Commune · 02202
Ollagüe
Compare Ollagüe with another placeCensus population
256
341st of 346
Population density
0.1/km²
339th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.5 yrs
136th of 346
Foreign-born share
24.2%
13th of 346
Where it stands out
Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.Average schooling, foreign-born345th of 345 · Chile 12.9 yrs8.0 yrs
Average distance to a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 0.634.4
People within 5 km of a school in operation345th of 345 · Chile 99.0%0.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation345th of 345 · Chile 99.9%0.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation345th of 345 · Chile 100.0%6.0%
Women's schooling as share of men's345th of 346 · Chile 99.8%85.3%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024
Average monthly pay
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 · 0 surveyedLives in the commune where they were born
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Came from another commune of the same region
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Net internal migration
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Formal employment, 2005–2024
2005–2024 · Source SIIThe ten branches that employ most of Ollagüe
Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.
BranchWorkersShare of total2005–2024Change
01Public administrationState and social services65+132%02Arts and entertainmentOther services50—03Water and wasteIndustry and construction31—04Administrative servicesAdvanced services8—05ConstructionIndustry and construction7+250%06Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics2—07Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics1−96%08Agriculture and fishingNatural resources0—09ManufacturingIndustry and construction0—10Other servicesOther services0—What Ollagüe is specialised in
2024 · SIIPuroChile does not compute this for Ollagüe. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 164 formal workers here that division is a statement about a handful of people: one worker would move it further than a whole industry moves it in Santiago. The floor is 1,000 workers, and it is a floor rather than a caveat because a spectacular number nobody should read is worse than no number.
Population and territory
See all →Population pyramid
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Census population | 256 | 176,433 | 18,480,432 | 341st of 346 | |
Average age | 38.2 yrs | 34.6 yrs | 38.1 yrs | 240th of 346 | |
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15. | 72.9 | 43.1 | 79.0 | 260th of 345 | |
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography. | 0.1/km² | 4.2/km² | 24.7/km² | 339th of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Households | 102 | 60,042 | 6,596,527 | 341st of 346 | |
Dwellings | 438 | 66,344 | 7,642,716 | 338th of 346 | |
People per household | 2.51 | 2.94 | 2.80 | 305th of 345 | |
Women | 52.3% | 50.6% | 51.5% | 24th of 346 | |
Men per 100 women | 91.0 | 97.6 | 94.3 | 323rd of 346 | |
Under 15 | 18.8% | 20.9% | 17.7% | 102nd of 346 | |
65 and over | 13.7% | 9.0% | 14.0% | 264th of 346 | |
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age. | 48.0 | 42.7 | 46.5 | 249th of 346 | |
One-person households | 40.2% | 22.8% | 21.8% | 11th of 345 | |
Households with children | 30.4% | 39.8% | 33.2% | 254th of 345 | |
Indigenous peoples | 78.5% | 29.3% | 11.4% | 8th of 346 | |
Female-headed households | 48.0% | 44.5% | 49.9% | 171st of 345 | |
Land area | 2,923 km² | 42,071 km² | 748,041 km² | 57th of 346 |
Migration
See all →When the migrant population arrived
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
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Foreign-born share | 24.2% | 21.6% | 8.7% | 13th of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign-born population | 62 | 38,023 | 1,608,650 | 308th of 346 | |
Average age, foreign-born | 44.7 yrs | 31.8 yrs | 33.5 yrs | 5th of 345 | |
Women among foreign-born | 53.2% | 55.0% | 51.7% | 87th of 345 | |
Foreign-born of working age | 62.9% | 83.0% | 83.1% | 344th of 345 | |
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later. | 4.8% | 33.7% | 34.4% | 343rd 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. | 22.5% | 25.5% | 10.6% | 22nd of 346 | |
Average schooling, foreign-born | 8.0 yrs | 11.7 yrs | 12.9 yrs | 345th of 345 |
Education
See all →How far schooling went
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Average years of schooling | 9.5 yrs | 10.3 yrs | 10.4 yrs | 136th of 346 | |
Reached higher education | 20.2% | 27.8% | 31.1% | 181st of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
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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. | 85.3% | 97.6% | 99.8% | 345th of 346 | |
Literacy rate | 96.2% | 98.9% | 97.8% | 194th of 346 | |
Reached secondary education | 40.9% | 41.9% | 36.7% | 48th of 346 | |
Primary education only | 33.3% | 21.7% | 24.1% | 148th of 346 | |
Never attended school | 3.57% | 3.83% | 3.01% | 177th 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. | 11.6 yrs | 12.5 yrs | 12.1 yrs | 89th of 346 | |
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men. | 9.9 yrs | 12.2 yrs | 12.1 yrs | 299th of 346 | |
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write. | 3.85% | 1.10% | 2.18% | 152nd of 345 |
Health
See all →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 Ollagüe 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.
