Commune · 06201

PichilemuPichilemu

Compare Pichilemu with another place
Census population
19,847
172nd of 346
Population density
27.8/km²
177th of 346
Average years of schooling
10.1 yrs
72nd of 346
Foreign-born share
5.2%
97th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
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%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary1st of 345 · Chile 99.8%100.0%
Loading
Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.1 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.1 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 · 399 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
59.4%
186th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
13.4%
235th of 335
Came from another region
22.6%
57th of 335
Net internal migration
+846
+4.5 per 100 residents
Pichilemuthis commune · 17,146another region4,255 peopleelsewhere in the region2,535 peopleabroad861 peopleanother region4,042 peopleelsewhere in the region1,902 peoplePichilemuthis commune · 18,853
Pichilemuthis commune · 17,146another region4,255 peopleelsewhere in th…2,535 peopleabroad861 peopleanother region4,042 peopleelsewhere in th…1,902 peoplePichilemuthis commune · 18,853

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520245Accommodation and food1Accommodation and food▲42Education2Education1Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼210Public administration4Public administration▲63Agriculture and fishing5Agriculture and fishing▼28Health6Health▲26Construction7Construction▼17Manufacturing8Manufacturing▼114Water and waste9Water and waste▲54Other services10Other services▼612Transport11Transport▲113Professional services12Professional services▲19Administrative services13Administrative services▼411Finance and insurance14Finance and insurance▼3
2005202451Accommodation and food▲422Education13Retail and wholesale▼2104Public administration▲635Agriculture and fishing▼286Health▲267Construction▼178Manufacturing▼1149Water and waste▲5410Other services▼61211Transport▲11312Professional services▲1913Administrative services▼41114Finance and insurance▼3

The ten branches that employ most of Pichilemu

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.

02 k4 k6 k8 kprojection →6 k2029 · central2005201520242029
02 k4 k6 k8 kprojection →6 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.7% a year observed · 3.1% 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 Mprojection →4.1 M2029 · central2005201520242029
02.0 M4.0 M6.0 Mprojection →4.1 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.8% a year observed · 2.4% projected

What Pichilemu is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Pichilemu employs more people in 88 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.

88
activities it is specialised in
5,047
formal workers
117/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Actividades de restaurantes y de …Actividades de la administración …Venta al por menor de artículos d…Elaboración de productos de panad…Recogida de desechos no peligrososCentros médicos privados (estable…Servicios de forestación a cambio…Extracción de maderaElaboración y conservación de car…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Centros médicos privados (estable…Extracción de maderaFabricación de jabones y detergen…Cultivo de floresHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Pichilemu

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

ActivityDivisionWorkers hereTimes the national share
Actividades de residenciales para turistasActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas1848.8×
Enseñanza deportiva y recreativaOtros tipos de enseñanza1432.0×
Actividades de discotecas y cabaret (night club), con predominio del servicio de bebidasActividades de servicio de bebidas4829.5×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadoresOtras actividades de alojamiento3321.4×
Fabricación de productos primarios de aluminioFabricación de productos primarios de metales preciosos y otros metales no ferrosos1219.1×
Otras actividades de alojamiento n.c.p.Otras actividades de alojamiento6016.8×
Venta al por menor de libros en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de productos culturales y recreativos en comercios especializados1415.4×
Explotación de viveros forestalesSilvicultura y otras actividades forestales1013.8×
Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales (excepto explotación de viveros forestales)Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales1111.3×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada4911.0×
Actividades de asociaciones profesionalesActividades de asociaciones empresariales, profesionales y de empleadores910.6×
Servicios de forestación a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura499.9×

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
39,033
hectares in holdings
81.0%
of them under a named use
34.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
175
holdings with land here
Woodland 67%Not farmed 23%Pasture 8.5%Forest plantations58%Nativewoodland8.3%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings19%Untilled landPasture8.5%Cerea…1.3%Fod…cro…
Woodland 67%Not farmed 23%Pasture 8.5%Forest plantations58%Nativewoodl…8.3%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings19%Unti…landPasture8.5%
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.

