Commune · 13602

El MonteEl Monte

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Census population
37,497
108th of 346
Population density
326.6/km²
58th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.4 yrs
153rd of 346
Foreign-born share
2.9%
168th 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 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%
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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.6 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.6 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 318 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
53.3%
230th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
29.5%
63rd of 335
Came from another region
14.5%
192nd of 335
Net internal migration
+7,001
+16.7 per 100 residents
El Montethis commune · 33,819elsewhere in the region12,382 peopleanother region6,085 peopleabroad1,144 peopleelsewhere in the region10,313 peopleanother region1,153 peopleEl Montethis commune · 41,964
El Montethis commune · 33,819elsewhere in th…12,382 peopleanother region6,085 peopleabroad1,144 peopleelsewhere in th…10,313 peopleanother region1,153 peopleEl Montethis commune · 41,964

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520243Public administration1Public administration▲22Agriculture and fishing2Agriculture and fishing6Education3Education▲31Retail and wholesale4Retail and wholesale▼34Construction5Construction▼15Manufacturing6Manufacturing▼17Transport7Transport8Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food11Administrative services9Administrative services▲212Professional services10Professional services▲214Real estate11Real estate▲313Other services12Other services▲19Mining15Mining▼610Finance and insurance16Finance and insurance▼6
2005202431Public administration▲222Agriculture and fishing63Education▲314Retail and wholesale▼345Construction▼156Manufacturing▼177Transport88Accommodation and food119Administrative services▲21210Professional services▲21411Real estate▲31312Other services▲1915Mining▼61016Finance and insurance▼6

The ten branches that employ most of El Monte

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.

1 k3 k5 k7 k9 kprojection →7 k2029 · central2005201520242029
1 k3 k5 k7 k9 kprojection →7 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.8% a year observed · 3.1% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →9.0 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →9.0 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.8% a year observed · -1.2% projected

What El Monte is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, El Monte 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
5,983
formal workers
157/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.03.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Instalaciones de gasfitería, cale…Telefonía móvil celularElaboración y conservación de car…Venta al por mayor de equipo, par…Venta al por menor por correo, po…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Venta al por mayor de maquinaria,…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.03.7Transporte de carga por carreteraFabricación de productos metálico…Instalaciones de gasfitería, cale…Venta al por mayor de equipo, par…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in El Monte

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
Cría de aves de corral para la producción de huevosGanadería333118.4×
Reparación de maquinaria para la elaboración de alimentos, bebidas y tabacoReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo1633.0×
Cultivo de porotosCultivo de plantas no perennes1229.7×
Fabricación de otros tipos de maquinaria de uso especialFabricación de maquinaria de uso especial2427.5×
Venta al por mayor de materias primas agrícolasVenta al por mayor de materias primas agropecuarias y animales vivos21615.1×
Fabricación de productos primarios de aluminioFabricación de productos primarios de metales preciosos y otros metales no ferrosos1114.8×
ApiculturaGanadería814.7×
Cría de otros animales n.c.p.Ganadería713.6×
Telefonía móvil celularActividades de telecomunicaciones inalámbricas6813.3×
Cultivo de semillas de hortalizasCultivo de plantas no perennes2011.9×
Cultivo de hortalizas y melonesCultivo de plantas no perennes6111.9×
Venta al por mayor de maquinaria, equipo y materiales agropecuariosVenta al por mayor de maquinaria, equipo y materiales2111.8×

