Commune · 05506

NogalesNogales

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Census population
22,136
163rd of 346
Population density
54.6/km²
120th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.4 yrs
153rd of 346
Foreign-born share
2.4%
192nd 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 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 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.5 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.5 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 · 271 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
67.2%
102nd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
19.6%
154th of 335
Came from another region
12.7%
236th of 335
Net internal migration
-607
-2.6 per 100 residents
Nogalesthis commune · 23,832elsewhere in the region4,573 peopleanother region2,958 peopleabroad126 peopleelsewhere in the region5,606 peopleanother region2,532 peopleNogalesthis commune · 23,351
Nogalesthis commune · 23,832elsewhere in th…4,573 peopleanother region2,958 peopleabroad126 peopleelsewhere in th…5,606 peopleanother region2,532 peopleNogalesthis commune · 23,351

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing12Administrative services2Administrative services▲102Construction3Construction▼18Manufacturing4Manufacturing▲46Retail and wholesale5Retail and wholesale▲15Transport6Transport▼14Education7Education▼39Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▲17Other services9Other services▼213Water and waste10Water and waste▲310Mining11Mining▼111Professional services12Professional services▼13Health15Health▼12
2005202411Agriculture and fishing122Administrative services▲1023Construction▼184Manufacturing▲465Retail and wholesale▲156Transport▼147Education▼398Accommodation and food▲179Other services▼21310Water and waste▲31011Mining▼11112Professional services▼1315Health▼12

The ten branches that employ most of Nogales

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.

3 k4 k5 k6 k7 kprojection →6 k2029 · central2005201520242029
3 k4 k5 k6 k7 kprojection →6 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.0% a year observed · 1.0% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

02.0 M4.0 M6.0 M8.0 Mprojection →6.6 M2029 · central2005201520242029
02.0 M4.0 M6.0 M8.0 Mprojection →6.6 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval8.1% a year observed · 1.0% projected

What Nogales is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Nogales employs more people in 60 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.

60
activities it is specialised in
5,774
formal workers
176/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.03.7Actividades de la administración …Otras actividades de servicios de…Terminación y acabado de edificiosReparación de maquinaria metalúrg…Fabricación de productos metálico…Recogida de desechos no peligrososActividades de apoyo para la expl…Servicios prestados por concesion…Venta al por mayor de productos q…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.03.7Terminación y acabado de edificiosFabricación de productos metálico…Fabricación de otros productos el…Servicios prestados por concesion…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Nogales

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
Cultivo de plantas vivas incluida la producción en viveros (excepto viveros forestales)Propagación de plantas525108.7×
Cultivo de hortalizas y melonesCultivo de plantas no perennes29459.4×
Reparación de maquinaria metalúrgica, para la minería, extracción de petróleo y para la construcciónReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo19417.4×
Cultivo de plantas con las que se preparan bebidas (incluye el cultivo de café, té y mate)Cultivo de plantas perennes714.8×
Servicios prestados por concesionarios de carreterasActividades de apoyo al transporte1112.1×
Alquiler de otros tipos de maquinarias y equipos sin operario n.c.p.Alquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles1898.1×
Cultivo de floresCultivo de plantas no perennes67.3×
Actividades de apoyo a la agriculturaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha1,0175.8×
Elaboración de té, café, mate e infusiones de hierbasElaboración de otros productos alimenticios154.6×
Cultivo de otros frutos y nueces de árboles y arbustosCultivo de plantas perennes184.2×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadoresOtras actividades de alojamiento74.0×
Cultivo de cítricosCultivo de plantas perennes23.8×

