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Lo EspejoLo Espejo

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Census population
87,295
67th of 346
Population density
10,617.2/km²
14th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.2 yrs
191st of 346
Foreign-born share
7.8%
61st of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 5 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 97.0%100.0%
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 5 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 89.4%100.0%
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.4 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.4 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 · 477 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
46.1%
263rd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
37.7%
31st of 335
Came from another region
12.2%
251st of 335
Net internal migration
-8,186
-8.2 per 100 residents
Lo Espejothis commune · 103,910elsewhere in the region37,629 peopleanother region12,137 peopleabroad3,982 peopleelsewhere in the region52,872 peopleanother region5,080 peopleLo Espejothis commune · 99,706
Lo Espejothis commune · 103,910elsewhere in th…37,629 peopleanother region12,137 peopleabroad3,982 peopleelsewhere in th…52,872 peopleanother region5,080 peopleLo Espejothis commune · 99,706

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520244Retail and wholesale1Retail and wholesale▲33Manufacturing2Manufacturing▲11Construction3Construction▼25Transport4Transport▲16Education5Education▲113Information and communications6Information and communications▲77Administrative services7Administrative services2Other services8Other services▼68Real estate9Real estate▼114Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food▲412Professional services11Professional services▲110Health12Health▼29Agriculture and fishing13Agriculture and fishing▼411Finance and insurance14Finance and insurance▼3
2005202441Retail and wholesale▲332Manufacturing▲113Construction▼254Transport▲165Education▲1136Information and communications▲777Administrative services28Other services▼689Real estate▼11410Accommodation and food▲41211Professional services▲11012Health▼2913Agriculture and fishing▼41114Finance and insurance▼3

The ten branches that employ most of Lo Espejo

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.

4 k9 k14 k19 kprojection →15 k2029 · central2005201520242029
4 k9 k14 k19 kprojection →15 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.9% a year observed · 5.5% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

010 M20 M30 Mprojection →22 M2029 · central2005201520242029
010 M20 M30 Mprojection →22 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.7% a year observed · 5.2% projected

What Lo Espejo is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Lo Espejo employs more people in 82 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.

82
activities it is specialised in
11,152
formal workers
35/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.33.7Actividades de la administración …Transporte de carga por carreteraOtras actividades de telecomunica…Fabricación de productos metálico…Otros servicios de telecomunicaci…Servicios de cementeriosFabricación de otros productos el…Venta al por menor de alimentos e…Venta al por mayor de productos t…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.33.7Servicios de cementeriosVenta al por mayor de instrumento…Cultivo de productos agrícolas en…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Lo Espejo

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 mayor de productos de confiteríaVenta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco17431.5×
Servicios de cementeriosOtras actividades de servicios personales19623.6×
Tejedura de productos textilesHilatura, tejedura y acabado de productos textiles1820.7×
Elaboración de hielo (excepto fabricación de hielo seco)Suministro de vapor y de aire acondicionado1218.4×
Otros servicios de telecomunicaciones alámbricas n.c.p.Actividades de telecomunicaciones alámbricas19918.1×
Elaboración de piensos preparados para animalesElaboración de piensos preparados para animales8617.3×
Venta al por menor de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas en comercios especializados (botillerías)Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados9911.1×
Fabricación de partes y piezas de carpintería para edificios y construccionesFabricación de productos de madera, corcho, paja y materiales trenzables7011.0×
Instalaciones eléctricasInstalaciones eléctricas, de gasfitería y otras instalaciones para obras de construcción5388.7×
Servicios de producción de obras de teatro, conciertos, espectáculos de danza, otras prod. escénicasActividades creativas, artísticas y de entretenimiento398.3×
Venta al por menor en comercios especializados de pescado, mariscos y productos conexosVenta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados257.8×
Venta al por mayor de productos del mar (pescados, mariscos y algas)Venta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco1307.4×

