Commune · 07401

LinaresLinares

Compare Linares with another place
Census population
96,744
60th of 346
Population density
66.0/km²
110th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.8 yrs
108th of 346
Foreign-born share
2.4%
188th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute318th of 331 · Chile 19.7%4.4%
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre23rd of 331 · Chile 13.1%36.4%
Women25th of 346 · Chile 51.5%52.3%
Men per 100 women322nd of 346 · Chile 94.391.2
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.9 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.9 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 · 962 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
77.0%
27th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
10.5%
276th of 335
Came from another region
9.5%
302nd of 335
Net internal migration
-36,227
-34.8 per 100 residents
Linaresthis commune · 137,258elsewhere in the region10,985 peopleanother region9,866 peopleabroad3,132 peopleanother region34,517 peopleelsewhere in the region22,561 peopleLinaresthis commune · 104,163
Linaresthis commune · 137,258elsewhere in th…10,985 peopleanother region9,866 peopleabroad3,132 peopleanother region34,517 peopleelsewhere in th…22,561 peopleLinaresthis commune · 104,163

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale8Education3Education▲54Construction4Construction7Transport5Transport▲26Manufacturing6Manufacturing3Administrative services7Administrative services▼410Public administration8Public administration▲211Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food▲212Professional services10Professional services▲29Health11Health▼25Other services12Other services▼7
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Retail and wholesale83Education▲544Construction75Transport▲266Manufacturing37Administrative services▼4108Public administration▲2119Accommodation and food▲21210Professional services▲2911Health▼2512Other services▼7

The ten branches that employ most of Linares

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.

10 k20 k30 k40 k50 kprojection →44 k2029 · central2005201520242029
10 k20 k30 k40 k50 kprojection →44 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.3% a year observed · 4.4% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

010 M20 M30 M40 Mprojection →37 M2029 · central2005201520242029
010 M20 M30 M40 Mprojection →37 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.5% a year observed · 0.8% projected

What Linares is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Linares employs more people in 99 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.

99
activities it is specialised in
35,913
formal workers
149/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Venta al por menor en comercios d…Actividades de consultoría de ges…Transporte de pasajeros en buses …Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Cultivo de trigoMantenimiento y reparación de veh…Centros de atención odontológica …How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Cultivo de trigoServicios de cementeriosCultivo de semillas de hortalizasHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Linares

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
Elaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizasElaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizas1,06015.3×
Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de huesoCultivo de plantas perennes6,43810.7×
Alquiler y arrendamiento de equipo recreativo y deportivoAlquiler y arrendamiento de efectos personales y enseres domésticos2010.5×
Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (incluye el cultivo de aceitunas)Cultivo de plantas perennes3049.7×
Actividades de motelesActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas448.5×
Conservador de bienes raícesActividades jurídicas728.4×
Otras actividades de servicio de bebidas n.c.p.Actividades de servicio de bebidas168.3×
Servicios de transporte de escolaresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre636.8×
Reparación de equipo de comunicaciones (incluye la reparación teléfonos celulares)Reparación de computadores y equipo de comunicaciones156.8×
Explotación de estacionamientos de vehículos automotores y parquímetrosActividades de apoyo al transporte3466.3×
Venta al por menor de combustibles para vehículos automotores en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de combustibles para vehículos automotores en comercios especializados7615.8×
Cultivo de semillas de cereales, legumbres y oleaginosas (excepto semillas de raps y maravilla)Cultivo de plantas no perennes425.6×

