Commune · 13107

HuechurabaHuechuraba

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Census population
101,808
57th of 346
Population density
2,265.9/km²
32nd of 346
Average years of schooling
10.9 yrs
26th of 346
Foreign-born share
9.2%
49th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Employees per firm1st of 346 · Chile 3.920.0
People within 5 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 97.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 89.4%100.0%
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF29.9 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF29.9 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 · 517 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
39.4%
288th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
37.0%
32nd of 335
Came from another region
14.5%
190th of 335
Net internal migration
+29,653
+25.6 per 100 residents
Huechurabathis commune · 75,889elsewhere in the region42,962 peopleanother region16,839 peopleabroad10,437 peopleelsewhere in the region27,583 peopleanother region2,565 peopleHuechurabathis commune · 115,979
Huechurabathis commune · 75,889elsewhere in th…42,962 peopleanother region16,839 peopleabroad10,437 peopleelsewhere in th…27,583 peopleanother region2,565 peopleHuechurabathis commune · 115,979

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Administrative services1Administrative services▲11Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▼15Accommodation and food3Accommodation and food▲23Construction4Construction▼18Transport5Transport▲310Information and communications6Information and communications▲44Agriculture and fishing7Agriculture and fishing▼36Manufacturing8Manufacturing▼29Professional services9Professional services7Finance and insurance10Finance and insurance▼311Other services11Other services15Education12Education▲312Health14Health▼2
2005202421Administrative services▲112Retail and wholesale▼153Accommodation and food▲234Construction▼185Transport▲3106Information and communications▲447Agriculture and fishing▼368Manufacturing▼299Professional services710Finance and insurance▼31111Other services1512Education▲31214Health▼2

The ten branches that employ most of Huechuraba

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.

0200 k400 k600 kprojection →399 k2029 · central2005201520242029
0200 k400 k600 kprojection →399 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.9% a year observed · 6.6% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0500 M1,000 M1,500 Mprojection →1,051 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0500 M1,000 M1,500 Mprojection →1,051 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.7% a year observed · 3.0% projected

What Huechuraba is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Huechuraba employs more people in 88 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.

88
activities it is specialised in
290,286
formal workers
12/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.50.43.7Suministro industrial de comidas …Otras actividades de dotación de …Servicios de seguridad privada pr…Otras actividades de transporte d…Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de …Venta al por mayor de frutas y ve…Actividades de call-centerTelefonía móvil celularCultivo de otras plantas perennesHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.50.43.7Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de …Venta al por mayor de frutas y ve…Actividades de call-centerTelefonía móvil celularHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Huechuraba

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
Fabricación de instrumentos ópticos y equipo fotográficoFabricación de instrumentos ópticos y equipo fotográfico1,13228.4×
Telefonía móvil celularActividades de telecomunicaciones inalámbricas2,81111.4×
Venta al por menor mediante máquinas expendedorasVenta al por menor no realizada en comercios, puestos de venta o mercados18611.2×
Transporte urbano y suburbano de pasajeros vía locomoción colectivaOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre13,12010.6×
Suministro industrial de comidas por encargo; concesión de servicios de alimentaciónSuministro de comidas por encargo y otras actividades de servicio de comidas40,84710.4×
Venta al por menor de artículos de perfumería, de tocador y cosméticos en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados3,7989.9×
Organización de convenciones y exposiciones comercialesOrganización de convenciones y exposiciones comerciales2559.8×
Recuperación y reciclamiento de papelRecuperación de materiales2099.7×
Venta al por menor de artículos ópticos en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados2,0678.7×
Limpieza general de edificiosActividades de limpieza31,6567.9×
Fabricación de prendas de vestir de materiales textiles y similaresFabricación de prendas de vestir, excepto prendas de piel1,6537.8×
Venta al por menor de artículos de papelería y escritorio en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de productos culturales y recreativos en comercios especializados1,6107.4×

