Commune · 04104
La Higuera
Compare La Higuera with another placeCensus population
4,335
314th of 346
Population density
1.0/km²
313th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.3 yrs
326th of 346
Foreign-born share
2.5%
181st of 346
Where it stands out
Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
In-hospital case fatality2nd of 331 · Chile 2.41%8.49%
Continues to higher education4th of 331 · Chile 55.6%76.5%
Of those continuing, women328th of 331 · Chile 49.7%30.8%
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer4th of 330 · Chile 5.9%15.1%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024
Average monthly pay
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 · 191 surveyedLives in the commune where they were born
67.4%
101st of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
21.1%
139th of 335
Came from another region
5.9%
324th of 335
Net internal migration
-3,338
-73.9 per 100 residents
Formal employment, 2005–2024
2005–2024 · Source SIIThe ten branches that employ most of La Higuera
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 services402—02MiningNatural resources37+147%03Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics35+400%04Water and wasteIndustry and construction32+100%05ConstructionIndustry and construction31−9%06Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics18+350%07TransportTrade and logistics4—08Administrative servicesAdvanced services2−85%09Other servicesOther services1—10Agriculture and fishingNatural resources0−100%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 Higuera is specialised in
2024 · SIIPuroChile does not compute this for La Higuera. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 562 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 · 2020/202194,750
hectares in holdings
0.7%
of them under a named use
100.0%
of the crop land is irrigated
118
holdings with land here
Pasturehover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.
Population and territory
See all →Population pyramid
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Census population | 4,335 | 562,457 | 18,480,432 | 314th of 346 | |
Average age | 40.0 yrs | 37.3 yrs | 38.1 yrs | 122nd of 346 | |
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15. | 100.3 | 71.8 | 79.0 | 110th of 345 | |
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography. | 1.0/km² | 32.9/km² | 24.7/km² | 313th of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Households | 1,626 | 193,735 | 6,596,527 | 317th of 346 | |
Dwellings | 3,214 | 245,875 | 7,642,716 | 298th of 346 | |
People per household | 2.67 | 2.90 | 2.80 | 225th of 345 | |
Women | 47.0% | 51.6% | 51.5% | 335th of 346 | |
Men per 100 women | 112.9 | 94.0 | 94.3 | 12th of 346 | |
Under 15 | 18.0% | 18.7% | 17.7% | 160th of 346 | |
65 and over | 18.1% | 13.4% | 14.0% | 76th of 346 | |
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age. | 56.4 | 47.3 | 46.5 | 46th of 346 | |
One-person households | 28.8% | 20.1% | 21.8% | 36th of 345 | |
Households with children | 30.0% | 35.8% | 33.2% | 265th of 345 | |
Indigenous peoples | 18.3% | 10.1% | 11.4% | 111th of 346 | |
Female-headed households | 41.2% | 48.9% | 49.9% | 316th of 345 | |
Land area | 4,162 km² | 17,098 km² | 748,041 km² | 41st of 346 |
Migration
See all →When the migrant population arrived
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign-born share | 2.5% | 6.1% | 8.7% | 181st 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. | 67.4% | 56.7% | 50.5% | 101st 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. | 21.1% | 12.7% | 23.9% | 139th of 335 | |
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region. | 5.9% | 25.7% | 17.2% | 324th of 335 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign-born population | 110 | 34,121 | 1,608,650 | 275th of 346 | |
Average age, foreign-born | 31.2 yrs | 32.3 yrs | 33.5 yrs | 279th of 345 | |
Women among foreign-born | 53.6% | 51.8% | 51.7% | 69th of 345 | |
Foreign-born of working age | 77.3% | 81.5% | 83.1% | 285th of 345 | |
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later. | 51.8% | 41.2% | 34.4% | 32nd of 345 | |
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna. | 3.1% | 7.3% | 10.6% | 181st of 346 | |
Average schooling, foreign-born | 11.0 yrs | 12.8 yrs | 12.9 yrs | 317th 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. | -3,338 | 105,698 | 0 | 226th of 335 | |
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory. | -73.9 | 17.7 | 0.0 | 318th of 335 |
Education
See all →How far schooling went
