Commune · 04102

CoquimboCoquimbo

Compare Coquimbo with another place
Census population
263,719
12th of 346
Population density
185.1/km²
72nd of 346
Average years of schooling
10.4 yrs
53rd of 346
Foreign-born share
6.4%
77th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
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 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%
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary1st of 345 · Chile 99.8%100.0%
Came from another region39th of 335 · Chile 17.2%26.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.7 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.7 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 · 2,847 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
54.5%
220th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
14.6%
222nd of 335
Came from another region
26.0%
39th of 335
Net internal migration
+74,160
+26.9 per 100 residents
Coquimbothis commune · 187,954another region71,573 peopleelsewhere in the region40,224 peopleabroad13,668 peopleanother region27,342 peopleelsewhere in the region10,295 peopleCoquimbothis commune · 275,782
Coquimbothis commune · 187,954another region71,573 peopleelsewhere in th…40,224 peopleabroad13,668 peopleanother region27,342 peopleelsewhere in th…10,295 peopleCoquimbothis commune · 275,782

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520243Construction1Construction▲22Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale7Education3Education▲45Administrative services4Administrative services▲14Manufacturing5Manufacturing▼18Health6Health▲26Transport7Transport▼11Agriculture and fishing8Agriculture and fishing▼79Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food11Professional services10Professional services▲110Mining11Mining▼115Finance and insurance12Finance and insurance▲312Arts and entertainment14Arts and entertainment▼2
2005202431Construction▲222Retail and wholesale73Education▲454Administrative services▲145Manufacturing▼186Health▲267Transport▼118Agriculture and fishing▼799Accommodation and food1110Professional services▲11011Mining▼11512Finance and insurance▲31214Arts and entertainment▼2

The ten branches that employ most of Coquimbo

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.

30 k40 k50 k60 k70 kprojection →61 k2029 · central2005201520242029
30 k40 k50 k60 k70 kprojection →61 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.7% a year observed · 1.4% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

020 M40 M60 M80 Mprojection →72 M2029 · central2005201520242029
020 M40 M60 M80 Mprojection →72 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.2% a year observed · 2.9% projected

What Coquimbo is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Coquimbo employs more people in 138 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.

138
activities it is specialised in
56,941
formal workers
74/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.53.7Fondos y sociedades de inversión …Enseñanza superior en institutos …Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Consejo de administración de edif…Actividades combinadas de servici…Fabricación de otros productos el…Elaboración y conservación de fru…Fabricación de maquinaria para la…Actividades de asociaciones empre…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.53.7Fondos y sociedades de inversión …Actividades combinadas de servici…Corretaje al por mayor de product…Actividades de asociaciones empre…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Coquimbo

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
Elaboración y conservación de crustáceos, moluscos y otros productos acuáticos, en plantas en tierraElaboración y conservación de pescado, crustáceos y moluscos43737.6×
Actividades de centros de salud municipalizados (servicios de salud pública)Actividades de médicos y odontólogos3,36113.6×
Actividades combinadas de servicios administrativos de oficinaActividades administrativas y de apoyo de oficina32813.6×
Fabricación de colchones, fabricación de otros muebles n.c.p.Fabricación de muebles38513.2×
Otras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas n.c.p.Otras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas55210.0×
Recuperación y reciclamiento de desperdicios y desechos metálicosRecuperación de materiales1719.5×
Pesca marítima industrial, excepto de barcos factoríaPesca2978.1×
Actividades de clubes de futbol amateur y profesionalActividades deportivas1028.0×
Cultivo de papasCultivo de plantas no perennes777.6×
Elaboración y conservación de salmónidosElaboración y conservación de pescado, crustáceos y moluscos3196.7×
Venta al por menor de productos de vidrio en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros enseres domésticos en comercios especializados526.3×
Recuperación y reciclamiento de papelRecuperación de materiales245.7×

