Commune · 09121

CholcholCholchol

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Census population
13,167
224th of 346
Population density
30.7/km²
170th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.3 yrs
326th of 346
Foreign-born share
0.7%
315th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Sought care when ill1st of 332 · Chile 92.1%100.0%
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF24.6 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF24.6 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 125 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
42.6%
276th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
39.1%
28th of 335
Came from another region
16.7%
134th of 335
Net internal migration
+3,292
+26.0 per 100 residents
Cholcholthis commune · 9,183elsewhere in the region4,957 peopleanother region2,117 peopleabroad192 peopleelsewhere in the region2,113 peopleanother region1,669 peopleCholcholthis commune · 12,667
Cholcholthis commune · 9,183elsewhere in th…4,957 peopleanother region2,117 peopleabroad192 peopleelsewhere in th…2,113 peopleanother region1,669 peopleCholcholthis commune · 12,667

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Public administration1Public administration▲11Education2Education▼14Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲13Construction4Construction▼15Information and communications5Information and communications6Administrative services6Administrative services
2005202421Public administration▲112Education▼143Retail and wholesale▲134Construction▼155Information and communications66Administrative services

The ten branches that employ most of Cholchol

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.

05001 k2 k2 kprojection →2 k2029 · central2005201520242029
05001 k2 k2 kprojection →2 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.1% a year observed · 5.3% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0200 k400 k600 k800 kprojection →720 k2029 · central2005201520242029
0200 k400 k600 k800 kprojection →720 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval12.8% a year observed · 1.5% projected

What Cholchol is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Cholchol employs more people in 32 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.

32
activities it is specialised in
1,243
formal workers
159/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Actividades de la administración …Enseñanza superior en institutos …Servicios de arquitectura (diseño…Terminación y acabado de edificiosOtras instalaciones para obras de…Silvicultura y otras actividades …Venta al por menor de prendas y a…Venta al por menor de artículos d…Venta al por menor en comercios d…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Actividades de la administración …Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Enseñanza superior en institutos …Otras instalaciones para obras de…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Cholchol

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
Servicios de arquitectura (diseño de edificios, dibujo de planos de construcción, entre otros)Actividades de arquitectura e ingeniería y actividades conexas de consultoría técnica2557.1×
Servicios de forestación a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura4436.0×
Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales (excepto explotación de viveros forestales)Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales729.1×
Venta al por menor de artículos de papelería y escritorio en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de productos culturales y recreativos en comercios especializados1718.2×
Venta al por mayor de combustibles sólidos, líquidos y gaseosos y productos conexosOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada1514.5×
Enseñanza superior en institutos profesionalesEnseñanza superior4111.3×
Explotación de mataderos de bovinos, ovinos, equinos, caprinos, porcinos y camélidosElaboración y conservación de carne1410.3×
Otras actividades de alojamiento n.c.p.Otras actividades de alojamiento89.1×
Enseñanza primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional privadaEnseñanza preescolar, primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional3418.9×
Venta al por mayor de productos del mar (pescados, mariscos y algas)Venta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco157.7×
Programación y transmisiones de televisiónProgramación y transmisiones de televisión47.5×
Extracción de piedra, arena y arcillaExtracción de piedra, arena y arcilla66.6×

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
19,352
hectares in holdings
91.4%
of them under a named use
23.3%
of the crop land is irrigated
1,301
holdings with land here
Woodland 51%Not farmed 19%Pasture 19%Annual crops 11%Forest plantations44%Nativewoodl…6.3%Untilled land10%Scrub, barren groundand buildings8.6%Pasture19%Cereals7.8%Vegeta…1.8%Pulsesand…Foddercrops
Woodland 51%Not farmed 19%Pasture 19%Annua… 11%Forest plantations44%Nativewoodl…6.3%Untilled land10%Scrub, barrenground andbuildingsPasture19%Cereals7.8%Vege…Pulse…Fodd…
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.

