Commune · 13301

ColinaColina

Compare Colina with another place
Census population
173,293
27th of 346
Population density
178.5/km²
73rd of 346
Average years of schooling
10.1 yrs
72nd of 346
Foreign-born share
13.0%
32nd of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
One-person households345th of 345 · Chile 21.8%12.7%
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%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF31.2 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF31.2 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 · 832 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
48.0%
257th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
28.8%
66th of 335
Came from another region
15.0%
169th of 335
Net internal migration
+70,382
+35.8 per 100 residents
Colinathis commune · 110,068elsewhere in the region56,590 peopleanother region29,484 peopleabroad16,336 peopleelsewhere in the region10,894 peopleanother region4,798 peopleColinathis commune · 196,786
Colinathis commune · 110,068elsewhere in th…56,590 peopleanother region29,484 peopleabroad16,336 peopleelsewhere in th…10,894 peopleanother region4,798 peopleColinathis commune · 196,786

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520244Retail and wholesale1Retail and wholesale▲35Education2Education▲32Manufacturing3Manufacturing▼16Administrative services4Administrative services▲23Construction5Construction▼21Agriculture and fishing6Agriculture and fishing▼510Mining7Mining▲37Transport8Transport▼111Professional services9Professional services▲214Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food▲49Other services11Other services▼212Information and communications12Information and communications8Finance and insurance18Finance and insurance▼10
2005202441Retail and wholesale▲352Education▲323Manufacturing▼164Administrative services▲235Construction▼216Agriculture and fishing▼5107Mining▲378Transport▼1119Professional services▲21410Accommodation and food▲4911Other services▼21212Information and communications818Finance and insurance▼10

The ten branches that employ most of Colina

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 k30 k50 k70 k90 kprojection →68 k2029 · central2005201520242029
10 k30 k50 k70 k90 kprojection →68 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.7% a year observed · 4.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

050 M100 M150 M200 Mprojection →144 M2029 · central2005201520242029
050 M100 M150 M200 Mprojection →144 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.9% a year observed · 4.0% projected

What Colina is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Colina employs more people in 131 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.

131
activities it is specialised in
53,677
formal workers
25/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.03.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Fabricación de productos de plást…Venta al por mayor de huevos, lác…Fabricación de otros productos el…Otras instalaciones para obras de…Cría de aves de corral para la pr…Cultivo de uva para mesaCaptación, tratamiento y distribu…Explotación de estacionamientos d…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.03.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Servicios de seguridad privada pr…Otras actividades de servicios pe…Cultivo de uva para mesaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Colina

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
Fabricación de fibras de vidrioFabricación de vidrio y productos de vidrio10136.0×
Fabricación de plásticos y caucho sintético en formas primariasFabricación sustancias químicas básicas, abonos y compuestos de nitrógeno, plásticos y caucho sint.48821.7×
Fabricación de otros productos textiles n.c.p.Fabricación de otros productos textiles30719.9×
Fabricación de productos primarios de aluminioFabricación de productos primarios de metales preciosos y otros metales no ferrosos10115.1×
Cría de aves de corral para la producción de huevosGanadería37214.7×
Elaboración y conservación de crustáceos, moluscos y otros productos acuáticos, en plantas en tierraElaboración y conservación de pescado, crustáceos y moluscos14713.4×
Venta al por mayor de desperdicios, desechos y otros productos n.c.p.Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada6013.3×
Fabricación de productos de plásticoFabricación de productos de plástico1,63212.7×
Actividades de apoyo para la explotación de otras minas y canteras prestados por empresasActividades de apoyo para la explotación de otras minas y canteras2,94011.0×
Fabricación de otros productos de madera, de artículos de corcho, paja y materiales trenzablesFabricación de productos de madera, corcho, paja y materiales trenzables20610.9×
Fabricación de maquinaria para la explotación de minas y canteras y para obras de construcciónFabricación de maquinaria de uso especial52010.9×
Fabricación de jabones y detergentes, preparados para limpiar, perfumes y preparados de tocadorFabricación de otros productos químicos39010.6×