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
72,682
hectares in holdings
63.3%
of them under a named use
94.7%
of the crop land is irrigated
546
holdings with land here
Not farmed 40%Woodland 33%Pasture 18%Annual crops 6.5%Scrub, barren ground and buildings37%Untilled landForest plantations30%Native woodlandPasture18%Vegetables5.6%Fruittrees2.7%
Not farmed 40%Woodland 33%Pasture 18%Annu… 6.5%Scrub, barren groundand buildings37%Forestplantations30%Pasture18%Vegetabl…5.6%Fru…tre…
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
CoquimboChile% of each territory's own population · 263,719 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
263,719
562,45718,480,43212th of 346
Average age
37.0 yrs
37.3 yrs38.1 yrs292nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
67.7
71.879.0284th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
185.1/km²
32.9/km²24.7/km²72nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
89,924
193,7356,596,52715th of 346
Dwellings
113,105
245,8757,642,71612th of 346
People per household
2.93
2.902.8058th of 345
Women
51.5%
51.6%51.5%89th of 346
Men per 100 women
94.2
94.094.3258th of 346
Under 15
19.3%
18.7%17.7%68th of 346
65 and over
13.1%
13.4%14.0%282nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
47.8
47.346.5253rd of 346
One-person households
19.6%
20.1%21.8%267th of 345
Households with children
37.2%
35.8%33.2%52nd of 345
Indigenous peoples
9.1%
10.1%11.4%161st of 346
Female-headed households
48.4%
48.9%49.9%162nd of 345
Land area
1,425 km²
17,098 km²748,041 km²101st of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Coquimbo44%Arrived since 202056%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Coquimbo44%Arrived since 202056%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born share
6.4%
6.1%8.7%77th 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.
54.5%
56.7%50.5%220th 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.
14.6%
12.7%23.9%222nd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
26.0%
25.7%17.2%39th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
16,971
34,1211,608,65029th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
31.7 yrs
32.3 yrs33.5 yrs264th of 345
Women among foreign-born
51.1%
51.8%51.7%166th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
81.6%
81.5%83.1%156th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
44.1%
41.2%34.4%94th 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.
7.8%
7.3%10.6%73rd of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.5 yrs
12.8 yrs12.9 yrs153rd 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.
74,160
105,69807th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
26.9
17.70.046th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Coquimbo30%Higher40%Secondary22%Primary only5.3%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Coquimbo30%Higher40%Secondary22%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.4 yrs
10.5 yrs10.4 yrs53rd of 346
Reached higher education
30.0%
31.8%31.1%63rd of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.4%
98.7%98.6%204th 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.
58.3%
58.5%55.6%108th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%263rd of 346
Literacy rate
98.5%
98.5%97.8%45th of 346
Reached secondary education
39.6%
38.1%36.7%82nd of 346
Primary education only
22.4%
22.3%24.1%294th of 346
Never attended school
2.65%
2.65%3.01%301st 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.
12.3 yrs
12.4 yrs12.1 yrs47th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.3 yrs
12.4 yrs12.1 yrs46th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.46%
1.50%2.18%300th of 345
Households lacking schooling
12.2%
12.0%15.1%287th 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.
2,420
6,688217,56524th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
27.4%
28.3%33.9%227th 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.
2.7%
1.9%3.1%101st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
58.4%
61.5%67.2%207th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
16.9%
18.2%19.7%190th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
24.6%
20.4%13.1%76th 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.
6.9%
13.0%13.0%218th 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.
48.0%
48.2%49.7%243rd 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.

2,420left secondary school in 2024
1,412enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
58.3%continued immediately
58%of those, to a university
7%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil en Computacion E InformaticaTecnico en EnfermeriaMaquinaria PesadaKinesiologiaEnfermeriaGastronomia
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil en Computacion E InformaticaTecnico en EnfermeriaMaquinaria PesadaKinesiologiaEnfermeriaGastronomia
CoquimboChile

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

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinary
CoquimboChile

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

01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,4201,412
01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,4201,412
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 Coquimbo'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 Coquimbo 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