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
CholcholChile% of each territory's own population · 13,167 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
13,167
803,77718,480,432224th of 346
Average age
38.2 yrs
38.4 yrs38.1 yrs240th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
76.4
81.279.0242nd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
30.7/km²
43.8/km²24.7/km²170th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
4,549
297,7676,596,527231st of 346
Dwellings
5,271
389,0477,642,716248th of 346
People per household
2.89
2.702.8073rd of 345
Women
50.0%
51.8%51.5%276th of 346
Men per 100 women
99.8
92.994.371st of 346
Under 15
20.4%
18.2%17.7%31st of 346
65 and over
15.6%
14.8%14.0%187th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
56.1
49.346.548th of 346
One-person households
20.6%
22.9%21.8%224th of 345
Households with children
37.5%
33.1%33.2%46th of 345
Indigenous peoples
76.3%
36.5%11.4%9th of 346
Female-headed households
47.5%
49.3%49.9%192nd of 345
Land area
430 km²
18,354 km²748,041 km²222nd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Cholchol27%Arrived since 202073%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Cholchol27%Arrived since…73%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
0.7%
2.4%8.7%315th 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.
42.6%
57.2%50.5%276th 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.
39.1%
21.3%23.9%28th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
16.7%
19.8%17.2%134th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
94
18,9301,608,650287th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.5 yrs
35.0 yrs33.5 yrs163rd of 345
Women among foreign-born
54.3%
50.9%51.7%59th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
72.3%
82.3%83.1%328th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
26.6%
28.8%34.4%275th 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.
0.8%
2.9%10.6%320th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.7 yrs
13.5 yrs12.9 yrs131st 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.
3,292
-31,178084th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
26.0
-3.80.051st of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Cholchol15%Higher36%Secondary38%Primary only5.5%5.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Cholchol15%36%Secondary38%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.3 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs326th of 346
Reached higher education
14.7%
26.3%31.1%309th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.5%98.6%1st of 333
Continues to higher education · Of young secondary-school graduates, those enrolled in first-year undergraduate studies the following March. By the comuna of the school where they finished secondary school, which is the approximation to origin that Mineduc publishes.
43.5%
50.9%55.6%300th 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.
103.1%
101.3%99.8%97th of 346
Literacy rate
93.0%
96.8%97.8%327th of 346
Reached secondary education
36.3%
36.6%36.7%212th of 346
Primary education only
38.5%
28.7%24.1%62nd of 346
Never attended school
5.47%
3.41%3.01%30th of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
9.6 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs294th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
9.9 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs299th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
6.98%
3.16%2.18%19th of 345
Households lacking schooling
30.0%
20.5%15.1%86th 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.
168
10,404217,565183rd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
82.7%
36.9%33.9%20th 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%
5.0%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
72.6%
71.6%67.2%70th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
15.1%
15.2%19.7%218th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
12.3%
13.3%13.1%212th 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.
2.7%
10.1%13.0%253rd 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.
67.1%
51.2%49.7%9th 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.

168left secondary school in 2024
73enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
43.5%continued immediately
73%of those, to a university
3%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%Bachiller en Ciencias y HumanidadesDerechoTecnico en EnfermeriaTecnico Universitario en Produccion Agropecuaria SostenibleEducacion de ParvulosIngenieria en ConstruccionMedicina Veterinaria
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%Bachiller en Ciencias y HumanidadesDerechoTecnico en EnfermeriaTecnico Universitario en Produccion Agropecuaria SostenibleEducacion de ParvulosIngenieria en ConstruccionMedicina Veterinaria
CholcholChile

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

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEducationAgriculture and veterinaryEngineering and industryBusiness and lawNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesServices
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEducationAgriculture and veterinaryEngineering and industryBusiness and lawNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesServices
CholcholChile

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

05010015020020062015202416873
05010015020020062015202416873
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 Cholchol'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 Cholchol 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

