Commune · 05604

El QuiscoEl Quisco

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Census population
18,971
181st of 346
Population density
375.0/km²
55th of 346
Average years of schooling
10.6 yrs
43rd of 346
Foreign-born share
6.7%
69th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Sought care when ill1st of 332 · Chile 92.1%100.0%
School attendance, ages 6-17333rd of 333 · Chile 98.6%88.7%
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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.1 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.1 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 · 238 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
17.5%
326th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
8.3%
312th of 335
Came from another region
66.7%
3rd of 335
Net internal migration
+13,338
+71.5 per 100 residents
El Quiscothis commune · 3,914another region12,438 peopleelsewhere in the region1,550 peopleabroad1,396 peopleanother region596 peopleelsewhere in the region54 peopleEl Quiscothis commune · 18,648
El Quiscothis commune · 3,914another region12,438 peopleelsewhere in th…1,550 peopleabroad1,396 peopleanother region596 peopleelsewhere in th…54 peopleEl Quiscothis commune · 18,648

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Public administration1Public administration2Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale4Accommodation and food3Accommodation and food▲18Construction4Construction▲45Education5Education7Other services6Other services▲112Transport7Transport▲515Administrative services8Administrative services▲73Manufacturing9Manufacturing▼613Professional services10Professional services▲39Real estate11Real estate▼214Information and communications12Information and communications▲210Arts and entertainment13Arts and entertainment▼36Agriculture and fishing14Agriculture and fishing▼811Water and waste15Water and waste▼4
2005202411Public administration22Retail and wholesale43Accommodation and food▲184Construction▲455Education76Other services▲1127Transport▲5158Administrative services▲739Manufacturing▼61310Professional services▲3911Real estate▼21412Information and communications▲21013Arts and entertainment▼3614Agriculture and fishing▼81115Water and waste▼4

The ten branches that employ most of El Quisco

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.

02 k4 k6 kprojection →4 k2029 · central2005201520242029
02 k4 k6 kprojection →4 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.4% a year observed · 3.8% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

01.0 M2.0 M3.0 M4.0 Mprojection →3.2 M2029 · central2005201520242029
01.0 M2.0 M3.0 M4.0 Mprojection →3.2 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.4% a year observed · 5.2% projected

What El Quisco is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, El Quisco employs more people in 49 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.

49
activities it is specialised in
3,197
formal workers
91/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de restaurantes y de …Venta al por menor de artículos d…Consejo de administración de edif…Explotación de estacionamientos d…Elaboración de productos de panad…Venta al por mayor de productos t…Programación y transmisiones de t…Transmisiones de radioHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Actividades de restaurantes y de …Consejo de administración de edif…Elaboración de productos de panad…Venta al por mayor de productos t…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in El Quisco

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
Venta al por menor de tabaco y productos de tabaco en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados1271.3×
Venta al por menor en comercios especializados de pescado, mariscos y productos conexosVenta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados2325.1×
Otras actividades de alojamiento para turistas n.c.p.Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas821.4×
Venta al por menor de gas licuado en bombonas (cilindros) en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados3017.6×
Actividades de organizaciones religiosasActividades de otras asociaciones3517.1×
Servicio notarialActividades jurídicas2513.7×
Otras actividades creativas, artísticas y de entretenimiento n.c.p.Actividades creativas, artísticas y de entretenimiento412.3×
Otras instalaciones para obras de construcciónInstalaciones eléctricas, de gasfitería y otras instalaciones para obras de construcción22611.1×
Explotación de estacionamientos de vehículos automotores y parquímetrosActividades de apoyo al transporte479.6×
Venta de partes, piezas y accesorios de motocicletasVenta, mantenimiento y reparación de motocicletas y sus partes, piezas y accesorios29.3×
Venta al por menor de artículos de ferretería y materiales de construcciónVenta al por menor de otros enseres domésticos en comercios especializados1678.8×
Otras actividades de alojamiento n.c.p.Otras actividades de alojamiento198.4×