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
49,423
hectares in holdings
57.4%
of them under a named use
96.2%
of the crop land is irrigated
1,478
holdings with land here
Not farmed 48%Woodland 24%Annual crops 13%Pasture 9.3%Orchards a… 6.5%Scrub, barren ground and buildings43%Untilled landNative woodland17%Forestplantati…6.6%Cereals9.0%Foddercrops2.0%Puls…and…Indu…Pasture9.3%Fruit trees6.0%
Not farmed 48%Woodland 24%Annual cr… 13%Pas… 9.3%Scrub, barren ground and buildings43%Unti…landNative woodland17%Forest plantations6.6%Cereals9.0%Fodder…Veg…Pasture9.3%Fruit trees
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
LinaresChile% of each territory's own population · 96,744 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
96,744
307,82618,480,43260th of 346
Average age
39.1 yrs
39.4 yrs38.1 yrs179th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
85.8
88.979.0195th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
66.0/km²
30.6/km²24.7/km²110th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
35,110
112,4046,596,52756th of 346
Dwellings
41,380
135,5247,642,71654th of 346
People per household
2.76
2.742.80168th of 345
Women
52.3%
51.6%51.5%25th of 346
Men per 100 women
91.2
94.094.3322nd of 346
Under 15
18.3%
18.3%17.7%135th of 346
65 and over
15.7%
16.2%14.0%178th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
51.6
52.646.5153rd of 346
One-person households
20.3%
20.9%21.8%235th of 345
Households with children
34.0%
33.7%33.2%138th of 345
Indigenous peoples
3.9%
3.8%11.4%310th of 346
Female-headed households
51.0%
47.3%49.9%80th of 345
Land area
1,466 km²
10,068 km²748,041 km²96th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Linares35%Arrived since 202065%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Linares35%Arrived since 202065%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
2.4%
1.7%8.7%188th 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.
77.0%
68.1%50.5%27th 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.
10.5%
16.2%23.9%276th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
9.5%
13.8%17.2%302nd of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
2,354
5,3371,608,65089th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
34.1 yrs
33.7 yrs33.5 yrs131st of 345
Women among foreign-born
51.2%
49.8%51.7%160th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
81.9%
81.3%83.1%136th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
34.7%
38.8%34.4%205th 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.
3.0%
2.2%10.6%186th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.0 yrs
12.4 yrs12.9 yrs92nd 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.
-36,227
-50,7200320th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-34.8
-16.00.0267th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Linares25%Higher37%Secondary29%Primary only5.4%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Linares25%Higher37%Secondary29%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.8 yrs
9.1 yrs10.4 yrs108th of 346
Reached higher education
25.5%
19.7%31.1%101st of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.1%
98.4%98.6%256th 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.
47.2%
49.3%55.6%277th 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.
102.7%
103.9%99.8%132nd of 346
Literacy rate
96.9%
95.3%97.8%145th of 346
Reached secondary education
37.2%
36.4%36.7%171st of 346
Primary education only
29.1%
34.9%24.1%212th of 346
Never attended school
2.85%
3.81%3.01%273rd 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.
11.3 yrs
10.3 yrs12.1 yrs119th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.6 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs106th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.08%
4.68%2.18%199th of 345
Households lacking schooling
18.8%
27.1%15.1%219th 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.
1,770
3,750217,56536th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
47.2%
44.1%33.9%102nd 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%
4.4%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
59.2%
56.9%67.2%200th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
4.4%
8.6%19.7%318th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
36.4%
34.5%13.1%23rd 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.
16.7%
21.2%13.0%143rd 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.
53.1%
52.3%49.7%121st 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.

1,770left secondary school in 2024
836enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
47.2%continued immediately
59%of those, to a university
17%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico en EnfermeriaAnalista ProgramadorIngenieria ComercialPsicologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria Civil InformaticaAdministracion de EmpresasKinesiologiaDerechoTecnico en Cosmetologia y Estetica Integral
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico en EnfermeriaAnalista ProgramadorIngenieria ComercialPsicologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria Civil InformaticaAdministracion de EmpresasKinesiologiaDerechoTecnico en Cosmetologia y Estetica Integral
LinaresChile

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 lawEducationInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciencesArts and humanities
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciencesArts and humanities
LinaresChile

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

05001,0001,5002,0002006201520241,770836
05001,0001,5002,0002006201520241,770836
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 Linares'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 Linares 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

