La Estrella
Compare La Estrella with another placeWhere it stands out
Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.Average monthly pay
Where the people here are from
Casen 2024 · 127 surveyedFormal employment, 2005–2024
2005–2024 · Source SIIThe ten branches that employ most of La Estrella
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.
Annual sales in UF, projected
UF is indexed to inflation, so this is a projection in real terms.
What La Estrella is specialised in
2024 · SIIPuroChile does not compute this for La Estrella. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 605 formal workers here that division is a statement about a handful of people: one worker would move it further than a whole industry moves it in Santiago. The floor is 1,000 workers, and it is a floor rather than a caveat because a spectacular number nobody should read is worse than no number.
The land and who works it
Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021Population and territory
See all →Population pyramid
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Census population | 4,609 | 58,136 | 18,480,432 | 310th of 346 | |
Average age | 42.8 yrs | 41.7 yrs | 38.1 yrs | 23rd of 346 | |
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15. | 129.5 | 113.5 | 79.0 | 28th of 345 | |
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography. | 10.6/km² | 17.6/km² | 24.7/km² | 256th of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Households | 1,812 | 22,793 | 6,596,527 | 311th of 346 | |
Dwellings | 3,678 | 41,498 | 7,642,716 | 286th of 346 | |
People per household | 2.54 | 2.55 | 2.80 | 291st of 345 | |
Women | 49.2% | 50.0% | 51.5% | 313th of 346 | |
Men per 100 women | 103.4 | 100.0 | 94.3 | 34th of 346 | |
Under 15 | 15.8% | 16.8% | 17.7% | 299th of 346 | |
65 and over | 20.5% | 19.1% | 14.0% | 24th of 346 | |
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age. | 56.9 | 56.0 | 46.5 | 40th of 346 | |
One-person households | 26.3% | 25.9% | 21.8% | 59th of 345 | |
Households with children | 26.6% | 28.6% | 33.2% | 314th of 345 | |
Indigenous peoples | 4.3% | 4.8% | 11.4% | 294th of 346 | |
Female-headed households | 40.3% | 45.4% | 49.9% | 324th of 345 | |
Land area | 433 km² | 3,296 km² | 748,041 km² | 221st of 346 |
Migration
See all →When the migrant population arrived
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign-born share | 4.0% | 3.6% | 8.7% | 128th 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. | 67.7% | 67.3% | 50.5% | 97th 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. | 13.4% | 10.2% | 23.9% | 239th of 335 | |
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region. | 18.9% | 19.9% | 17.2% | 102nd of 335 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign-born population | 186 | 2,108 | 1,608,650 | 240th of 346 | |
Average age, foreign-born | 35.4 yrs | 33.9 yrs | 33.5 yrs | 88th of 345 | |
Women among foreign-born | 44.6% | 49.1% | 51.7% | 329th of 345 | |
Foreign-born of working age | 81.7% | 81.5% | 83.1% | 144th of 345 | |
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later. | 41.4% | 39.8% | 34.4% | 127th 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. | 5.2% | 4.6% | 10.6% | 117th of 346 | |
Average schooling, foreign-born | 12.0 yrs | 12.6 yrs | 12.9 yrs | 229th 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. | -3,109 | -13,426 | 0 | 219th of 335 | |
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory. | -101.4 | -26.8 | 0.0 | 330th of 335 |
Education
See all →How far schooling went
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Average years of schooling | 9.1 yrs | 9.4 yrs | 10.4 yrs | 211th of 346 | |
Reached higher education | 18.4% | 23.1% | 31.1% | 227th of 346 | |
School attendance, ages 6-17 | 88.7% | 97.5% | 98.6% | 332nd of 333 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | 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. | 101.0% | 103.7% | 99.8% | 198th of 346 | |
Literacy rate | 96.2% | 95.3% | 97.8% | 186th of 346 | |
Reached secondary education | 37.9% | 35.2% | 36.7% | 145th of 346 | |
Primary education only | 36.0% | 32.5% | 24.1% | 102nd of 346 | |
Never attended school | 3.60% | 4.63% | 3.01% | 171st 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. | 10.3 yrs | 10.6 yrs | 12.1 yrs | 213th of 346 | |
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men. | 10.4 yrs | 11.0 yrs | 12.1 yrs | 237th of 346 | |
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write. | 3.79% | 4.68% | 2.18% | 161st of 345 | |
Households lacking schooling | 19.4% | 27.9% | 15.1% | 213th of 335 |
Health
See all →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 La Estrella 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
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Disability prevalence | 13.5% | 13.6% | 10.6% | 105th of 346 | |
Public health insurance | 88.2% | 91.0% | 82.6% | 247th 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. | 24.1 | 47.4 | 82.5 | 316th of 331 | |
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. | 32 | 73 | 100 | 311th of 331 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
People with a disability | 621 | 7,907 | 1,950,388 | 306th of 346 | |
Average age, people with a disability | 61.6 yrs | 60.2 yrs | 56.4 yrs | 45th of 346 | |
Disability among 65+ | 53.6% | 49.0% | 43.0% | 28th of 346 | |
Difficulty walking | 6.53% | 6.95% | 4.92% | 120th of 346 | |
Difficulty seeing | 6.40% | 6.14% | 4.58% | 96th of 346 | |
Difficulty hearing | 2.34% | 2.84% | 2.16% | 215th of 346 | |
Difficulty concentrating | 3.62% | 3.22% | 2.70% | 33rd of 346 | |
Private health insurance | 3.4% | 2.3% | 13.2% | 161st of 335 | |
No health coverage | 6.78% | 5.00% | 1.98% | 12th of 335 | |
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months. | 100.0% | 95.9% | 92.1% | 1st of 332 | |