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 QuiscoChile% of each territory's own population · 18,971 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
18,971
185,84718,480,432181st of 346
Average age
44.1 yrs
40.7 yrs38.1 yrs10th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
162.9
109.079.09th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
375.0/km²
123.9/km²24.7/km²55th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
7,696
69,5626,596,527167th of 346
Dwellings
18,702
133,1107,642,716108th of 346
People per household
2.47
2.672.80316th of 345
Women
52.1%
51.5%51.5%35th of 346
Men per 100 women
92.0
94.294.3312th of 346
Under 15
15.4%
17.4%17.7%313th of 346
65 and over
25.1%
18.9%14.0%3rd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
68.2
57.046.55th of 346
One-person households
27.0%
24.0%21.8%51st of 345
Households with children
25.5%
30.8%33.2%322nd of 345
Indigenous peoples
8.4%
7.8%11.4%171st of 346
Female-headed households
51.1%
52.1%49.9%73rd of 345
Land area
51 km²
1,499 km²748,041 km²318th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

El Quisco44%Arrived since 202056%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
El Quisco44%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
6.7%
4.8%8.7%69th 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.
17.5%
55.5%50.5%326th 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.
8.3%
7.0%23.9%312th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
66.7%
32.2%17.2%3rd of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
1,263
8,9591,608,650110th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.3 yrs
33.3 yrs33.5 yrs172nd of 345
Women among foreign-born
51.8%
50.3%51.7%140th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
76.1%
79.2%83.1%309th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
43.6%
40.5%34.4%99th 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.
8.5%
6.0%10.6%67th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.7 yrs
12.4 yrs12.9 yrs131st of 345
Net internal migration · People who arrived from another comuna minus people born here who live in another comuna. It is a lifetime balance, not a year's. Chile adds to zero by construction: nobody leaves the country in this count.
13,338
25,032038th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
71.5
13.30.07th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

El Quisco31%Higher41%Secondary21%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
El Quisco31%Higher41%Secondary21%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.6 yrs
10.1 yrs10.4 yrs43rd of 346
Reached higher education
31.0%
26.3%31.1%55th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
88.7%
98.2%98.6%333rd 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.
54.8%
52.3%55.6%159th 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.
99.2%
100.4%99.8%276th of 346
Literacy rate
98.7%
98.0%97.8%34th of 346
Reached secondary education
41.3%
41.7%36.7%42nd of 346
Primary education only
20.8%
24.3%24.1%312th of 346
Never attended school
2.83%
3.00%3.01%278th 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.
12.2 yrs
11.7 yrs12.1 yrs58th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.1 yrs
11.7 yrs12.1 yrs64th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.29%
1.93%2.18%312th of 345
Households lacking schooling
6.3%
12.4%15.1%325th 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.
104
2,125217,565228th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
41.3%
29.6%33.9%145th 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%
0.9%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
66.7%
61.3%67.2%122nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
22.8%
25.0%19.7%111th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
10.5%
13.7%13.1%230th 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.
38.6%
35.3%13.0%68th 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.
61.4%
53.6%49.7%29th 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.

104left secondary school in 2024
57enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
54.8%continued immediately
67%of those, to a university
39%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%EnfermeriaPsicologia
0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%EnfermeriaPsicologia
El QuiscoChile

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%Health and welfareEngineering and industryEducationBusiness and lawServicesNatural sciencesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryEducationBusiness and lawServicesNatural sciencesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinary
El QuiscoChile

