Machalí — PuroChile

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.

Walks to work344th of 345 · Chile 10.2%4.7%

Average length of stay326th of 331 · Chile 6.1 days4.3 days

Private health insurance8th of 335 · Chile 13.2%30.5%

Average schooling, foreign-born9th of 345 · Chile 12.9 yrs14.6 yrs

Households with a computer10th of 345 · Chile 54.9%68.6%

Average years of schooling, men11th of 346 · Chile 12.1 yrs13.6 yrs

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 829 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

36.7%

294th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

34.9%

42nd of 335

Came from another region

24.2%

45th of 335

Net internal migration

+19,596

+30.4 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Machalí

Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.

BranchWorkersShare of total2005–2024Change

01ConstructionIndustry and construction5,79834.4%+501%02Administrative servicesAdvanced services2,69916.0%+282%03Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics1,5008.9%+98%04Agriculture and fishingNatural resources1,4368.5%−34%05EducationState and social services1,2897.6%+141%06Arts and entertainmentOther services1,2437.4%+122%07Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics8425.0%+465%08ManufacturingIndustry and construction3572.1%+76%09MiningNatural resources2981.8%—10Professional servicesAdvanced services2731.6%+33%

Dependent workers, projected

Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.5% a year observed · 6.0% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval10.2% a year observed · 5.1% projected

What Machalí is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Machalí employs more people in 62 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.

62

activities it is specialised in

16,818

formal workers

65/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in Machalí

Ranked by how many times the national share this place reaches. The division each activity belongs to is a page of its own.

Activity	Division	Workers here	Times the national share
Otras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas n.c.p.	Otras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas	1,201	73.7×
Actividades de discotecas y cabaret (night club), con predominio del servicio de bebidas	Actividades de servicio de bebidas	114	21.0×
Terminación y acabado de edificios	Terminación y acabado de edificios	4,835	19.0×
Venta al por menor de tabaco y productos de tabaco en comercios especializados	Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados	14	15.8×
Reparación de maquinaria agropecuaria y forestal	Reparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo	21	9.9×
Limpieza general de edificios	Actividades de limpieza	1,734	7.5×
Alquiler de maquinaria y equipo agropecuario, forestal, de construcción e ing. civil, sin operarios	Alquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles	195	7.0×
Cultivo de semillas de cereales, legumbres y oleaginosas (excepto semillas de raps y maravilla)	Cultivo de plantas no perennes	24	6.9×
Servicios de transporte a turistas	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	21	6.8×
Venta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados n.c.p.	Venta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados	475	6.3×
Actividades de agencias de noticias	Otras actividades de servicios de información	7	5.9×
Desratización, desinfección y exterminio de plagas no agrícolas	Actividades de limpieza	46	5.7×

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

169,086

hectares in holdings

37.6%

of them under a named use

100.0%

of the crop land is irrigated

122

holdings with land here

Pasturehover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

The agricultural census measured 169,086 hectares of holdings in Machalí in the 2020/2021 agricultural year, and this is how it divided them.

Fourteen of the fifteen tiles are categories the census publishes. The fifteenth is not: it is the censused surface less the other fourteen, and what it holds is scrub, barren ground, roads and buildings. Across Chile it is half of everything, because most of the censused surface is Patagonian scrub and northern desert inside very large holdings.

Irrigation is asked of eleven of the uses and not of forest, native woodland, natural pasture or untilled ground — so the 100.0% above is a share of the 1,267 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 122 holdings with land here, 42 are self-consumption plots — under two hectares and with nothing sold in the year. These counts are the census's own for this territory and they are not added to anything: a holding with land in two comunas is counted in both.

VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal 2021, INE

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MachalíChile% of each territory's own population · 60,875 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	60,875	693,308	18,480,432	82nd of 346
Average age	36.3 yrs	38.3 yrs	38.1 yrs	311th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	52.4	78.5	79.0	323rd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	23.5/km²	92.4/km²	24.7/km²	193rd of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	20,475	243,225	6,596,527	84th of 346
Dwellings	22,681	270,945	7,642,716	93rd of 346
People per household	2.97	2.85	2.80	42nd of 345
Women	51.5%	51.0%	51.5%	85th of 346
Men per 100 women	94.1	95.9	94.3	262nd of 346
Under 15	21.0%	18.3%	17.7%	21st of 346
65 and over	11.0%	14.4%	14.0%	317th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	47.2	48.5	46.5	268th of 346
One-person households	15.4%	19.6%	21.8%	334th of 345
Households with children	41.5%	35.2%	33.2%	11th of 345
Indigenous peoples	4.3%	5.5%	11.4%	289th of 346
Female-headed households	43.9%	48.2%	49.9%	283rd of 345
Land area	2,594 km²	7,501 km²	748,041 km²	61st of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	5.1%	5.4%	8.7%	102nd 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.	36.7%	58.8%	50.5%	294th 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.	34.9%	17.4%	23.9%	42nd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	24.2%	18.9%	17.2%	45th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	3,093	37,524	1,608,650	78th of 346
Average age, foreign-born	35.4 yrs	32.1 yrs	33.5 yrs	88th of 345
Women among foreign-born	55.0%	50.6%	51.7%	43rd of 345
Foreign-born of working age	78.8%	81.5%	83.1%	253rd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	26.1%	42.2%	34.4%	283rd 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.	5.9%	6.5%	10.6%	106th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	14.6 yrs	12.8 yrs	12.9 yrs	9th 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.	19,596	14,721	0	33rd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	30.4	2.0	0.0	37th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	11.0 yrs	9.9 yrs	10.4 yrs	21st of 346
Reached higher education	42.3%	26.9%	31.1%	13th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	96.7%	98.6%	98.6%	294th 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.	52.4%	52.0%	55.6%	202nd of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
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.	97.8%	100.9%	99.8%	319th of 346
Literacy rate	98.5%	97.2%	97.8%	45th of 346
Reached secondary education	27.8%	37.3%	36.7%	334th of 346
Primary education only	21.5%	27.5%	24.1%	305th of 346
Never attended school	2.74%	3.34%	3.01%	288th 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.	13.6 yrs	11.5 yrs	12.1 yrs	11th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	13.3 yrs	11.6 yrs	12.1 yrs	16th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	1.44%	2.83%	2.18%	301st of 345
Households lacking schooling	13.4%	19.7%	15.1%	273rd 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.	729	8,325	217,565	78th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	12.5%	35.1%	33.9%	287th 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.	4.0%	3.9%	3.1%	96th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	77.5%	61.9%	67.2%	38th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	13.9%	20.9%	19.7%	233rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	8.6%	17.2%	13.1%	258th 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.	52.9%	38.2%	13.0%	46th 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%	262nd 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.

729left secondary school in 2024

382enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

52.4%continued immediately

77%of those, to a university

53%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

MachalíChile

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

MachalíChile

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

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 Machalí'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.

Health

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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 Machalí 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

FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	8.5%	11.5%	10.6%	311th of 346
Public health insurance	66.8%	86.4%	82.6%	325th 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.	62.1	73.6	82.5	203rd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	72	101	100	238th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	5,194	79,408	1,950,388	97th of 346
Average age, people with a disability	53.3 yrs	56.3 yrs	56.4 yrs	311th of 346
Disability among 65+	38.8%	42.6%	43.0%	307th of 346
Difficulty walking	3.70%	5.49%	4.92%	302nd of 346
Difficulty seeing	3.67%	4.90%	4.58%	311th of 346
Difficulty hearing	1.73%	2.33%	2.16%	306th of 346
Difficulty concentrating	2.31%	2.82%	2.70%	275th of 346
Private health insurance	30.5%	10.2%	13.2%	8th of 335
No health coverage	1.47%	1.75%	1.98%	160th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	91.2%	94.1%	92.1%	219th of 332
Households lacking health access	5.5%	6.1%	6.0%	161st of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	3,779	51,016	1,523,716	101st of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	70	1,403	36,698	120th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	1.85%	2.75%	2.41%	290th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	4.3 days	5.7 days	6.1 days	326th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	11.5	20.2	19.9	287th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	79	89	100	191st of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	197	2,474	89,723	99th 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%	4.8%	5.9%	202nd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	32.4	35.7	48.6	232nd 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	72	100	190th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

