Commune · 08101

ConcepciónConcepción

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Census population
230,375
19th of 346
Population density
1,066.8/km²
41st of 346
Average years of schooling
11.9 yrs
11th of 346
Foreign-born share
6.5%
72nd of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
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 15 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 90.0%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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.5 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.5 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 3,062 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
52.8%
235th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
21.5%
133rd of 335
Came from another region
19.8%
91st of 335
Net internal migration
-118,314
-49.5 per 100 residents
Concepciónthis commune · 343,296elsewhere in the region51,497 peopleanother region47,260 peopleabroad14,240 peopleanother region111,543 peopleelsewhere in the region105,528 peopleConcepciónthis commune · 239,222
Concepciónthis commune · 343,296elsewhere in th…51,497 peopleanother region47,260 peopleabroad14,240 peopleanother region111,543 peopleelsewhere in th…105,528 peopleConcepciónthis commune · 239,222

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520244Education1Education▲31Construction2Construction▼12Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼13Administrative services4Administrative services▼16Public administration5Public administration▲19Professional services6Professional services▲35Manufacturing7Manufacturing▼212Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▲411Health9Health▲210Transport10Transport8Other services11Other services▼37Agriculture and fishing12Agriculture and fishing▼5
2005202441Education▲312Construction▼123Retail and wholesale▼134Administrative services▼165Public administration▲196Professional services▲357Manufacturing▼2128Accommodation and food▲4119Health▲21010Transport811Other services▼3712Agriculture and fishing▼5

The ten branches that employ most of Concepción

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.

100 k150 k200 k250 kprojection →210 k2029 · central2005201520242029
100 k150 k200 k250 kprojection →210 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.1% a year observed · 2.2% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0100 M200 M300 M400 Mprojection →284 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0100 M200 M300 M400 Mprojection →284 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.7% a year observed · 3.2% projected

What Concepción is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Concepción employs more people in 145 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.

145
activities it is specialised in
187,584
formal workers
41/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%71%-2.5-0.43.7Actividades de la administración …Enseñanza superior en universidad…Venta al por menor en comercios d…Otros servicios de apoyo a la sil…Actividades de otras asociaciones…Enseñanza superior en universidad…Venta al por mayor de materias pr…Fabricación de productos farmacéu…Elaboración de otros productos de…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%71%-2.5-0.43.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de otras asociaciones…Fabricación de productos farmacéu…Venta al por menor de otros artíc…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Concepción

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
Transporte interurbano de pasajeros por ferrocarrilTransporte por ferrocarril38518.0×
Elaboración de otros productos de molinería n.c.p.Elaboración de productos de molinería, almidones y productos derivados del almidón41817.7×
Enseñanza superior en universidades privadasEnseñanza superior12,30410.8×
Venta al por menor de ropa usada en comerciosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados3639.6×
Venta al por menor por comisionistas (no dependientes de comercios)Venta al por menor no realizada en comercios, puestos de venta o mercados2589.2×
Venta al por menor de vehículos automotores nuevos o usados (incluye compraventa)Venta de vehículos automotores4,7778.8×
Transmisiones de radioTransmisiones de radio2946.6×
Telefonía móvil celularActividades de telecomunicaciones inalámbricas1,0056.3×
Actividades de salones de masajes, baños turcos, saunas, servicio de baños públicosOtras actividades de servicios personales616.2×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura5266.2×
Fabricación de ropa de trabajoFabricación de prendas de vestir, excepto prendas de piel1915.2×
Venta al por mayor de desperdicios, desechos y otros productos n.c.p.Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada795.0×

The register files a firm at its tax address, so an activity can be over-represented here because the work happens here or because the head office does. Both are real facts about a place and they are not the same fact, and nothing in the register tells them apart: the communes where large firms keep their registered office carry activities that are physically elsewhere in Chile.