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
19,212
hectares in holdings
64.0%
of them under a named use
99.3%
of the crop land is irrigated
206
holdings with land here
Not farmed 44%Pasture 25%Woodland 16%Orchards a… 9.6%Annual cro… 6.1%Scrub, barren ground and buildings36%Untilled land7.7%Pasture25%Native woodland14%For…pla…Fruit trees9.6%Vegetables4.1%Fodder crops
Not farmed 44%Pasture 25%Woodland 16%Orchard… 9.6%Scrub, barren groundand buildings36%Untilled landPasture25%Native woodland14%Fruit trees9.6%Vegeta…4.1%Fodder…
Pasturehover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MenWomen001122334455%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
MenWomen00224466%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
ColinaChile% of each territory's own population · 173,293 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
173,293
338,19518,480,43227th of 346
Average age
33.3 yrs
33.1 yrs38.1 yrs339th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
32.1
32.079.0340th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
178.5/km²
163.0/km²24.7/km²73rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
50,926
102,9566,596,52738th of 346
Dwellings
54,790
113,3087,642,71638th of 346
People per household
3.40
3.282.802nd of 345
Women
49.8%
50.0%51.5%287th of 346
Men per 100 women
100.6
100.194.360th of 346
Under 15
23.8%
23.7%17.7%11th of 346
65 and over
7.6%
7.6%14.0%339th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
45.8
45.646.5293rd of 346
One-person households
12.7%
13.7%21.8%345th of 345
Households with children
49.2%
48.5%33.2%2nd of 345
Indigenous peoples
5.7%
6.8%11.4%235th of 346
Female-headed households
46.1%
46.0%49.9%229th of 345
Land area
971 km²
2,075 km²748,041 km²136th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Colina31%Arrived since 202069%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Colina31%Arrived since 20…69%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
13.0%
12.5%8.7%32nd 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.
48.0%
42.6%50.5%257th 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.
28.8%
35.6%23.9%66th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
15.0%
12.7%17.2%169th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
22,498
42,2391,608,65018th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
34.3 yrs
33.5 yrs33.5 yrs120th of 345
Women among foreign-born
53.0%
51.6%51.7%99th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
82.8%
82.3%83.1%101st of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
30.7%
32.9%34.4%252nd 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.
15.7%
15.0%10.6%32nd of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.7 yrs
12.5 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.
70,382
140,25709th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
35.8
38.70.027th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Colina32%Higher31%Secondary26%Primary only7.1%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Colina32%Higher31%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
10.1 yrs
9.9 yrs10.4 yrs72nd of 346
Reached higher education
32.3%
30.1%31.1%46th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
96.1%
98.2%98.6%306th 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.
65.1%
61.6%55.6%29th 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.
100.8%
101.1%99.8%228th of 346
Literacy rate
98.0%
98.0%97.8%84th of 346
Reached secondary education
31.4%
33.8%36.7%317th of 346
Primary education only
25.7%
25.3%24.1%262nd of 346
Never attended school
3.48%
3.87%3.01%188th 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.
12.6 yrs
12.3 yrs12.1 yrs34th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.7 yrs
12.5 yrs12.1 yrs33rd of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.96%
1.97%2.18%263rd of 345
Households lacking schooling
25.1%
22.1%15.1%143rd 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.
2,293
3,560217,56527th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
24.4%
25.4%33.9%240th 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.
12.7%
9.4%3.1%77th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
77.6%
72.3%67.2%36th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
16.2%
18.8%19.7%199th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
6.2%
8.9%13.1%289th 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.
1.9%
2.2%13.0%272nd 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.
50.7%
51.2%49.7%170th 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.

2,293left secondary school in 2024
1,493enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
65.1%continued immediately
78%of those, to a university
2%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%Ingenieria ComercialDerechoPsicologiaEnfermeriaIngenieria CivilArquitecturaKinesiologiaIngenieria y Ciencias - Plan ComunIngenieria Civil (plan Comun)Ingenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y Autotronica
0.0%5.0%10.0%Ingenieria ComercialDerechoPsicologiaEnfermeriaIngenieria CivilArquitecturaKinesiologiaIngenieria y Ciencias - Plan ComunIngenieria Civil (plan Comun)Ingenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y Autotronica
ColinaChile

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%Business and lawEngineering and industryHealth and welfareSocial sciencesEducationArts and humanitiesServicesInformation technologyNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Business and lawEngineering and industryHealth and welfareSocial sciencesEducationArts and humanitiesServicesInformation technologyNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
ColinaChile

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

01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,2931,493
01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,2931,493
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 Colina'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 Colina 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

