Commune · 13118

MaculMacul

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Census population
123,800
48th of 346
Population density
9,663.1/km²
18th of 346
Average years of schooling
11.8 yrs
12th of 346
Foreign-born share
14.1%
28th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Electricity access1st of 345 · Chile 99.6%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 UF28.9 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF28.9 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 854 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
34.7%
301st of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
40.4%
21st of 335
Came from another region
15.0%
172nd of 335
Net internal migration
+14,804
+10.7 per 100 residents
Maculthis commune · 109,986elsewhere in the region56,011 peopleanother region20,720 peopleabroad13,783 peopleelsewhere in the region54,780 peopleanother region7,147 peopleMaculthis commune · 138,573
Maculthis commune · 109,986elsewhere in th…56,011 peopleanother region20,720 peopleabroad13,783 peopleelsewhere in th…54,780 peopleanother region7,147 peopleMaculthis commune · 138,573

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Retail and wholesale1Retail and wholesale▲15Administrative services2Administrative services▲33Construction3Construction8Professional services4Professional services▲41Manufacturing5Manufacturing▼47Transport6Transport▲113Agriculture and fishing7Agriculture and fishing▲66Other services8Other services▼29Education9Education11Information and communications10Information and communications▲110Finance and insurance11Finance and insurance▼114Health12Health▲24Accommodation and food13Accommodation and food▼912Public administration14Public administration▼2
2005202421Retail and wholesale▲152Administrative services▲333Construction84Professional services▲415Manufacturing▼476Transport▲1137Agriculture and fishing▲668Other services▼299Education1110Information and communications▲11011Finance and insurance▼11412Health▲2413Accommodation and food▼91214Public administration▼2

The ten branches that employ most of Macul

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.

30 k50 k70 k90 kprojection →73 k2029 · central2005201520242029
30 k50 k70 k90 kprojection →73 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.0% a year observed · 5.8% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

60 M80 M100 M120 M140 Mprojection →105 M2029 · central2005201520242029
60 M80 M100 M120 M140 Mprojection →105 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.5% a year observed · 0.1% projected

What Macul is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Macul employs more people in 109 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.

109
activities it is specialised in
54,700
formal workers
7/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.50.33.7Empresas de servicios de ingenier…Actividades de call-centerConstrucción de carreteras y líne…Otros servicios de almacenamiento…Cultivo de semillas de cereales, …FinancierasCultivo de otras plantas perennesActividades de envasado y empaque…Otras actividades de servicios pe…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.50.33.7Actividades de call-centerFinancierasFabricación de productos farmacéu…Fabricación de maquinaria para la…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Macul

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
Fabricación de artículos de punto y ganchilloFabricación de artículos de punto y ganchillo500154.6×
Cultivo de semillas de cereales, legumbres y oleaginosas (excepto semillas de raps y maravilla)Cultivo de plantas no perennes1,235109.1×
Reparación de equipo de medición, prueba, navegación y controlReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo24371.5×
Otras actividades de ediciónEdición de libros y publicaciones periódicas y otras actividades de edición13141.1×
FinancierasOtras actividades de servicios financieros, excepto las de seguros y fondos de pensiones1,16539.7×
Destilación, rectificación y mezclas de bebidas alcohólicas; excepto piscoElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas12229.9×
Tejedura de productos textilesHilatura, tejedura y acabado de productos textiles10925.5×
Venta al por mayor de computadores, equipo periférico y programas informáticosVenta al por mayor de maquinaria, equipo y materiales50325.1×
Actividades de call-centerActividades de call-center3,89923.5×
Fabricación de instrumentos y materiales médicos, oftalmológicos y odontológicos n.c.p.Fabricación de instrumentos y materiales médicos y odontológicos22722.3×
Fabricación de equipo de elevación y manipulaciónFabricación de maquinaria de uso general12120.8×
Venta al por mayor de productos farmacéuticos y medicinalesVenta al por mayor de enseres domésticos73914.8×