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
HuechurabaChile% of each territory's own population · 101,808 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
101,808
5,385,73718,480,43257th of 346
Average age
36.7 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs302nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
58.9
85.179.0313th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
2,265.9/km²
2,653.4/km²24.7/km²32nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
31,965
1,951,4816,596,52762nd of 346
Dwellings
31,102
2,060,6137,642,71670th of 346
People per household
3.18
2.762.809th of 345
Women
51.4%
51.8%51.5%103rd of 346
Men per 100 women
94.6
93.294.3244th of 346
Under 15
19.1%
16.3%17.7%78th of 346
65 and over
11.3%
13.8%14.0%314th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
43.6
43.046.5315th of 346
One-person households
15.1%
23.6%21.8%336th of 345
Households with children
39.9%
30.2%33.2%21st of 345
Indigenous peoples
7.7%
7.2%11.4%183rd of 346
Female-headed households
49.7%
51.1%49.9%122nd of 345
Land area
45 km²
2,030 km²748,041 km²321st of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Huechuraba25%Arrived since 202075%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Huechuraba25%Arrived sinc…75%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
9.2%
15.4%8.7%49th 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.
39.4%
34.9%50.5%288th 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.
37.0%
35.2%23.9%32nd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
14.5%
16.4%17.2%190th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
9,402
828,3681,608,65048th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
35.7 yrs
34.4 yrs33.5 yrs78th of 345
Women among foreign-born
53.5%
51.8%51.7%77th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
83.3%
84.3%83.1%74th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
25.1%
31.7%34.4%287th 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.
11.1%
18.5%10.6%49th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
14.1 yrs
13.4 yrs12.9 yrs21st 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.
29,653
-150,290025th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
25.6
-2.50.054th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Huechuraba38%Higher32%Secondary22%Primary only5.4%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Huechuraba38%Higher32%Secondary22%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.9 yrs
11.2 yrs10.4 yrs26th of 346
Reached higher education
37.8%
38.6%31.1%24th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
97.7%
98.2%98.6%266th 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.
59.1%
54.9%55.6%91st 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.
97.7%
98.2%99.8%322nd of 346
Literacy rate
98.4%
98.7%97.8%51st of 346
Reached secondary education
32.0%
34.9%36.7%312th of 346
Primary education only
22.3%
19.1%24.1%297th of 346
Never attended school
2.49%
2.55%3.01%310th 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.
13.1 yrs
13.1 yrs12.1 yrs19th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.8 yrs
12.8 yrs12.1 yrs26th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.57%
1.25%2.18%296th of 345
Households lacking schooling
13.7%
9.9%15.1%270th 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.
712
57,776217,56582nd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
13.2%
31.5%33.9%285th of 331
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates.
0.0%
0.1%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
84.1%
70.6%67.2%15th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
11.6%
21.9%19.7%257th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
4.3%
7.5%13.1%311th 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.
0.5%
1.3%13.0%313th of 331
Of those continuing, women · The graduates module does not publish sex, so there is no continuation rate by sex: only the make-up of those who do continue.
50.8%
48.6%49.7%168th 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.

712left secondary school in 2024
421enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
59.1%continued immediately
84%of those, to a university
0%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoIngenieria ComercialPsicologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria Civil, Plan ComunKinesiologiaIngenieria Comercial, Plan ComunIngenieria y Ciencias - Plan ComunMedicina VeterinariaEnfermeria
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoIngenieria ComercialPsicologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria Civil, Plan ComunKinesiologiaIngenieria Comercial, Plan ComunIngenieria y Ciencias - Plan ComunMedicina VeterinariaEnfermeria
HuechurabaChile

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

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Business and lawEngineering and industryHealth and welfareSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciencesEducationServices
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Business and lawEngineering and industryHealth and welfareSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciencesEducationServices
HuechurabaChile

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

0200400600800200620152024712421
0200400600800200620152024712421
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 Huechuraba'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 Huechuraba 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

