Commune · 13105

El BosqueEl Bosque

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Census population
155,257
34th of 346
Population density
10,885.7/km²
13th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.7 yrs
115th of 346
Foreign-born share
7.3%
64th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 5 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 97.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 89.4%100.0%
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF27.7 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF27.7 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 · 882 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
46.3%
261st of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
35.2%
39th of 335
Came from another region
13.0%
228th of 335
Net internal migration
+23,900
+14.1 per 100 residents
El Bosquethis commune · 136,335elsewhere in the region59,635 peopleanother region22,075 peopleabroad9,335 peopleelsewhere in the region50,437 peopleanother region7,373 peopleEl Bosquethis commune · 169,570
El Bosquethis commune · 136,335elsewhere in th…59,635 peopleanother region22,075 peopleabroad9,335 peopleelsewhere in th…50,437 peopleanother region7,373 peopleEl Bosquethis commune · 169,570

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520247Administrative services1Administrative services▲61Manufacturing2Manufacturing▼14Education3Education▲15Retail and wholesale4Retail and wholesale▲13Construction5Construction▼26Transport6Transport10Professional services7Professional services▲32Other services8Other services▼614Water and waste9Water and waste▲59Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food▼112Information and communications11Information and communications▲113Health12Health▲111Real estate14Real estate▼38Agriculture and fishing15Agriculture and fishing▼7
2005202471Administrative services▲612Manufacturing▼143Education▲154Retail and wholesale▲135Construction▼266Transport107Professional services▲328Other services▼6149Water and waste▲5910Accommodation and food▼11211Information and communications▲11312Health▲11114Real estate▼3815Agriculture and fishing▼7

The ten branches that employ most of El Bosque

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.

020 k40 k60 kprojection →47 k2029 · central2005201520242029
020 k40 k60 kprojection →47 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.3% a year observed · 6.8% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

010 M20 M30 M40 Mprojection →28 M2029 · central2005201520242029
010 M20 M30 M40 Mprojection →28 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.5% a year observed · 3.9% projected

What El Bosque is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, El Bosque employs more people in 65 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.

65
activities it is specialised in
34,153
formal workers
27/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.23.7Actividades de la administración …Alquiler de otros tipos de maquin…Transporte de carga por carreteraReparación de aeronaves y naves e…Fabricación de productos metálico…Fabricación de otros productos el…Construcción de edificios para us…Elaboración de cacao, chocolate y…Fabricación de motores, generador…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.23.7Actividades de la administración …Transporte de carga por carreteraFabricación de productos metálico…Fabricación de otros productos el…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in El Bosque

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
Reparación de aeronaves y naves espacialesReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo1,037122.7×
Alquiler de otros tipos de maquinarias y equipos sin operario n.c.p.Alquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles3,01322.0×
Fabricación de cuerdas, cordeles, bramantes y redesFabricación de otros productos textiles4816.9×
Venta al por mayor de maquinaria metalúrgica, para la minería, extracción de petróleo y construcciónVenta al por mayor de maquinaria, equipo y materiales24913.2×
Actividades de veterinarios, técnicos y otro personal auxiliar, prestados de forma independienteActividades veterinarias5910.9×
Venta al por menor de gas licuado en bombonas (cilindros) en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados18410.1×
Fabricación de artículos de cuchillería, herramientas de mano y artículos de ferreteríaFabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal; actividades de servicios de trabajo de metales279.6×
Reparación de equipo de medición, prueba, navegación y controlReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo209.4×
Evacuación y tratamiento de aguas servidasEvacuación de aguas residuales1557.1×
Actividades de sindicatosActividades de sindicatos176.8×
Actividades de la administración pública en generalAdministración del estado y aplicación de la política económica y social de la comunidad14,8306.7×
Elaboración de cacao, chocolate y de productos de confiteríaElaboración de otros productos alimenticios1025.7×

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.

