Commune · 07304

MolinaMolina

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Census population
48,949
94th of 346
Population density
32.2/km²
164th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.2 yrs
191st of 346
Foreign-born share
3.3%
151st of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Contractors as share of workers335th of 346 · Chile 29.0%13.3%
Average monthly pay330th of 342 · Chile 32.0 UF17.3 UF
Women among foreign-born314th of 345 · Chile 51.7%46.1%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF17.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF17.3 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 · 747 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
63.3%
140th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
16.1%
204th of 335
Came from another region
17.3%
121st of 335
Net internal migration
-3,050
-5.9 per 100 residents
Molinathis commune · 53,256another region8,986 peopleelsewhere in the region8,371 peopleabroad1,722 peopleanother region11,627 peopleelsewhere in the region8,780 peopleMolinathis commune · 51,928
Molinathis commune · 53,256another region8,986 peopleelsewhere in th…8,371 peopleabroad1,722 peopleanother region11,627 peopleelsewhere in th…8,780 peopleMolinathis commune · 51,928

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing5Administrative services2Administrative services▲36Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲34Manufacturing4Manufacturing2Transport5Transport▼37Construction6Construction▲110Education7Education▲313Other services8Other services▲511Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food▲29Professional services10Professional services▼116Health11Health▲514Water and waste12Water and waste▲212Real estate13Real estate▼13Arts and entertainment15Arts and entertainment▼128Finance and insurance16Finance and insurance▼8
2005202411Agriculture and fishing52Administrative services▲363Retail and wholesale▲344Manufacturing25Transport▼376Construction▲1107Education▲3138Other services▲5119Accommodation and food▲2910Professional services▼11611Health▲51412Water and waste▲21213Real estate▼1315Arts and entertainment▼12816Finance and insurance▼8

The ten branches that employ most of Molina

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.

010 k20 k30 k40 kprojection →29 k2029 · central2005201520242029
010 k20 k30 k40 kprojection →29 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.0% a year observed · 4.5% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 M20 Mprojection →15 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 M20 Mprojection →15 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.3% a year observed · 0.9% projected

What Molina is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Molina 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
22,902
formal workers
228/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.33.7Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de …Actividades de la administración …Transporte de carga por carreteraOtros servicios de almacenamiento…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Otros servicios de ensayos y anál…Recuperación y reciclamiento de d…Venta de motocicletasActividades de residenciales para…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.33.7Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Actividades de la administración …Transporte de carga por carreteraOtros servicios de almacenamiento…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Molina

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
Actividades de envasado y empaquetadoActividades de servicios de apoyo a las empresas n.c.p.97622.1×
Cultivo de uva destinada a la producción de vinoCultivo de plantas perennes59420.1×
Elaboración de vinosElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas64717.0×
Cultivo de plantas vivas incluida la producción en viveros (excepto viveros forestales)Propagación de plantas21011.0×
Corretaje al por mayor de productos agrícolasVenta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata69710.3×
Actividades de apoyo a la agriculturaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha6,2308.9×
Venta al por mayor de frutas y verdurasVenta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco7448.5×
Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de huesoCultivo de plantas perennes3,0567.9×
Actividades de organizaciones religiosasActividades de otras asociaciones1167.9×
Elaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizasElaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizas3087.0×
ApiculturaGanadería146.7×
Venta al por menor de carbón, leña y otros combustibles de uso doméstico en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados246.7×

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
73,286
hectares in holdings
56.4%
of them under a named use
99.2%
of the crop land is irrigated
539
holdings with land here
Not farmed 48%Woodland 34%Orchards and vineyards 11%Pasture 4.4%Scrub, barren ground and buildings44%Untilled landForest plantations21%Native woodland13%Fruit trees6.0%Vines4.8%Pasture4.4%Cere…Fodd…crops
Not farmed 48%Woodland 34%Orchards a… 11%Pas… 4.4%Scrub, barren ground and buildings44%Unt…landForestplantations21%Nativewoodland13%Fruittrees6.0%Vines4.8%Pasture4.4%Cer…
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.

