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Lo BarnecheaLo Barnechea

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Census population
112,620
54th of 346
Population density
110.0/km²
87th of 346
Average years of schooling
12.1 yrs
9th of 346
Foreign-born share
10.8%
41st of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People per household1st of 345 · Chile 2.803.47
Electricity access1st of 345 · Chile 99.6%100.0%
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
Average length of stay331st of 331 · Chile 6.1 days3.3 days
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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF34.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF34.3 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 · 512 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
38.0%
293rd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
40.9%
17th of 335
Came from another region
13.9%
207th of 335
Net internal migration
+60,160
+46.2 per 100 residents
Lo Barnecheathis commune · 60,850elsewhere in the region53,322 peopleanother region18,164 peopleabroad9,339 peopleelsewhere in the region9,287 peopleanother region2,039 peopleLo Barnecheathis commune · 130,349
Lo Barnecheathis commune · 60,850elsewhere in th…53,322 peopleanother region18,164 peopleabroad9,339 peopleelsewhere in th…9,287 peopleanother region2,039 peopleLo Barnecheathis commune · 130,349

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Retail and wholesale1Retail and wholesale9Professional services2Professional services▲74Construction3Construction▲12Education4Education▼211Administrative services5Administrative services▲65Accommodation and food6Accommodation and food▼18Other services7Other services▲13Agriculture and fishing8Agriculture and fishing▼515Health9Health▲614Finance and insurance10Finance and insurance▲47Arts and entertainment11Arts and entertainment▼46Public administration12Public administration▼610Manufacturing15Manufacturing▼512Real estate16Real estate▼4
2005202411Retail and wholesale92Professional services▲743Construction▲124Education▼2115Administrative services▲656Accommodation and food▼187Other services▲138Agriculture and fishing▼5159Health▲61410Finance and insurance▲4711Arts and entertainment▼4612Public administration▼61015Manufacturing▼51216Real estate▼4

The ten branches that employ most of Lo Barnechea

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.

025 k50 k75 k100 kprojection →88 k2029 · central2005201520242029
025 k50 k75 k100 kprojection →88 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.1% a year observed · 7.3% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0100 M200 M300 M400 Mprojection →344 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0100 M200 M300 M400 Mprojection →344 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval10.7% a year observed · 2.9% projected

What Lo Barnechea is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Lo Barnechea employs more people in 114 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.

114
activities it is specialised in
61,903
formal workers
30/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.13.7Venta al por mayor de huevos, lác…Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Fondos y sociedades de inversión …Servicios de publicidad prestados…Cría de ganado bovino para la pro…Venta al por mayor de frutas y ve…Venta al por mayor de productos t…Cultivo de uva destinada a la pro…Cultivo de uva para mesaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.13.7Venta al por mayor de frutas y ve…Acabado de productos textilesEnseñanza culturalAdministración de mercados financ…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Lo Barnechea

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
Venta al por menor de carteras, maletas y otros accesorios de viaje en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados54790.1×
Edición de diarios, revistas y otras publicaciones periódicasEdición de libros y publicaciones periódicas y otras actividades de edición41124.4×
Venta al por mayor de huevos, lácteos, abarrotes y de otros alimentos n.c.p.Venta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco6,93923.3×
Otras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas n.c.p.Otras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas1,10618.4×
Cría de caballos y otros equinosGanadería6515.0×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductorGanadería68810.3×
Actividades de mensajeríaActividades de mensajería10110.0×
Actividades de diseño y decoración de interioresActividades especializadas de diseño469.1×
Venta al por menor de muebles y colchones en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros enseres domésticos en comercios especializados2448.4×
Actividades de agentes y corredores de segurosActividades auxiliares de las actividades de seguros y fondos de pensiones2937.5×
Venta al por menor de prendas y accesorios de vestir en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados1,4517.3×
Actividades de parques de atracciones y parques temáticosOtras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas2116.4×

The register files a firm at its tax address, so an activity can be over-represented here because the work happens here or because the head office does. Both are real facts about a place and they are not the same fact, and nothing in the register tells them apart: the communes where large firms keep their registered office carry activities that are physically elsewhere in Chile.