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

05010015020062015202410457
05010015020062015202410457
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 Quisco'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 Quisco 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 Quisco88%Fonasa5.8%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
El Quisco88%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.8%
12.9%10.6%144th of 346
Public health insurance
87.6%
91.3%82.6%255th 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.
43.7
65.382.5280th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
43
78100301st of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,422
23,9111,950,388177th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.9 yrs
57.9 yrs56.4 yrs61st of 346
Disability among 65+
52.9%
45.9%43.0%37th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.33%
6.28%4.92%136th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.19%
5.47%4.58%188th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.73%
2.60%2.16%136th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.19%
3.20%2.70%91st of 346
Private health insurance
5.8%
4.6%13.2%103rd of 335
No health coverage
2.67%
2.23%1.98%91st of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
100.0%
90.9%92.1%1st of 332
Households lacking health access
0.0%
2.6%6.0%310th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
829
12,1371,523,716221st of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
26
36036,698215th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.14%
2.97%2.41%132nd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
8.3 days
7.3 days6.1 days41st of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
13.7
19.419.9266th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
47
75100291st of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
47
70989,723223rd 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%
5.8%5.9%162nd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
24.8
38.148.6278th 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.
38
68100294th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 24%Injuries, bones and skin 20%Digestive and urina… 19%Tumours, blo… 14%Pregnancy, bi… 10%Infec… 6.8%Min… 5.8%Circulatorysystem14%Respiratorysystem10%Injuries andpoisoning14%Musculos…5.4%Digestive system12%Genitourinary system6.6%Cancers andtumours8.9%Endocrine andmetabolic5.1%Pregnancy andchildbirth7.2%PerinatalconditionsCongen…malfor…InfectiousandparasiticContactwithhealth…3.0%Mentalandbehaviou…3.3%Nervo…system1.8%
Heart and lungs 24%Injuries, bones a… 20%Digestive … 19%Tumours, blood a… 14%Pregnancy, birth… 10%Inf… 6.8%Min… 5.8%Circulatorysystem14%Respirat…system10%Injuriesandpoisoning14%Muscu…5.4%Digestivesystem12%Genitourinarysystem6.6%Cancers andtumours8.9%Endocr…andmetabo…5.1%Pregnancy andchildbirthPerin…condi…Conge…Infectiousand…Contactwith…Mentalandbehav…3.3%Ner…sys…
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