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
El BosqueChile% of each territory's own population · 155,257 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
155,257
5,385,73718,480,43234th of 346
Average age
38.6 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs215th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
87.4
85.179.0184th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
10,885.7/km²
2,653.4/km²24.7/km²13th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
50,233
1,951,4816,596,52739th of 346
Dwellings
50,351
2,060,6137,642,71643rd of 346
People per household
3.09
2.762.8019th of 345
Women
51.2%
51.8%51.5%124th of 346
Men per 100 women
95.2
93.294.3223rd of 346
Under 15
17.7%
16.3%17.7%179th of 346
65 and over
15.5%
13.8%14.0%191st of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
49.7
43.046.5205th of 346
One-person households
17.9%
23.6%21.8%307th of 345
Households with children
35.5%
30.2%33.2%81st of 345
Indigenous peoples
9.6%
7.2%11.4%156th of 346
Female-headed households
54.0%
51.1%49.9%10th of 345
Land area
14 km²
2,030 km²748,041 km²332nd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

El Bosque42%Arrived since 202058%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
El Bosque42%Arrived since 202058%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
7.3%
15.4%8.7%64th 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.
46.3%
34.9%50.5%261st 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.
35.2%
35.2%23.9%39th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
13.0%
16.4%17.2%228th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
11,347
828,3681,608,65042nd of 346
Average age, foreign-born
31.6 yrs
34.4 yrs33.5 yrs267th of 345
Women among foreign-born
50.2%
51.8%51.7%203rd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
80.9%
84.3%83.1%182nd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
42.4%
31.7%34.4%117th 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.
8.9%
18.5%10.6%64th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.1 yrs
13.4 yrs12.9 yrs227th 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.
23,900
-150,290028th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
14.1
-2.50.087th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

El Bosque22%Higher44%Secondary26%Primary only5.3%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
El Bosque22%44%Secondary26%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.7 yrs
11.2 yrs10.4 yrs115th of 346
Reached higher education
21.7%
38.6%31.1%156th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
97.0%
98.2%98.6%286th 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.
49.1%
54.9%55.6%246th 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.
99.1%
98.2%99.8%289th of 346
Literacy rate
97.7%
98.7%97.8%105th of 346
Reached secondary education
44.1%
34.9%36.7%20th of 346
Primary education only
25.8%
19.1%24.1%260th of 346
Never attended school
3.09%
2.55%3.01%237th of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
11.3 yrs
13.1 yrs12.1 yrs119th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.2 yrs
12.8 yrs12.1 yrs139th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
2.30%
1.25%2.18%241st of 345
Households lacking schooling
19.5%
9.9%15.1%211th 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.
1,653
57,776217,56539th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
31.2%
31.5%33.9%206th 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%
0.1%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
63.4%
70.6%67.2%160th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
30.1%
21.9%19.7%49th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
6.5%
7.5%13.1%287th 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.
1.8%
1.3%13.0%275th 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.
50.4%
48.6%49.7%176th 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.

1,653left secondary school in 2024
811enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
49.1%continued immediately
63%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 ComercialPsicologiaDerechoEnfermeriaIngenieria en InformaticaIngenieria Civil IndustrialKinesiologiaMedicina VeterinariaAdministracion PublicaArquitectura
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria ComercialPsicologiaDerechoEnfermeriaIngenieria en InformaticaIngenieria Civil IndustrialKinesiologiaMedicina VeterinariaAdministracion PublicaArquitectura
El BosqueChile

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 welfareServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesEducationArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Business and lawEngineering and industryHealth and welfareServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesEducationArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
El BosqueChile

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

05001,0001,5002,0002006201520241,653811
05001,0001,5002,0002006201520241,653811
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 El Bosque'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 El Bosque 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