Revealed comparative advantage (Balassa, 1965) and the space of activities (Hidalgo, Klinger, Barabási and Hausmann, 2007), computed on formal employment because that is what a Chilean commune has. Built from the 500-worker activities and the communes above 1,000 formal workers; the floors are on /datos with everything else.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
10,453
hectares in holdings
83.3%
of them under a named use
67.1%
of the crop land is irrigated
76
holdings with land here
Woodland 77%Not farmed 19%Pasture 3.2%Forest plantations60%Native woodland18%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings17%Untilled landPasture
Woodland 77%Not farmed 19%Forest plantations60%Nativewoodland18%Scrub, barren ground and buildings17%Unt…landPasture3.2%
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
ConcepciónChile% of each territory's own population · 230,375 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
230,375
1,025,44818,480,43219th of 346
Average age
38.7 yrs
38.6 yrs38.1 yrs209th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
106.9
86.779.083rd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
1,066.8/km²
299.8/km²24.7/km²41st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
91,718
367,4886,596,52714th of 346
Dwellings
101,209
404,3797,642,71615th of 346
People per household
2.51
2.792.80304th of 345
Women
51.8%
52.1%51.5%57th of 346
Men per 100 women
93.0
91.894.3290th of 346
Under 15
13.8%
16.9%17.7%333rd of 346
65 and over
14.8%
14.7%14.0%224th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
40.1
46.146.5332nd of 346
One-person households
29.1%
21.0%21.8%35th of 345
Households with children
24.2%
31.9%33.2%328th of 345
Indigenous peoples
6.6%
7.3%11.4%205th of 346
Female-headed households
50.1%
50.7%49.9%107th of 345
Land area
216 km²
3,420 km²748,041 km²270th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Concepción41%Arrived since 202059%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Concepción41%Arrived since 202059%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
6.5%
3.6%8.7%72nd 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.
52.8%
54.3%50.5%235th 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.
21.5%
27.5%23.9%133rd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
19.8%
15.2%17.2%91st of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
15,088
36,9651,608,65034th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
32.4 yrs
31.9 yrs33.5 yrs227th of 345
Women among foreign-born
50.8%
50.7%51.7%180th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
82.5%
80.5%83.1%109th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
40.6%
42.5%34.4%138th 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.
7.6%
4.2%10.6%77th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
14.1 yrs
13.7 yrs12.9 yrs17th 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.
-118,314
-55,0530334th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-49.5
-5.10.0296th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Concepción47%Higher30%Secondary17%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Concepción47%Higher30%Secondary17%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
11.9 yrs
10.8 yrs10.4 yrs11th of 346
Reached higher education
46.9%
35.8%31.1%11th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.6%
99.4%98.6%240th 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.
56.9%
57.4%55.6%127th 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.
99.3%
98.6%99.8%266th of 346
Literacy rate
98.7%
97.9%97.8%38th of 346
Reached secondary education
30.1%
34.5%36.7%328th of 346
Primary education only
16.8%
22.1%24.1%335th of 346
Never attended school
2.04%
2.66%3.01%334th 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.
13.5 yrs
12.6 yrs12.1 yrs14th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
13.4 yrs
12.4 yrs12.1 yrs14th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.31%
2.10%2.18%311th of 345
Households lacking schooling
7.7%
14.6%15.1%318th 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.
3,592
11,947217,5659th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
29.4%
26.4%33.9%214th 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%
0.3%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
77.5%
74.3%67.2%37th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
17.6%
17.1%19.7%183rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
4.8%
8.6%13.1%305th 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%
2.5%13.0%258th 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.
51.8%
48.7%49.7%147th 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.

3,592left secondary school in 2024
2,043enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
56.9%continued immediately
78%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%Ingenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaDerechoIngenieria ComercialEnfermeriaIngenieria CivilKinesiologiaArquitecturaOdontologiaQuimica y Farmacia
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaDerechoIngenieria ComercialEnfermeriaIngenieria CivilKinesiologiaArquitecturaOdontologiaQuimica y Farmacia
ConcepciónChile

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%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawSocial sciencesEducationInformation technologyServicesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawSocial sciencesEducationInformation technologyServicesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
ConcepciónChile

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

02,0004,0006,0002006201520243,5922,043
02,0004,0006,0002006201520243,5922,043
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 Concepción'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 Concepción 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