Coquimbo87%Fonasa7.0%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Coquimbo87%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
9.7%
9.7%10.6%280th of 346
Public health insurance
86.6%
87.0%82.6%264th 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.
63.3
64.982.5199th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
83
84100192nd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
25,457
54,4731,950,38813th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
54.1 yrs
54.7 yrs56.4 yrs302nd of 346
Disability among 65+
40.3%
41.3%43.0%295th of 346
Difficulty walking
4.17%
4.22%4.92%285th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.07%
4.11%4.58%285th of 346
Difficulty hearing
1.83%
1.85%2.16%297th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.61%
2.59%2.70%223rd of 346
Private health insurance
7.0%
7.6%13.2%88th of 335
No health coverage
4.15%
3.22%1.98%42nd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
93.0%
92.7%92.1%178th of 332
Households lacking health access
6.9%
5.5%6.0%103rd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
16,681
36,5201,523,71627th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
405
90036,69821st of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.43%
2.46%2.41%222nd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.3 days
6.4 days6.1 days201st of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
15.4
16.019.9237th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
78
80100193rd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
945
2,26489,72328th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.7%
6.2%5.9%163rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
35.8
40.348.6212th 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.
77
85100169th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 22%Pregnancy, birth and newbor… 19%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, bones … 17%Tumours, blood and me… 13%Infections … 5.5%Mind, nerve… 4.0%Digestivesystem13%Genitouri…system8.3%Pregnancy andchildbirth16%Per…con…Con…mal…Circulatory system11%Respiratory system7.9%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskelet…4.7%Cancers andtumours8.4%Endocri…andmetabol…4.3%Infec…andparas…2.0%Cont…withheal…Ill-…symp…NervoussystemMentaland…
Digestive and urinary… 22%Pregnancy, birth a… 19%Heart and… 19%Injuries, bones and s… 17%Tumours, blood and me… 13%Digestivesystem13%Genitour…system8.3%Pregnancy andchildbirth16%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem7.9%Injuries andpoisoning11%Muscul…4.7%Cancers andtumours8.4%Endocri…andmetabol…Infect…andparasi…Contactwith…Ill-de…sympto…NervoussystemMent…andbeha…
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 digestivos28%Sangre y sistema linfático12%Genitales femeninos11%Tiroides yendocrinas9.8%Sitios maldefinidos7.1%Mama7.0%Genitalesmasculinos6.5%Víasurinarias5.4%Piel y melanoma4.1%Víasrespiratorias3.9%Sitiosreservad…3.3%Encéfalo ysistema…
Órganos digestivos28%Sangre ysistemalinfático12%Genitalesfemeninos11%Tiroides yendocrinas9.8%Sitios maldefinidos7.1%Mama7.0%Genitalesmasculin…6.5%Víasurinari…5.4%Piel ymelanoma4.1%Víasrespiratori…Sitiosreserv…3.3%Encéfaloy…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales femeninosTiroides y endocrinasSitios mal definidosMamahover 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.
19.6%
19.8%17.3%182nd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
23.7 UF
26.9 UF32.0 UF136th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
98.5%
85.9%78.9%180th 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.
65.3
71.085.6259th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
52.5%
52.2%54.4%144th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
10.1%
9.8%8.6%93rd of 345
Self-employed
35.5%
35.4%33.8%159th of 345
Extreme poverty
7.7%
9.1%6.9%172nd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
19.9%
16.4%17.7%134th of 335
Unemployment rate
9.8%
8.9%8.8%137th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 620,332
CLP 648,217CLP 783,124106th 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.
0.420
0.4480.488206th of 321
Registered firms
17,226
39,9461,582,39023rd of 346
Annual sales
62,496,098 UF
227,907,842 UF34,347,683,688 UF55th 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.
56,994
157,0239,699,16435th of 346
Sales per firm
3,628 UF
5,705 UF21,706 UF180th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.1
2.53.9161st of 346
Women among employees
38.9%
39.5%40.6%214th of 345
Independent contractors
20,791
56,0853,958,26936th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
26.7%
26.3%29.0%183rd of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 31%State and social services 20%Industry and construction 18%Natural reso… 16%Advanced se… 9.3%Other servi… 6.1%Retail andwholesale19%Transport6.5%Accommodati…and food5.7%Education9.2%Health7.6%Publicadmini…3.6%Construction9.7%Manufacturing6.2%Electricit…Water…Mining11%Agriculture andfishing4.9%Administ…services3.5%Profe…servi…2.7%Inform…and…Fina…and…Realesta…Otherservic…3.0%DomesticworkArts and…
Trade and logistics 31%State and soci… 20%Industry and… 18%Natural r… 16%Advanced… 9.3%Other se… 6.1%Retail andwholesale19%Transport6.5%Accommod…and food5.7%Education9.2%Health7.6%Publicadmin…3.6%Construction9.7%Manufacturing6.2%Mining11%Agricultureand fishingAdminist…servicesProfessio…servicesInf…and…Fina…Real…Otherservic…Dom…work
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Skilled occupations 56%Managers and professionals 30%Elementary occupations 14%Service and sales22%Craft andtrades16%Plant and machineoperators10%Clericalsupport5.3%Skill…agric…2.5%Professionals16%Technicians11%Manage…3.7%Elementary occupations14%
Skilled occupations 56%Managers and professionals 30%Elementar… 14%Service andsales22%Craft andtrades16%Plant andmachineoperators10%Clericalsupport5.3%Skil…agri…Professionals16%Technicians11%ManagersElementaryoccupations14%
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