Sitios reservados26%Órganos digestivos17%Mama17%Víasrespiratorias15%Vías urinarias13%Sangre y sistemalinfático13%
Sitios reservados26%Órganosdigestivos17%Mama17%Vías respiratorias15%Vías urinarias13%Sangre y sistemalinfático13%
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosMamaVías respiratoriasVías urinariasSangre y sistema linfáticohover 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.
16.3%
20.7%17.3%248th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
23.1 UF
27.9 UF32.0 UF155th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
110.9%
85.5%78.9%82nd 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.
89.7
95.285.6110th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
47.8%
49.7%54.4%223rd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
8.7%
8.9%8.6%170th of 345
Self-employed
47.6%
45.7%33.8%24th of 345
Extreme poverty
4.1%
7.0%6.9%288th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
12.6%
14.9%17.7%255th of 335
Unemployment rate
6.5%
7.9%8.8%262nd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 721,089
CLP 604,011CLP 783,12450th 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.
0.459
0.4330.48898th of 321
Registered firms
1,701
17,6951,582,390163rd of 346
Annual sales
2,469,904 UF
134,461,183 UF34,347,683,688 UF252nd 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.
3,202
47,2599,699,164225th of 346
Sales per firm
1,452 UF
7,599 UF21,706 UF310th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.2
1.93.9310th of 346
Women among employees
47.0%
36.0%40.6%74th of 345
Independent contractors
1,919
21,2143,958,269159th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
37.5%
31.0%29.0%57th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 35%State and social services 21%Industry and construction 20%Advanced se… 13%Other se… 9.3%Retail andwholesale17%Accommodation andfood12%Transport5.5%Education7.3%Publicadministra…7.2%Health6.5%Construction11%Manufacturi…6.7%Electric…Waterand…Administrativeservices4.9%Professio…services3.7%Informationand…Fin…andins…Realest…Otherservices5.0%Artsandentert…2.4%Domes…work1.9%Agricultu…Mini…
Trade and logistics 35%State and soc… 21%Industry and cons… 20%Advanced… 13%Other… 9.3%Retail andwholesale17%Accommodat…and food12%Transport5.5%Educati…7.3%Publicadminis…7.2%Health6.5%Construct…11%Manufac…6.7%Elect…Administrat…servicesProfe…servi…3.7%Inform…and…Fin…andins…Otherservices5.0%Artsandentert…Dome…workAgricul…Min…
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 58%Managers and professionals 29%Elementary occupations 13%Service and sales27%Craft and trades18%Plant andmachineoperators5.8%Clericalsupport5.3%Skil…agri…Professionals16%Technicians8.6%Managers4.5%Elementary occupations13%
Skilled occupations 58%Managers and professionals 29%Elementar… 13%Service andsales27%Craft and trades18%Plant andmachineoperators5.8%Clericalsupport5.3%Ski…agr…Professionals16%Technicians8.6%ManagersElementaryoccupations13%
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 Quisco95%House4.9%Chile79%House20%Flat
El Quisco95%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.6%
5.4%5.7%255th of 345
Internet access
95.0%
92.9%93.2%52nd 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.
2.1
2.22.3260th 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.
1.9
1.61.6245th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
7,489
67,8266,408,172167th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.39%
0.50%0.57%109th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.76%
0.98%1.13%261st of 345
Public water network
86.7%
83.9%92.3%154th of 345
Electricity access
99.7%
99.7%99.6%79th of 345
Detached houses
94.3%
91.6%78.7%243rd of 345
Apartments
4.9%
7.6%19.9%92nd of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.20%0.23%298th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
54.8%
44.3%11.9%21st of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
446
4,097491,904153rd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
5.8%
5.9%7.5%148th of 345
Renting households
21.1%
16.2%26.2%92nd of 345
Owner-occupiers
58.4%
65.5%61.1%290th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
27.1%
23.7%24.4%229th of 345
Commute by public transport
34.1%
35.7%42.1%82nd of 345
Walks to work
15.2%
13.7%10.2%170th of 345
Households with a computer
43.6%
44.4%54.9%162nd 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.
1.7
1.11.1189th 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.
96.1%
98.5%97.0%140th 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.
96.0%
90.2%89.4%70th 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%
97.7%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.
20.5
7.35.9120th 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.
0.0%
61.9%80.3%194th 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.
0.0%
76.2%90.0%249th of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
99.6%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.
1.0
0.80.6207th 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%
98.9%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.
97.5%
93.9%91.6%67th of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
99.9%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 46%Public transport 34%On foot or by bicycle 17%Car44%Public transport34%Walking15%Other3.4%
Private vehicle 46%Public transport 34%On foot or by bicycle 17%Car44%Public transport34%Walking15%Bic…Other3.4%
Public transportOther meanshover 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 21%Provided rent-free 16%Owned outright53%Owned, still payingRented, withcontract13%Rented, nocontract8.4%Provided by family14%Otherarra…
Owned 58%Rented 21%Provided rent… 16%Owned outright53%Own…sti…pay…Rented, withcontract13%Rented,nocontract8.4%Provided byfamily14%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 47%Wood and biomass 28%No heating 15%Electricity 10%Gas36%Paraffin12%Firewood27%No heating15%Electricity10%
Fossil fuels 47%Wood and biomass 28%No heating 15%Electricity 10%Gas36%Paraffin12%Firewood27%No heating15%Electricity10%
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
88.2%
of the registered voted in the first round
87.6%
voted in the runoff
17,950
registered voters on the roll
6.6%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman47.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist52.9%58.3%
El QuiscoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez13.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman33.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen18.1%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist19.5%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.8%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet11.8%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.4%1.3%
El QuiscoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile32.8%30.6%
KCambio por Chile24.5%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido21.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.4%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas7.4%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios1.8%0.6%
HPopular1.8%0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
El QuiscoChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile38.8%
KCambio por Chile22.3%
JChile Grande y Unido24.7%
IPartido de la Gente9.9%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.4%
El Quiscoshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble El Quisco 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

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