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
MolinaChile% of each territory's own population · 48,949 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
48,949
309,33918,480,43294th of 346
Average age
38.9 yrs
38.9 yrs38.1 yrs190th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
86.1
83.379.0192nd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
32.2/km²
42.5/km²24.7/km²164th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
17,300
110,8956,596,52796th of 346
Dwellings
18,980
127,3777,642,716107th of 346
People per household
2.83
2.792.80111th of 345
Women
51.2%
51.2%51.5%136th of 346
Men per 100 women
95.5
95.494.3211th of 346
Under 15
18.0%
17.9%17.7%161st of 346
65 and over
15.5%
14.9%14.0%189th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
50.4
48.846.5190th of 346
One-person households
19.7%
20.5%21.8%258th of 345
Households with children
34.9%
33.9%33.2%102nd of 345
Indigenous peoples
5.8%
5.8%11.4%232nd of 346
Female-headed households
50.4%
48.0%49.9%101st of 345
Land area
1,518 km²
7,286 km²748,041 km²93rd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Molina49%Arrived since 202051%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Molina49%Arrived since 202051%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
3.3%
4.7%8.7%151st 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.
63.3%
65.2%50.5%140th 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.
16.1%
15.1%23.9%204th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
17.3%
15.4%17.2%121st of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
1,632
14,4531,608,650102nd of 346
Average age, foreign-born
30.3 yrs
32.4 yrs33.5 yrs312th of 345
Women among foreign-born
46.1%
48.6%51.7%314th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
81.4%
81.5%83.1%164th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
49.1%
41.3%34.4%54th 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.
4.1%
5.7%10.6%150th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
11.7 yrs
12.7 yrs12.9 yrs270th 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.
-3,050
-26,2030216th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-5.9
-8.10.0178th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Molina19%Higher40%Secondary32%Primary only5.5%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Molina19%40%Secondary32%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.2 yrs
9.5 yrs10.4 yrs191st of 346
Reached higher education
18.8%
23.0%31.1%222nd of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.8%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.
44.5%
51.6%55.6%291st 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.
101.9%
102.4%99.8%159th of 346
Literacy rate
95.7%
96.0%97.8%219th of 346
Reached secondary education
39.6%
36.8%36.7%76th of 346
Primary education only
32.3%
31.3%24.1%160th of 346
Never attended school
3.77%
3.55%3.01%145th 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.
10.5 yrs
10.9 yrs12.1 yrs187th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.7 yrs
11.1 yrs12.1 yrs191st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.33%
3.96%2.18%126th of 345
Households lacking schooling
27.4%
27.7%15.1%118th 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.
544
4,011217,56595th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
45.8%
44.8%33.9%109th 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.
4.4%
4.6%3.1%92nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
56.6%
64.8%67.2%227th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
14.9%
12.3%19.7%223rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
28.5%
23.0%13.1%51st 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.
7.4%
16.7%13.0%207th 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.
45.5%
49.9%49.7%280th 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.

544left secondary school in 2024
242enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
44.5%continued immediately
57%of those, to a university
7%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizDerechoIngenieria ComercialMecanica Automotriz en Maquinaria PesadaAgronomiaEnfermeriaIngenieria AgricolaIngenieria Civil IndustrialPedagogia en Educacion Parvularia Con Mencion en Psicomotricidad y Vida Saludable O Ingles InicialTecnico Agricola
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizDerechoIngenieria ComercialMecanica Automotriz en Maquinaria PesadaAgronomiaEnfermeriaIngenieria AgricolaIngenieria Civil IndustrialPedagogia en Educacion Parvularia Con Mencion en Psicomotricidad y Vida Saludable O Ingles InicialTecnico Agricola
MolinaChile

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 welfareBusiness and lawEducationAgriculture and veterinaryServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationAgriculture and veterinaryServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
MolinaChile

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

0200400600200620152024544242
0200400600200620152024544242
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 Molina'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 Molina 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