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 EspejoChile% of each territory's own population · 87,295 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
87,295
5,385,73718,480,43267th of 346
Average age
38.9 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs190th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
88.3
85.179.0179th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
10,617.2/km²
2,653.4/km²24.7/km²14th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
27,387
1,951,4816,596,52772nd of 346
Dwellings
27,356
2,060,6137,642,71679th of 346
People per household
3.19
2.762.808th of 345
Women
50.6%
51.8%51.5%214th of 346
Men per 100 women
97.5
93.294.3133rd of 346
Under 15
17.6%
16.3%17.7%186th of 346
65 and over
15.6%
13.8%14.0%185th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
49.8
43.046.5203rd of 346
One-person households
18.1%
23.6%21.8%301st of 345
Households with children
35.7%
30.2%33.2%76th of 345
Indigenous peoples
8.9%
7.2%11.4%163rd of 346
Female-headed households
53.8%
51.1%49.9%13th of 345
Land area
8 km²
2,030 km²748,041 km²342nd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Lo Espejo37%Arrived since 202063%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Lo Espejo37%Arrived since 202063%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
7.8%
15.4%8.7%61st 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.
46.1%
34.9%50.5%263rd 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.
37.7%
35.2%23.9%31st of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
12.2%
16.4%17.2%251st of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
6,818
828,3681,608,65056th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
31.5 yrs
34.4 yrs33.5 yrs270th of 345
Women among foreign-born
47.7%
51.8%51.7%287th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
83.2%
84.3%83.1%77th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
36.7%
31.7%34.4%187th 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.
9.7%
18.5%10.6%58th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
11.3 yrs
13.4 yrs12.9 yrs302nd 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.
-8,186
-150,2900273rd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-8.2
-2.50.0184th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Lo Espejo16%Higher47%Secondary28%Primary only5.3%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Lo Espejo16%47%Secondary28%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.2 yrs
11.2 yrs10.4 yrs191st of 346
Reached higher education
16.0%
38.6%31.1%283rd 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.
59.7%
54.9%55.6%83rd 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.
98.1%
98.2%99.8%315th of 346
Literacy rate
97.1%
98.7%97.8%134th of 346
Reached secondary education
47.1%
34.9%36.7%2nd of 346
Primary education only
28.2%
19.1%24.1%224th of 346
Never attended school
3.34%
2.55%3.01%206th of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
10.8 yrs
13.1 yrs12.1 yrs157th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.6 yrs
12.8 yrs12.1 yrs207th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
2.88%
1.25%2.18%210th of 345
Households lacking schooling
17.9%
9.9%15.1%229th 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.
380
57,776217,565120th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
37.9%
31.5%33.9%159th 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.
54.6%
70.6%67.2%239th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
37.4%
21.9%19.7%18th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
7.9%
7.5%13.1%267th 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.
1.3%
1.3%13.0%294th 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.
47.1%
48.6%49.7%261st 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.

380left secondary school in 2024
227enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
59.7%continued immediately
55%of those, to a university
1%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en InformaticaTecnico en Redes y TelecomunicacionesDerechoPsicologiaIngenieria en Administracion Mencion FinanzasIngenieria en Gestion LogisticaContador AuditorGastronomia
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en InformaticaTecnico en Redes y TelecomunicacionesDerechoPsicologiaIngenieria en Administracion Mencion FinanzasIngenieria en Gestion LogisticaContador AuditorGastronomia
Lo EspejoChile

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 industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareInformation technologyServicesEducationArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareInformation technologyServicesEducationArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
Lo EspejoChile