Cholchol95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Cholchol95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.7%
12.2%10.6%95th of 346
Public health insurance
94.9%
91.4%82.6%100th 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.
56.7
77.682.5236th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
61
93100268th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,806
98,0291,950,388218th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.1 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs92nd of 346
Disability among 65+
47.8%
44.9%43.0%119th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.81%
5.65%4.92%98th of 346
Difficulty seeing
6.48%
5.70%4.58%86th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.46%
2.78%2.16%48th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.17%
3.02%2.70%95th of 346
Private health insurance
0.0%
5.3%13.2%311th of 335
No health coverage
2.89%
1.11%1.98%84th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
100.0%
92.0%92.1%1st of 332
Households lacking health access
1.5%
5.0%6.0%293rd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
747
62,4061,523,716231st of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
18
1,57136,698247th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.41%
2.52%2.41%226th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
8.9 days
7.2 days6.1 days27th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
13.7
19.519.9267th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
67
93100230th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
57
3,84589,723212th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
7.6%
6.2%5.9%51st of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
43.3
47.848.6135th 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.
85
96100127th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 22%Pregnancy, birth and newborns 20%Injuries, bones and… 20%Heart and lun… 16%Tumours, blood and me… 13%Mind, nerv… 4.7%Infections… 4.1%Digestivesystem15%Genitour…system7.1%Pregnancy andchildbirth19%Injuries andpoisoning15%Musculoskeletal3.6%Skin1.3%Circulatorysystem9.1%Respiratorysystem6.4%Cancers andtumours10%Endoc…andmetab…2.7%Mental andbehaviour…3.1%Nerv…syst…Contactwith…Infec…andparas…
Digestive and urinary… 22%Pregnancy, birth a… 20%Injuries, b… 20%Heart and lungs 16%Tumours, blood and m… 13%Digestivesystem15%Genito…system7.1%Pregnancy andchildbirth19%Injuries andpoisoning15%Musculoskele…3.6%SkinCirculatorysystem9.1%Respirat…system6.4%Cancers andtumours10%Endo…andmeta…Mentalandbehav…3.1%Nervo…systemConta…withhealt…Infec…and…
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 reservados35%Órganos digestivos28%Genitales femeninos19%Genitalesmasculinos8.8%Víasurinarias8.8%
Sitios reservados35%Órganosdigestivos28%Genitales femeninos19%Genitalesmasculinos8.8%Víasurinarias8.8%
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosGenitales femeninosGenitales masculinosVías urinariashover 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.
37.9%
30.0%17.3%17th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
24.6 UF
22.9 UF32.0 UF115th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
101.4%
101.1%78.9%158th 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.
37.3
77.785.6343rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
39.3%
48.4%54.4%330th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
14.9%
10.2%8.6%4th of 345
Self-employed
40.3%
35.8%33.8%83rd of 345
Extreme poverty
15.6%
13.8%6.9%28th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
23.0%
18.6%17.7%82nd of 335
Unemployment rate
9.0%
11.3%8.8%170th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 378,654
CLP 533,802CLP 783,124326th 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.
0.495
0.4950.48842nd of 321
Registered firms
491
62,4281,582,390297th of 346
Annual sales
666,653 UF
267,044,738 UF34,347,683,688 UF310th 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.
1,243
254,9539,699,164287th of 346
Sales per firm
1,358 UF
4,278 UF21,706 UF316th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.9
2.73.9221st of 346
Women among employees
52.5%
41.9%40.6%25th of 345
Independent contractors
593
104,1373,958,269290th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
32.3%
29.0%29.0%103rd of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 26%Trade and logistics 24%Industry and construction 21%Natural resources 20%Other… 5.1%Advan… 4.7%Education13%Health6.7%Publicadministration6.1%Retail andwholesale16%Transport4.3%Accommoda…and food3.0%Construction12%Manufacturing6.2%Electri…and gasWaterand…Agriculture andfishing19%Domesticwork3.2%OtherservicesAdmin…servi…1.9%Pro…ser…Informa…
State and social serv… 26%Trade and logistics 24%Industry and co… 21%Natural resour… 20%Education13%Health6.7%Publicadministr…6.1%Retail andwholesale16%Trans…4.3%Accom…andfood3.0%Construction12%Manufacturing6.2%Elec…and…Wate…Agriculture andfishing19%DomesticworkOther…Admi…serv…Info…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Skilled occupations 62%Managers and professiona… 20%Elementary occupations 18%Service and sales20%Craft and trades17%Skilledagricultural12%Plant andmachineoperators7.6%Clericalsupport4.8%Professiona…9.7%Technicians9.1%Elementaryoccupations18%
Skilled occupations 62%Managers and professi… 20%Elementary occupat… 18%Service andsales20%Craft and trades17%Skilled agricultural12%Plant andmachineoperators7.6%Clericalsupport4.8%Professio…9.7%Technicians9.1%Elementaryoccupations18%
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

