Commune · 05802

LimacheLimache

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Census population
56,145
85th of 346
Population density
190.3/km²
71st of 346
Average years of schooling
10.3 yrs
58th of 346
Foreign-born share
3.5%
147th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 90.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.0 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.0 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 · 552 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
57.6%
201st of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
26.4%
89th of 335
Came from another region
13.5%
218th of 335
Net internal migration
+3,835
+7.4 per 100 residents
Limachethis commune · 46,426elsewhere in the region13,605 peopleanother region6,950 peopleabroad1,280 peopleelsewhere in the region12,309 peopleanother region4,411 peopleLimachethis commune · 51,541
Limachethis commune · 46,426elsewhere in th…13,605 peopleanother region6,950 peopleabroad1,280 peopleelsewhere in th…12,309 peopleanother region4,411 peopleLimachethis commune · 51,541

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Retail and wholesale1Retail and wholesale▲15Construction2Construction▲34Transport3Transport▲11Agriculture and fishing4Agriculture and fishing▼37Education5Education▲26Manufacturing6Manufacturing13Administrative services7Administrative services▲69Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▲110Other services9Other services▲111Professional services10Professional services▲116Health11Health▲512Real estate12Real estate3Arts and entertainment16Arts and entertainment▼138Mining17Mining▼9
2005202421Retail and wholesale▲152Construction▲343Transport▲114Agriculture and fishing▼375Education▲266Manufacturing137Administrative services▲698Accommodation and food▲1109Other services▲11110Professional services▲11611Health▲51212Real estate316Arts and entertainment▼13817Mining▼9

The ten branches that employ most of Limache

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.

5 k10 k15 k20 kprojection →16 k2029 · central2005201520242029
5 k10 k15 k20 kprojection →16 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.4% a year observed · 2.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →14 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →14 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.0% a year observed · 1.6% projected

What Limache is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Limache employs more people in 92 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.

92
activities it is specialised in
13,713
formal workers
125/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Venta al por menor de productos f…Elaboración de productos de panad…Cultivo de plantas vivas incluida…Venta al por menor de combustible…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Consejo de administración de edif…Elaboración y conservación de fru…Captación, tratamiento y distribu…Actividades de atención en instit…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Consejo de administración de edif…Venta al por menor de otros produ…Fabricación de otros tipos de equ…ApiculturaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Limache

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
Cultivo de hortalizas y melonesCultivo de plantas no perennes72861.9×
Cultivo de semillas de hortalizasCultivo de plantas no perennes22358.0×
Desratización, desinfección y exterminio de plagas no agrícolasActividades de limpieza15423.4×
Cultivo de plantas vivas incluida la producción en viveros (excepto viveros forestales)Propagación de plantas24921.7×
ApiculturaGanadería2419.3×
Actividades de servicios vinculadas al transporte terrestre n.c.p.Actividades de apoyo al transporte44814.5×
Cultivo de porotosCultivo de plantas no perennes1213.0×
Elaboración de cacao, chocolate y de productos de confiteríaElaboración de otros productos alimenticios9212.9×
Venta al por menor de productos farmacéuticos y medicinales en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados1,48012.9×
Actividades de motelesActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas2311.6×
Cultivo de floresCultivo de plantas no perennes2211.3×
Venta al por menor de carbón, leña y otros combustibles de uso doméstico en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados2411.2×

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
4,832
hectares in holdings
82.9%
of them under a named use
92.4%
of the crop land is irrigated
285
holdings with land here
Not farmed 32%Woodland 28%Pasture 19%Orchards and viney… 11%Annual crops 11%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings17%Untilled land14%Native woodland28%Pasture19%Fruit trees11%Vegetables7.8%Cereals1.4%Fod…cro…Nurse…and…Cut…
Not farmed 32%Woodland 28%Pasture 19%Orchard… 11%Annual… 11%Scrub, barren groundand buildings17%Untilled land14%Native woodland28%Pasture19%Fruit trees11%Vegetables7.8%Cerea…
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