Revealed comparative advantage (Balassa, 1965) and the space of activities (Hidalgo, Klinger, Barabási and Hausmann, 2007), computed on formal employment because that is what a Chilean commune has. Built from the 500-worker activities and the communes above 1,000 formal workers; the floors are on /datos with everything else.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MenWomen001122334455%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
MenWomen00224466%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
Lo BarnecheaChile% of each territory's own population · 112,620 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
112,620
5,385,73718,480,43254th of 346
Average age
36.3 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs311th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
56.6
85.179.0317th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
110.0/km²
2,653.4/km²24.7/km²87th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
32,458
1,951,4816,596,52760th of 346
Dwellings
36,387
2,060,6137,642,71660th of 346
People per household
3.47
2.762.801st of 345
Women
52.4%
51.8%51.5%21st of 346
Men per 100 women
90.8
93.294.3326th of 346
Under 15
20.1%
16.3%17.7%39th of 346
65 and over
11.4%
13.8%14.0%312th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
46.0
43.046.5290th of 346
One-person households
13.9%
23.6%21.8%343rd of 345
Households with children
38.1%
30.2%33.2%40th of 345
Indigenous peoples
2.8%
7.2%11.4%339th of 346
Female-headed households
41.9%
51.1%49.9%309th of 345
Land area
1,024 km²
2,030 km²748,041 km²133rd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Lo Barnechea23%Arrived since 202077%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Lo Barnechea23%77%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
10.8%
15.4%8.7%41st 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.
38.0%
34.9%50.5%293rd 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.
40.9%
35.2%23.9%17th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
13.9%
16.4%17.2%207th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
12,198
828,3681,608,65041st of 346
Average age, foreign-born
38.8 yrs
34.4 yrs33.5 yrs29th of 345
Women among foreign-born
58.6%
51.8%51.7%12th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
80.0%
84.3%83.1%223rd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
23.0%
31.7%34.4%300th 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.
12.6%
18.5%10.6%42nd of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
14.9 yrs
13.4 yrs12.9 yrs6th 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.
60,160
-150,290013th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
46.2
-2.50.016th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Lo Barnechea52%Higher22%Secondary18%Primary only5.9%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Lo Barnechea52%Higher22%18%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
12.1 yrs
11.2 yrs10.4 yrs9th of 346
Reached higher education
52.3%
38.6%31.1%8th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.2%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.
78.2%
54.9%55.6%2nd 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.
95.4%
98.2%99.8%338th of 346
Literacy rate
99.2%
98.7%97.8%11th of 346
Reached secondary education
21.5%
34.9%36.7%340th of 346
Primary education only
18.2%
19.1%24.1%330th of 346
Never attended school
2.03%
2.55%3.01%335th 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.
15.1 yrs
13.1 yrs12.1 yrs6th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
14.4 yrs
12.8 yrs12.1 yrs6th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
0.77%
1.25%2.18%334th of 345
Households lacking schooling
6.3%
9.9%15.1%324th 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.
1,335
57,776217,56554th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
9.1%
31.5%33.9%292nd of 331
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates.
0.0%
0.1%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
91.0%
70.6%67.2%6th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
6.4%
21.9%19.7%309th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
2.6%
7.5%13.1%319th 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.
0.8%
1.3%13.0%307th 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.
51.2%
48.6%49.7%159th 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.

1,335left secondary school in 2024
1,044enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
78.2%continued immediately
91%of those, to a university
1%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%10.0%20.0%Ingenieria ComercialIngenieria CivilDerechoIngenieria Comercial, Plan ComunPsicologiaMedicinaCollege Ciencias Naturales y Matematicas (licenciatura)Ingenieria Civil (plan Comun)College Ciencias Sociales (licenciatura)Bachillerato en Ingenieria Comercial
0.0%10.0%20.0%Ingenieria ComercialIngenieria CivilDerechoIngenieria Comercial, Plan ComunPsicologiaMedicinaCollege Ciencias Naturales y Matematicas (licenciatura)Ingenieria Civil (plan Comun)College Ciencias Sociales (licenciatura)Bachillerato en Ingenieria Comercial
Lo BarnecheaChile

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%20.0%40.0%Business and lawEngineering and industryHealth and welfareSocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesEducationServicesAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technology
0.0%20.0%40.0%Business and lawEngineering and industryHealth and welfareSocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesEducationServicesAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technology
Lo BarnecheaChile

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

05001,0001,5002,0002006201520241,3351,044
05001,0001,5002,0002006201520241,3351,044
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 Lo Barnechea'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 Lo Barnechea 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