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

0100200300400200620152024380227
0100200300400200620152024380227
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 Espejo'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 Espejo 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 Espejo94%Fonasa4.6%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Lo Espejo94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.5%
9.3%10.6%106th of 346
Public health insurance
94.2%
73.9%82.6%124th 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
87.182.5155th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
98
100100138th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
11,755
499,3711,950,38853rd of 346
Average age, people with a disability
57.5 yrs
56.6 yrs56.4 yrs197th of 346
Disability among 65+
43.8%
43.7%43.0%230th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.68%
4.33%4.92%109th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.77%
3.83%4.58%135th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.91%
1.87%2.16%104th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.17%
2.50%2.70%93rd of 346
Private health insurance
4.6%
22.4%13.2%126th of 335
No health coverage
0.34%
1.80%1.98%267th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
92.6%
91.7%92.1%189th of 332
Households lacking health access
6.8%
5.8%6.0%105th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
6,242
469,3531,523,71671st of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
184
10,69136,69861st of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.95%
2.28%2.41%152nd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.9 days
6.0 days6.1 days125th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
21.1
19.919.9129th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
85
106100155th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
324
28,65989,72376th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.2%
6.1%5.9%206th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
37.1
53.248.6202nd 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.
72
111100191st of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 24%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries, bones… 16%Pregnancy, bi… 15%Tumours, blood a… 12%Infections a… 6.3%Mind, nerves… 4.1%Digestive system16%Genitouri…system8.8%Respiratorysystem11%Circulatorysystem11%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskeletal4.3%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth12%PerinatalconditionsCongen…malfor…Cancers andtumours7.7%Endocr…andmetabo…3.8%Infecti…andparasit…3.2%Contactwith…Ill-def…NervoussystemMentaland…
Digestive and urinary… 24%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries,… 16%Pregnan… 15%Tumours, blood … 12%Infe… 6.3%Digestivesystem16%Genitou…system8.8%Respirato…system11%Circulat…system11%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculosk…4.3%Pregnancyandchildbirth12%Perinat…Con…mal…Cancers andtumours7.7%Endoc…andmetab…3.8%Infec…andparas…3.2%Cont…with…Ill-…NervoussystemMen…andbeh…
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 digestivos26%Sangre y sistema linfático21%Vías urinarias9.3%Mama8.6%Genitalesfemeninos6.8%Víasrespirator…5.6%Genitalesmasculinos5.6%Tiroides yendocrinas5.6%Sitiosmaldefinidos5.2%Encéfalo ysistema…Huesos2.5%Siti…rese…
Órganos digestivos26%Sangre y sistemalinfático21%Vías urinarias9.3%Mama8.6%Genitalesfemeninos6.8%Víasrespirat…5.6%Genitalesmasculin…5.6%Tiroidesyendocrin…5.6%Sitiosmaldefinid…5.2%Encéf…ysiste…2.8%Hues…Sitios…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariasMamaGenitales femeninosVías respiratoriashover 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.
20.1%
12.4%17.3%171st of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
26.4 UF
37.3 UF32.0 UF83rd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
109.7%
73.0%78.9%89th 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.
42.5
104.385.6338th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
49.9%
59.5%54.4%191st of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
12.2%
7.7%8.6%24th of 345
Self-employed
44.1%
33.2%33.8%43rd of 345
Extreme poverty
8.2%
4.4%6.9%158th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
35.2%
18.9%17.7%14th of 335
Unemployment rate
6.5%
8.4%8.8%259th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 489,133
CLP 1,019,380CLP 783,124224th 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.
0.448
0.5000.488126th of 321
Registered firms
3,710
561,5661,582,39097th of 346
Annual sales
16,957,070 UF
25,794,247,870 UF34,347,683,688 UF106th 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.
11,152
5,253,9409,699,164111th of 346
Sales per firm
4,571 UF
45,933 UF21,706 UF135th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.2
6.13.9151st of 346
Women among employees
36.3%
41.7%40.6%248th of 345
Independent contractors
3,868
2,467,4083,958,269101st of 346
Contractors as share of workers
25.8%
32.0%29.0%199th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 39%Industry and construction 24%State and so… 15%Advanced services 13%Other servi… 7.1%Retail and wholesale24%Transport11%Accomm…andfood4.7%Manufacturing11%Construction11%Ele…andgasWat…andwas…Education6.1%Health6.1%PublicadministrationAdministrat…services6.8%Profe…servi…2.1%Infor…andcommu…1.9%Financeand…Realest…Otherservices4.1%Domest…work2.2%Arts an…
Trade and logistics 39%Industry and … 24%State and socia… 15%Advanced se… 13%Oth… 7.1%Retail andwholesale24%Transport11%Accommodat…and food4.7%Manufacturing11%Constructi…11%Education6.1%Health6.1%Admini…servic…6.8%Profess…servicesInforma…Fina…and…OtherservicesDomest…work
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 62%Elementary occupations 20%Managers and professiona… 18%Service and sales25%Craft andtrades18%Plant and machineoperators9.5%Clerical support8.0%Elementaryoccupations20%Technicians9.9%Profession…6.8%Managers
Skilled occupations 62%Elementary occupations 20%Managers and profe… 18%Service andsales25%Craft andtrades18%Plant andmachineoperators9.5%Clericalsupport8.0%Elementaryoccupations20%Technicia…9.9%Profess…6.8%
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 Espejo85%House14%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Lo Espejo85%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
9.5%
6.7%5.7%19th of 345
Internet access
91.3%
95.9%93.2%130th 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.
0.6
1.02.3342nd 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.
0.5
0.51.6318th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
25,016
1,868,7116,408,17275th of 346
Critically overcrowded
1.00%
0.93%0.57%25th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.46%
0.51%1.13%319th of 345
Public water network
99.9%
99.6%92.3%5th of 345
Electricity access
99.9%
99.9%99.6%15th of 345
Detached houses
85.4%
55.8%78.7%289th of 345
Apartments
13.7%
42.0%19.9%53rd of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.09%0.23%240th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
2.5%
5.2%11.9%334th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
4,178
193,039491,90438th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
15.3%
9.9%7.5%21st of 345
Renting households
20.5%
37.8%26.2%96th of 345
Owner-occupiers
54.2%
51.5%61.1%301st of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
0.4%
0.2%24.4%312th of 345
Commute by public transport
60.9%
54.0%42.1%9th of 345
Walks to work
9.1%
8.4%10.2%263rd of 345
Households with a computer
43.1%
62.8%54.9%167th 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.
0.6
0.51.1320th 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.
100.0%
100.0%97.0%1st 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.
100.0%
99.6%89.4%1st 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%
100.0%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.
1.2
1.05.9315th 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.
100.0%
99.7%80.3%1st 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%
100.0%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.
0.2
0.30.6333rd 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.
100.0%
100.0%99.0%1st 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.
100.0%
100.0%91.6%1st 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%
100.0%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

