Ercilla — PuroChile

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.

Household income per capita335th of 335 · Chile CLP 783,124CLP 303,493

School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%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 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%

People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 229 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

76.9%

28th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

9.4%

293rd of 335

Came from another region

13.7%

213th of 335

Net internal migration

-3,489

-41.7 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Ercilla

Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.

BranchWorkersShare of total2005–2024Change

01Public administrationState and social services54351.4%+173%02Agriculture and fishingNatural resources17216.3%−60%03EducationState and social services11410.8%+153%04Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics888.3%+700%05ConstructionIndustry and construction413.9%—06ManufacturingIndustry and construction292.7%—07TransportTrade and logistics201.9%−86%08Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics191.8%+46%09Administrative servicesAdvanced services80.8%—10Other servicesOther services80.8%+700%

Dependent workers, projected

Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.2% a year observed · -0.1% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.7% a year observed · 6.0% projected

What Ercilla is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Ercilla employs more people in 24 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.

24

activities it is specialised in

1,057

formal workers

286/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in Ercilla

Ranked by how many times the national share this place reaches. The division each activity belongs to is a page of its own.

Activity	Division	Workers here	Times the national share
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrata	Servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura	73	153.0×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de madera	Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada	45	48.2×
Extracción de madera	Extracción de madera	38	40.4×
Servicios de transporte de escolares	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	8	29.4×
Apicultura	Ganadería	2	20.8×
Servicios de forestación a cambio de una retribución o por contrata	Servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura	18	17.3×
Cultivo de trigo	Cultivo de plantas no perennes	25	16.7×
Elaboración de otros productos de molinería n.c.p.	Elaboración de productos de molinería, almidones y productos derivados del almidón	2	15.0×
Venta al por menor de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas en comercios especializados (botillerías)	Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados	11	13.0×
Servicios de transporte a turistas	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	2	10.3×
Actividades de la administración pública en general	Administración del estado y aplicación de la política económica y social de la comunidad	543	7.9×
Actividades de clínicas veterinarias	Actividades veterinarias	6	7.2×

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

24,097

hectares in holdings

89.7%

of them under a named use

3.2%

of the crop land is irrigated

85

holdings with land here

PastureOrchards and vineyardshover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

The agricultural census measured 24,097 hectares of holdings in Ercilla in the 2020/2021 agricultural year, and this is how it divided them.

Fourteen of the fifteen tiles are categories the census publishes. The fifteenth is not: it is the censused surface less the other fourteen, and what it holds is scrub, barren ground, roads and buildings. Across Chile it is half of everything, because most of the censused surface is Patagonian scrub and northern desert inside very large holdings.

Irrigation is asked of eleven of the uses and not of forest, native woodland, natural pasture or untilled ground — so the 3.2% above is a share of the 5,055 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 85 holdings with land here, 10 are self-consumption plots — under two hectares and with nothing sold in the year. These counts are the census's own for this territory and they are not added to anything: a holding with land in two comunas is counted in both.

VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal 2021, INE

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

ErcillaChile% of each territory's own population · 7,730 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	7,730	206,646	18,480,432	281st of 346
Average age	38.1 yrs	39.4 yrs	38.1 yrs	249th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	78.0	89.9	79.0	232nd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	15.5/km²	15.4/km²	24.7/km²	226th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	2,787	75,593	6,596,527	282nd of 346
Dwellings	3,784	92,181	7,642,716	283rd of 346
People per household	2.77	2.73	2.80	153rd of 345
Women	51.5%	51.8%	51.5%	90th of 346
Men per 100 women	94.2	92.9	94.3	257th of 346
Under 15	20.3%	18.5%	17.7%	33rd of 346
65 and over	15.8%	16.6%	14.0%	172nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	56.7	54.0	46.5	42nd of 346
One-person households	23.8%	21.8%	21.8%	122nd of 345
Households with children	35.4%	34.1%	33.2%	87th of 345
Indigenous peoples	55.9%	26.1%	11.4%	22nd of 346
Female-headed households	52.1%	50.9%	49.9%	48th of 345
Land area	498 km²	13,432 km²	748,041 km²	204th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	0.4%	1.0%	8.7%	337th 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.	76.9%	72.8%	50.5%	28th 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.	9.4%	12.8%	23.9%	293rd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	13.7%	13.8%	17.2%	213th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	32	2,147	1,608,650	326th of 346
Average age, foreign-born	33.7 yrs	34.3 yrs	33.5 yrs	153rd of 345
Women among foreign-born	65.6%	51.4%	51.7%	2nd of 345
Foreign-born of working age	71.9%	82.1%	83.1%	331st of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	37.5%	29.4%	34.4%	175th 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.	0.5%	1.3%	10.6%	341st of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	11.5 yrs	13.1 yrs	12.9 yrs	290th 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.	-3,489	-88,147	0	230th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	-41.7	-41.0	0.0	283rd of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	8.2 yrs	9.0 yrs	10.4 yrs	332nd of 346
Reached higher education	12.9%	18.7%	31.1%	331st of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	100.0%	99.3%	98.6%	1st 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.	36.0%	47.3%	55.6%	323rd of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.	100.0%	102.5%	99.8%	231st of 346
Literacy rate	92.4%	94.8%	97.8%	333rd of 346
Reached secondary education	35.7%	37.2%	36.7%	236th of 346
Primary education only	40.2%	34.4%	24.1%	44th of 346
Never attended school	5.93%	4.35%	3.01%	21st 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.	9.5 yrs	10.3 yrs	12.1 yrs	304th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	9.5 yrs	10.5 yrs	12.1 yrs	331st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	7.55%	5.20%	2.18%	14th of 345
Households lacking schooling	54.8%	27.2%	15.1%	4th 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.	25	2,825	217,565	315th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	0.0%	46.8%	33.9%	301st 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%	2.8%	3.1%	114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	88.9%	66.0%	67.2%	10th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	11.1%	16.8%	19.7%	264th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	0.0%	17.3%	13.1%	323rd 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.	11.1%	34.6%	13.0%	169th 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.	66.7%	55.1%	49.7%	11th 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.

25left secondary school in 2024

9enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

36.0%continued immediately

89%of those, to a university

11%of those, outside their region

By field of study

ErcillaChile

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. The list of individual programmes is withheld here: fewer than 30 of this territory's leavers continued, and a ranking built on that few names people.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

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 Ercilla'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.

Health

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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 Ercilla 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

FonasaOther system or undeclared% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	14.0%	14.0%	10.6%	89th of 346
Public health insurance	97.9%	94.7%	82.6%	19th 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.	67.8	99.9	82.5	181st of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	134	131	100	33rd of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	1,080	28,978	1,950,388	273rd of 346
Average age, people with a disability	58.8 yrs	58.8 yrs	56.4 yrs	130th of 346
Disability among 65+	48.5%	46.7%	43.0%	102nd of 346
Difficulty walking	7.10%	6.72%	4.92%	74th of 346
Difficulty seeing	6.62%	6.86%	4.58%	76th of 346
Difficulty hearing	3.78%	3.23%	2.16%	18th of 346
Difficulty concentrating	3.43%	3.18%	2.70%	61st of 346
Private health insurance	0.0%	2.4%	13.2%	311th of 335
No health coverage	0.00%	0.09%	1.98%	279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	86.4%	90.9%	92.1%	283rd of 332
Households lacking health access	3.2%	3.6%	6.0%	240th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	524	20,653	1,523,716	260th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	23	629	36,698	228th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	4.39%	3.05%	2.41%	36th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	7.1 days	6.6 days	6.1 days	110th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	29.8	30.4	19.9	36th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	81	117	100	179th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	20	1,049	89,723	284th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	3.8%	5.1%	5.9%	297th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	25.9	50.8	48.6	274th 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.	51	96	100	268th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

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 digestivosSitios reservadosGenitales femeninoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	35.1%	31.7%	17.3%	24th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	22.9 UF	23.0 UF	32.0 UF	162nd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	119.2%	110.5%	78.9%	28th 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.	48.9	74.4	85.6	326th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	40.1%	43.9%	54.4%	325th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	13.0%	11.2%	8.6%	12th of 345
Self-employed	31.1%	32.1%	33.8%	258th of 345
Extreme poverty	22.3%	15.5%	6.9%	10th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	34.0%	14.1%	17.7%	16th of 335
Unemployment rate	17.4%	12.2%	8.8%	7th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 303,493	CLP 456,768	CLP 783,124	335th 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.	0.496	0.480	0.488	38th of 321
Registered firms	378	15,382	1,582,390	309th of 346
Annual sales	739,325 UF	40,427,136 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	305th 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.	1,057	50,267	9,699,164	294th of 346
Sales per firm	1,956 UF	2,628 UF	21,706 UF	272nd of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	2.1	2.1	3.9	163rd of 346
Women among employees	51.6%	44.4%	40.6%	30th of 345
Independent contractors	589	16,062	3,958,269	291st of 346
Contractors as share of workers	35.8%	24.2%	29.0%	72nd of 346

