Commune · 08206

Los ÁlamosLos Álamos

Compare Los Álamos with another place
Census population
21,950
164th of 346
Population density
36.5/km²
154th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.7 yrs
281st of 346
Foreign-born share
0.5%
331st of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Sought care when ill1st of 332 · Chile 92.1%100.0%
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%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 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.3 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 · 337 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
62.1%
152nd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
24.5%
106th of 335
Came from another region
12.8%
232nd of 335
Net internal migration
+2,648
+11.5 per 100 residents
Los Álamosthis commune · 20,205elsewhere in the region5,635 peopleanother region2,944 peopleabroad138 peopleelsewhere in the region3,325 peopleanother region2,606 peopleLos Álamosthis commune · 22,991
Los Álamosthis commune · 20,205elsewhere in th…5,635 peopleanother region2,944 peopleabroad138 peopleelsewhere in th…3,325 peopleanother region2,606 peopleLos Álamosthis commune · 22,991

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Education1Education▲112Other services2Other services▲105Public administration3Public administration▲21Agriculture and fishing4Agriculture and fishing▼33Retail and wholesale5Retail and wholesale▼28Construction6Construction▲24Manufacturing7Manufacturing▼37Transport8Transport▼16Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food▼311Health10Health▲19Professional services11Professional services▼210Information and communications12Information and communications▼2
2005202421Education▲1122Other services▲1053Public administration▲214Agriculture and fishing▼335Retail and wholesale▼286Construction▲247Manufacturing▼378Transport▼169Accommodation and food▼31110Health▲1911Professional services▼21012Information and communications▼2

The ten branches that employ most of Los Álamos

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.

1 k2 k3 k4 k5 kprojection →3 k2029 · central2005201520242029
1 k2 k3 k4 k5 kprojection →3 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.5% a year observed · -1.4% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

01.0 M2.0 M3.0 Mprojection →2.2 M2029 · central2005201520242029
01.0 M2.0 M3.0 Mprojection →2.2 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.5% a year observed · 2.7% projected

What Los Álamos is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Los Álamos employs more people in 41 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.

41
activities it is specialised in
3,479
formal workers
203/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Actividades de la administración …Otras instalaciones para obras de…Aserrado y acepilladura de maderaExplotación de viveros forestalesFabricación de otros productos el…Venta de partes, piezas y accesor…Extracción de maderaFabricación de otros productos de…Venta al por menor de artículos d…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Actividades de la administración …Servicios de corta de madera a ca…Fabricación de otros productos el…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Los Álamos

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
Explotación de viveros forestalesSilvicultura y otras actividades forestales59118.4×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura15397.4×
Venta al por menor de tabaco y productos de tabaco en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados843.7×
Actividades de otras asociaciones n.c.p.Actividades de otras asociaciones57526.4×
Servicios de transporte de escolaresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre2123.5×
Enseñanza primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional privadaEnseñanza preescolar, primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional1,14810.8×
Aserrado y acepilladura de maderaAserrado y acepilladura de madera669.5×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada237.5×
Otros servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura n.c.p.Servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura1057.3×
Venta al por menor de carbón, leña y otros combustibles de uso doméstico en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados35.5×
Actividades de motelesActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas24.0×
Otras instalaciones para obras de construcciónInstalaciones eléctricas, de gasfitería y otras instalaciones para obras de construcción833.7×