Colina80%Fonasa17%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Colina80%Fonasa17%Chile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
7.4%
7.6%10.6%324th of 346
Public health insurance
79.9%
80.0%82.6%298th 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.
82.8
73.882.585th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
76
76100225th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
12,747
25,8501,950,38847th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
49.2 yrs
49.2 yrs56.4 yrs340th of 346
Disability among 65+
30.1%
30.1%43.0%337th of 346
Difficulty walking
2.91%
3.06%4.92%325th of 346
Difficulty seeing
3.46%
3.47%4.58%316th of 346
Difficulty hearing
1.27%
1.34%2.16%333rd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
1.93%
2.09%2.70%317th of 346
Private health insurance
17.2%
16.7%13.2%26th of 335
No health coverage
1.07%
1.57%1.98%199th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
98.6%
94.9%92.1%54th of 332
Households lacking health access
6.1%
8.7%6.0%139th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
14,349
24,9541,523,71629th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
165
32236,69869th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
1.15%
1.29%2.41%318th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.0 days
5.2 days6.1 days316th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
9.5
9.519.9303rd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
111
9810053rd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
694
1,16489,72339th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
4.8%
4.7%5.9%243rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
40.0
34.448.6166th 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.
104
9110061st of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tra… 21%Injuries, bones and skin 18%Heart and lungs 17%Pregnancy, birth … 17%Tumours, blood… 12%Infections… 9.8%Digestivesystem13%Genitouri…system8.8%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculosk…6.4%SkinRespiratory system11%Circulatory system5.9%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Perinatal…Congenit…Cancers andtumours7.6%Endocrine andmetabolicContact withhealthservicesInfectio…andparasiticIll-d…sympt…1.5%Mentalandbehavi…NervoussystemEye0.9%
Digestive and urinary … 21%Injuries, bones a… 18%Heart and lungs 17%Pregnancy, birth and ne… 17%Tumours, blood a… 12%Infect… 9.8%Digestivesystem13%Genitour…system8.8%Injuriesandpoisoning10%Musculo…6.4%Respiratorysystem11%Circula…system5.9%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Per…con…Con…mal…Cancers andtumours7.6%Endoc…andmetab…3.5%Contact withhealthservicesInfect…and…Ill-…symp…Mentalandbehav…NervoussystemEye
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 digestivos19%Sangre y sistemalinfático15%Mama11%Tiroides yendocrinas9.2%Genitalesmasculinos7.8%Víasurinarias7.5%Piel ymelanoma6.8%Genitalesfemeninos6.8%Sitios maldefinidos5.2%Vías respiratorias4.2%Sitiosreservados3.6%Tejidosblandos2.6%Enc…ysis…
Órganos digestivos19%Sangre y sistemalinfático15%Mama11%Tiroides yendocrinas9.2%Genitalesmasculinos7.8%Vías urinarias7.5%Piel ymelanoma6.8%Genitalesfemeninos6.8%Sitiosmaldefinid…5.2%Víasrespir…4.2%Sitiosreserva…3.6%TejidosblandosEncéfalo y…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaTiroides y endocrinasGenitales 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.
15.7%
16.9%17.3%258th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
31.2 UF
32.3 UF32.0 UF30th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
86.9%
80.4%78.9%274th 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.
69.0
69.285.6227th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
57.0%
58.9%54.4%68th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
6.8%
6.8%8.6%266th of 345
Self-employed
36.8%
35.3%33.8%135th of 345
Extreme poverty
5.1%
7.5%6.9%254th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
25.7%
28.1%17.7%57th of 335
Unemployment rate
7.4%
8.6%8.8%229th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 779,731
CLP 716,170CLP 783,12443rd 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.
0.506
0.4780.48826th of 321
Registered firms
11,960
23,4061,582,39033rd of 346
Annual sales
118,186,785 UF
421,636,903 UF34,347,683,688 UF34th 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.
53,705
125,5079,699,16440th of 346
Sales per firm
9,882 UF
18,014 UF21,706 UF56th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
3.0
3.63.973rd of 346
Women among employees
32.9%
30.7%40.6%297th of 345
Independent contractors
22,799
40,3043,958,26930th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
29.8%
24.3%29.0%132nd of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 25%Advanced services 20%State and socia… 19%Industry and co… 19%Other services 9.6%Natural r… 6.2%Retail andwholesale16%Transport6.1%Accommodati…and food3.4%Administrativeservices6.4%Professionalservices5.8%Finance andinsurance3.5%Informa…andcommuni…3.1%Realest…Education7.8%Health7.6%PublicadministrationConstruction9.3%Manufacturi…8.0%Domesticwork5.5%Otherservices2.9%Arts and…Mining3.5%Agric…andfishi…2.7%
Trade and logistics 25%Advanced services 20%State and s… 19%Industry an… 19%Other s… 9.6%Natural… 6.2%Retail andwholesale16%Transport6.1%Accommod…and foodAdministra…services6.4%Professionalservices5.8%Financeandinsura…Inform…andcommun…Real…Education7.8%Health7.6%Publ…admi…Construction9.3%Manufacturi…8.0%DomesticworkOtherservicesArtsand…Mining3.5%Agric…andfishi…
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