Households lacking health access | 0.0% | 5.3% | 6.0% | 310th of 335 | |
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times. | 111 | 2,757 | 1,523,716 | 314th of 331 | |
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register. | 4 | 109 | 36,698 | 311th of 331 | |
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death. | 3.60% | 3.95% | 2.41% | 82nd of 331 | |
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up. | 5.9 days | 7.9 days | 6.1 days | 235th of 331 | |
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older. | 8.7 | 18.7 | 19.9 | 310th of 331 | |
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. | 27 | 53 | 100 | 316th of 331 | |
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people. | 2 | 158 | 89,723 | 323rd of 330 | |
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour. | 1.8% | 5.7% | 5.9% | 328th of 330 | |
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is. | 4.3 | 27.2 | 48.6 | 327th 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. | 7 | 47 | 100 | 329th of 330 |
What people are hospitalised for
Economy and poverty
See all →| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line. | 15.5% | 19.2% | 17.3% | 265th of 335 | |
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked. | 42.3 UF | 21.6 UF | 32.0 UF | 7th of 342 | |
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job. | 44.7% | 101.8% | 78.9% | 341st 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. | 108.5 | 115.2 | 85.6 | 53rd of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over. | 49.9% | 51.2% | 54.4% | 193rd of 345 | |
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently. | 5.9% | 6.3% | 8.6% | 286th of 345 | |
Self-employed | 40.1% | 43.7% | 33.8% | 86th of 345 | |
Extreme poverty | 10.7% | 8.3% | 6.9% | 87th of 335 | |
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks. | 11.1% | 17.3% | 17.7% | 281st of 335 | |
Unemployment rate | 0.0% | 4.0% | 8.8% | 325th of 335 | |
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income. | CLP 498,340 | CLP 528,636 | CLP 783,124 | 207th 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. | 0.352 | 0.436 | 0.488 | 314th of 321 | |
Registered firms | 500 | 6,696 | 1,582,390 | 296th of 346 | |
Annual sales | 4,252,266 UF | 17,584,889 UF | 34,347,683,688 UF | 215th 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. | 618 | 14,004 | 9,699,164 | 318th of 346 | |
Sales per firm | 8,505 UF | 2,626 UF | 21,706 UF | 68th of 342 | |
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions. | 1.0 | 1.4 | 3.9 | 328th of 346 | |
Women among employees | 51.8% | 43.8% | 40.6% | 28th of 345 | |
Independent contractors | 614 | 7,843 | 3,958,269 | 287th of 346 | |
Contractors as share of workers | 49.8% | 35.9% | 29.0% | 15th of 346 |
Employment by industry
Employment by occupation
Housing and services
See all →House or flat
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Overcrowded dwellings | 5.2% | 4.8% | 5.7% | 181st of 345 | |
Internet access | 88.1% | 86.8% | 93.2% | 191st 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. | 5.9 | 5.7 | 2.3 | 88th 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. | 5.9 | 5.4 | 1.6 | 70th of 345 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Occupied dwellings with residents | 1,784 | 22,481 | 6,408,172 | 311th of 346 | |
Critically overcrowded | 0.34% | 0.33% | 0.57% | 162nd of 345 | |
Irrecoverable dwellings | 1.12% | 1.87% | 1.13% | 170th of 345 | |
Public water network | 62.2% | 76.1% | 92.3% | 299th of 345 | |
Electricity access | 98.8% | 99.1% | 99.6% | 265th of 345 | |
Detached houses | 99.4% | 98.6% | 78.7% | 49th of 345 | |
Apartments | 0.1% | 0.1% | 19.9% | 182nd of 345 | |
Precarious wall materials | 0.30% | 0.20% | 0.23% | 86th of 345 | |
Unoccupied private dwellings | 50.6% | 43.0% | 11.9% | 24th of 345 | |
Quantitative housing deficit | 70 | 1,178 | 491,904 | 324th of 345 | |
Housing deficit as share of households | 3.9% | 5.2% | 7.5% | 295th of 345 | |
Renting households | 8.7% | 16.1% | 26.2% | 318th of 345 | |
Owner-occupiers | 69.8% | 66.4% | 61.1% | 149th of 345 | |
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south. | 57.9% | 52.1% | 24.4% | 169th of 345 | |
Commute by public transport | 17.0% | 15.8% | 42.1% | 280th of 345 | |
Walks to work | 13.0% | 18.1% | 10.2% | 193rd of 345 | |
Households with a computer | 39.4% | 41.9% | 54.9% | 225th 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. | 4.2 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 20th 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. | 58.7% | 83.1% | 97.0% | 335th 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% | 99.8% | 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. | 50.3% | 55.8% | 89.4% | 272nd 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. | 95.9% | 92.9% | 98.1% | 210th 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. | 31.4 | 48.8 | 5.9 | 81st 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% | 0.0% | 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% | 0.0% | 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. | 35.0% | 5.9% | 96.2% | 267th 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. | 2.6 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 30th 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. | 91.5% | 95.9% | 99.0% | 303rd 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. | 50.3% | 57.6% | 91.6% | 291st 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. | 96.4% | 93.7% | 98.5% | 217th 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
Housing tenure
Home heating fuel
How it voted in 2025
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Sister communes
How this is computedThe four communes that most resemble La Estrella 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.
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.