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.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
19,651
hectares in holdings
60.6%
of them under a named use
97.4%
of the crop land is irrigated
320
holdings with land here
Not farmed 52%Woodland 26%Orchards and vineyards 13%Pasture 7.0%Scrub, barren ground and buildings39%Untilledland12%Native woodland22%Forestplantat…4.3%Fruit trees13%Pasture7.0%FoddercropsVeg…Cer…
Not farmed 52%Woodland 26%Orchards and viney… 13%Pasture 7.0%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings39%Untilledland12%Native woodland22%For…pla…Fruit trees13%Pasture7.0%Fodd…
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
NogalesChile% of each territory's own population · 22,136 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
22,136
213,74518,480,432163rd of 346
Average age
39.8 yrs
38.6 yrs38.1 yrs143rd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
97.3
85.679.0126th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
54.6/km²
192.1/km²24.7/km²120th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
7,525
73,9446,596,527169th of 346
Dwellings
8,397
82,5027,642,716181st of 346
People per household
2.94
2.892.8054th of 345
Women
51.0%
51.6%51.5%168th of 346
Men per 100 women
96.1
93.994.3179th of 346
Under 15
17.4%
18.1%17.7%213th of 346
65 and over
16.9%
15.5%14.0%121st of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.1
50.546.5132nd of 346
One-person households
18.9%
19.0%21.8%286th of 345
Households with children
34.3%
35.4%33.2%125th of 345
Indigenous peoples
4.7%
4.8%11.4%276th of 346
Female-headed households
47.6%
50.2%49.9%188th of 345
Land area
405 km²
1,113 km²748,041 km²225th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Nogales39%Arrived since 202061%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Nogales39%Arrived since 202061%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born share
2.4%
6.4%8.7%192nd 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.
67.2%
60.0%50.5%102nd 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.
19.6%
20.2%23.9%154th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
12.7%
14.1%17.2%236th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
528
13,7561,608,650160th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.0 yrs
31.5 yrs33.5 yrs193rd of 345
Women among foreign-born
47.7%
49.7%51.7%285th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
78.6%
80.6%83.1%261st of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
39.0%
41.1%34.4%156th 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.
2.9%
7.8%10.6%191st of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
11.8 yrs
12.6 yrs12.9 yrs255th 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.
-607
1,0000169th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-2.6
0.40.0165th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Nogales20%Higher43%Secondary30%Primary only4.6%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Nogales20%43%Secondary30%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.4 yrs
10.0 yrs10.4 yrs153rd of 346
Reached higher education
19.8%
27.7%31.1%195th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.7%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.
72.5%
65.1%55.6%6th 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.
98.2%
100.8%99.8%314th of 346
Literacy rate
96.6%
97.8%97.8%165th of 346
Reached secondary education
42.5%
39.0%36.7%33rd of 346
Primary education only
29.6%
25.2%24.1%208th of 346
Never attended school
3.45%
2.85%3.01%194th 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.
10.9 yrs
11.7 yrs12.1 yrs151st of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.7 yrs
11.8 yrs12.1 yrs191st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.38%
2.22%2.18%180th of 345
Households lacking schooling
18.2%
17.4%15.1%224th 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.
244
2,655217,565161st of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
27.5%
21.0%33.9%225th 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%
0.0%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
55.4%
68.9%67.2%236th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
16.4%
15.2%19.7%196th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
28.2%
15.8%13.1%52nd 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.
2.3%
4.6%13.0%262nd 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.
50.8%
51.4%49.7%167th 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.

244left secondary school in 2024
177enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
72.5%continued immediately
55%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%Tecnico de Nivel Superior en Estetica, Cosmetologia y Terapias ComplementariasTecnico Universitario en Mecanica AutomotrizPsicologiaTecnico Universitario en Mineria y MetalurgiaNutricion y DieteticaTecnico de Nivel Superior en EnfermeriaTecnico de Nivel Superior en Instrumentacion, Electronica y Control IndustrialDerechoGastronomia InternacionalIngenieria Comercial
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico de Nivel Superior en Estetica, Cosmetologia y Terapias ComplementariasTecnico Universitario en Mecanica AutomotrizPsicologiaTecnico Universitario en Mineria y MetalurgiaNutricion y DieteticaTecnico de Nivel Superior en EnfermeriaTecnico de Nivel Superior en Instrumentacion, Electronica y Control IndustrialDerechoGastronomia InternacionalIngenieria Comercial
NogalesChile

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%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryServicesHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryServicesHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinary
NogalesChile