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Average years of schooling | 8.3 yrs | 10.5 yrs | 10.4 yrs | 326th of 346 | |
Reached higher education | 11.4% | 31.8% | 31.1% | 339th of 346 | |
School attendance, ages 6-17 | 100.0% | 98.7% | 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. | 76.5% | 58.5% | 55.6% | 4th of 331 |
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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. | 106.6% | 100.0% | 99.8% | 17th of 346 | |
Literacy rate | 93.5% | 98.5% | 97.8% | 317th of 346 | |
Reached secondary education | 39.2% | 38.1% | 36.7% | 95th of 346 | |
Primary education only | 38.5% | 22.3% | 24.1% | 63rd of 346 | |
Never attended school | 6.45% | 2.65% | 3.01% | 15th 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. | 9.1 yrs | 12.4 yrs | 12.1 yrs | 330th of 346 | |
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men. | 9.7 yrs | 12.4 yrs | 12.1 yrs | 317th of 346 | |
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write. | 6.47% | 1.50% | 2.18% | 31st of 345 | |
Households lacking schooling | 49.0% | 12.0% | 15.1% | 9th 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. | 17 | 6,688 | 217,565 | 323rd of 331 | |
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks. | 0.0% | 28.3% | 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% | 1.9% | 3.1% | 114th of 331 | |
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 69.2% | 61.5% | 67.2% | 101st of 331 | |
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 15.4% | 18.2% | 19.7% | 212th of 331 | |
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 15.4% | 20.4% | 13.1% | 170th 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. | 0.0% | 13.0% | 13.0% | 315th 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. | 30.8% | 48.2% | 49.7% | 328th of 331 |
The class of 2024
Mineduc (SIES), by the comuna they went to school inApproximation: 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.
17left secondary school in 2024
13enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
76.5%continued immediately
69%of those, to a university
0%of those, outside their region
By field of study
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 La Higuera'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
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 Higuera 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 | 13.7% | 9.7% | 10.6% | 97th of 346 | |
Public health insurance | 95.5% | 87.0% | 82.6% | 79th 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. | 24.5 | 64.9 | 82.5 | 315th of 331 | |
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. | 88 | 84 | 100 | 177th of 331 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
People with a disability | 593 | 54,473 | 1,950,388 | 310th of 346 | |
Average age, people with a disability | 58.7 yrs | 54.7 yrs | 56.4 yrs | 140th of 346 | |
Disability among 65+ | 49.9% | 41.3% | 43.0% | 83rd of 346 | |
Difficulty walking | 6.39% | 4.22% | 4.92% | 130th of 346 | |
Difficulty seeing | 6.25% | 4.11% | 4.58% | 99th of 346 | |
Difficulty hearing | 3.18% | 1.85% | 2.16% | 77th of 346 | |
Difficulty concentrating | 3.07% | 2.59% | 2.70% | 116th of 346 | |
Private health insurance | 1.5% | 7.6% | 13.2% | 253rd of 335 | |
No health coverage | 2.73% | 3.22% | 1.98% | 88th of 335 | |
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months. | 89.9% | 92.7% | 92.1% | 242nd of 332 | |
Households lacking health access | 5.4% | 5.5% | 6.0% | 165th of 335 | |
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times. | 106 | 36,520 | 1,523,716 | 315th of 331 | |
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register. | 9 | 900 | 36,698 | 287th of 331 | |
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death. | 8.49% | 2.46% | 2.41% | 2nd of 331 | |
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up. | 13.5 days | 6.4 days | 6.1 days | 5th of 331 | |
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older. | 20.8 | 16.0 | 19.9 | 136th of 331 | |
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. | 29 | 80 | 100 | 315th of 331 | |
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people. | 16 | 2,264 | 89,723 | 296th of 330 | |
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour. | 15.1% | 6.2% | 5.9% | 4th of 330 | |
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is. | 36.9 | 40.3 | 48.6 | 205th 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. | 67 | 85 | 100 | 217th 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.