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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
LimacheChile% of each territory's own population · 56,145 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
56,145
378,05318,480,43285th of 346
Average age
38.9 yrs
39.7 yrs38.1 yrs190th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
85.9
99.379.0194th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
190.3/km²
326.5/km²24.7/km²71st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
19,778
136,6326,596,52786th of 346
Dwellings
24,683
156,4537,642,71686th of 346
People per household
2.84
2.772.80102nd of 345
Women
51.3%
52.4%51.5%118th of 346
Men per 100 women
95.0
90.794.3229th of 346
Under 15
18.3%
16.8%17.7%130th of 346
65 and over
15.8%
16.7%14.0%175th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
51.7
50.446.5148th of 346
One-person households
20.1%
20.0%21.8%242nd of 345
Households with children
34.6%
31.8%33.2%117th of 345
Indigenous peoples
4.3%
4.9%11.4%292nd of 346
Female-headed households
49.9%
52.4%49.9%112th of 345
Land area
295 km²
1,158 km²748,041 km²248th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Limache30%Arrived since 202070%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Limache30%Arrived since 2…70%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
3.5%
4.0%8.7%147th 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.
57.6%
43.3%50.5%201st 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.
26.4%
34.8%23.9%89th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
13.5%
18.3%17.2%218th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
1,978
14,9561,608,65096th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
34.8 yrs
33.9 yrs33.5 yrs102nd of 345
Women among foreign-born
49.4%
51.8%51.7%242nd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
82.1%
81.3%83.1%128th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
30.3%
30.1%34.4%255th 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.
4.4%
4.8%10.6%142nd of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.7 yrs
13.5 yrs12.9 yrs131st of 345
Net internal migration · People who arrived from another comuna minus people born here who live in another comuna. It is a lifetime balance, not a year's. Chile adds to zero by construction: nobody leaves the country in this count.
3,835
132,702074th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
7.4
33.70.0118th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Limache31%Higher38%Secondary24%Primary only5.4%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Limache31%Higher38%Secondary24%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.3 yrs
10.9 yrs10.4 yrs58th of 346
Reached higher education
30.6%
36.8%31.1%57th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
97.7%
98.6%98.6%270th 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.
60.6%
61.3%55.6%69th 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.
100.0%
98.3%99.8%231st of 346
Literacy rate
98.4%
98.8%97.8%52nd of 346
Reached secondary education
37.6%
37.0%36.7%153rd of 346
Primary education only
23.6%
19.1%24.1%286th of 346
Never attended school
2.83%
2.33%3.01%277th of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
12.1 yrs
12.9 yrs12.1 yrs61st of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.1 yrs
12.6 yrs12.1 yrs64th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.63%
1.18%2.18%291st of 345
Households lacking schooling
14.5%
9.1%15.1%262nd 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.
502
4,287217,565101st of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
23.9%
14.7%33.9%242nd 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%
0.5%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
72.7%
75.8%67.2%69th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
18.8%
17.5%19.7%159th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
8.6%
6.7%13.1%260th 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.
2.6%
2.4%13.0%256th 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.
54.3%
51.0%49.7%98th 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.

502left secondary school in 2024
304enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
60.6%continued immediately
73%of those, to a university
3%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%KinesiologiaPsicologiaDerechoGastronomia InternacionalIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y AutotronicaEnfermeriaPeriodismoTrabajo SocialEducacion Parvularia
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%KinesiologiaPsicologiaDerechoGastronomia InternacionalIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y AutotronicaEnfermeriaPeriodismoTrabajo SocialEducacion Parvularia
LimacheChile

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%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawServicesEducationSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawServicesEducationSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
LimacheChile

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

0200400600200620152024502304
0200400600200620152024502304
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 Limache'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 Limache 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

