Pica — PuroChile

Where it stands out

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

Leaves from a rural school1st of 331 · Chile 3.1%100.0%

Foreign-born share of working-age population7th of 346 · Chile 10.6%33.8%

Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents324th of 330 · Chile 48.68.0

In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents324th of 331 · Chile 19.93.2

In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio324th of 331 · Chile 10017

Cancer hospitalisation, standardised ratio323rd of 330 · Chile 10017

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 167 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

40.8%

285th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

12.6%

254th of 335

Came from another region

22.9%

54th of 335

Net internal migration

+731

+11.5 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Pica

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 services73751.6%+170%02TransportTrade and logistics21815.3%+1,882%03ConstructionIndustry and construction15811.1%—04Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics1057.4%+1,400%05Water and wasteIndustry and construction644.5%—06Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics563.9%+229%07Agriculture and fishingNatural resources282.0%−79%08ManufacturingIndustry and construction251.8%+150%09Administrative servicesAdvanced services171.2%—10Real estateAdvanced services90.6%—

Dependent workers, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.9% a year observed · 0.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval10.3% a year observed · 1.2% projected

What Pica is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Pica employs more people in 22 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.

22

activities it is specialised in

1,427

formal workers

153/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in Pica

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
Destilación, rectificación y mezclas de bebidas alcohólicas; excepto pisco	Elaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas	3	28.1×
Producción de aguas minerales y otras aguas embotelladas	Elaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas	6	19.1×
Cultivo de cítricos	Cultivo de plantas perennes	2	15.4×
Recogida de desechos no peligrosos	Recogida de desechos	55	10.8×
Cultivo de plantas con las que se preparan bebidas (incluye el cultivo de café, té y mate)	Cultivo de plantas perennes	1	8.6×
Actividades de hoteles	Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas	85	8.4×
Actividades de la administración pública en general	Administración del estado y aplicación de la política económica y social de la comunidad	737	8.0×
Transporte de pasajeros en buses interurbanos	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	22	6.4×
Construcción de otras obras de ingeniería civil	Construcción de otras obras de ingeniería civil	142	5.8×
Transporte de carga por carretera	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	195	5.8×
Fabricación de artículos de hormigón, cemento y yeso	Fabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.	8	5.5×
Venta al por mayor de materiales de construcción, artículos de ferretería, gasfitería y calefacción	Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada	25	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

164,896

hectares in holdings

24.7%

of them under a named use

92.8%

of the crop land is irrigated

320

holdings with land here

PastureOrchards and vineyardshover 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 164,896 hectares of holdings in Pica 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 92.8% above is a share of the 233 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 320 holdings with land here, 128 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