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

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
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
MaculChile% of each territory's own population · 123,800 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
123,800
5,385,73718,480,43248th of 346
Average age
40.0 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs122nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
110.8
85.179.067th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
9,663.1/km²
2,653.4/km²24.7/km²18th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
47,555
1,951,4816,596,52742nd of 346
Dwellings
50,722
2,060,6137,642,71642nd of 346
People per household
2.60
2.762.80260th of 345
Women
52.8%
51.8%51.5%11th of 346
Men per 100 women
89.5
93.294.3336th of 346
Under 15
14.5%
16.3%17.7%328th of 346
65 and over
16.1%
13.8%14.0%161st of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
44.1
43.046.5312th of 346
One-person households
24.6%
23.6%21.8%97th of 345
Households with children
26.9%
30.2%33.2%312th of 345
Indigenous peoples
6.8%
7.2%11.4%198th of 346
Female-headed households
52.2%
51.1%49.9%41st of 345
Land area
13 km²
2,030 km²748,041 km²333rd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Macul22%Arrived since 202078%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Macul22%78%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
14.1%
15.4%8.7%28th 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.
34.7%
34.9%50.5%301st of 335
Came from another commune of the same region · Of those who live here, the ones born in another comuna of this same region. It is the short move: within the metropolitan area, the valley or the neighbouring province.
40.4%
35.2%23.9%21st of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
15.0%
16.4%17.2%172nd of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
17,497
828,3681,608,65028th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
35.4 yrs
34.4 yrs33.5 yrs88th of 345
Women among foreign-born
53.7%
51.8%51.7%68th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
83.3%
84.3%83.1%72nd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
22.2%
31.7%34.4%307th 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.
17.0%
18.5%10.6%29th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
14.4 yrs
13.4 yrs12.9 yrs12th 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.
14,804
-150,290036th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
10.7
-2.50.0110th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Macul47%Higher31%Secondary16%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Macul47%Higher31%Secondary16%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
11.8 yrs
11.2 yrs10.4 yrs12th of 346
Reached higher education
46.5%
38.6%31.1%12th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
96.3%
98.2%98.6%303rd 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.
51.7%
54.9%55.6%215th 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.
98.5%
98.2%99.8%294th of 346
Literacy rate
99.0%
98.7%97.8%21st of 346
Reached secondary education
31.0%
34.9%36.7%321st of 346
Primary education only
16.1%
19.1%24.1%338th of 346
Never attended school
2.02%
2.55%3.01%336th 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
13.1 yrs12.1 yrs11th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
13.4 yrs
12.8 yrs12.1 yrs14th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.01%
1.25%2.18%324th of 345
Households lacking schooling
6.2%
9.9%15.1%327th 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.
727
57,776217,56580th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
5.0%
31.5%33.9%298th 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.
73.4%
70.6%67.2%62nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
22.1%
21.9%19.7%124th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
4.5%
7.5%13.1%309th 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.
1.6%
1.3%13.0%279th 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.
44.9%
48.6%49.7%287th 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.

727left secondary school in 2024
376enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
51.7%continued immediately
73%of those, to a university
2%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialKinesiologiaEnfermeriaIngenieria Civil IndustrialMedicina VeterinariaArquitecturaIngenieria en InformaticaIngenieria y Ciencias - Plan Comun
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialKinesiologiaEnfermeriaIngenieria Civil IndustrialMedicina VeterinariaArquitecturaIngenieria en InformaticaIngenieria y Ciencias - Plan Comun
MaculChile

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 technologyArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesEducationServicesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareInformation technologyArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesEducationServicesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
MaculChile

The ten broad fields of ISCED-F 2013, as SIES classifies each programme, as a share of everyone who continued, here and in the country.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

05001,0001,500200620152024727376
05001,0001,500200620152024727376
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 Macul'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 Macul 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