Limache91%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Limache91%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.6%
10.5%10.6%200th of 346
Public health insurance
91.5%
85.8%82.6%188th 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.
71.5
78.882.5154th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
118
8910070th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
6,501
39,7891,950,38884th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
57.1 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs215th of 346
Disability among 65+
45.0%
47.0%43.0%189th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.71%
5.06%4.92%188th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.58%
4.15%4.58%246th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.22%
2.10%2.16%237th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.05%
2.89%2.70%122nd of 346
Private health insurance
2.4%
7.0%13.2%210th of 335
No health coverage
3.50%
2.32%1.98%61st of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
90.7%
92.2%92.1%227th of 332
Households lacking health access
9.5%
7.3%6.0%45th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
4,017
29,7921,523,71695th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
148
77136,69875th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.68%
2.59%2.41%75th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.9 days
6.3 days6.1 days59th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
26.4
20.419.966th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
85
92100160th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
272
2,20789,72384th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.8%
7.4%5.9%85th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
48.4
58.448.690th 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.
95
11110087th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 21%Digestive and urinary tract 20%Injuries, bones and… 17%Tumours, blood… 14%Pregnancy, birth… 13%Mind, nerves and… 7.0%Infections and o… 6.8%Circulatorysystem12%Respiratorysystem9.9%Digestivesystem11%Genitourina…system9.4%Injuries andpoisoning9.8%Musculoskeletal5.5%Skin1.9%Cancers andtumours9.3%Endocrine andmetabolic3.5%Blo…andimm…Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Congen…Mental andbehavioural3.9%NervoussystemEyeIll-definedsymptoms3.8%Cont…withheal…Inf…andpar…
Heart and lungs 21%Digestive and urina… 20%Injuries, bones and sk… 17%Tumours, blood and met… 14%Pregnancy, birth … 13%Min… 7.0%Inf… 6.8%Circulatorysystem12%Respirat…system9.9%Digestivesystem11%Genitour…system9.4%Injuries andpoisoning9.8%Musculosk…5.5%SkinCancers andtumours9.3%Endocr…andmetabo…Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Mental andbehaviour…NervoussystemEyeIll-defin…symptomsConta…with…Inf…and…
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 digestivos31%Sangre y sistema linfático20%Sitios reservados18%Genitalesfemeninos14%Vías respiratorias6.3%Vías urinarias5.1%Sitios maldefinidos5.1%
Órganos digestivos31%Sangre y sistemalinfático20%Sitiosreservados18%Genitalesfemeninos14%Víasrespiratorias6.3%Víasurinar…5.1%Sitiosmaldefini…5.1%
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoSitios reservadosGenitales femeninosVías respiratoriasVías urinariashover 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.
24.5%
18.2%17.3%105th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
19.0 UF
20.9 UF32.0 UF306th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
94.7%
94.3%78.9%206th 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.
76.7
61.785.6176th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
52.8%
51.6%54.4%135th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.2%
8.8%8.6%244th of 345
Self-employed
38.2%
36.0%33.8%108th of 345
Extreme poverty
10.3%
7.5%6.9%94th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
19.9%
10.7%17.7%135th of 335
Unemployment rate
11.6%
9.3%8.8%82nd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 498,492
CLP 613,573CLP 783,124206th 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.
0.411
0.4480.488229th of 321
Registered firms
4,307
23,3421,582,39085th of 346
Annual sales
12,557,969 UF
64,821,684 UF34,347,683,688 UF123rd 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.
13,742
74,9719,699,164100th of 346
Sales per firm
2,916 UF
2,777 UF21,706 UF212th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.0
2.13.9190th of 346
Women among employees
36.8%
42.9%40.6%241st of 345
Independent contractors
3,970
27,1483,958,26998th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
22.4%
26.6%29.0%255th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 29%State and social services 22%Industry and construction 18%Natural resources 12%Advanced services 11%Retail andwholesale17%Transport7.1%Accommodationand food4.9%Health8.8%Education8.7%Publicadmini…4.7%Construction8.9%Manufactur…7.0%Wat…andwas…Ele…andgasAgriculture andfishing9.0%Mining3.0%Administ…services4.2%Profes…servic…3.5%Informa…and…Fin…andins…Domest…work3.3%Otherservic…2.9%Arts andenterta…
Trade and logistics 29%State and social… 22%Industry and… 18%Natural resources 12%Advanced services 11%Retail andwholesale17%Transport7.1%Accommoda…and food4.9%Health8.8%Educati…8.7%Public administrationConstruction8.9%Manufactur…7.0%Wat…and…Ele…and…Agriculture andfishing9.0%Mini…Admini…servic…4.2%Profe…servi…3.5%Informa…Fin…and…Domes…work3.3%Otherservi…2.9%Arts…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Skilled occupations 55%Managers and professionals 31%Elementary occupations 14%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades14%Plant and machineoperators8.2%Skilledagricultur…6.3%Clericalsupport5.2%Professionals16%Technicians11%Managers4.1%Elementary occupations14%
Skilled occupations 55%Managers and professionals 31%Elementar… 14%Service andsales21%Craft andtrades14%Plant andmachineoperatorsSkilledagricul…6.3%Cleri…suppo…5.2%Professionals16%Technicians11%ManagersElementaryoccupations14%
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