PicaChile% of each territory's own population · 6,272 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	6,272	28,133	18,480,432	293rd of 346
Average age	35.2 yrs	34.2 yrs	38.1 yrs	328th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	58.6	50.1	79.0	314th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	0.7/km²	0.7/km²	24.7/km²	319th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	2,180	9,561	6,596,527	298th of 346
Dwellings	3,199	21,308	7,642,716	299th of 346
People per household	2.88	2.94	2.80	80th of 345
Women	50.7%	49.2%	51.5%	206th of 346
Men per 100 women	97.3	103.1	94.3	141st of 346
Under 15	23.8%	24.1%	17.7%	10th of 346
65 and over	14.0%	12.1%	14.0%	252nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	60.7	56.6	46.5	17th of 346
One-person households	24.2%	26.5%	21.8%	109th of 345
Households with children	40.8%	39.7%	33.2%	14th of 345
Indigenous peoples	60.7%	54.6%	11.4%	16th of 346
Female-headed households	49.0%	45.7%	49.9%	141st of 345
Land area	8,990 km²	39,460 km²	748,041 km²	20th 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	26.9%	23.6%	8.7%	9th 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.	40.8%	36.4%	50.5%	285th 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.	12.6%	20.3%	23.9%	254th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	22.9%	24.9%	17.2%	54th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	1,686	6,652	1,608,650	99th of 346
Average age, foreign-born	30.7 yrs	30.4 yrs	33.5 yrs	301st of 345
Women among foreign-born	53.3%	52.8%	51.7%	86th of 345
Foreign-born of working age	78.2%	79.5%	83.1%	266th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	36.1%	37.2%	34.4%	190th 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.	33.8%	29.4%	10.6%	7th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	10.7 yrs	10.5 yrs	12.9 yrs	333rd 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.	731	-4,157	0	132nd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	11.5	-13.4	0.0	104th 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	9.4 yrs	8.9 yrs	10.4 yrs	153rd of 346
Reached higher education	19.2%	16.0%	31.1%	209th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	95.3%	99.0%	98.6%	316th 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.	42.5%	47.7%	55.6%	304th 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.	99.1%	97.9%	99.8%	285th of 346
Literacy rate	98.4%	97.7%	97.8%	56th of 346
Reached secondary education	42.8%	42.7%	36.7%	30th of 346
Primary education only	28.0%	30.4%	24.1%	227th of 346
Never attended school	3.01%	4.26%	3.01%	245th 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	11.1 yrs	12.1 yrs	89th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	11.5 yrs	10.8 yrs	12.1 yrs	113th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	1.57%	2.35%	2.18%	294th of 345
Households lacking schooling	6.5%	24.1%	15.1%	321st 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.	120	369	217,565	221st of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	52.5%	75.1%	33.9%	82nd 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%	100.0%	3.1%	1st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	74.5%	67.6%	67.2%	57th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	7.8%	10.8%	19.7%	300th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	17.6%	21.6%	13.1%	142nd 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.	45.1%	27.3%	13.0%	55th 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.	52.9%	55.1%	49.7%	123rd 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.

120left secondary school in 2024

51enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

42.5%continued immediately

75%of those, to a university

45%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

PicaChile

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

PicaChile

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

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 Pica'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 Pica 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 cover% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	9.5%	10.1%	10.6%	289th of 346
Public health insurance	88.6%	82.6%	82.6%	235th 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.	16.9	28.2	82.5	323rd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	17	42	100	324th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	596	2,843	1,950,388	309th of 346
Average age, people with a disability	56.0 yrs	54.5 yrs	56.4 yrs	265th of 346
Disability among 65+	44.3%	41.8%	43.0%	210th of 346
Difficulty walking	4.07%	4.07%	4.92%	294th of 346
Difficulty seeing	4.58%	4.99%	4.58%	248th of 346
Difficulty hearing	2.10%	2.28%	2.16%	262nd of 346
Difficulty concentrating	2.17%	2.18%	2.70%	291st of 346
Private health insurance	8.5%	3.9%	13.2%	70th of 335
No health coverage	2.26%	3.70%	1.98%	115th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	92.6%	94.3%	92.1%	187th of 332
Households lacking health access	1.7%	1.3%	6.0%	284th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	106	793	1,523,716	315th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	2	20	36,698	316th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	1.89%	2.52%	2.41%	286th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	8.8 days	6.7 days	6.1 days	28th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	3.2	7.1	19.9	324th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	21	36	100	322nd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	5	30	89,723	318th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	4.7%	3.8%	5.9%	251st of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	8.0	10.7	48.6	324th 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.	17	25	100	323rd 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.