Linares89%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Linares89%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.3%
13.6%10.6%109th of 346
Public health insurance
88.6%
92.0%82.6%237th 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.
70.3
76.682.5166th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
104
117100113th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
12,850
41,8951,950,38846th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
56.6 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs243rd of 346
Disability among 65+
43.4%
45.2%43.0%241st of 346
Difficulty walking
6.25%
6.74%4.92%142nd of 346
Difficulty seeing
6.24%
6.31%4.58%100th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.67%
2.79%2.16%147th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.36%
3.23%2.70%67th of 346
Private health insurance
2.8%
1.9%13.2%184th of 335
No health coverage
4.40%
3.18%1.98%33rd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
98.0%
96.9%92.1%63rd of 332
Households lacking health access
8.8%
6.8%6.0%56th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
6,804
23,5811,523,71666th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
216
79936,69853rd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.17%
3.39%2.41%129th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.0 days
6.0 days6.1 days219th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
22.3
26.019.9112th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
84
90100166th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
445
1,37989,72359th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.5%
5.8%5.9%99th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
46.0
44.848.6106th 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.
89
84100114th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Pregnancy, birth and newborns 19%Heart and lungs 18%Injuries, bones … 18%Tumours, blood and met… 13%Infection… 4.7%Mind, ner… 3.8%Digestive system14%Genitour…system8.2%Pregnancy andchildbirth17%Per…con…Con…mal…Circulatorysystem9.6%Respiratory system8.4%Injuries andpoisoning12%Musculoskeletal5.1%Cancers andtumours9.1%Endocr…andmetabo…3.5%Blood an…Ill-…symp…Infe…andpara…Cont…withheal…NervoussystemMentalandbehavi…
Digestive and urinary … 23%Pregnancy, birth … 19%Heart and… 18%Injuries,… 18%Tumours, bloo… 13%Digestivesystem14%Genitou…system8.2%Pregnancy andchildbirth17%Circulatorysystem9.6%Respiratorysystem8.4%Injuries andpoisoning12%Musculoskel…5.1%Cancersandtumours9.1%Endoc…andmetab…3.5%Blood…Ill-de…Infect…Nervou…Mentaland…
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 digestivos27%Mama14%Sangre y sistemalinfático13%Tiroides yendocrinas9.7%Vías urinarias8.5%Genitalesfemeninos7.6%Genitalesmasculinos5.2%Víasrespira…3.4%Sitios maldefinidos3.1%Piel ymelanoma2.9%Boca yfaringeEncéfalo ysistema…Sitios…
Órganos digestivos27%Mama14%Sangre ysistemalinfático13%Tiroides yendocrinas9.7%Víasurinarias8.5%Genitalesfemeninos7.6%Genitalesmasculinos5.2%VíasrespiratoriasSitiosmaldefinid…Piel ymelanomaBoca yfaringeEncéfa…y…Sitios…
Órganos digestivosMamaSangre y sistema linfáticoTiroides y endocrinasVías urinariasGenitales femeninoshover 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.
33.9%
29.7%17.3%28th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
18.9 UF
19.2 UF32.0 UF310th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
101.9%
109.0%78.9%156th 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
89.685.6114th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
50.1%
46.7%54.4%186th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
10.7%
10.7%8.6%67th of 345
Self-employed
35.7%
35.3%33.8%154th of 345
Extreme poverty
15.7%
12.5%6.9%27th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
13.4%
14.9%17.7%245th of 335
Unemployment rate
10.7%
9.0%8.8%101st of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 511,524
CLP 466,464CLP 783,124192nd 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.
0.454
0.4420.488112th of 321
Registered firms
8,661
27,5711,582,39045th of 346
Annual sales
35,335,665 UF
83,517,785 UF34,347,683,688 UF68th 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.
35,953
92,1109,699,16453rd of 346
Sales per firm
4,080 UF
3,029 UF21,706 UF154th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.2
1.83.9154th of 346
Women among employees
42.5%
42.3%40.6%135th of 345
Independent contractors
8,134
22,1653,958,26964th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
18.4%
19.4%29.0%296th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 30%State and social services 26%Industry and construction 17%Natural resources 13%Advanced ser… 8.1%Other s… 6.1%Retail and wholesale19%Transport6.1%Accommodati…and food4.1%Education12%Health9.1%Public administration5.3%Construction8.8%Manufacturing6.3%Electric…Water…Agriculture and fishing11%Min…ProfessionalservicesAdministrat…servicesInfor…andcommu…Finan…and…Domestic work2.9%Otherservices
Trade and logistics 30%State and social s… 26%Industry and … 17%Natural … 13%Advanced… 8.1%Other se… 6.1%Retail and wholesale19%Transport6.1%Accommod…and food4.1%Education12%Health9.1%Publicadmini…5.3%Construction8.8%Manufacturing6.3%Ele…and…Wat…Agricultureand fishing11%Prof…serv…Admi…serv…Inf…and…Fina…DomesticworkOtherserv…
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 53%Managers and professionals 30%Elementary occupations 16%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades14%Plant and machineoperators8.2%Clericalsupport5.7%Skilledagricul…3.8%Professionals17%Technicians10%Managers3.6%Elementary occupations16%
Skilled occupations 53%Managers and professionals 30%Elementary … 16%Service andsales21%Craft andtrades14%Plant andmachineoperatorsClericalsupport5.7%Skilledagricu…3.8%Professionals17%Technicians10%ManagersElementaryoccupations16%
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