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
6,942
hectares in holdings
84.3%
of them under a named use
99.3%
of the crop land is irrigated
214
holdings with land here
Annual crops 40%Orchards and vineyards 25%Not farmed 18%Woodland 9.7%Pasture 6.8%Vegetables17%Fodder crops9.8%Pulses and tubers8.1%Cereals3.9%Seedcrops1.0%Fruit trees24%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings16%Until…land2.8%Nativewoodland9.7%Pasture6.8%
Annual crops 40%Orchards and … 25%Not farmed 18%Woodla… 9.7%Vegetables17%Foddercrops9.8%Pulses and tubers8.1%Cereals3.9%Fruit trees24%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings16%Nativewoodland9.7%Pasture6.8%
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
El MonteChile% of each territory's own population · 37,497 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
37,497
328,84518,480,432108th of 346
Average age
37.2 yrs
36.7 yrs38.1 yrs283rd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
66.6
61.679.0286th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
326.6/km²
565.8/km²24.7/km²58th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
12,141
106,4076,596,527117th of 346
Dwellings
13,374
117,2797,642,716136th of 346
People per household
3.09
3.092.8020th of 345
Women
51.1%
51.2%51.5%151st of 346
Men per 100 women
95.8
95.594.3196th of 346
Under 15
20.1%
19.7%17.7%41st of 346
65 and over
13.4%
12.1%14.0%271st of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
50.2
46.646.5194th of 346
One-person households
16.1%
15.6%21.8%328th of 345
Households with children
39.9%
40.0%33.2%21st of 345
Indigenous peoples
8.0%
7.2%11.4%176th of 346
Female-headed households
52.4%
49.8%49.9%36th of 345
Land area
115 km²
581 km²748,041 km²292nd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

El Monte28%Arrived since 202072%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
El Monte28%Arrived since …72%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
2.9%
4.9%8.7%168th 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.
53.3%
46.7%50.5%230th 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.
29.5%
37.6%23.9%63rd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
14.5%
12.4%17.2%192nd of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
1,090
16,1781,608,650118th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
34.7 yrs
33.2 yrs33.5 yrs105th of 345
Women among foreign-born
50.0%
51.5%51.7%211th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
81.4%
81.3%83.1%163rd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
27.8%
34.8%34.4%269th 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.
3.6%
5.9%10.6%168th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.4 yrs
12.7 yrs12.9 yrs171st 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.
7,001
98,927057th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
16.7
27.70.078th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

El Monte21%Higher41%Secondary30%Primary only5.5%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
El Monte21%41%Secondary30%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.4 yrs
10.0 yrs10.4 yrs153rd of 346
Reached higher education
20.8%
27.7%31.1%172nd of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
97.7%
97.6%98.6%267th 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.
53.5%
53.5%55.6%179th 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.
100.9%
99.8%99.8%211th of 346
Literacy rate
96.9%
97.8%97.8%148th of 346
Reached secondary education
40.6%
38.7%36.7%57th of 346
Primary education only
29.7%
25.0%24.1%205th of 346
Never attended school
3.42%
3.27%3.01%198th 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.
11.1 yrs
11.9 yrs12.1 yrs131st of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.2 yrs
11.9 yrs12.1 yrs139th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.11%
2.17%2.18%197th of 345
Households lacking schooling
23.6%
16.4%15.1%163rd 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.
127
4,063217,565214th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
22.8%
40.4%33.9%249th 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.
27.6%
0.9%3.1%39th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
54.4%
64.7%67.2%243rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
39.7%
27.1%19.7%10th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
5.9%
8.2%13.1%292nd 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.
5.9%
1.6%13.0%224th 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.
38.2%
48.8%49.7%317th 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.

127left secondary school in 2024
68enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
53.5%continued immediately
54%of those, to a university
6%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%EnfermeriaPsicologiaAnalista Programador ComputacionalMedicina VeterinariaIngenieria en Informatica
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%EnfermeriaPsicologiaAnalista Programador ComputacionalMedicina VeterinariaIngenieria en Informatica
El MonteChile

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 industryInformation technologyHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryServices
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryInformation technologyHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryServices
El MonteChile