Lo Barnechea40%Fonasa55%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Lo Barnechea40%Fonasa55%IsapreChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
4.2%
9.3%10.6%343rd of 346
Public health insurance
39.9%
73.9%82.6%332nd 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.
119.8
87.182.57th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
55
100100280th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
4,713
499,3711,950,388107th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
55.0 yrs
56.6 yrs56.4 yrs288th of 346
Disability among 65+
42.0%
43.7%43.0%267th of 346
Difficulty walking
1.85%
4.33%4.92%341st of 346
Difficulty seeing
1.56%
3.83%4.58%343rd of 346
Difficulty hearing
0.91%
1.87%2.16%340th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
1.25%
2.50%2.70%341st of 346
Private health insurance
55.2%
22.4%13.2%5th of 335
No health coverage
1.85%
1.80%1.98%146th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
94.2%
91.7%92.1%151st of 332
Households lacking health access
2.0%
5.8%6.0%276th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
13,490
469,3531,523,71634th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
106
10,69136,69894th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
0.79%
2.28%2.41%323rd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
3.3 days
6.0 days6.1 days331st of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
9.4
19.919.9304th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
152
1061003rd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
741
28,65989,72338th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.5%
6.1%5.9%175th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
65.8
53.248.616th 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.
144
11110012th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Injuries, bones and skin 22%Digestive and urinary tract 19%Heart and lungs 17%Infections and… 14%Tumours, blo… 11%Pregnancy… 10%Injuriesandpoisoning11%Musculoskel…9.2%Digestivesystem10%Genitourin…system8.7%Respiratory system11%Circulatory system6.4%Contact withhealth services9.2%InfectiousandparasiticIll-de…sympto…Cancers andtumours8.5%Endocrine andmetabolicPregnancyandchildbirth8.0%Congenita…Peri…cond…Nervoussystem2.7%Mentalandbehaviou…Eye1.2%
Injuries, bones and sk… 22%Digestive and urin… 19%Heart and lungs 17%Infections and other … 14%Tumours, blood and… 11%Pregnan… 10%Injuriesandpoisoning11%Musculoske…9.2%Digestivesystem10%Genitour…system8.7%Respiratorysystem11%Circula…system6.4%Contact withhealthservicesInfecti…and…Ill-de…Cancers andtumours8.5%Endoc…andmetab…Pregnancyandchildbirth8.0%Per…NervoussystemMentaland…Eye
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

Órganosdigestivos16%Sangre y sistemalinfático13%Mama11%Piel y melanoma11%Sitios maldefinidos8.5%Genitalesmasculinos8.0%Vías urinarias7.4%Tiroides yendocrinas6.6%Víasrespirat…5.8%Genitalesfemeninos4.5%Boca y faringe3.2%Encéfaloy sistemanervioso3.0%Hues…Tej…bla…
Órganosdigestivos16%Sangre ysistemalinfático13%Mama11%Piel ymelanoma11%Sitios maldefinidos8.5%Genitalesmasculinos8.0%Víasurinarias7.4%Tiroidesyendocrin…6.6%Víasrespirat…5.8%Genitalesfemeninos4.5%Boca yfaringeEncéfa…ysistem…Hue…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaPiel y melanomaSitios mal definidosGenitales masculinoshover 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.
4.0%
12.4%17.3%324th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
34.3 UF
37.3 UF32.0 UF17th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
75.3%
73.0%78.9%317th 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.
158.1
104.385.617th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
59.3%
59.5%54.4%42nd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
4.6%
7.7%8.6%314th of 345
Self-employed
40.4%
33.2%33.8%81st of 345
Extreme poverty
1.5%
4.4%6.9%317th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
12.7%
18.9%17.7%252nd of 335
Unemployment rate
9.8%
8.4%8.8%134th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 1,785,245
CLP 1,019,380CLP 783,1245th 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.
0.513
0.5000.48822nd of 321
Registered firms
17,804
561,5661,582,39020th of 346
Annual sales
299,134,707 UF
25,794,247,870 UF34,347,683,688 UF13th 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.
62,098
5,253,9409,699,16432nd of 346
Sales per firm
16,802 UF
45,933 UF21,706 UF30th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.3
6.13.9134th of 346
Women among employees
47.3%
41.7%40.6%72nd of 345
Independent contractors
45,431
2,467,4083,958,26913th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
42.2%
32.0%29.0%39th of 346