Molina93%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Molina93%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.1%
11.9%10.6%121st of 346
Public health insurance
93.2%
91.7%82.6%157th 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.
72.3
71.182.5151st of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
131
10910038th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
6,396
36,8481,950,38886th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
56.8 yrs
57.3 yrs56.4 yrs233rd of 346
Disability among 65+
44.0%
44.4%43.0%223rd of 346
Difficulty walking
6.22%
5.95%4.92%145th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.89%
5.14%4.58%119th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.73%
2.36%2.16%133rd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.30%
2.89%2.70%78th of 346
Private health insurance
1.7%
4.6%13.2%237th of 335
No health coverage
3.43%
2.17%1.98%63rd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
91.0%
92.2%92.1%221st of 332
Households lacking health access
6.5%
3.6%6.0%121st of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
3,539
22,0091,523,716102nd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
135
69536,69881st of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.81%
3.16%2.41%63rd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.0 days
6.8 days6.1 days113th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
27.6
22.519.950th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
86
85100148th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
203
1,34889,72397th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.7%
6.1%5.9%156th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
41.5
43.648.6149th 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.
81
86100142nd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 23%Digestive and urinary tract 22%Injuries, bones… 15%Tumours, blood … 14%Pregnancy, birth… 14%Mind, nerves … 9.6%Respiratorysystem12%Circulatorysystem11%Digestive system13%Genitourin…system8.8%Injuries andpoisoning9.6%Musculoskele…3.4%Skin1.7%Cancers andtumours7.6%Endocrine andmetabolic5.2%Blo…andimm…Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Mental andbehavioural6.9%Nerv…syst…Ill-defin…symptoms
Heart and lungs 23%Digestive and urina… 22%Injuries, bones and s… 15%Tumours, blood and me… 14%Pregnancy, birth a… 14%Mind, nerve… 9.6%Respiratorysystem12%Circulato…system11%Digestivesystem13%Genitou…system8.8%Injuries andpoisoning9.6%Musculo…3.4%SkinCancers andtumours7.6%Endocri…andmetabol…5.2%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Mental andbehavioural6.9%Ner…sys…Ill…sym…Cont…
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 digestivos27%Sangre y sistemalinfático12%Genitales masculinos10%Genitalesfemeninos8.4%Víasurinarias7.4%Encéfalo ysistemanervioso6.9%Tiroides yendocrinas6.4%Sitiosreservados6.4%Piel y melanoma4.4%Mama4.4%Boca yfaringe3.9%Víasrespiratorias3.0%
Órganos digestivos27%Sangre ysistemalinfático12%Genitalesmasculinos10%Genitalesfemeninos8.4%Víasurinarias7.4%Encéfaloy sistemanervioso6.9%Tiroidesyendocrin…6.4%Sitiosreservad…6.4%Piel ymelanoma4.4%Mama4.4%Boca yfaringe3.9%Víasrespirat…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales masculinosGenitales femeninosVías urinariasEncéfalo y sistema nerviosohover 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.
19.8%
19.4%17.3%177th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
17.3 UF
18.9 UF32.0 UF330th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
107.0%
94.5%78.9%109th 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.
75.2
101.185.6185th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
51.0%
52.4%54.4%170th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.7%
8.9%8.6%112th of 345
Self-employed
29.3%
30.3%33.8%296th of 345
Extreme poverty
7.1%
7.4%6.9%190th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
10.5%
11.9%17.7%286th of 335
Unemployment rate
9.6%
8.1%8.8%142nd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 479,150
CLP 528,684CLP 783,124238th 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.
0.381
0.4240.488290th of 321
Registered firms
3,683
31,2651,582,390100th of 346
Annual sales
14,804,254 UF
208,679,717 UF34,347,683,688 UF108th 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.
22,906
207,8679,699,16472nd of 346
Sales per firm
4,020 UF
6,675 UF21,706 UF160th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.3
2.73.9128th of 346
Women among employees
39.6%
40.5%40.6%201st of 345
Independent contractors
3,499
35,7123,958,269109th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
13.3%
14.7%29.0%335th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 30%Trade and logistics 23%Industry and construction 19%State and social … 18%Advan… 5.6%Other… 4.6%Agriculture and fishing30%Retail and wholesale15%Transport5.1%Accommodati…and foodManufacturing11%Constructi…6.2%Water…Electr…Education8.3%Health6.0%Publicadmin…3.4%Administrati…servicesProfes…servic…1.7%Infor…Domes…work2.2%Otherservi…1.7%Arts…
Natural resources 30%Trade and logist… 23%Industry and c… 19%State and soc… 18%Adv… 5.6%Oth… 4.6%Agriculture andfishing30%Retail andwholesale15%Transport5.1%Accom…andfoodManufacturing11%Construction6.2%Education8.3%Health6.0%Publicadmini…3.4%Admin…servi…2.4%Pro…ser…Info…Dom…workOtherserv…
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 52%Elementary occupations 28%Managers and professionals 21%Service and sales17%Craft andtrades12%Plant andmachineoperators11%Skilledagricultural6.4%Clerical support5.7%Elementary occupations28%Professiona…9.4%Technicians8.6%Managers
Skilled occupations 52%Elementary occupations 28%Managers and pro… 21%Service andsales17%Craft and trades12%Plant and machineoperators11%Skilledagricult…6.4%Clericalsupport5.7%Elementaryoccupations28%Professi…9.4%Technici…8.6%
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