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

05010015020062015202412768
05010015020062015202412768
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 Monte'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 Monte 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 Monte94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
El Monte94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.7%
9.7%10.6%192nd of 346
Public health insurance
94.0%
83.1%82.6%129th 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.
65.7
71.682.5190th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
77
84100221st of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
4,395
31,9981,950,388112th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
54.1 yrs
54.7 yrs56.4 yrs302nd of 346
Disability among 65+
38.9%
40.0%43.0%304th of 346
Difficulty walking
4.97%
4.31%4.92%233rd of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.42%
4.25%4.58%169th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.10%
1.95%2.16%264th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.08%
2.54%2.70%111th of 346
Private health insurance
3.8%
13.3%13.2%148th of 335
No health coverage
0.71%
2.53%1.98%237th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
96.9%
90.1%92.1%90th of 332
Households lacking health access
10.2%
7.1%6.0%37th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
2,463
23,5451,523,716122nd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
55
48636,698147th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.23%
2.06%2.41%250th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.6 days
5.7 days6.1 days270th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
14.7
14.819.9247th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
81
89100180th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
164
1,29689,723110th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.7%
5.5%5.9%93rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
43.7
39.448.6129th 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.
92
8610098th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 27%Heart and lungs 18%Pregnancy, birth… 17%Injuries, bone… 15%Tumours, blood and me… 14%Infection… 5.0%Mind, ner… 3.7%Digestive system17%Genitourin…system10%Circulatorysystem9.1%Respiratorysystem8.6%Pregnancy andchildbirth16%Injuries andpoisoning9.1%Musculoskel…4.8%SkinCancers andtumours9.4%Endocr…andmetabo…3.9%Contactwithhealth…2.6%Infect…andparasi…NervoussystemMen…andbeh…
Digestive and urinary tract 27%Heart and lungs 18%Pregnancy… 17%Injuries, bones and sk… 15%Tumours, blood and met… 14%Digestivesystem17%Genitour…system10%Circulatory system9.1%Respiratory system8.6%Pregnancyandchildbirth16%Injuries andpoisoning9.1%Musculosk…4.8%Cancers andtumours9.4%Endocr…andmetabo…Conta…withhealt…Infect…and…Nervoussystem
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

Sangre y sistema linfático34%Órganos digestivos27%Genitalesmasculinos9.1%Tiroides yendocrinas6.1%Genitalesfemeninos4.9%Sitiosreservados4.9%Vías urinarias4.3%Víasrespiratorias3.7%Encéfalo ysistemanerviosoSitios maldefinidos3.0%
Sangre y sistemalinfático34%Órganosdigestivos27%Genitalesmasculin…9.1%Tiroides yendocrinas6.1%Genitalesfemeninos4.9%Sitiosreservad…4.9%Víasurinarias4.3%Víasrespiratori…Encéfalo ysistema…Sitios maldefinidos
Sangre y sistema linfáticoÓrganos digestivosGenitales masculinosTiroides y endocrinasGenitales femeninosSitios reservadoshover 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.
25.7%
18.8%17.3%88th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
22.6 UF
24.4 UF32.0 UF173rd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
108.1%
98.0%78.9%103rd 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.
56.9
65.485.6301st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
53.9%
54.9%54.4%111th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.6%
9.0%8.6%115th of 345
Self-employed
31.6%
32.3%33.8%249th of 345
Extreme poverty
7.6%
9.3%6.9%174th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
16.1%
18.8%17.7%195th of 335
Unemployment rate
13.2%
11.2%8.8%51st of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 479,949
CLP 658,258CLP 783,124236th 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.
0.461
0.4750.48891st of 321
Registered firms
2,133
21,5141,582,390139th of 346
Annual sales
9,540,136 UF
97,115,780 UF34,347,683,688 UF140th 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.
5,985
66,1259,699,164158th of 346
Sales per firm
4,473 UF
4,514 UF21,706 UF137th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.0
2.13.9188th of 346
Women among employees
43.2%
39.8%40.6%127th of 345
Independent contractors
2,231
23,6573,958,269144th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
27.2%
26.3%29.0%171st of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 28%Industry and construction 25%State and social services 18%Natural resources 13%Advanced services 8.4%Retail andwholesale17%Transport7.3%Accommodationand food3.8%Manufacturing16%Constructi…7.8%Water…Electri…Education7.7%Health6.2%Publicadmini…4.4%Agriculture andfishing12%Administ…services3.1%Profe…servi…2.4%Inf…andcom…Fin…andins…Domes…work3.6%Otherservi…2.3%Arts…
Trade and logistics 28%Industry and const… 25%State and soc… 18%Natural… 13%Advanced … 8.4%Other ser… 6.9%Retail andwholesale17%Transport7.3%Accommod…and food3.8%Manufacturing16%Construction7.8%Education7.7%Health6.2%Public…Agricultureand fishing12%Admi…serv…Professio…Inf…and…Fin…and…Domest…workOtherservices
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 23%Elementary occupations 18%Service and sales19%Craft and trades17%Plant and machineoperators12%Clericalsupport5.8%Skilledagricult…5.8%Profession…11%Technicians9.6%ManagersElementary occupations18%
Skilled occupations 59%Managers and profession… 23%Elementary occup… 18%Service andsales19%Craft andtrades17%Plant and machineoperators12%Clericalsupport5.8%Skilledagricul…5.8%Profession…11%Technicians9.6%Elementaryoccupations18%
Elementary occupationsArmed forceshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itCIUO-08 (ISCO) skill levels.