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
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Disability prevalence | 16.0% | 7.4% | 10.6% | 23rd of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
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People with a disability | 41 | 12,981 | 1,950,388 | 339th of 346 | |
Average age, people with a disability | 52.2 yrs | 51.2 yrs | 56.4 yrs | 322nd of 346 | |
Disability among 65+ | 41.5% | 34.5% | 43.0% | 277th of 346 | |
Difficulty walking | 6.25% | 2.99% | 4.92% | 143rd of 346 | |
Difficulty seeing | 8.59% | 3.31% | 4.58% | 9th of 346 | |
Difficulty hearing | 4.30% | 1.55% | 2.16% | 9th of 346 | |
Difficulty concentrating | 4.69% | 1.72% | 2.70% | 6th of 346 |
Economy and poverty
See all →| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
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Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked. | 31.2 UF | 34.1 UF | 32.0 UF | 29th of 342 | |
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job. | 58.2% | 71.2% | 78.9% | 339th 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. | 85.9 | 65.3 | 85.6 | 128th of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
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Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over. | 67.3% | 58.6% | 54.4% | 19th of 345 | |
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently. | 1.4% | 7.8% | 8.6% | 339th of 345 | |
Self-employed | 38.6% | 32.8% | 33.8% | 104th of 345 | |
Registered firms | 22 | 11,520 | 1,582,390 | 343rd of 346 | |
Annual sales | 45,108 UF | 115,690,121 UF | 34,347,683,688 UF | 341st 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. | 164 | 48,131 | 9,699,164 | 339th of 346 | |
Sales per firm | 2,050 UF | 10,043 UF | 21,706 UF | 268th of 342 | |
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions. | 4.9 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 17th of 346 | |
Women among employees | 54.9% | 36.6% | 40.6% | 15th of 345 | |
Independent contractors | 161 | 17,180 | 3,958,269 | 338th of 346 | |
Contractors as share of workers | 49.5% | 26.3% | 29.0% | 16th of 346 |
Employment by industry
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.
Employment by occupation
Elementary occupationshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itCIUO-08 (ISCO) skill levels.
Housing and services
See all →House or flat
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
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Overcrowded dwellings | 9.0% | 9.6% | 5.7% | 22nd of 345 | |
Internet access | 89.2% | 95.8% | 93.2% | 170th 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. | 120.2 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 2nd 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. | 34.4 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 11th of 345 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
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Occupied dwellings with residents | 89 | 56,312 | 6,408,172 | 343rd of 346 | |
Critically overcrowded | 1.12% | 1.30% | 0.57% | 21st of 345 | |
Irrecoverable dwellings | 4.49% | 2.21% | 1.13% | 31st of 345 | |
Public water network | 92.1% | 93.8% | 92.3% | 108th of 345 | |
Electricity access | 97.8% | 99.5% | 99.6% | 313th of 345 | |
Detached houses | 97.8% | 91.6% | 78.7% | 191st of 345 | |
Apartments | 0.0% | 5.3% | 19.9% | 281st of 345 | |
Precarious wall materials | 0.00% | 0.56% | 0.23% | 324th of 345 | |
Unoccupied private dwellings | 79.0% | 9.7% | 11.9% | 2nd of 345 | |
Quantitative housing deficit | 19 | 8,814 | 491,904 | 335th of 345 | |
Housing deficit as share of households | 18.6% | 14.7% | 7.5% | 12th of 345 | |
Renting households | 24.5% | 38.3% | 26.2% | 62nd of 345 | |
Owner-occupiers | 19.6% | 46.6% | 61.1% | 341st of 345 | |
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south. | 47.1% | 2.4% | 24.4% | 183rd of 345 | |
Commute by public transport | 10.3% | 33.6% | 42.1% | 324th of 345 | |
Walks to work | 54.4% | 10.3% | 10.2% | 7th of 345 | |
Households with a computer | 39.2% | 55.3% | 54.9% | 232nd 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. | 34.2 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 3rd 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. | 0.0% | 98.5% | 97.0% | 344th 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. | 0.0% | 99.5% | 99.9% | 344th 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. | 6.0% | 99.8% | 100.0% | 344th 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. | 0.0% | 97.4% | 89.4% | 329th 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. | 0.0% | 98.5% | 98.1% | 330th 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. | 0.0% | 99.1% | 99.7% | 333rd 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. | 78.0 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 22nd 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% | 93.2% | 80.3% | 194th of 345 | |
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 0.0% | 94.1% | 90.0% | 249th 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. | 0.0% | 94.5% | 96.2% | 306th 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. | 34.4 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1st 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. | 0.0% | 98.5% | 99.0% | 345th 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. | 0.0% | 99.4% | 99.9% | 345th 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. | 6.0% | 99.7% | 100.0% | 345th 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. | 0.0% | 98.2% | 91.6% | 335th 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. | 0.0% | 98.9% | 98.5% | 336th 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. | 6.0% | 99.3% | 99.8% | 336th of 345 |
How people commute
On foot or by bicyclePublic transportOther meanshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.
Housing tenure
Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.
Home heating fuel
Wood and biomassElectricityNo heatingFossil fuelshover a tile for its count and its distance from ChileFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.
How it voted in 2025
TRICEL · qualified result62.6%
of the registered voted in the first round
61.0%
voted in the runoff
1,199
registered voters on the roll
11.1%
of runoff ballots were null or blank
Presidential runoff · 14 December
Jeannette Jara Roman29.4%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist70.6%58.3%
Presidential, first round · 16 November
Franco Parisi Fernandez58.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman12.3%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.4%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen8.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist15.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet2.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.1%1.3%
Chamber of Deputies · 16 November
CUnidad por Chile14.9%30.6%
KCambio por Chile11.7%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido26.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente24.6%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas14.8%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista1.6%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios5.5%0.6%
HPopular0.6%0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
No sister communes
How this is computedNo commune in Chile resembles Ollagüe closely enough: its best match sits further away than the best match of nine out of ten communes in the country. These four are the least unlike it, which is not the same thing as sisters. In fact, the commune that most resembles it is further from it than any two Chilean communes typically are.
Pica1.62Tarapacá · 6,272 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Migration.Huara1.74Tarapacá · 2,858 peopleAlike in Economy; apart in Health.Cochrane1.76Aysén · 3,458 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Migration.San Pedro de Atacama1.81Antofagasta · 9,843 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Health.
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.
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