Palmilla — PuroChile

Where it stands out

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

Sought care when ill1st of 332 · Chile 92.1%100.0%

School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%

Leaves from a rural school1st of 331 · Chile 3.1%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 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 180 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

62.3%

148th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

25.7%

92nd of 335

Came from another region

10.6%

282nd of 335

Net internal migration

+798

+5.9 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Palmilla

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

01Agriculture and fishingNatural resources2,79842.3%−1%02TransportTrade and logistics1,78326.9%+4,994%03ManufacturingIndustry and construction76511.6%+2,960%04Public administrationState and social services5658.5%+104%05Administrative servicesAdvanced services2153.2%—06ConstructionIndustry and construction1542.3%−49%07Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics1462.2%−5%08Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics631.0%—09Finance and insuranceAdvanced services480.7%—10Water and wasteIndustry and construction320.5%+88%

Dependent workers, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.2% a year observed · 0.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval11.6% a year observed · 2.8% projected

What Palmilla is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Palmilla employs more people in 28 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.

28

activities it is specialised in

6,621

formal workers

295/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in Palmilla

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

Activity	Division	Workers here	Times the national share
Explotación de frigoríficos para almacenamiento y depósito	Almacenamiento y depósito	1,684	144.5×
Cultivo de maíz	Cultivo de plantas no perennes	106	57.4×
Cultivo de cítricos	Cultivo de plantas perennes	32	53.2×
Elaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizas	Elaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizas	455	35.5×
Cultivos forrajeros en praderas mejoradas o sembradas; cultivos suplementarios forrajeros	Cultivo de plantas no perennes	83	32.3×
Elaboración de vinos	Elaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas	296	26.8×
Cultivo de frutas tropicales y subtropicales (incluye el cultivo de paltas)	Cultivo de plantas perennes	35	21.1×
Actividades de apoyo a la agricultura	Actividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha	2,016	10.0×
Cultivo de otras plantas perennes	Cultivo de plantas perennes	173	9.8×
Venta al por menor de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas en comercios especializados (botillerías)	Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados	29	5.5×
Cultivo de plantas vivas incluida la producción en viveros (excepto viveros forestales)	Propagación de plantas	27	4.9×
Actividades de envasado y empaquetado	Actividades de servicios de apoyo a las empresas n.c.p.	60	4.7×

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

15,735

hectares in holdings

81.6%

of them under a named use

99.3%

of the crop land is irrigated

353

holdings with land here

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

The agricultural census measured 15,735 hectares of holdings in Palmilla in the 2020/2021 agricultural year, and this is how it divided them.

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

Irrigation is asked of eleven of the uses and not of forest, native woodland, natural pasture or untilled ground — so the 99.3% above is a share of the 8,755 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 353 holdings with land here, 19 are self-consumption plots — under two hectares and with nothing sold in the year. These counts are the census's own for this territory and they are not added to anything: a holding with land in two comunas is counted in both.

VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal 2021, INE

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

PalmillaChile% of each territory's own population · 13,060 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	13,060	235,784	18,480,432	225th of 346
Average age	40.8 yrs	39.6 yrs	38.1 yrs	77th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	103.3	90.0	79.0	101st of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	55.6/km²	42.5/km²	24.7/km²	119th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	4,453	84,354	6,596,527	236th of 346
Dwellings	5,132	95,527	7,642,716	257th of 346
People per household	2.93	2.80	2.80	57th of 345
Women	49.9%	51.0%	51.5%	284th of 346
Men per 100 women	100.5	95.9	94.3	63rd of 346
Under 15	16.5%	17.7%	17.7%	262nd of 346
65 and over	17.1%	15.9%	14.0%	114th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	50.6	50.6	46.5	183rd of 346
One-person households	17.0%	20.3%	21.8%	317th of 345
Households with children	33.8%	33.7%	33.2%	148th of 345
Indigenous peoples	4.9%	4.1%	11.4%	265th of 346
Female-headed households	41.2%	48.9%	49.9%	317th of 345
Land area	235 km²	5,553 km²	748,041 km²	264th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