Employment by industry

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

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

HouseOther dwelling type% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	8.6%	5.8%	5.7%	28th of 345
Internet access	67.8%	84.3%	93.2%	342nd 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.	5.1	4.0	2.3	114th 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.	5.1	4.0	1.6	91st of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	2,764	74,835	6,408,172	281st of 346
Critically overcrowded	0.72%	0.29%	0.57%	37th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	2.50%	1.30%	1.13%	58th of 345
Public water network	62.0%	78.7%	92.3%	301st of 345
Electricity access	93.4%	98.3%	99.6%	339th of 345
Detached houses	98.1%	98.2%	78.7%	178th of 345
Apartments	0.0%	0.8%	19.9%	281st of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.40%	0.29%	0.23%	56th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	15.8%	12.9%	11.9%	154th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	179	3,658	491,904	261st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	6.4%	4.8%	7.5%	109th of 345
Renting households	8.9%	14.2%	26.2%	312th of 345
Owner-occupiers	72.5%	72.0%	61.1%	83rd of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	95.3%	88.0%	24.4%	10th of 345
Commute by public transport	27.8%	22.7%	42.1%	142nd of 345
Walks to work	25.4%	21.3%	10.2%	57th of 345
Households with a computer	26.0%	37.5%	54.9%	335th 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.	1.8	1.7	1.1	165th 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.	91.7%	90.7%	97.0%	212th of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	100.0%	99.9%	99.9%	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.	44.9%	74.3%	89.4%	289th 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.	98.8%	93.3%	98.1%	150th of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	100.0%	99.7%	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.	17.7	18.5	5.9	133rd 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%	43.2%	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.	29.0%	50.9%	90.0%	215th 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%	78.0%	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.	1.2	1.2	0.6	141st 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.	97.7%	95.2%	99.0%	201st 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%	99.9%	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.	44.9%	73.4%	91.6%	303rd 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.	98.8%	93.0%	98.5%	169th 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%	98.9%	99.8%	1st of 345

How people commute

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

Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

No 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

84.1%

of the registered voted in the first round

83.8%

voted in the runoff

7,922

registered voters on the roll

6.0%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman36.9%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist63.1%58.3%

ErcillaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez18.9%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman25.2%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.9%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen10.4%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist36.5%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.8%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet5.7%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.6%1.3%

ErcillaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile14.4%30.6%

KCambio por Chile12.2%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido26.8%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente4.9%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas36.5%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde2.7%0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile2.5%0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%

HPopular—0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

ErcillaChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile22.0%

KCambio por Chile27.9%

JChile Grande y Unido24.4%

IPartido de la Gente8.5%

APartido Ecologista Verde11.4%

Independents outside a pact5.7%

Ercillashare of the valid vote

Congress is compared by list, not by candidate: the candidates change at every district line, and the list — the pact — is the same across the country.

District 22

The deputies elected for the district Ercilla votes in:

Eduardo Cretton Rebolledo Union Democrata Independiente · list J · 29,959 votes
Juan Carlos Beltran Silva Renovacion Nacional · list J · 25,862 votes
Gloria Naveillan Arriagada Partido Nacional Libertario · list K · 16,445 votes
Andrea Parra Sauterel Partido Por la Democracia · list C · 14,473 votes

Circunscripción 11

Rodolfo Carter Fernandez Independiente Republicano de Chile · list K · 95,019 votes
Vanessa Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen Partido Nacional Libertario · list K · 58,326 votes
Francisco Huenchumilla Jaramillo Partido Democrata Cristiano · list C · 56,297 votes
Miguel Becker Alvear Renovacion Nacional · list J · 48,641 votes
Ricardo Celis Araya Independiente Por la Democracia · list C · 40,230 votes

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Ercilla 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.

Cholchol0.63Araucanía · 13,167 peopleAlike in Health; apart in Housing and services.Lumaco0.71Araucanía · 9,253 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Economy.Purén0.82Araucanía · 12,184 peopleAlike in Health; apart in Housing and services.Galvarino0.83Araucanía · 12,710 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Economy.

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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Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of Ercilla

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Ercilla is specialised in

Most over-represented in Ercilla

The land and who works it

Population and territory

Population pyramid

Migration

When the migrant population arrived

Education

How far schooling went

The class of 2024

By field of study

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

Health

Which health system

What people are hospitalised for

By tumour site

Economy and poverty

Employment by industry

Employment by occupation

Housing and services

House or flat

How people commute

Housing tenure

Home heating fuel

How it voted in 2025

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

Senate · 16 November

Sister communes

Inside the commune