El Bosque95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
El Bosque95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.1%
9.3%10.6%119th of 346
Public health insurance
95.1%
73.9%82.6%94th 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.
85.3
87.182.575th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
128
10010046th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
20,400
499,3711,950,38822nd of 346
Average age, people with a disability
57.1 yrs
56.6 yrs56.4 yrs216th of 346
Disability among 65+
44.3%
43.7%43.0%212th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.53%
4.33%4.92%122nd of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.54%
3.83%4.58%159th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.67%
1.87%2.16%148th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.34%
2.50%2.70%71st of 346
Private health insurance
2.9%
22.4%13.2%177th of 335
No health coverage
0.63%
1.80%1.98%240th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
94.4%
91.7%92.1%146th of 332
Households lacking health access
7.5%
5.8%6.0%89th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
13,241
469,3531,523,71635th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
427
10,69136,69818th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.22%
2.28%2.41%124th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.0 days
6.0 days6.1 days114th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
27.5
19.919.953rd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
102
10610074th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
594
28,65989,72347th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
4.5%
6.1%5.9%266th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
38.3
53.248.6188th 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.
76
111100172nd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 23%Injuries, bones… 15%Pregnancy, bir… 14%Tumours, bloo… 12%Infections and … 8.0%Mind, nerves an… 5.3%Digestive system14%Genitourin…system9.5%Respiratorysystem13%Circulatorysystem10%Injuries andpoisoning9.4%Musculoskele…3.9%Skin1.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Perinatal…Congeni…Cancers andtumours6.5%Endocrine andmetabolic4.5%Ill-d…sympt…3.0%Infec…andparas…2.9%Cont…withheal…Mental andbehaviouralNervo…system
Digestive and urinar… 23%Heart and lungs 23%Injuries, bones and sk… 15%Pregnancy, birth and n… 14%Tumours, blood and… 12%Infect… 8.0%Digestivesystem14%Genitour…system9.5%Respiratorysystem13%Circulat…system10%Injuries andpoisoning9.4%Musculos…3.9%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth12%Per…con…Con…Cancers andtumours6.5%EndocrineandmetabolicIll-defin…symptomsInfectiousand…Mentaland…Nervo…system
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 linfático20%Vías urinarias9.3%Mama9.1%Genitalesfemeninos6.1%Tiroides yendocrinas6.1%Genitalesmasculinos5.9%Víasrespirato…5.1%Sitios maldefinidos3.5%TejidosblandosBoca yfaringeEncéf…ysiste…1.3%Pielymel…
Órganos digestivos28%Sangre y sistemalinfático20%Vías urinarias9.3%Mama9.1%Genitalesfemeninos6.1%Tiroides yendocrinas6.1%Genitalesmasculin…5.9%Víasrespira…5.1%Sitiosmaldefin…3.5%Tejid…bland…Boca y…Encéf…y…Piel ymelano…Huesos
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariasMamaGenitales femeninosTiroides y endocrinashover 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.
21.1%
12.4%17.3%153rd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
27.7 UF
37.3 UF32.0 UF61st of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
92.1%
73.0%78.9%229th 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.
45.5
104.385.6333rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
51.7%
59.5%54.4%159th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
10.5%
7.7%8.6%74th of 345
Self-employed
37.4%
33.2%33.8%120th of 345
Extreme poverty
5.5%
4.4%6.9%240th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
36.2%
18.9%17.7%11th of 335
Unemployment rate
12.2%
8.4%8.8%70th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 473,852
CLP 1,019,380CLP 783,124242nd 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.
0.362
0.5000.488307th of 321
Registered firms
7,063
561,5661,582,39056th of 346
Annual sales
23,445,368 UF
25,794,247,870 UF34,347,683,688 UF89th 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.
34,220
5,253,9409,699,16455th of 346
Sales per firm
3,319 UF
45,933 UF21,706 UF191st of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
3.8
6.13.938th of 346
Women among employees
31.8%
41.7%40.6%307th of 345
Independent contractors
9,693
2,467,4083,958,26959th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
22.1%
32.0%29.0%257th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 36%Industry and construction 23%State and social services 18%Advanced ser… 14%Other… 7.9%Retail and wholesale22%Transport8.9%Accommodationand food4.4%Construction11%Manufacturing10.0%Ele…andgasWat…andwas…Health7.4%Education6.8%PublicadministrationAdministrativeservices5.9%Profession…services2.8%Informationand…Finan…andinsur…1.8%RealestateOtherservices4.2%Domest…work2.6%Mining
Trade and logistics 36%Industry and … 23%State and social… 18%Advanced s… 14%Oth… 7.9%Retail andwholesale22%Transport8.9%Accommoda…and food4.4%Construction11%Manufacturing10.0%Health7.4%Education6.8%Pub…adm…AdministrativeservicesProfe…servi…Info…andcomm…Fin…andins…OtherservicesDomest…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 59%Managers and professionals 24%Elementary occupations 17%Service and sales25%Craft and trades17%Plant and machineoperators8.6%Clerical support7.8%Technicians11%Professiona…10%ManagersElementary occupations17%
Skilled occupations 59%Managers and professiona… 24%Elementary occu… 17%Service andsales25%Craft andtrades17%Plant andmachineoperators8.6%Clericalsupport7.8%Technicians11%Professiona…10%Elementaryoccupations17%
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