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

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	1.4%	4.1%	8.7%	247th 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.	62.3%	64.1%	50.5%	148th 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.	25.7%	14.1%	23.9%	92nd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	10.6%	18.1%	17.2%	282nd of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	183	9,640	1,608,650	242nd of 346
Average age, foreign-born	27.7 yrs	31.2 yrs	33.5 yrs	344th of 345
Women among foreign-born	53.6%	49.0%	51.7%	76th of 345
Foreign-born of working age	77.0%	80.4%	83.1%	290th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	56.3%	49.1%	34.4%	18th 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.	1.6%	4.9%	10.6%	255th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	12.4 yrs	12.4 yrs	12.9 yrs	170th 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.	798	-28,644	0	129th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	5.9	-11.7	0.0	126th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

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

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	8.9 yrs	9.4 yrs	10.4 yrs	247th of 346
Reached higher education	15.6%	20.9%	31.1%	293rd of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	100.0%	98.0%	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.	48.8%	44.4%	55.6%	256th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.	103.0%	103.1%	99.8%	102nd of 346
Literacy rate	94.4%	95.8%	97.8%	286th of 346
Reached secondary education	38.9%	38.5%	36.7%	112th of 346
Primary education only	37.2%	31.8%	24.1%	83rd of 346
Never attended school	3.98%	3.77%	3.01%	125th 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.	9.9 yrs	10.7 yrs	12.1 yrs	267th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	10.2 yrs	11.0 yrs	12.1 yrs	268th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	5.56%	4.17%	2.18%	60th of 345
Households lacking schooling	28.2%	26.1%	15.1%	104th 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.	43	3,087	217,565	296th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	34.9%	39.3%	33.9%	188th 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.	100.0%	3.4%	3.1%	1st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	61.9%	64.4%	67.2%	176th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	14.3%	21.3%	19.7%	229th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	23.8%	14.4%	13.1%	82nd 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.	42.9%	65.9%	13.0%	60th 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.	57.1%	52.4%	49.7%	59th 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.

43left secondary school in 2024

21enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

48.8%continued immediately

62%of those, to a university

43%of those, outside their region

By field of study

PalmillaChile

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. The list of individual programmes is withheld here: fewer than 30 of this territory's leavers continued, and a ranking built on that few names people.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

left secondary schoolenrolled the following year

Only enrolment the following March counts — someone who works for a year and starts after that is not here, so the rate is a floor under how many ever study, not an estimate of it. Adult secondary education is counted separately and is not in these figures. What the approximation above does not settle is catchment: this is the cohort Palmilla's schools taught, and where schools draw pupils from next door that is not the same set of children as the ones the territory raised.

Health

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The hospital figures come from DEIS's discharge register: one row per completed stay, in any establishment in the country, counted in the commune where the patient lives rather than where the hospital is. It counts stays, not people — someone admitted three times is three of them.

The deaths it records are the ones that happened during a stay. Deaths at home or in the street are in the vital statistics register, which is a different DEIS release and is not in PuroChile — so nothing here is this place's mortality, and every label says «hospitalaria» for that reason.

The two standardised ratios are the ones meant for comparing places: they hold Palmilla against what its own age and sex structure would produce at the country's rates, with Chile fixed at 100. A commune of older people buries more people than a commune of young families, and that is demography, not health.

In 2024, 7.5% of the country's discharges arrive with every identifying field replaced by an asterisk and cannot be attached to any commune; what is counted here is the 91.4% that carries one.

Which health system

FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	15.1%	13.2%	10.6%	49th of 346
Public health insurance	95.1%	91.2%	82.6%	92nd 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.	41.9	62.7	82.5	283rd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	23	74	100	319th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	1,967	31,061	1,950,388	208th of 346
Average age, people with a disability	58.4 yrs	58.0 yrs	56.4 yrs	153rd of 346
Disability among 65+	44.8%	44.8%	43.0%	194th of 346
Difficulty walking	7.50%	6.78%	4.92%	49th of 346
Difficulty seeing	6.94%	5.90%	4.58%	59th of 346
Difficulty hearing	2.98%	2.63%	2.16%	95th of 346
Difficulty concentrating	3.20%	3.05%	2.70%	90th of 346
Private health insurance	0.4%	3.8%	13.2%	304th of 335
No health coverage	3.65%	3.65%	1.98%	55th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	100.0%	96.2%	92.1%	1st of 332
Households lacking health access	8.6%	7.4%	6.0%	62nd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	547	14,782	1,523,716	255th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	7	385	36,698	295th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	1.28%	2.60%	2.41%	314th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	5.3 days	5.9 days	6.1 days	294th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	5.4	16.3	19.9	318th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	49	74	100	282nd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	20	811	89,723	284th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	3.7%	5.5%	5.9%	301st of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	15.3	34.4	48.6	308th 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.	28	65	100	310th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