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

Sangre y sistema linfáticoÓrganos digestivosMamaGenitales masculinosTiroides y endocrinasGenitales femeninoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	11.0%	17.5%	17.3%	305th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	19.3 UF	23.7 UF	32.0 UF	295th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	88.2%	87.1%	78.9%	264th 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.	64.1	76.1	85.6	263rd of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	57.3%	52.7%	54.4%	67th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	7.0%	8.6%	8.6%	254th of 345
Self-employed	27.5%	30.2%	33.8%	312th of 345
Extreme poverty	4.6%	6.8%	6.9%	269th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	10.9%	17.4%	17.7%	282nd of 335
Unemployment rate	11.4%	9.4%	8.8%	84th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 939,946	CLP 647,045	CLP 783,124	24th 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.	0.484	0.456	0.488	54th of 321
Registered firms	3,902	52,745	1,582,390	91st of 346
Annual sales	11,763,501 UF	674,035,977 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	129th 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.	16,853	318,773	9,699,164	86th of 346
Sales per firm	3,015 UF	12,779 UF	21,706 UF	204th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	2.4	3.3	3.9	119th of 346
Women among employees	48.6%	40.6%	40.6%	55th of 345
Independent contractors	4,899	63,309	3,958,269	87th of 346
Contractors as share of workers	22.5%	16.6%	29.0%	251st of 346

Employment by industry

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

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

HouseFlat% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	3.3%	5.1%	5.7%	327th of 345
Internet access	96.6%	92.2%	93.2%	15th 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.	2.4	2.5	2.3	249th 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.	0.9	2.0	1.6	292nd of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	20,193	237,803	6,408,172	84th of 346
Critically overcrowded	0.20%	0.32%	0.57%	297th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	0.78%	0.85%	1.13%	255th of 345
Public water network	96.7%	96.4%	92.3%	58th of 345
Electricity access	99.8%	99.7%	99.6%	48th of 345
Detached houses	98.3%	90.0%	78.7%	165th of 345
Apartments	1.1%	9.2%	19.9%	122nd of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.20%	0.17%	0.23%	140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	7.4%	8.5%	11.9%	281st of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	744	14,281	491,904	111th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	3.6%	5.9%	7.5%	308th of 345
Renting households	20.4%	21.5%	26.2%	97th of 345
Owner-occupiers	70.2%	65.5%	61.1%	137th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	15.7%	29.2%	24.4%	257th of 345
Commute by public transport	25.1%	25.0%	42.1%	177th of 345
Walks to work	4.7%	8.3%	10.2%	344th of 345
Households with a computer	68.6%	51.4%	54.9%	10th 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	1.3	1.1	252nd 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.	99.1%	98.1%	97.0%	78th 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%	241st 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%	303rd 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.	94.9%	85.3%	89.4%	78th 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.	99.3%	98.8%	98.1%	138th 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%	246th 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.	4.1	4.3	5.9	235th 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.	70.9%	65.9%	80.3%	125th 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.	95.1%	97.9%	90.0%	131st 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%	151st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	0.7	0.7	0.6	261st 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.	99.7%	99.8%	99.0%	105th 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%	264th 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%	311th 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.	99.1%	88.9%	91.6%	51st 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.	99.9%	98.9%	98.5%	131st 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%	246th of 345

How people commute

Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

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

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

91.4%

of the registered voted in the first round

91.2%

voted in the runoff

44,424

registered voters on the roll

7.4%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman40.6%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist59.4%58.3%

MachalíChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez18.9%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman25.0%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.5%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist25.1%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet14.5%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.5%1.3%

MachalíChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile34.2%30.6%

KCambio por Chile22.7%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido22.7%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente10.0%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.1%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile2.7%0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.6%0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%

HPopular—0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

MachalíChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Machalí 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.

La Cruz0.67Valparaíso · 24,939 peopleAlike in Population structure; apart in Scale.Buin0.82Metropolitana · 116,969 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Education.Pirque0.91Metropolitana · 29,060 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Economy.San Esteban0.93Valparaíso · 20,112 peopleAlike in Economy; apart in Education.

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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Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of Machalí

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Machalí is specialised in

Most over-represented in Machalí

The land and who works it

Population and territory

Population pyramid

Migration

When the migrant population arrived

Education

How far schooling went

The class of 2024

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

By field of study

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

Health

Which health system

What people are hospitalised for

By tumour site

Economy and poverty

Employment by industry

Employment by occupation

Housing and services

House or flat

How people commute

Housing tenure

Home heating fuel

How it voted in 2025

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

Sister communes

Inside the commune