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. | 31.3% | 19.8% | 17.3% | 37th of 335 | |
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked. | 27.6 UF | 26.9 UF | 32.0 UF | 65th of 342 | |
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job. | 92.0% | 85.9% | 78.9% | 230th 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. | 80.0 | 71.0 | 85.6 | 162nd 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. | 50.1% | 52.2% | 54.4% | 183rd of 345 | |
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently. | 10.5% | 9.8% | 8.6% | 75th of 345 | |
Self-employed | 56.4% | 35.4% | 33.8% | 6th of 345 | |
Extreme poverty | 13.7% | 9.1% | 6.9% | 44th of 335 | |
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks. | 39.5% | 16.4% | 17.7% | 9th of 335 | |
Unemployment rate | 5.2% | 8.9% | 8.8% | 289th of 335 | |
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income. | CLP 425,084 | CLP 648,217 | CLP 783,124 | 296th 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. | 0.419 | 0.448 | 0.488 | 211th of 321 | |
Registered firms | 347 | 39,946 | 1,582,390 | 312th of 346 | |
Annual sales | 476,325 UF | 227,907,842 UF | 34,347,683,688 UF | 318th 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. | 562 | 157,023 | 9,699,164 | 321st of 346 | |
Sales per firm | 1,373 UF | 5,705 UF | 21,706 UF | 315th of 342 | |
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions. | 1.4 | 2.5 | 3.9 | 292nd of 346 | |
Women among employees | 58.0% | 39.5% | 40.6% | 8th of 345 | |
Independent contractors | 522 | 56,085 | 3,958,269 | 302nd of 346 | |
Contractors as share of workers | 48.2% | 26.3% | 29.0% | 19th 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
See all →House or flat
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Overcrowded dwellings | 5.7% | 4.4% | 5.7% | 116th of 345 | |
Internet access | 85.9% | 94.6% | 93.2% | 233rd 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. | 16.8 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 22nd 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. | 16.1 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 17th of 345 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Occupied dwellings with residents | 1,605 | 188,578 | 6,408,172 | 316th of 346 | |
Critically overcrowded | 0.44% | 0.32% | 0.57% | 83rd of 345 | |
Irrecoverable dwellings | 4.17% | 1.21% | 1.13% | 35th of 345 | |
Public water network | 77.3% | 91.9% | 92.3% | 231st of 345 | |
Electricity access | 96.3% | 99.5% | 99.6% | 331st of 345 | |
Detached houses | 99.1% | 85.7% | 78.7% | 115th of 345 | |
Apartments | 0.1% | 13.3% | 19.9% | 200th of 345 | |
Precarious wall materials | 0.90% | 0.22% | 0.23% | 16th of 345 | |
Unoccupied private dwellings | 43.1% | 19.9% | 11.9% | 31st of 345 | |
Quantitative housing deficit | 138 | 12,383 | 491,904 | 289th of 345 | |
Housing deficit as share of households | 8.5% | 6.4% | 7.5% | 59th of 345 | |
Renting households | 7.8% | 23.7% | 26.2% | 329th of 345 | |
Owner-occupiers | 76.5% | 65.1% | 61.1% | 29th of 345 | |
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south. | 8.7% | 5.8% | 24.4% | 274th of 345 | |
Commute by public transport | 32.7% | 38.9% | 42.1% | 97th of 345 | |
Walks to work | 29.4% | 10.8% | 10.2% | 35th of 345 | |
Households with a computer | 29.8% | 56.5% | 54.9% | 324th 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. | 4.4 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 17th 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. | 67.3% | 96.9% | 97.0% | 326th 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. | 92.5% | 99.9% | 99.9% | 330th 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. | 98.6% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 324th 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. | 25.3% | 90.2% | 89.4% | 323rd 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. | 58.4% | 97.5% | 98.1% | 324th 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. | 83.1% | 99.8% | 99.7% | 322nd 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. | 49.1 | 4.0 | 5.9 | 42nd 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% | 85.3% | 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% | 91.3% | 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. | 20.2% | 96.2% | 96.2% | 278th 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. | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 70th 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. | 87.5% | 98.8% | 99.0% | 316th 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. | 98.4% | 100.0% | 99.9% | 310th 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. | 27.4% | 92.8% | 91.6% | 327th 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. | 58.2% | 98.6% | 98.5% | 327th 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. | 83.1% | 99.8% | 99.8% | 324th of 345 |
How people commute
Public transporthover 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 result84.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
84.4%
voted in the runoff
4,844
registered voters on the roll
8.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank
Presidential runoff · 14 December
Jeannette Jara Roman43.4%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist56.6%58.3%
Presidential, first round · 16 November
Franco Parisi Fernandez34.0%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman27.7%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen11.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist17.1%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet6.9%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.7%1.3%
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CUnidad por Chile25.7%30.6%
KCambio por Chile10.2%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido19.6%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente22.4%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas8.2%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista6.2%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile7.6%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
No sister communes
How this is computedNo commune in Chile resembles La Higuera closely enough: its best match sits further away than the best match of nine out of ten communes in the country. These four are the least unlike it, which is not the same thing as sisters.
Punitaqui0.90Coquimbo · 12,076 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Economy.Los Muermos0.94Los Lagos · 17,162 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Scale.Maullín0.96Los Lagos · 15,063 peopleAlike in Health; apart in Housing and services.Fresia0.97Los Lagos · 12,320 peopleAlike in Health; 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.
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