Molina100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Molina100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.6%
5.6%5.7%56th of 345
Internet access
90.5%
90.8%93.2%142nd 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.
2.7
2.92.3233rd 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.
1.9
2.81.6243rd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
16,943
108,5276,408,17296th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.37%
0.33%0.57%132nd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.75%
0.86%1.13%262nd of 345
Public water network
93.6%
92.4%92.3%86th of 345
Electricity access
99.6%
99.6%99.6%118th of 345
Detached houses
99.4%
96.8%78.7%52nd of 345
Apartments
0.0%
2.5%19.9%236th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.14%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
7.5%
11.9%11.9%280th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
1,040
6,215491,90488th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
6.0%
5.6%7.5%126th of 345
Renting households
15.9%
17.6%26.2%153rd of 345
Owner-occupiers
71.0%
69.0%61.1%115th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
58.0%
48.0%24.4%168th of 345
Commute by public transport
25.2%
23.3%42.1%176th of 345
Walks to work
9.8%
9.0%10.2%250th of 345
Households with a computer
45.7%
49.2%54.9%135th 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.
1.1
1.31.1264th 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.
99.7%
97.1%97.0%64th 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.
99.9%
100.0%99.9%245th 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.
84.2%
81.8%89.4%125th 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.
98.9%
98.5%98.1%147th 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.
99.9%
100.0%99.7%251st 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.
13.7
10.45.9155th 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%
46.9%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.
75.8%
79.3%90.0%181st 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.
99.5%
92.0%96.2%179th 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.
0.5
0.80.6283rd 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.
99.9%
99.4%99.0%92nd 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.
99.9%
100.0%99.9%267th 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.
86.5%
81.0%91.6%138th 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.
98.3%
96.9%98.5%183rd 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.
99.9%
100.0%99.8%250th of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 39%Public transport 25%On foot or by … 19%Other means 17%Car37%Public transport25%Walking9.8%Bicycle9.3%Other17%
Private vehicle 39%Public transpo… 25%On foot or by bicycle 19%Other means 17%Car37%Publictransport25%Walking9.8%Bicycle9.3%Other17%
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 71%Rented 16%Provided rent-fr… 11%Owned outright63%Owned,stillpaying7.8%Rented, withcontract8.7%Rented, no contract7.2%Provided byfamily8.3%Pro…byemp…
Owned 71%Rented 16%Provided ren… 11%Owned outright63%Owne…stillpayi…Rented, withcontract8.7%Rented, nocontract7.2%Provided byfamily8.3%Pro…byemp…
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 60%Fossil fuels 23%Electricity 11%No hea… 4.7%Firewood58%Gas13%Paraffin9.9%Electricity11%No heating4.7%
Wood and biomass 60%Fossil fuels 23%Electric… 11%Firewood58%Gas13%Paraffin9.9%Electricity11%Noheat…
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
91.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
91.7%
voted in the runoff
42,127
registered voters on the roll
7.1%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman39.0%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist61.0%58.3%
MolinaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez22.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman24.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.6%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist27.6%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.5%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%
MolinaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile65.3%30.6%
KCambio por Chile15.6%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido9.0%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente7.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.1%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—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%
MolinaChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile24.7%
KCambio por Chile28.9%
JChile Grande y Unido16.2%
IPartido de la Gente10.7%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.5%
Independents outside a pact13.3%
Molinashare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Molina 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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