Cholchol100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Cholchol100%HouseChile79%House20%
House% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
7.1%
5.3%5.7%44th of 345
Internet access
78.7%
88.1%93.2%319th 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.
5.4
3.52.3107th 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.
5.1
2.91.693rd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
4,519
294,5656,408,172230th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.40%
0.38%0.57%102nd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.37%
1.00%1.13%129th of 345
Public water network
77.9%
80.7%92.3%225th of 345
Electricity access
96.7%
98.6%99.6%330th of 345
Detached houses
99.3%
91.1%78.7%84th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
8.2%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.30%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
11.4%
19.6%11.9%221st of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
202
12,914491,904251st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.4%
4.3%7.5%248th of 345
Renting households
8.4%
18.7%26.2%321st of 345
Owner-occupiers
78.3%
68.3%61.1%15th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
89.4%
68.1%24.4%59th of 345
Commute by public transport
29.9%
35.3%42.1%121st of 345
Walks to work
19.0%
13.5%10.2%124th of 345
Households with a computer
32.0%
46.7%54.9%310th 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.
3.1
1.71.145th 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.
79.9%
92.6%97.0%298th 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.
49.0%
75.6%89.4%276th 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.
97.1%
96.8%98.1%187th 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.
18.9
10.55.9126th of 345
People within 5 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
0.0%
50.5%80.3%194th of 345
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
16.3%
72.5%90.0%220th 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%
90.7%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.4
0.90.6108th 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.
99.7%
98.7%99.0%106th 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.
49.0%
78.2%91.6%295th 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.
97.8%
98.3%98.5%193rd of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 40%Public transport 30%On foot or by bicycle 22%Oth… 7.6%Car40%Public transport30%Walking19%Bic…Other7.5%
Private vehicle 40%Public transport 30%On foot or by bicycle 22%Other… 7.6%Car40%Public transport30%Walking19%Bic…Other7.5%
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 78%Provided … 9.9%Rented 8.4%Other 3.4%Owned outright77%Provided byfamily9.2%Rented, nocontract4.7%Rented, withcontractOther arrangement
Owned 78%Provided rent-fr… 9.9%Rented 8.4%Owned outright77%Provided by family9.2%Rented,nocontractRented,withcontra…Otherarran…3.4%
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

Wood and biomass 92%Firewood89%Gas3.1%Paraff…0.9%Noheating1.8%Electr…1.8%
Wood and biomass 92%Firewood89%Paraf…No heatingElectricity
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
87.5%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.6%
voted in the runoff
12,257
registered voters on the roll
8.0%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman31.7%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist68.3%58.3%
CholcholChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez28.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman18.6%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen11.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist30.1%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.6%1.3%
CholcholChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile18.7%30.6%
KCambio por Chile15.9%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido18.2%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente14.0%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas10.4%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde4.4%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile18.5%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
CholcholChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile29.5%
KCambio por Chile19.2%
JChile Grande y Unido30.3%
IPartido de la Gente10.1%
APartido Ecologista Verde2.8%
Independents outside a pact8.0%
Cholcholshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Cholchol 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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