Huechuraba76%Fonasa21%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Huechuraba76%Fonasa21%Chile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
9.3%
9.3%10.6%292nd of 346
Public health insurance
75.5%
73.9%82.6%317th 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.
83.0
87.182.583rd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
93
100100152nd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
9,491
499,3711,950,38866th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
55.7 yrs
56.6 yrs56.4 yrs279th of 346
Disability among 65+
41.8%
43.7%43.0%272nd of 346
Difficulty walking
4.28%
4.33%4.92%280th of 346
Difficulty seeing
3.97%
3.83%4.58%290th of 346
Difficulty hearing
1.82%
1.87%2.16%300th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.52%
2.50%2.70%236th of 346
Private health insurance
21.1%
22.4%13.2%17th of 335
No health coverage
1.28%
1.80%1.98%185th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
90.1%
91.7%92.1%239th of 332
Households lacking health access
5.6%
5.8%6.0%160th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
8,449
469,3531,523,71656th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
166
10,69136,69868th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
1.96%
2.28%2.41%280th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.2 days
6.0 days6.1 days298th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
16.3
19.919.9221st of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
105
10610069th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
519
28,65989,72351st of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.1%
6.1%5.9%123rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
51.0
53.248.671st 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.
113
11110044th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 24%Heart and lungs 18%Injuries, bones and… 17%Tumours, blood… 14%Pregnancy, birth… 13%Infections and o… 7.8%Mind, nerves and… 6.0%Digestivesystem15%Genitouri…system9.3%Respiratorysystem11%Circulatorysystem7.9%Injuries andpoisoning8.8%Musculoskeletal6.5%SkinCancers andtumours8.9%Endocrine andmetabolic4.2%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Congenital…Perinatal…Contactwithhealth…3.8%Infectiousand…Ill-defi…Mentalandbehavio…Nervo…system2.2%EyeEar
Digestive and urinary t… 24%Heart and lungs 18%Injuries, bones and s… 17%Tumours, blood and me… 14%Pregnancy, birth a… 13%Infec… 7.8%Digestivesystem15%Genitour…system9.3%Respirato…system11%Circula…system7.9%Injuriesandpoisoning8.8%Musculosk…6.5%Cancers andtumours8.9%Endocri…andmetabol…Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Conta…withhealt…3.8%Infec…andparas…Ill-…symp…Mental…Nervo…system2.2%
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 digestivos24%Mama14%Sangre y sistemalinfático13%Vías urinarias10%Genitalesmasculinos8.3%Tiroides yendocrinas7.3%Genitalesfemeninos7.1%Sitios maldefinidos5.8%Víasrespirato…4.4%Piel ymelano…3.1%Sitiosreser…1.3%Huesos1.2%
Órganos digestivos24%Mama14%Sangre ysistemalinfático13%Vías urinarias10%Genitalesmasculinos8.3%Tiroides yendocrinas7.3%Genital…femenin…7.1%Sitios maldefinidos5.8%Víasrespiratori…Piel ymelan…3.1%Sitios…Huesos
Órganos digestivosMamaSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariasGenitales masculinosTiroides y endocrinashover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
10.8%
12.4%17.3%306th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
29.9 UF
37.3 UF32.0 UF38th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
62.6%
73.0%78.9%336th 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.
89.5
104.385.6113th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
58.5%
59.5%54.4%51st of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.7%
7.7%8.6%216th of 345
Self-employed
31.1%
33.2%33.8%259th of 345
Extreme poverty
3.3%
4.4%6.9%300th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
21.0%
18.9%17.7%116th of 335
Unemployment rate
9.4%
8.4%8.8%152nd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 858,324
CLP 1,019,380CLP 783,12433rd 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.
0.479
0.5000.48859th of 321
Registered firms
9,116
561,5661,582,39043rd of 346
Annual sales
907,569,138 UF
25,794,247,870 UF34,347,683,688 UF6th 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.
290,307
5,253,9409,699,1644th of 346
Sales per firm
99,558 UF
45,933 UF21,706 UF4th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
20.0
6.13.91st of 346
Women among employees
45.1%
41.7%40.6%101st of 345
Independent contractors
47,673
2,467,4083,958,26912th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
14.1%
32.0%29.0%334th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 30%Advanced services 22%State and social services 20%Industry and const… 18%Other… 7.6%Natur… 2.5%Retail andwholesale18%Transport7.3%Accommodati…and food4.5%Profess…services5.9%Administ…services5.7%Financeandinsuran…4.3%Inform…andcommun…4.2%Health8.6%Education7.5%Publicadmini…4.1%Construction8.7%Manufacturing7.5%Ele…andgasWat…and…Otherservices3.4%Domest…work2.5%Artsandent…Mining
Trade and logistics 30%Advanced servic… 22%State and socia… 20%Industry and… 18%Retail andwholesale18%Transport7.3%Accommoda…and food4.5%Professi…services5.9%Administ…services5.7%Financeandinsura…4.3%Inform…andcommun…4.2%Health8.6%Educati…7.5%Public administrationConstruction8.7%Manufacturi…7.5%OtherservicesDome…workMining
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