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.	36.1%	22.5%	17.3%	21st of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	24.3 UF	21.3 UF	32.0 UF	121st of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	105.0%	101.3%	78.9%	126th 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.	89.0	74.5	85.6	118th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	58.0%	55.6%	54.4%	53rd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	5.4%	6.7%	8.6%	302nd of 345
Self-employed	48.4%	41.2%	33.8%	20th of 345
Extreme poverty	7.9%	5.4%	6.9%	167th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	14.5%	19.2%	17.7%	226th of 335
Unemployment rate	10.4%	6.9%	8.8%	113th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 598,919	CLP 512,057	CLP 783,124	115th 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.	0.403	0.373	0.488	245th of 321
Registered firms	558	2,096	1,582,390	283rd of 346
Annual sales	939,097 UF	18,898,101 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	299th 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.	1,427	7,095	9,699,164	278th of 346
Sales per firm	1,683 UF	9,016 UF	21,706 UF	293rd of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	1.9	2.3	3.9	204th of 346
Women among employees	48.8%	40.5%	40.6%	50th of 345
Independent contractors	740	4,342	3,958,269	268th of 346
Contractors as share of workers	34.1%	38.0%	29.0%	84th 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 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

HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	11.2%	12.9%	5.7%	15th of 345
Internet access	91.4%	88.7%	93.2%	127th 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.	2.5	5.4	2.3	242nd 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.	2.6	9.9	1.6	204th of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	2,025	9,152	6,408,172	302nd of 346
Critically overcrowded	1.14%	2.11%	0.57%	20th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	2.62%	7.07%	1.13%	55th of 345
Public water network	70.0%	66.2%	92.3%	271st of 345
Electricity access	98.8%	97.5%	99.6%	265th of 345
Detached houses	98.6%	96.2%	78.7%	149th of 345
Apartments	0.2%	0.1%	19.9%	176th of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.10%	0.87%	0.23%	243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	30.9%	55.0%	11.9%	58th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	330	1,588	491,904	192nd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	15.1%	16.6%	7.5%	22nd of 345
Renting households	32.1%	23.8%	26.2%	23rd of 345
Owner-occupiers	47.1%	51.7%	61.1%	324th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	0.7%	1.2%	24.4%	307th of 345
Commute by public transport	24.9%	24.2%	42.1%	182nd of 345
Walks to work	29.4%	29.4%	10.2%	36th of 345
Households with a computer	39.9%	35.8%	54.9%	215th 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.	1.6	2.9	1.1	205th 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.	94.5%	83.7%	97.0%	167th 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.	97.2%	95.6%	99.9%	315th 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.	99.8%	99.2%	100.0%	310th 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.	93.4%	78.7%	89.4%	87th 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.	94.3%	89.3%	98.1%	230th 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.	99.3%	95.3%	99.7%	277th 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.	46.9	25.5	5.9	45th 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%	40.6%	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%	44.5%	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.	0.2%	63.3%	96.2%	304th 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.	1.7	2.2	0.6	73rd 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.	94.3%	88.4%	99.0%	275th 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.	96.8%	97.1%	99.9%	323rd 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.	99.3%	99.7%	100.0%	325th 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.	93.4%	68.4%	91.6%	97th 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.	96.8%	73.5%	98.5%	210th 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.	99.3%	94.2%	99.8%	277th of 345

How people commute

Public 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

No heatingElectricityWood and biomassOther 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

84.1%

of the registered voted in the first round

82.8%

voted in the runoff

6,220

registered voters on the roll

7.3%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman36.4%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist63.6%58.3%

PicaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez33.4%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman22.3%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen16.4%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist19.8%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet5.9%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.7%1.3%

PicaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile49.7%30.6%

KCambio por Chile16.3%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido15.6%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente11.0%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas7.4%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%

PicaChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile33.6%

KCambio por Chile35.8%

JChile Grande y Unido11.3%

IPartido de la Gente13.8%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.7%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista2.8%

Picashare of the valid vote

No sister communes

How this is computed

No commune in Chile resembles Pica 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.

Pozo Almonte0.98Tarapacá · 16,878 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Housing and services.San Pedro de Atacama1.16Antofagasta · 9,843 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Health.Huara1.21Tarapacá · 2,858 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Education.María Elena1.29Antofagasta · 4,834 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 Pica

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Pica is specialised in

Most over-represented in Pica

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

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

By field of study

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

Health

Which health system

What people are hospitalised for

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

Senate · 16 November

No sister communes

Inside the commune