Limache85%House14%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Limache85%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.7%
4.1%5.7%242nd of 345
Internet access
93.5%
95.0%93.2%80th of 345
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
2.5
1.62.3243rd of 345
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.5
0.91.6264th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
19,405
134,4206,408,17286th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.33%
0.45%0.57%170th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.46%
1.37%1.13%117th of 345
Public water network
84.0%
93.3%92.3%177th of 345
Electricity access
99.5%
99.5%99.6%165th of 345
Detached houses
85.1%
81.1%78.7%292nd of 345
Apartments
13.7%
17.9%19.9%54th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.30%
0.32%0.23%100th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
15.6%
8.9%11.9%159th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
1,158
6,939491,90482nd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
5.9%
5.1%7.5%141st of 345
Renting households
17.9%
22.0%26.2%128th of 345
Owner-occupiers
67.5%
65.7%61.1%197th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
19.7%
13.3%24.4%242nd of 345
Commute by public transport
36.5%
48.6%42.1%70th of 345
Walks to work
10.0%
7.0%10.2%247th of 345
Households with a computer
51.5%
59.4%54.9%78th 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.
1.4
1.01.1224th of 345
People within 5 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
96.4%
98.5%97.0%131st 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.
91.1%
96.4%89.4%97th 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%
99.8%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.
2.3
2.35.9273rd 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.
87.3%
91.6%80.3%85th 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%
99.1%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.
0.8
0.50.6234th 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.
98.8%
99.7%99.0%162nd 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.
93.0%
97.8%91.6%102nd of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
99.9%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 43%Public transport 36%On foot or by bicycle 14%Other … 6.5%Car41%Public transport36%Walking10%Bicycle4.2%Other6.5%
Private vehicle 43%Public transport 36%On foot or by bicycle 14%Other me… 6.5%Car41%Public transport36%Walking10%Bicycle4.2%Other6.5%
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 68%Rented 18%Provided rent-free 11%Owned outright52%Owned, still paying15%Rented, withcontract13%Rented, no contractProvided byfamily9.4%Other arrangement
Owned 68%Rented 18%Provided r… 11%Owned outright52%Owned,stillpaying15%Rented, withcontract13%Rented,nocontra…4.5%Provided byfamily9.4%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 37%No heating 26%Wood and biomass 20%Electricity 16%Gas31%Paraffin6.1%No heating26%Firewood20%Electricity16%
Fossil fuels 37%No heating 26%Wood and biomass 20%Electricity 16%Gas31%ParaffinNo heating26%Firewood20%Electricity16%
No heatingElectricityOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
88.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
88.7%
voted in the runoff
44,159
registered voters on the roll
8.2%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman41.0%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist59.0%58.3%
LimacheChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez20.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman26.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen17.1%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist22.0%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet11.2%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.2%1.3%
LimacheChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile28.7%30.6%
KCambio por Chile24.7%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido23.7%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente16.9%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.0%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
LimacheChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile30.8%
KCambio por Chile21.8%
JChile Grande y Unido31.8%
IPartido de la Gente11.9%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.7%
Limacheshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Limache 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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