Concepción78%Fonasa18%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Concepción78%Fonasa18%Chile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.2%
11.9%10.6%260th of 346
Public health insurance
77.7%
85.2%82.6%309th 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.
111.3
100.882.513th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
103
114100120th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
23,515
122,0121,950,38816th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
56.1 yrs
56.2 yrs56.4 yrs263rd of 346
Disability among 65+
43.7%
42.9%43.0%236th of 346
Difficulty walking
4.52%
5.60%4.92%266th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.13%
5.04%4.58%279th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.10%
2.46%2.16%265th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.04%
3.19%2.70%125th of 346
Private health insurance
17.5%
10.7%13.2%25th of 335
No health coverage
1.59%
0.99%1.98%157th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
90.5%
93.5%92.1%232nd of 332
Households lacking health access
5.6%
6.5%6.0%156th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
25,647
103,3461,523,7169th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
491
2,39536,69813th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
1.91%
2.32%2.41%285th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.4 days
5.5 days6.1 days292nd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
21.3
23.419.9125th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
134
12110013th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
1,796
6,32089,7238th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
7.0%
6.1%5.9%66th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
78.0
61.648.68th 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.
160
1241007th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 24%Injuries, bones and skin 20%Heart and lungs 17%Tumours, blood… 16%Pregnancy, birth… 12%Mind, nerves … 5.9%Infections an… 5.1%Digestive system15%Genitourin…system9.5%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoske…7.6%SkinRespiratorysystem8.8%Circulatory system8.0%Cancers andtumours9.9%Endocrine andmetabolic5.2%Pregnancyandchildbirth9.1%Per…con…Con…mal…Nervoussystem2.4%Ment…andbeha…Eye1.4%Ill-d…sympt…1.8%Conta…withhealt…Infec…andparas…
Digestive and urinary … 24%Injuries, bones a… 20%Heart an… 17%Tumours, blood and m… 16%Pregnancy, birth and… 12%Digestivesystem15%Genitour…system9.5%Injuriesandpoisoning11%Musculos…7.6%SkinRespiratorysystem8.8%Circulatorysystem8.0%Cancers andtumours9.9%Endocri…andmetabol…5.2%Pregnancy andchildbirth9.1%Peri…cond…Cong…Nervous…Men…andbeh…EyeIll…sym…Con…withhea…Infectio…
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 digestivos29%Sangre y sistema linfático16%Mama15%Genitalesmasculinos7.2%Víasurinarias6.6%Genitalesfemeninos5.5%Tiroides yendocrinas4.5%Víasrespirat…3.6%Sitios maldefinidos3.5%Piel ymelanoma2.8%Boca yfarin…1.8%Tejid…bland…1.6%Huesos1.5%Sitiosreser…1.3%
Órganos digestivos29%Sangre ysistemalinfático16%Mama15%Genitalesmasculinos7.2%Víasurinarias6.6%Genitalesfemeninos5.5%Tiroidesyendocrin…Víasrespirat…3.6%SitiosmaldefinidosPiel ymelano…2.8%Bocayfari…Tej…bla…HuesosSitios…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaGenitales masculinosVías urinariasGenitales femeninoshover 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.
15.3%
18.3%17.3%268th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
26.5 UF
26.4 UF32.0 UF80th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
88.9%
90.2%78.9%259th 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.
131.7
71.585.632nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
54.2%
50.9%54.4%105th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.9%
9.8%8.6%209th of 345
Self-employed
29.9%
28.9%33.8%283rd of 345
Extreme poverty
6.7%
6.9%6.9%205th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
9.3%
14.4%17.7%295th of 335
Unemployment rate
9.3%
10.5%8.8%161st of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 894,980
CLP 673,260CLP 783,12429th 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.
0.504
0.4860.48828th of 321
Registered firms
30,333
73,2951,582,3905th of 346
Annual sales
242,993,513 UF
576,191,532 UF34,347,683,688 UF17th 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.
187,848
381,1439,699,1649th of 346
Sales per firm
8,011 UF
7,861 UF21,706 UF74th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
4.1
3.43.929th of 346
Women among employees
42.4%
38.6%40.6%138th of 345
Independent contractors
107,798
171,8973,958,2695th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
36.5%
31.1%29.0%68th of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 30%Trade and logistics 29%Industry and construction 18%Advanced services 14%Other services 7.3%Health13%Education12%Public administration4.8%Retail andwholesale17%Transport5.9%Accommodationand food5.9%Constructi…8.1%Manufacturing7.9%Electricit…Water…Profession…services5.8%Administr…services3.0%Informationand…Finan…andinsur…1.6%RealestateOtherservices3.3%Domes…work2.4%Artsandent…Mining1.7%Agricult…
State and social ser… 30%Trade and logistics 29%Industry and co… 18%Advanced s… 14%Othe… 7.3%Health13%Education12%Public administrationRetail andwholesale17%Transport5.9%Accommoda…and food5.9%Constru…8.1%Manufact…7.9%Electr…Wat…ProfessionalservicesAdmin…servi…3.0%Info…andcomm…Fin…andins…Otherservi…3.3%Dom…workMining1.7%Agri…and…
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 47%Skilled occupations 44%Elementary occupations 9.4%Professionals29%Technicians12%Managers5.9%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades11%Clerical support6.2%Plant and machineoperators5.7%Elementary occupations
Managers and professi… 47%Skilled occupations 44%Professionals29%Technicians12%Manage…5.9%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades11%Cleric…support6.2%Plant and machineoperatorsElementary 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