Managers and professionals 47%Skilled occupations 41%Elementary occupations 11%Professionals25%Technicians11%Managers11%Service and sales18%Craft andtrades11%Clerical support6.4%Plant andmachineoperators5.6%Elementary occupations11%
Managers and professio… 47%Skilled occupations 41%Professionals25%Technicians11%Managers11%Service and sales18%Craft and trades11%Clericalsupport6.4%Plant andmachineoperators5.6%Elementary occupations
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

Huechuraba80%House19%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Huechuraba80%House19%Chile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.3%
6.7%5.7%72nd of 345
Internet access
95.2%
95.9%93.2%47th of 345
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.1
1.02.3312th of 345
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.6
0.51.6310th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
29,710
1,868,7116,408,17267th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.69%
0.93%0.57%42nd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.12%
0.51%1.13%169th of 345
Public water network
98.9%
99.6%92.3%34th of 345
Electricity access
99.9%
99.9%99.6%15th of 345
Detached houses
80.2%
55.8%78.7%308th of 345
Apartments
18.6%
42.0%19.9%36th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.09%0.23%243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
2.5%
5.2%11.9%336th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
3,707
193,039491,90443rd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
11.6%
9.9%7.5%37th of 345
Renting households
21.6%
37.8%26.2%88th of 345
Owner-occupiers
64.3%
51.5%61.1%250th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
0.3%
0.2%24.4%313th of 345
Commute by public transport
40.9%
54.0%42.1%50th of 345
Walks to work
6.7%
8.4%10.2%316th of 345
Households with a computer
66.4%
62.8%54.9%13th of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.5
0.51.1321st of 345
People within 5 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%97.0%1st of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
99.6%89.4%1st of 345
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%98.1%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.2
1.05.9317th of 345
People within 5 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
99.7%80.3%1st of 345
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%90.0%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.3
0.30.6312th of 345
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.0%1st of 345
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%91.6%1st of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 47%Public transport 41%On foot or by bicycle 8.7%Oth… 3.5%Car45%Public transport41%Walking6.7%Bicyc…2.0%Other3.5%
Private vehicle 47%Public transport 41%Car45%Public transport41%WalkingBicycleOther
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 64%Rented 22%Provided rent… 10%Owned outright37%Owned, still paying28%Rented, withcontract16%Rented, no contract6.0%Provided byfamily9.5%Otherarran…4.1%
Owned 64%Rented 22%Provide… 10%Owned outright37%Owned, stillpaying28%Rented, withcontract16%Rented,nocontra…6.0%Provided byfamily9.5%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 58%Electricity 29%No heating 12%Gas37%Paraffin21%Electricity29%No heating12%
Fossil fuels 58%Electricity 29%No heating 12%Gas37%Paraffin21%Electricity29%No heating12%
ElectricityNo heatingOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
89.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.3%
voted in the runoff
78,988
registered voters on the roll
6.3%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman46.0%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist54.0%58.3%
HuechurabaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez14.1%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman29.5%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.2%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist22.4%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet18.1%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.6%1.3%
HuechurabaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile48.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile22.6%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido16.4%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente7.0%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.0%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista2.4%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.4%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
HuechurabaChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Huechuraba 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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