Employment by industry

Advanced services 30%Trade and logistics 22%State and social services 21%Other services 14%Industry a… 9.6%Natural re… 3.1%Profession…services12%Finance andinsurance6.2%Administ…services5.3%Realestate3.6%Informati…andcommunica…3.5%Retail and wholesale15%Transport4.1%Accommodati…and food3.0%Health10.0%Education8.8%Public…Domestic work9.0%Otherservices2.6%Artsandentert…Construction4.8%Manufacturi…3.8%MiningAgric…
Advanced services 30%Trade and logis… 22%State and social… 21%Other se… 14%Indus… 9.6%Professionalservices12%Finance andinsuranceAdministra…services5.3%Real estate3.6%Informationand…Retail andwholesale15%Transport4.1%Accomm…andfoodHealth10.0%Education8.8%Domesticwork9.0%Otherservic…2.6%Artsandentert…Construction4.8%Manufact…3.8%MiningAgr…and…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Managers and professionals 64%Skilled occupations 24%Elementary occupations 12%Professionals38%Managers18%Technicians8.3%Service and sales12%Craftandtrades4.1%Clericalsupport3.1%Plant andmachineoperatorsSki…agr…Elementary occupations12%
Managers and professionals 64%Skilled occupations 24%Elementary… 12%Professionals38%Managers18%Technicians8.3%Service andsales12%Craft andtrades4.1%ClericalsupportPlantandmachi…Skill…agric…Elementaryoccupations12%
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

Lo Barnechea69%House31%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Lo Barnechea69%House31%FlatChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
3.0%
6.7%5.7%335th of 345
Internet access
98.2%
95.9%93.2%6th 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.
2.1
1.02.3257th of 345
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.8
0.51.6302nd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
31,682
1,868,7116,408,17259th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.39%
0.93%0.57%113th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.60%
0.51%1.13%293rd of 345
Public water network
97.9%
99.6%92.3%44th of 345
Electricity access
100.0%
99.9%99.6%1st of 345
Detached houses
68.9%
55.8%78.7%327th of 345
Apartments
30.4%
42.0%19.9%17th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.09%0.23%243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
7.8%
5.2%11.9%275th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
1,583
193,039491,90473rd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.9%
9.9%7.5%210th of 345
Renting households
23.1%
37.8%26.2%72nd of 345
Owner-occupiers
69.4%
51.5%61.1%159th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
1.1%
0.2%24.4%302nd of 345
Commute by public transport
18.8%
54.0%42.1%262nd of 345
Walks to work
6.6%
8.4%10.2%318th of 345
Households with a computer
79.8%
62.8%54.9%6th 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
0.51.1220th 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.
98.1%
100.0%97.0%96th 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.
95.9%
99.6%89.4%72nd 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.
99.7%
100.0%98.1%117th of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.8
1.05.9286th 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.
96.2%
99.7%80.3%58th 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.
99.8%
100.0%90.0%81st 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.
0.6
0.30.6269th 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.
99.6%
100.0%99.0%116th 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.
99.5%
100.0%91.6%48th 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.
99.8%
100.0%98.5%137th 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 71%Public transport 19%On foot o… 7.8%Car69%Publictransport19%Walking6.6%Oth…
Private vehicle 71%Public transport 19%On fo… 7.8%Car69%Public transport19%Walking6.6%
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 23%Provided… 5.1%Owned outright39%Owned, still paying31%Rented, withcontract20%Rented, no contractProvided byfamily3.9%Otherarran…2.3%
Owned 69%Rented 23%Prov… 5.1%Owned outright39%Owned, stillpaying31%Rented, with contract20%Ren…nocon…Provid…byfamilyOther…
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 76%Electricity 18%No heat… 3.4%Wood… 1.9%Gas61%Paraffin15%Electricity18%No heating3.4%Firewo…1.1%Pel…Other
Fossil fuels 76%Electricity 18%No he… 3.4%Gas61%Paraffin15%Electricity18%No heatingFir…
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
84.9%
of the registered voted in the first round
84.9%
voted in the runoff
92,196
registered voters on the roll
4.3%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman16.8%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist83.2%58.3%
Lo BarnecheaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez5.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman9.9%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.4%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen11.5%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist41.0%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.3%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet30.9%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
Lo BarnecheaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile7.1%30.6%
KCambio por Chile33.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido49.2%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente3.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.4%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista1.8%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular0.4%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
Lo BarnecheaChileshare of the valid vote

No sister communes

How this is computed

No commune in Chile resembles Lo Barnechea 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.

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

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