Managers and professionals 44%Skilled occupations 40%Elementary occupations 15%Professionals23%Managers12%Technicians9.1%Service and sales16%Craft and trades11%Plant andmachineoperators6.0%Clericalsupport4.6%SkilledagriculturalElementary occupations15%
Managers and professi… 44%Skilled occupations 40%Elementary occupations 15%Professionals23%Managers12%Technici…9.1%Service and sales16%Craft and trades11%Plant andmachineoperators6.0%Clericalsupport4.6%Skilled…Elementary occupations
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

Colina93%House6.4%Chile79%House20%Flat
Colina93%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.4%
6.8%5.7%64th of 345
Internet access
95.8%
95.9%93.2%30th 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.
3.3
2.92.3199th 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.
1.2
1.31.6277th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
49,951
101,0096,408,17237th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.44%
0.52%0.57%79th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.93%
1.18%1.13%215th of 345
Public water network
90.7%
86.8%92.3%125th of 345
Electricity access
99.9%
99.8%99.6%24th of 345
Detached houses
92.7%
94.5%78.7%251st of 345
Apartments
6.4%
4.5%19.9%82nd of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.15%0.23%243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
4.5%
6.0%11.9%318th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
3,278
6,646491,90450th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
6.4%
6.5%7.5%108th of 345
Renting households
20.3%
19.0%26.2%98th of 345
Owner-occupiers
72.2%
71.3%61.1%89th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
5.6%
9.5%24.4%282nd of 345
Commute by public transport
29.7%
30.5%42.1%122nd of 345
Walks to work
5.8%
6.7%10.2%331st of 345
Households with a computer
59.6%
57.2%54.9%35th 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.
1.4
1.61.1222nd 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.
99.2%
99.2%97.0%76th 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%233rd 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.
70.7%
82.5%89.4%191st 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.
99.4%
99.5%98.1%134th 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.
2.3
3.25.9276th 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.
94.3%
83.2%80.3%66th 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.
99.1%
99.3%90.0%90th 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.
0.8
0.70.6230th 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.
97.3%
98.4%99.0%212th 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.
96.8%
96.5%91.6%73rd 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.
99.4%
99.5%98.5%148th 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 57%Public transport 30%On foot or … 7.4%Other … 5.6%Car56%Public transport30%Walking5.8%Other5.5%
Private vehicle 57%Public transport 30%On foot… 7.4%Other m… 5.6%Car56%Public transport30%Walking5.8%Other
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 72%Rented 20%Provided … 5.8%Owned outright42%Owned, stillpaying30%Rented, withcontract12%Rented, nocontract7.8%Provided byfamily4.9%Oth…arr…
Owned 72%Rented 20%Provid… 5.8%Owned outright42%Owned, stillpaying30%Rented, withcontract12%Rented, nocontract7.8%Providedby family
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 54%Electricity 26%No heating 13%Wood and bi… 6.8%Gas41%Paraffin13%Electricity26%No heating13%Firewood5.6%Pellets
Fossil fuels 54%Electricity 26%No heating 13%Wood and bioma… 6.8%Gas41%Paraffin13%Electricity26%No heating13%Firewood
ElectricityNo heatingOther 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
88.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
88.4%
voted in the runoff
111,213
registered voters on the roll
5.7%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman27.9%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist72.1%58.3%
ColinaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez16.3%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman16.6%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.9%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist32.7%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet17.6%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%
ColinaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile19.1%30.6%
KCambio por Chile29.7%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido34.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.2%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.9%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista2.9%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios0.9%0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
ColinaChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Colina 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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