Coquimbo91%House9.0%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Coquimbo91%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.9%
4.4%5.7%220th of 345
Internet access
94.9%
94.6%93.2%55th 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.
1.8
2.42.3273rd 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.
1.3
1.61.6271st of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
87,438
188,5786,408,17215th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.35%
0.32%0.57%146th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.88%
1.21%1.13%234th of 345
Public water network
92.3%
91.9%92.3%107th of 345
Electricity access
99.5%
99.5%99.6%140th of 345
Detached houses
90.3%
85.7%78.7%271st of 345
Apartments
9.0%
13.3%19.9%68th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.22%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
20.0%
19.9%11.9%122nd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
5,738
12,383491,90424th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
6.4%
6.4%7.5%114th of 345
Renting households
23.0%
23.7%26.2%75th of 345
Owner-occupiers
66.0%
65.1%61.1%228th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
4.5%
5.8%24.4%287th of 345
Commute by public transport
40.8%
38.9%42.1%52nd of 345
Walks to work
10.4%
10.8%10.2%239th of 345
Households with a computer
54.3%
56.5%54.9%65th 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.
1.1
1.11.1265th 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.
97.3%
96.9%97.0%109th 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%
99.9%99.9%230th 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.
94.0%
90.2%89.4%83rd of 345
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
99.5%
97.5%98.1%133rd 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%
99.8%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.
3.2
4.05.9257th 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.
89.4%
85.3%80.3%82nd 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.
93.5%
91.3%90.0%136th 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.
97.3%
96.2%96.2%215th of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.5
0.60.6288th 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.
99.1%
98.8%99.0%145th 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.
94.5%
92.8%91.6%92nd 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%
98.6%98.5%150th 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%
99.8%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Public transport 41%Private vehicle 39%On foot or by bicycle 13%Other means 7.8%Public transport41%Car37%Walking10%Bic…Other7.8%
Public transport 41%Private vehicle 39%On foot or by bicycle 13%Other means 7.8%Public transport41%Car37%Walking10%Bicy…Other7.8%
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 66%Rented 23%Provided rent… 8.4%Owned outright47%Owned, still paying19%Rented, withcontract16%Rented, no contract6.9%Provided byfamily7.6%Otherarra…
Owned 66%Rented 23%Provided … 8.4%Owned outright47%Owned,stillpaying19%Rented, with contract16%Rented,nocontract6.9%Provided byfamily7.6%
Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

No heating 52%Fossil fuels 27%Electricity 16%Wood … 4.8%No heating52%Gas25%Par…Electricity16%Firewood4.5%
No heating 52%Fossil fuels 27%Electricity 16%No heating52%Gas25%Electricity16%Firewood
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
86.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.5%
voted in the runoff
193,715
registered voters on the roll
9.3%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman47.0%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist53.0%58.3%
CoquimboChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez25.8%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman27.5%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist18.3%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.8%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.3%1.3%
CoquimboChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile48.4%30.6%
KCambio por Chile15.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido15.6%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.2%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.1%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista2.6%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile3.1%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
CoquimboChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Coquimbo 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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