Macul75%Fonasa21%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Macul75%Fonasa21%Chile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
9.7%
9.3%10.6%278th of 346
Public health insurance
75.2%
73.9%82.6%318th 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.
94.6
87.182.547th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
113
10010083rd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
11,996
499,3711,950,38851st of 346
Average age, people with a disability
59.2 yrs
56.6 yrs56.4 yrs116th of 346
Disability among 65+
48.6%
43.7%43.0%101st of 346
Difficulty walking
4.53%
4.33%4.92%265th of 346
Difficulty seeing
3.79%
3.83%4.58%305th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.17%
1.87%2.16%251st of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.73%
2.50%2.70%192nd of 346
Private health insurance
21.2%
22.4%13.2%16th of 335
No health coverage
1.31%
1.80%1.98%184th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
92.7%
91.7%92.1%186th of 332
Households lacking health access
4.4%
5.8%6.0%202nd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
11,711
469,3531,523,71643rd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
318
10,69136,69832nd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.72%
2.28%2.41%180th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.8 days
6.0 days6.1 days251st of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
25.7
19.919.974th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
110
10610055th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
685
28,65989,72342nd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.8%
6.1%5.9%144th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
55.3
53.248.650th 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.
109
11110053rd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, bones an… 16%Tumours, blood… 14%Pregnancy, bir… 12%Infections and ot… 8.7%Mind, nerves and … 6.2%Digestivesystem13%Genitourin…system9.9%Respiratorysystem10%Circulatorysystem9.1%Injuries andpoisoning9.4%Musculoskeletal5.6%Cancers andtumours9.1%Endocrine andmetabolic4.2%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Congenital…Perinata…Contactwithhealth…4.5%Infectiousand…Ill-def…symptomsMentalandbehavio…NervoussystemEyeEar
Digestive and urinary … 23%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, bones and s… 16%Tumours, blood and me… 14%Pregnancy, birth a… 12%Infect… 8.7%Digestivesystem13%Genitour…system9.9%Respirato…system10%Circulat…system9.1%Injuries andpoisoning9.4%Musculo…5.6%Cancers andtumours9.1%Endocr…andmetabo…Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Contact withhealth…Infecti…andparasit…Ill-…symp…Mentaland…Nervo…system2.4%
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 digestivos22%Sangre y sistemalinfático13%Mama12%Sitios maldefinidos9.8%Vías urinarias8.9%Tiroides yendocrinas8.2%Genitalesfemeninos8.0%Víasrespiratori…6.7%Genitalesmasculinos4.5%Encéf…ysiste…Huesos1.5%Piel ymelanomaTeji…blan…Bocayfar…
Órganos digestivos22%Sangre ysistemalinfático13%Mama12%Sitios maldefinidos9.8%Vías urinarias8.9%Tiroides yendocrinas8.2%Genitalesfemeninos8.0%Vías respiratorias6.7%GenitalesmasculinosEncéf…ysiste…Huesos1.5%Piel y…Tej…bla…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaSitios mal definidosVías urinariasTiroides 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.
17.8%
12.4%17.3%220th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
28.9 UF
37.3 UF32.0 UF52nd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
72.4%
73.0%78.9%325th 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.
65.7
104.385.6255th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
61.1%
59.5%54.4%32nd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.1%
7.7%8.6%249th of 345
Self-employed
33.2%
33.2%33.8%213th of 345
Extreme poverty
6.3%
4.4%6.9%217th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
11.7%
18.9%17.7%273rd of 335
Unemployment rate
13.2%
8.4%8.8%52nd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 826,884
CLP 1,019,380CLP 783,12437th 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.
0.469
0.5000.48874th of 321
Registered firms
8,129
561,5661,582,39049th of 346
Annual sales
104,771,558 UF
25,794,247,870 UF34,347,683,688 UF38th 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.
54,877
5,253,9409,699,16437th of 346
Sales per firm
12,889 UF
45,933 UF21,706 UF45th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
4.6
6.13.924th of 346
Women among employees
39.2%
41.7%40.6%210th of 345
Independent contractors
22,472
2,467,4083,958,26933rd of 346
Contractors as share of workers
29.1%
32.0%29.0%141st of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 29%State and social services 25%Advanced services 21%Industry and c… 14%Other s… 8.7%Retail andwholesale18%Transport6.2%Accommodationand food5.1%Health10%Education9.7%Publicadmini…5.0%Professionalservices6.7%Information andcommunications4.8%Administrativeservices4.2%Financeandinsurance4.2%Realest…Manufacturing6.7%Construction6.0%Otherservices4.3%Domest…work2.6%Artsandente…Mining
Trade and logistics 29%State and social … 25%Advanced services 21%Industry … 14%Oth… 8.7%Retail andwholesale18%Transport6.2%Accommod…and food5.1%Health10%Education9.7%Public administrationProfessio…services6.7%Informationandcommunicat…Administ…services4.2%FinanceandinsuranceManufacturing6.7%Construct…6.0%Otherservices4.3%Domes…work2.6%Artsandent…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Managers and professionals 48%Skilled occupations 43%Elementary occupations 8.8%Professionals28%Technicians14%Managers6.1%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades8.7%Clericalsupport7.7%Plant andmachineoperators5.3%Elementary occupations
Managers and professionals 48%Skilled occupations 43%Professionals28%Technicians14%Managers6.1%Service andsales20%Craft andtrades8.7%Clericalsupport7.7%Plant and machineoperatorsEleme…occup…8.8%
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