Housing and services

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House or flat

El Monte96%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
El Monte96%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.7%
6.0%5.7%51st of 345
Internet access
92.2%
94.3%93.2%113th 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.
2.9
2.02.3221st 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.
1.8
1.01.6247th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
11,911
103,4506,408,172118th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.35%
0.38%0.57%143rd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.74%
0.92%1.13%265th of 345
Public water network
88.5%
89.9%92.3%137th of 345
Electricity access
99.7%
99.8%99.6%79th of 345
Detached houses
95.4%
94.6%78.7%228th of 345
Apartments
4.0%
4.7%19.9%100th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.17%0.23%298th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
5.5%
5.5%11.9%310th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
768
7,423491,904108th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
6.3%
7.0%7.5%115th of 345
Renting households
17.1%
18.2%26.2%140th of 345
Owner-occupiers
67.1%
68.7%61.1%205th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
15.0%
9.1%24.4%259th of 345
Commute by public transport
31.8%
35.1%42.1%101st of 345
Walks to work
8.8%
7.6%10.2%271st of 345
Households with a computer
46.3%
55.0%54.9%125th 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.
1.5
1.21.1214th 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.
94.3%
98.0%97.0%169th 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.
84.6%
93.1%89.4%122nd 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.
7.0
3.25.9193rd 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.
24.2%
75.5%80.3%168th 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.
0.7
0.60.6247th 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.
99.5%
99.8%99.0%120th 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.
93.3%
97.5%91.6%100th 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

Private vehicle 40%Public transport 32%On foot or by bicycle 18%Other means 10%Car38%Public transport32%Bicycle9.6%Walking8.8%Other10%
Private vehicle 40%Public transport 32%On foot or by bicycle 18%Other means 10%Car38%Publictransport32%Bicycle9.6%Walking8.8%Other10%
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 67%Rented 17%Provided rent-free 12%Owned outright60%Owned, still payingRented, with contract9.0%Rented, no contract8.2%Provided byfamily11%Other arrangement
Owned 67%Rented 17%Provided ren… 12%Owned outright60%Owne…stillpayi…Rented,withcontract9.0%Rented, nocontract8.2%Provided byfamily11%Oth…arr…
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 49%No heating 18%Electricity 17%Wood and biomass 16%Gas36%Paraffin13%No heating18%Electricity17%Firewood15%
Fossil fuels 49%No heating 18%Electricity 17%Wood and … 16%Gas36%Paraffin13%No heating18%Electricity17%Firewood15%
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
92.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
92.4%
voted in the runoff
30,144
registered voters on the roll
7.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman43.4%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist56.6%58.3%
El MonteChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez23.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman26.7%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.4%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.7%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist22.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.0%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%
El MonteChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile35.2%30.6%
KCambio por Chile18.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido17.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.3%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista15.5%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.7%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
El MonteChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble El Monte 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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