiona… 23%Elementary occu… 16%Service andsales23%Craft andtrades19%Plant andmachineoperators10%Clericalsupport5.3%Skill…agric…3.5%Profession…10%Technicians10%Elementaryoccupations16%
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

Calera82%House17%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Calera82%House17%Chile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.1%
4.6%5.7%193rd of 345
Internet access
91.6%
92.8%93.2%122nd 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.
1.1
2.02.3313th 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
1.31.6300th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
17,023
72,2396,408,17295th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.32%
0.27%0.57%187th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.72%
0.75%1.13%267th of 345
Public water network
96.8%
94.1%92.3%55th of 345
Electricity access
99.7%
99.7%99.6%79th of 345
Detached houses
81.8%
88.1%78.7%301st of 345
Apartments
17.4%
11.3%19.9%41st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.19%0.23%205th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
5.9%
6.6%11.9%303rd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
1,080
4,238491,90485th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
6.2%
5.7%7.5%118th of 345
Renting households
20.7%
20.2%26.2%94th of 345
Owner-occupiers
62.8%
65.0%61.1%260th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
13.4%
15.7%24.4%262nd of 345
Commute by public transport
39.8%
34.1%42.1%54th of 345
Walks to work
11.8%
10.3%10.2%214th of 345
Households with a computer
45.9%
49.9%54.9%134th 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.
0.5
0.91.1324th 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%
99.2%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%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
99.1%
90.3%89.4%40th 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%
100.0%98.1%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.1
3.05.9320th 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.
98.1%
81.5%80.3%45th 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%
99.4%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%
100.0%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.
0.4
0.60.6307th 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%
99.5%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%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
99.7%
94.2%91.6%45th 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%
100.0%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Public transport 40%Private vehicle 34%On foot or by bicycle 17%Other mea… 9.5%Public transport40%Car32%Walking12%Bicycle5.4%Other9.5%
Public transport 40%Private vehicle 34%On foot or by bicycle 17%Other means 9.5%Public transport40%Car32%Walking12%Bicycle5.4%Other9.5%
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 63%Rented 21%Provided rent-f… 12%Owned outright53%Owned, still paying9.4%Rented, with contract13%Rented, no contract7.9%Provided byfamily11%Otherarrang…4.3%
Owned 63%Rented 21%Provided r… 12%Owned outright53%Owned,stillpaying9.4%Rented, withcontract13%Rented,nocontract7.9%Provided byfamily11%Otherarra…
Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

Fossil fuels 35%No heating 35%Electricity 15%Wood and biomass 14%Gas31%Paraffin4.2%No heating35%Electricity15%Firewood13%
Fossil fuels 35%No heating 35%Electricity 15%Wood and biomass 14%Gas31%No heating35%Electricity15%Firewood13%
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
87.4%
of the registered voted in the first round
87.3%
voted in the runoff
45,291
registered voters on the roll
8.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman48.5%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist51.5%58.3%
CaleraChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez28.9%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman29.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.6%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.6%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist18.6%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%
CaleraChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile41.3%30.6%
KCambio por Chile20.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido15.1%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente17.7%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.8%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%
CaleraChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile37.3%
KCambio por Chile17.0%
JChile Grande y Unido25.3%
IPartido de la Gente16.3%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.1%
Calerashare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

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

ScalePopulation structureMigrationEducationHealthEconomyHousing and services

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

Inside the commune

Census districts
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