Linares97%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Linares97%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.1%
5.7%5.7%191st of 345
Internet access
90.1%
87.3%93.2%153rd 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.
2.8
4.62.3225th 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.
2.1
3.31.6236th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
34,636
111,0606,408,17256th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.31%
0.32%0.57%198th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.96%
0.96%1.13%202nd of 345
Public water network
92.3%
88.5%92.3%105th of 345
Electricity access
99.8%
99.6%99.6%48th of 345
Detached houses
96.8%
98.3%78.7%212th of 345
Apartments
2.5%
1.2%19.9%109th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.14%0.23%243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
11.8%
13.8%11.9%215th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
1,730
5,214491,90470th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.9%
4.6%7.5%204th of 345
Renting households
19.0%
13.6%26.2%112th of 345
Owner-occupiers
69.0%
73.0%61.1%169th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
49.7%
64.9%24.4%180th of 345
Commute by public transport
24.8%
23.0%42.1%184th of 345
Walks to work
11.9%
11.3%10.2%210th of 345
Households with a computer
48.6%
41.6%54.9%107th 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.
1.1
1.61.1257th 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.
96.8%
95.3%97.0%121st 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%232nd 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.
83.0%
67.4%89.4%131st 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.
97.4%
93.3%98.1%178th 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.
99.7%
99.8%99.7%266th 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.
3.0
6.55.9259th 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.
82.2%
56.1%80.3%93rd 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.
97.0%
86.3%90.0%112th 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.
99.5%
99.0%96.2%177th 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.
0.7
1.10.6248th 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.
99.2%
98.5%99.0%143rd 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%257th 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.
90.3%
74.5%91.6%112th 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.
97.8%
96.7%98.5%192nd 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.
99.9%
99.9%99.8%255th of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 46%Public transport 25%On foot or by bicycle 23%Car44%Public transport25%Walking12%Bicycle11%Other6.5%
Private vehicle 46%Public transport 25%On foot or by bicycle 23%Car44%Public transport25%Walking12%Bicycle11%Other
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 69%Rented 19%Provided … 8.6%Owned outright57%Owned, still paying12%Rented, withcontract13%Rented, no contract5.5%Provided byfamily7.4%Otherarran…3.4%
Owned 69%Rented 19%Provid… 8.6%Owned outright57%Owned,stillpaying12%Rented, withcontract13%Rented,nocontra…5.5%Providedby family7.4%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

Wood and biomass 56%Fossil fuels 31%Electricity 9.7%No h… 2.8%Firewood50%Pellets4.8%Coal1.1%Paraffin16%Gas15%Electricity9.7%No heating2.8%
Wood and biomass 56%Fossil fuels 31%Electri… 9.7%Firewood50%Pell…CoalParaffin16%Gas15%Electricity9.7%No heating
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
88.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
88.8%
voted in the runoff
85,600
registered voters on the roll
6.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman33.4%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist66.6%58.3%
LinaresChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez22.0%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman21.5%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist29.8%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.5%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
LinaresChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile33.9%30.6%
KCambio por Chile25.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido26.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente8.7%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%
LinaresChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile19.5%
KCambio por Chile37.8%
JChile Grande y Unido14.7%
IPartido de la Gente9.7%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas13.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.2%
Independents outside a pact3.3%
Linaresshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Linares 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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