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
41,818
hectares in holdings
91.8%
of them under a named use
10.9%
of the crop land is irrigated
397
holdings with land here
Woodland 85%Not farmed 8.9%Pasture 4.7%Annual cr… 1.8%Forest plantations50%Native woodland35%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings8.2%Pasture4.7%Pulses…Cereals
Woodland 85%Not farmed 8.9%Pasture 4.7%Forest plantations50%Native woodland35%Scrub, barren ground and…PasturePulse…Cere…
PastureOrchards and vineyardshover 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
Los ÁlamosChile% of each territory's own population · 21,950 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
21,950
166,23118,480,432164th of 346
Average age
37.5 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs272nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
66.5
75.779.0287th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
36.5/km²
30.4/km²24.7/km²154th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
7,985
59,4676,596,527162nd of 346
Dwellings
9,311
70,3117,642,716174th of 346
People per household
2.75
2.802.80172nd of 345
Women
51.8%
51.4%51.5%63rd of 346
Men per 100 women
93.1
94.494.3284th of 346
Under 15
20.1%
19.1%17.7%37th of 346
65 and over
13.4%
14.5%14.0%269th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
50.5
50.646.5188th of 346
One-person households
22.2%
20.5%21.8%175th of 345
Households with children
37.2%
36.3%33.2%50th of 345
Indigenous peoples
26.8%
26.9%11.4%86th of 346
Female-headed households
50.4%
47.9%49.9%100th of 345
Land area
601 km²
5,476 km²748,041 km²179th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Los Álamos39%Arrived since 202061%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Los Álamos39%Arrived since 202061%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
0.5%
0.9%8.7%331st 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.
62.1%
72.6%50.5%152nd 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.
24.5%
18.1%23.9%106th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
12.8%
8.1%17.2%232nd of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
109
1,5371,608,650277th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
34.3 yrs
31.8 yrs33.5 yrs120th of 345
Women among foreign-born
53.2%
50.7%51.7%88th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
83.5%
80.4%83.1%67th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
38.5%
44.5%34.4%162nd 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.
0.6%
1.1%10.6%329th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.2 yrs
12.2 yrs12.9 yrs191st 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.
2,648
-38,479093rd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
11.5
-21.60.0105th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Los Álamos17%Higher37%Secondary36%Primary only4.7%5.2%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Los Álamos17%37%Secondary36%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.7 yrs
9.0 yrs10.4 yrs281st of 346
Reached higher education
17.0%
20.1%31.1%262nd of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.4%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.
62.3%
59.3%55.6%55th 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.
103.0%
102.3%99.8%103rd of 346
Literacy rate
95.2%
95.1%97.8%243rd of 346
Reached secondary education
37.0%
35.4%36.7%174th of 346
Primary education only
36.0%
34.7%24.1%103rd of 346
Never attended school
4.73%
4.65%3.01%61st 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.
10.0 yrs
10.3 yrs12.1 yrs257th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.3 yrs
10.6 yrs12.1 yrs251st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.81%
4.86%2.18%103rd of 345
Households lacking schooling
24.1%
29.1%15.1%155th 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.
313
2,234217,565135th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
27.5%
30.8%33.9%223rd 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.
40.9%
6.6%3.1%33rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
66.7%
66.6%67.2%122nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
12.8%
21.4%19.7%246th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
20.5%
11.9%13.1%111th 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.
6.2%
7.6%13.0%223rd 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.
53.8%
50.6%49.7%103rd 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.

313left secondary school in 2024
195enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
62.3%continued immediately
67%of those, to a university
6%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico Universitario en EnfermeriaKinesiologiaPsicologiaMaquinaria PesadaTecnico en Electricidad y Automatizacion IndustrialTecnico Universitario en AdministracionTecnologia MedicaIngenieria Civil IndustrialElectricidad y Electronica IndustrialMedicina Veterinaria
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico Universitario en EnfermeriaKinesiologiaPsicologiaMaquinaria PesadaTecnico en Electricidad y Automatizacion IndustrialTecnico Universitario en AdministracionTecnologia MedicaIngenieria Civil IndustrialElectricidad y Electronica IndustrialMedicina Veterinaria
Los ÁlamosChile

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 welfareEducationBusiness and lawAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesServicesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesInformation technology
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareEducationBusiness and lawAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesServicesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesInformation technology
Los ÁlamosChile

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

0100200300400200620152024313195
0100200300400200620152024313195
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 Los Álamos'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 Los Álamos 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