By tumour site

Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	15.4%	19.2%	17.3%	266th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	19.0 UF	20.5 UF	32.0 UF	305th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	94.7%	101.5%	78.9%	205th 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.	111.9	100.1	85.6	47th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	50.4%	51.5%	54.4%	178th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	6.7%	8.5%	8.6%	273rd of 345
Self-employed	27.6%	28.7%	33.8%	311th of 345
Extreme poverty	8.9%	8.2%	6.9%	137th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	19.9%	19.4%	17.7%	132nd of 335
Unemployment rate	4.2%	9.4%	8.8%	300th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 489,829	CLP 539,306	CLP 783,124	223rd 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.	0.355	0.438	0.488	313th of 321
Registered firms	1,461	23,603	1,582,390	185th of 346
Annual sales	7,893,411 UF	122,253,759 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	157th 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.	6,621	102,588	9,699,164	149th of 346
Sales per firm	5,403 UF	5,180 UF	21,706 UF	113th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	2.0	2.3	3.9	197th of 346
Women among employees	40.9%	39.2%	40.6%	174th of 345
Independent contractors	1,171	25,701	3,958,269	215th of 346
Contractors as share of workers	15.0%	20.0%	29.0%	328th 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

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House or flat

HouseFlat% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	5.8%	5.3%	5.7%	110th of 345
Internet access	86.7%	89.5%	93.2%	221st 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.	8.6	3.8	2.3	43rd 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.	4.2	2.9	1.6	137th of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	4,341	82,528	6,408,172	237th of 346
Critically overcrowded	0.39%	0.32%	0.57%	105th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	0.48%	0.91%	1.13%	316th of 345
Public water network	96.8%	94.8%	92.3%	55th of 345
Electricity access	99.7%	99.6%	99.6%	79th of 345
Detached houses	99.6%	93.9%	78.7%	21st of 345
Apartments	0.0%	5.5%	19.9%	259th of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.10%	0.19%	0.23%	243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	11.4%	9.9%	11.9%	220th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	261	4,873	491,904	219th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	5.9%	5.8%	7.5%	140th of 345
Renting households	8.4%	16.6%	26.2%	322nd of 345
Owner-occupiers	77.5%	68.8%	61.1%	19th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	66.1%	48.8%	24.4%	140th of 345
Commute by public transport	16.4%	19.6%	42.1%	289th of 345
Walks to work	7.2%	10.3%	10.2%	305th of 345
Households with a computer	40.1%	44.9%	54.9%	212th 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.	2.1	1.6	1.1	108th 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.	97.1%	94.8%	97.0%	114th 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%	99.9%	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.	17.8%	68.0%	89.4%	326th of 345
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	99.8%	99.0%	98.1%	115th 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%	99.9%	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.	10.8	9.2	5.9	169th 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.	15.9%	41.5%	80.3%	170th 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.	74.3%	75.8%	90.0%	184th 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%	98.3%	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.	1.6	1.0	0.6	87th of 345
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.	100.0%	99.0%	99.0%	1st of 345
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.	100.0%	99.9%	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.	71.3%	75.6%	91.6%	207th 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%	99.7%	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 transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

ElectricityNo heatingOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result

94.6%

of the registered voted in the first round

94.1%

voted in the runoff

11,197

registered voters on the roll

5.8%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman32.8%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist67.2%58.3%

PalmillaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez21.9%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman21.3%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.8%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist30.4%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.1%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%

PalmillaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile52.6%30.6%

KCambio por Chile10.3%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido24.9%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente7.1%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.2%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%

PalmillaChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Palmilla 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.

Río Claro0.44Maule · 14,276 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Education.Placilla0.46O'Higgins · 9,438 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Migration.Pichidegua0.47O'Higgins · 20,363 peopleAlike in Housing and services; apart in Health.Malloa0.50O'Higgins · 13,882 peopleAlike in Scale; 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.

Inside the commune

Census districts

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Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of Palmilla

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Palmilla is specialised in

Most over-represented in Palmilla

The land and who works it

Population and territory

Population pyramid

Migration

When the migrant population arrived

Education

How far schooling went

The class of 2024

By field of study

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

Health

Which health system

What people are hospitalised for

By tumour site

Economy and poverty

Employment by industry

Employment by occupation

Housing and services

House or flat

How people commute

Housing tenure

Home heating fuel

How it voted in 2025

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

Sister communes

Inside the commune