Public transport 61%Private vehicle 24%On foot or by bicy… 12%Public transport61%Car22%Walking9.1%Bicy…Other
Public transport 61%Private vehicle 24%On foot or by … 12%Public transport61%Car22%Walking9.1%Bic…
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 54%Rented 21%Provided rent-free 17%Owned outright49%Owned, still payingRented, nocontract12%Rented, withcontract8.8%Provided byfamily17%Otherarrangem…7.8%
Owned 54%Rented 21%Provided rent… 17%Owned outright49%Own…sti…pay…Rented, nocontract12%Rented,withcontract8.8%Provided byfamily17%Otherarran…7.8%
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 66%No heating 19%Electricity 14%Gas42%Paraffin24%No heating19%Electricity14%
Fossil fuels 66%No heating 19%Electricity 14%Gas42%Paraffin24%No heating19%Electricity14%
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
86.5%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.3%
voted in the runoff
81,949
registered voters on the roll
6.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman56.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist43.8%58.3%
Lo EspejoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez21.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman37.1%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.7%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen11.1%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist17.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.8%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%
Lo EspejoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile33.8%30.6%
KCambio por Chile20.3%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido10.2%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente13.3%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas9.5%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista6.4%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.7%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios4.7%0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
Lo EspejoChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Lo Espejo 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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