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

0100200300400200620152024244177
0100200300400200620152024244177
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 Nogales'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 Nogales 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

Nogales92%Fonasa4.5%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Nogales92%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.9%
11.2%10.6%182nd of 346
Public health insurance
91.6%
86.5%82.6%185th 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.
62.3
67.082.5202nd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
104
83100111th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,645
23,9751,950,388168th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
58.7 yrs
57.4 yrs56.4 yrs136th of 346
Disability among 65+
47.3%
46.1%43.0%131st of 346
Difficulty walking
6.11%
5.46%4.92%156th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.69%
4.64%4.58%233rd of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.42%
2.27%2.16%197th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.71%
2.87%2.70%198th of 346
Private health insurance
2.3%
6.7%13.2%214th of 335
No health coverage
4.50%
4.12%1.98%30th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
87.9%
89.4%92.1%265th of 332
Households lacking health access
9.0%
4.8%6.0%52nd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,378
14,3131,523,716169th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
54
38136,698149th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.92%
2.66%2.41%55th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.9 days
6.4 days6.1 days132nd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
24.4
17.819.986th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
73
80100206th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
64
94289,723196th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
4.6%
6.6%5.9%256th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
28.9
44.148.6261st 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.
54
87100262nd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 22%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, bones and… 19%Pregnancy, bir… 16%Tumours, blood and… 12%Infections and… 6.1%Mind, nerves a… 5.0%Digestivesystem13%Genitourin…system9.4%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem8.4%Injuries andpoisoning12%Musculoskeletal5.3%Skin1.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth13%PerinatalconditionsConge…malfo…Cancers andtumours7.5%Endocr…andmetabo…3.9%Contactwithhealth…Infe…andpara…Ill-d…sympt…1.6%NervoussystemMenta…Eye
Digestive and urinary … 22%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, … 19%Pregnancy, birth an… 16%Tumours, blood and … 12%Digestivesystem13%Genitour…system9.4%Circulatorysystem11%Respirat…system8.4%Injuries andpoisoning12%Musculoske…5.3%Pregnancy andchildbirth13%Per…con…Con…mal…Cancers andtumours7.5%Endocr…andmetabo…Contactwith…Ill…sym…Nervoussystem
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 digestivos38%Sitios reservados34%Tiroides yendocrinas14%Sangre y sistemalinfático14%
Órganos digestivos38%Sitios reservados34%Tiroides y endocrinas14%Sangre y sistemalinfático14%
Órganos digestivosSitios reservadosTiroides y endocrinasSangre y sistema linfáticohover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
18.2%
18.0%17.3%211th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.5 UF
22.1 UF32.0 UF217th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
104.0%
90.1%78.9%137th 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.
73.1
78.385.6203rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
44.9%
51.7%54.4%268th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
12.0%
9.0%8.6%30th of 345
Self-employed
38.3%
33.7%33.8%107th of 345
Extreme poverty
5.9%
5.8%6.9%233rd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
24.0%
14.5%17.7%72nd of 335
Unemployment rate
20.0%
11.1%8.8%4th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 534,044
CLP 567,477CLP 783,124169th 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.
0.375
0.4160.488298th of 321
Registered firms
1,619
16,7411,582,390169th of 346
Annual sales
6,256,865 UF
88,030,506 UF34,347,683,688 UF175th 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.
5,776
64,2439,699,164163rd of 346
Sales per firm
3,865 UF
5,258 UF21,706 UF170th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.1
2.43.9167th of 346
Women among employees
36.2%
37.4%40.6%250th of 345
Independent contractors
1,490
18,9783,958,269182nd of 346
Contractors as share of workers
20.5%
22.8%29.0%277th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 31%Trade and logistics 26%Industry and construction 19%State and soci… 15%Advanc… 5.7%Other … 4.3%Mining16%Agriculture andfishing14%Retail andwholesale15%Transport7.5%Accommodation andfoodConstruction8.6%Manufacturing8.5%Electricity…Waterand…Education6.7%Health5.2%Publicadmini…2.8%Administrat…servicesProfes…servic…Info…Fin…Dome…workOtherservi…1.8%
Natural resources 31%Trade and logisti… 26%Industry and con… 19%State and … 15%Adv… 5.7%Oth… 4.3%Mining16%Agricultu…andfishing14%Retail andwholesale15%Transport7.5%Accomm…andfood3.2%Construction8.6%Manufacturing8.5%Education6.7%Health5.2%Publ…admi…Admi…serv…Prof…serv…Dom…workOtherservi…
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 66%Managers and professi… 20%Elementary occupatio… 13%Craft and trades18%Service and sales17%Plant and machineoperators17%Skilledagricultural9.1%Clerical support4.9%Technicians9.7%Professionals8.3%Mana…Elementaryoccupations13%
Skilled occupations 66%Managers and professionals 20%Elementary occ… 13%Craft and trades18%Service and sales17%Plant and machineoperators17%Skilledagricultural9.1%Cleric…support4.9%Technicians9.7%Professio…8.3%Elementaryoccupations13%
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