Los Álamos94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Los Álamos94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.6%
13.7%10.6%198th of 346
Public health insurance
93.9%
94.6%82.6%131st 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.
78.3
93.882.5117th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
108
105100100th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,553
22,8111,950,388171st of 346
Average age, people with a disability
55.7 yrs
56.5 yrs56.4 yrs280th of 346
Disability among 65+
41.0%
42.1%43.0%288th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.75%
6.85%4.92%186th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.34%
6.47%4.58%175th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.48%
2.91%2.16%179th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.34%
3.03%2.70%272nd of 346
Private health insurance
2.7%
1.8%13.2%187th of 335
No health coverage
0.00%
1.35%1.98%279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
100.0%
95.0%92.1%1st of 332
Households lacking health access
8.6%
6.1%6.0%60th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,718
15,6001,523,716154th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
45
35836,698174th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.62%
2.29%2.41%194th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.5 days
6.4 days6.1 days176th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
20.5
21.519.9145th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
96
113100103rd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
89
72989,723150th 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%
4.7%5.9%208th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
40.5
43.948.6161st 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.
83
88100133rd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 25%Pregnancy, birth and newborns 19%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, b… 12%Tumours, blood… 12%Mind, nerves and… 6.9%Infections and o… 6.4%Digestivesystem16%Genitour…system8.3%Pregnancy andchildbirth16%Peri…cond…Cong…malf…Respiratory system11%Circulatory system7.5%Injuries andpoisoning8.6%Musculoskele…3.1%Cancers andtumours7.9%Endocrine andmetabolicMental andbehavioural4.4%NervoussystemEyeInfect…andparasi…Conta…withhealt…Ill-d…sympt…1.7%
Digestive and urinary t… 25%Pregnancy, birth… 19%Heart and … 19%Injuries, bones … 12%Tumours, blood a… 12%Mind… 6.9%Infe… 6.4%Digestivesystem16%Genitou…system8.3%Pregnancy andchildbirth16%Respiratorysystem11%Circulatorysystem7.5%Injuries andpoisoning8.6%Muscu…3.1%Cancers andtumours7.9%Endoc…andmetab…3.8%Mental andbehaviour…Nervou…EyeInfect…and…Contactwith…
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 digestivos34%Sitios reservados22%Sangre y sistemalinfático18%Mama17%Tiroidesyendocrin…9.0%
Órganos digestivos34%Sitiosreservados22%Sangre y sistemalinfático18%Mama17%Tiroidesyendocrin…9.0%
Órganos digestivosSitios reservadosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaTiroides y endocrinashover 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.
18.5%
25.6%17.3%204th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.3 UF
25.1 UF32.0 UF219th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
108.1%
84.6%78.9%102nd 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.
46.0
63.185.6332nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
42.6%
45.2%54.4%302nd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
15.0%
11.7%8.6%3rd of 345
Self-employed
35.1%
36.0%33.8%167th of 345
Extreme poverty
5.3%
9.5%6.9%246th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
18.5%
22.4%17.7%158th of 335
Unemployment rate
16.3%
12.6%8.8%15th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 518,037
CLP 504,984CLP 783,124187th 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.
0.477
0.4560.48862nd of 321
Registered firms
1,009
10,4821,582,390232nd of 346
Annual sales
1,883,463 UF
155,593,136 UF34,347,683,688 UF266th 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.
3,479
41,3159,699,164222nd of 346
Sales per firm
1,867 UF
14,844 UF21,706 UF279th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.7
3.03.9103rd of 346
Women among employees
56.8%
45.7%40.6%9th of 345
Independent contractors
1,109
12,7273,958,269221st of 346
Contractors as share of workers
24.2%
23.6%29.0%222nd of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 33%Trade and logistics 19%Industry and construction 19%Natural resources 19%Othe… 4.9%Adva… 4.5%Education13%Public administration12%Health8.1%Retail andwholesale11%Transport5.2%Accommodation an…Construction9.1%Manufacturing8.7%Agriculture andfishing17%OtherservicesDomesticworkAdministr…servicesProfe…servi…
State and social services 33%Trade and lo… 19%Industry and c… 19%Natural resour… 19%Education13%Public administration12%Health8.1%Retail andwholesale11%Transport5.2%Accom…andfood2.7%Construction9.1%Manufacturing8.7%Agriculture andfishing17%Other…Domest…workAdmi…serv…
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 59%Elementary occupations 21%Managers and professionals 20%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades14%Plant andmachineoperators13%Skilledagricultural7.7%Clerical support4.8%Elementary occupations21%Profession…10%Technicians8.1%Managers
Skilled occupations 59%Elementary occupatio… 21%Managers and profes… 20%Service andsales20%Craft and trades14%Plant and machineoperators13%Skilledagricult…7.7%Clericalsupport4.8%Elementaryoccupations21%Professio…10%Technicia…8.1%Managers
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