Macul47%House53%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Macul47%House53%FlatChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.8%
6.7%5.7%223rd of 345
Internet access
96.5%
95.9%93.2%16th 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.
1.0
1.02.3321st 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.
0.4
0.51.6337th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
45,703
1,868,7116,408,17242nd of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.61%
0.93%0.57%46th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.41%
0.51%1.13%328th of 345
Public water network
99.9%
99.6%92.3%7th of 345
Electricity access
100.0%
99.9%99.6%1st of 345
Detached houses
46.5%
55.8%78.7%337th of 345
Apartments
53.1%
42.0%19.9%9th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.09%0.23%243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
4.1%
5.2%11.9%320th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
3,860
193,039491,90442nd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
8.1%
9.9%7.5%67th of 345
Renting households
39.4%
37.8%26.2%13th of 345
Owner-occupiers
50.1%
51.5%61.1%316th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
0.1%
0.2%24.4%338th of 345
Commute by public transport
53.8%
54.0%42.1%27th of 345
Walks to work
6.2%
8.4%10.2%326th of 345
Households with a computer
68.4%
62.8%54.9%11th 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.
0.5
0.51.1328th 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.
0.7
1.05.9336th 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.
0.3
0.30.6323rd 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 54%Private vehicle 34%On foot or by bicycle 10%Public transport54%Car31%Walking6.2%Bicycle3.8%Other2.6%
Public transport 54%Private vehicle 34%On foot… 10%Public transport54%Car31%Walking6.2%Bicycle3.8%Other
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 50%Rented 39%Provided rent-free 7.7%Owned outright31%Owned, still paying19%Rented, with contract33%Rented, no contractProvided by family7.2%Otherarrange…2.8%
Owned 50%Rented 39%Owned outright31%Owned, stillpaying19%Rented, with contract33%Rente…nocontr…6.1%Providedby family7.2%Other…
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 48%Electricity 40%No heating 11%Gas33%Paraffin15%Electricity40%No heating11%
Fossil fuels 48%Electricity 40%No h… 11%Gas33%Paraffin15%Electricity40%Noheating11%
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
86.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.5%
voted in the runoff
102,101
registered voters on the roll
6.0%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman51.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist48.9%58.3%
MaculChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez10.1%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman35.4%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.1%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist18.6%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.9%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet18.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul2.0%1.3%
MaculChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile36.2%30.6%
KCambio por Chile22.4%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido20.4%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente7.4%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.5%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista4.0%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular3.1%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios2.9%0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
MaculChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Macul 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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