Nogales99%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Nogales99%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.6%
4.6%5.7%132nd of 345
Internet access
89.6%
92.8%93.2%159th 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.
3.6
2.02.3184th 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.
1.4
1.31.6267th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
7,343
72,2396,408,172171st of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.33%
0.27%0.57%175th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.93%
0.75%1.13%217th of 345
Public water network
90.8%
94.1%92.3%124th of 345
Electricity access
99.6%
99.7%99.6%118th of 345
Detached houses
98.6%
88.1%78.7%143rd of 345
Apartments
0.6%
11.3%19.9%146th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.19%0.23%205th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
6.1%
6.6%11.9%297th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
463
4,238491,904148th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
6.2%
5.7%7.5%121st of 345
Renting households
14.0%
20.2%26.2%199th of 345
Owner-occupiers
66.4%
65.0%61.1%220th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
25.3%
15.7%24.4%231st of 345
Commute by public transport
37.0%
34.1%42.1%66th of 345
Walks to work
8.6%
10.3%10.2%277th of 345
Households with a computer
41.4%
49.9%54.9%186th 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
0.91.1250th 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.
98.6%
99.2%97.0%90th 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.
64.3%
90.3%89.4%222nd 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.
7.9
3.05.9184th 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.
21.1%
81.5%80.3%169th 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.
97.6%
99.4%90.0%105th 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.
1.0
0.60.6205th 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.
97.2%
99.5%99.0%215th 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.
97.0%
94.2%91.6%70th 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 37%Private vehicle 35%Other means 16%On foot or by b… 12%Public transport37%Car33%Other16%Walking8.6%Bicycle3.8%
Public transport 37%Private vehicle 35%Other means 16%On foot or by bi… 12%Public transport37%Car33%Other16%Walking8.6%Bicyc…3.8%
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 66%Provided rent-free 16%Rented 14%Owned outright64%Provided byfamily14%Rented, nocontract7.1%Rented,withcontract6.9%Other arrangement
Owned 66%Provided rent-free 16%Rented 14%Owned outright64%Provided by family14%Rented,nocontract7.1%Rented,withcontract6.9%Oth…arr…
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 31%No heating 31%Wood and biomass 26%Electricity 12%Gas27%Paraffin4.1%No heating31%Firewood25%Electricity12%
Fossil fuels 31%No heating 31%Wood and biomass 26%Electrici… 12%Gas27%No heating31%Firewood25%Electricity12%
No heatingElectricityOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
90.1%
of the registered voted in the first round
90.1%
voted in the runoff
20,128
registered voters on the roll
8.9%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman48.7%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist51.3%58.3%
NogalesChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez32.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman28.3%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.4%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.6%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist17.2%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.2%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.7%1.3%
NogalesChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile38.2%30.6%
KCambio por Chile18.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido17.1%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente19.9%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.6%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%
NogalesChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile35.9%
KCambio por Chile14.9%
JChile Grande y Unido26.1%
IPartido de la Gente18.3%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.8%
Nogalesshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Nogales 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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