Los Álamos100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Los Álamos100%HouseChile79%House20%
House% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.7%
4.9%5.7%241st of 345
Internet access
87.9%
87.5%93.2%193rd 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.
4.1
3.52.3160th of 345
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.6
3.31.6253rd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
7,926
58,8566,408,172162nd of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.28%
0.25%0.57%235th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.77%
1.14%1.13%260th of 345
Public water network
86.3%
78.8%92.3%159th of 345
Electricity access
98.0%
98.8%99.6%306th of 345
Detached houses
99.4%
98.9%78.7%49th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
0.2%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.22%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
12.1%
14.6%11.9%214th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
252
2,352491,904229th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.2%
4.0%7.5%328th of 345
Renting households
9.3%
11.3%26.2%304th of 345
Owner-occupiers
76.9%
75.6%61.1%25th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
91.6%
88.2%24.4%38th of 345
Commute by public transport
32.0%
25.6%42.1%100th of 345
Walks to work
20.9%
26.3%10.2%96th of 345
Households with a computer
35.0%
40.2%54.9%277th 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.
1.2
1.41.1247th 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.
96.2%
95.1%97.0%138th 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%
99.9%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.
70.1%
76.9%89.4%194th 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%
97.5%98.1%121st 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%
99.7%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.
15.7
9.75.9141st of 345
People within 5 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
0.0%
57.2%80.3%194th of 345
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
24.7%
75.0%90.0%216th 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%
92.5%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.8
0.90.6240th 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.
99.5%
98.8%99.0%122nd 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.
90.6%
78.7%91.6%111th 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%
95.1%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%
99.7%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 38%Public transport 32%On foot or by bicycle 23%Oth… 7.3%Car37%Public transport32%Walking21%Other7.3%
Private vehicle 38%Public transport 32%On foot or by bicycle 23%Othe… 7.3%Car37%Public transport32%Walking21%Other7.3%
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 77%Rented 9.3%Provided r… 8.7%Other 5.2%Owned outright76%Rented, nocontract5.2%Rented, withcontractProvided byfamily7.8%Otherarrangement5.2%
Owned 77%Rented 9.3%Provided re… 8.7%Oth… 5.2%Owned outright76%Rented, nocontract5.2%Rented,withcontra…Provided byfamilyOtherarrangem…5.2%
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 92%Firewood92%Gas3.1%Paraf…0.9%Noheati…2.0%Elect…1.7%
Wood and biomass 92%Firewood92%Para…
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
89.9%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.5%
voted in the runoff
19,431
registered voters on the roll
6.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman28.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist71.8%58.3%
Los ÁlamosChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez29.3%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman17.7%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist33.6%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet5.0%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.6%1.3%
Los ÁlamosChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile18.7%30.6%
KCambio por Chile15.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido44.7%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente11.9%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.9%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista2.8%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.8%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%
Los ÁlamosChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Los Álamos 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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