Concepción57%House42%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Concepción57%House42%FlatChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
3.6%
4.5%5.7%321st of 345
Internet access
96.3%
94.3%93.2%22nd of 345
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.3
1.42.3296th of 345
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.6
1.01.6307th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
87,967
358,5846,408,17214th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.43%
0.33%0.57%90th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.85%
0.88%1.13%241st of 345
Public water network
98.1%
96.2%92.3%42nd of 345
Electricity access
99.9%
99.8%99.6%24th of 345
Detached houses
56.6%
79.3%78.7%333rd of 345
Apartments
42.1%
19.9%19.9%12th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.20%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
10.4%
8.4%11.9%233rd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
6,638
21,256491,90419th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
7.2%
5.8%7.5%79th of 345
Renting households
37.3%
22.3%26.2%15th of 345
Owner-occupiers
50.4%
65.4%61.1%315th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
24.5%
42.3%24.4%235th of 345
Commute by public transport
40.8%
44.8%42.1%51st of 345
Walks to work
13.7%
10.4%10.2%184th of 345
Households with a computer
71.2%
61.2%54.9%9th of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.7
0.81.1307th 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.
99.3%
99.0%97.0%73rd 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.
97.8%
96.8%89.4%54th of 345
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
99.5%98.1%109th 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.
1.2
3.05.9311th 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.
97.9%
85.0%80.3%47th 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%
96.9%90.0%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
99.5%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
0.40.6309th 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.
99.9%
99.8%99.0%84th 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.
98.2%
96.6%91.6%62nd of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
99.9%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 41%Private vehicle 37%On foot or by bicycle 17%Oth… 5.7%Public transport41%Car36%Walking14%Bicyc…3.2%Other5.7%
Public transport 41%Private vehicle 37%On foot or by bicycle 17%Othe… 5.7%Public transport41%Car36%Walking14%Bicyc…3.2%Other5.7%
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 50%Rented 37%Provided rent-free 8.4%Other 4.0%Owned outright34%Owned, still paying16%Rented, with contract30%Rented, no contract7.6%Provided by family7.7%Otherarrangem…4.0%
Owned 50%Rented 37%Prov… 8.4%Other 4.0%Owned outright34%Owned, stillpaying16%Rented, with contract30%Rente…nocontr…7.6%Providedby family7.7%Other…
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

Electricity 31%Fossil fuels 31%Wood and biomass 29%No heating 8.4%Electricity31%Gas19%Paraffin12%Firewood25%Pellets4.6%No heating8.4%
Electricity 31%Fossil fuels 31%Wood and biomass 29%No … 8.4%Electricity31%Gas19%Paraffin12%Firewood25%Pelle…4.6%Noheating8.4%
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
84.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
84.4%
voted in the runoff
203,012
registered voters on the roll
7.0%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman43.0%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist57.0%58.3%
ConcepciónChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez16.4%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman28.0%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.3%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist24.2%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.9%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet14.5%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.6%1.3%
ConcepciónChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile26.8%30.6%
KCambio por Chile30.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido13.7%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente8.3%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.8%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista6.3%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde6.8%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 pact3.3%0.7%
ConcepciónChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Concepción 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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