El Bosque81%House18%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
El Bosque81%House18%Chile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
8.0%
6.7%5.7%34th of 345
Internet access
92.9%
95.9%93.2%96th 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.
0.7
1.02.3335th 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
0.51.6312th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
47,417
1,868,7116,408,17241st of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.71%
0.93%0.57%41st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.72%
0.51%1.13%270th of 345
Public water network
99.8%
99.6%92.3%17th of 345
Electricity access
99.8%
99.9%99.6%55th of 345
Detached houses
81.3%
55.8%78.7%303rd of 345
Apartments
17.7%
42.0%19.9%39th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.09%0.23%205th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
2.4%
5.2%11.9%337th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
5,816
193,039491,90423rd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
11.6%
9.9%7.5%38th of 345
Renting households
23.6%
37.8%26.2%66th of 345
Owner-occupiers
58.1%
51.5%61.1%291st of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
0.3%
0.2%24.4%314th of 345
Commute by public transport
60.4%
54.0%42.1%13th of 345
Walks to work
8.4%
8.4%10.2%279th of 345
Households with a computer
48.1%
62.8%54.9%110th of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.5
0.51.1334th of 345
People within 5 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%97.0%1st of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
99.6%89.4%1st of 345
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%98.1%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.9
1.05.9329th 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.
100.0%
99.7%80.3%1st 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%
100.0%90.0%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.2
0.30.6341st of 345
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.0%1st of 345
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%91.6%1st of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Public transport 60%Private vehicle 25%On foot or by bi… 11%Public transport60%Car23%Walking8.4%Bic…Other4.1%
Public transport 60%Private vehicle 25%On foot or by… 11%Public transport60%Car23%Walking8.4%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 58%Rented 24%Provided rent-fr… 13%Owned outright51%Owned, still payingRented, withcontract13%Rented, nocontract10%Provided byfamily12%Otherarrange…5.7%
Owned 58%Rented 24%Provided rent-fr… 13%Other 5.7%Owned outright51%Owned,stillpaying7.1%Rented,withcontract13%Rented, nocontract10%Provided byfamily12%
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 68%Electricity 16%No heating 15%Gas46%Paraffin22%Electricity16%No heating15%
Fossil fuels 68%Electricity 16%No heating 15%Gas46%Paraffin22%Electricity16%No heating15%
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
88.5%
of the registered voted in the first round
88.3%
voted in the runoff
131,886
registered voters on the roll
6.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman49.8%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist50.2%58.3%
El BosqueChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez19.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman32.5%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.9%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist20.7%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.8%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.3%1.3%
El BosqueChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile34.1%30.6%
KCambio por Chile25.7%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido9.5%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente11.8%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas8.6%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista5.2%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.6%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios3.6%0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
El BosqueChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble El Bosque 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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