Population and territory

See all →

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
PichilemuChile% of each territory's own population · 19,847 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
19,847
58,13618,480,432172nd of 346
Average age
40.0 yrs
41.7 yrs38.1 yrs122nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
91.6
113.579.0162nd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
27.8/km²
17.6/km²24.7/km²177th of 346
See the other 13 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
7,738
22,7936,596,527165th of 346
Dwellings
15,007
41,4987,642,716119th of 346
People per household
2.56
2.552.80280th of 345
Women
50.9%
50.0%51.5%176th of 346
Men per 100 women
96.4
100.094.3171st of 346
Under 15
18.0%
16.8%17.7%163rd of 346
65 and over
16.4%
19.1%14.0%144th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.5
56.046.5118th of 346
One-person households
25.4%
25.9%21.8%74th of 345
Households with children
30.7%
28.6%33.2%246th of 345
Indigenous peoples
5.8%
4.8%11.4%230th of 346
Female-headed households
49.4%
45.4%49.9%126th of 345
Land area
715 km²
3,296 km²748,041 km²162nd of 346

Migration

See all →

When the migrant population arrived

Pichilemu41%Arrived since 202059%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Pichilemu41%Arrived since 202059%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
5.2%
3.6%8.7%97th 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.
59.4%
67.3%50.5%186th 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.
13.4%
10.2%23.9%235th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
22.6%
19.9%17.2%57th of 335
See the other 9 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
1,033
2,1081,608,650120th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.2 yrs
33.9 yrs33.5 yrs179th of 345
Women among foreign-born
50.1%
49.1%51.7%205th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
82.3%
81.5%83.1%116th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
40.9%
39.8%34.4%133rd 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.
6.5%
4.6%10.6%95th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.1 yrs
12.6 yrs12.9 yrs74th 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.
846
-13,4260126th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
4.5
-26.80.0132nd of 335

Education

See all →

How far schooling went

Pichilemu30%Higher34%Secondary26%Primary only4.9%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Pichilemu30%Higher34%Secondary26%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.1 yrs
9.4 yrs10.4 yrs72nd of 346
Reached higher education
30.1%
23.1%31.1%60th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
94.9%
97.5%98.6%317th 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.
36.8%
45.0%55.6%322nd of 331
See the other 17 indicators
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.
102.6%
103.7%99.8%134th of 346
Literacy rate
96.7%
95.3%97.8%161st of 346
Reached secondary education
34.4%
35.2%36.7%270th of 346
Primary education only
26.5%
32.5%24.1%247th of 346
Never attended school
4.04%
4.63%3.01%120th 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
10.6 yrs12.1 yrs89th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.9 yrs
11.0 yrs12.1 yrs77th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.28%
4.68%2.18%186th of 345
Households lacking schooling
24.1%
27.9%15.1%156th 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.
204
444217,565172nd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
0.0%
16.7%33.9%301st 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.
61.3%
66.0%67.2%179th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
17.3%
18.0%19.7%184th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
21.3%
16.0%13.1%105th 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.
74.7%
79.5%13.0%18th 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.
53.3%
51.5%49.7%116th 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.

204left secondary school in 2024
75enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
36.8%continued immediately
61%of those, to a university
75%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%ArquitecturaIngenieria Civil IndustrialKinesiologiaPsicologiaTecnico de Nivel Superior en Administracion Con Especialidad en Turismo y ServiciosTecnico de Nivel Superior en EnfermeriaTerapia Ocupacional
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%ArquitecturaIngenieria Civil IndustrialKinesiologiaPsicologiaTecnico de Nivel Superior en Administracion Con Especialidad en Turismo y ServiciosTecnico de Nivel Superior en EnfermeriaTerapia Ocupacional
PichilemuChile

Each bar is that programme's share of everyone who continued, here and in the country — not a headcount, so a commune of a few hundred can be read beside a country of 121,050. Programme names as the register writes them: in capitals and without accents, and unmerged, since SIES publishes 1,481 distinct names in a single year and two spellings of one degree stay two rows. Only the capitals are undone here.

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationArts and humanitiesInformation technologySocial sciencesServicesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationArts and humanitiesInformation technologySocial sciencesServicesAgriculture and veterinary
PichilemuChile

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

010020030020062015202420475
010020030020062015202420475
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 Pichilemu'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 Pichilemu 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

Pichilemu95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Pichilemu95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.0%
13.6%10.6%181st of 346
Public health insurance
94.7%
91.0%82.6%106th 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.
66.7
47.482.5187th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
106
73100107th of 331
See the other 21 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,372
7,9071,950,388183rd of 346
Average age, people with a disability
58.6 yrs
60.2 yrs56.4 yrs143rd of 346
Disability among 65+
46.1%
49.0%43.0%156th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.95%
6.95%4.92%174th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.07%
6.14%4.58%201st of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.54%
2.84%2.16%175th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.06%
3.22%2.70%118th of 346
Private health insurance
1.4%
2.3%13.2%259th of 335
No health coverage
1.18%
5.00%1.98%191st of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
96.8%
95.9%92.1%94th of 332
Households lacking health access
14.3%
5.3%6.0%11th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,323
2,7571,523,716176th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
47
10936,698165th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.55%
3.95%2.41%87th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.8 days
7.9 days6.1 days65th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
23.7
18.719.990th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
78
53100194th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
68
15889,723186th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.1%
5.7%5.9%211th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
34.3
27.248.6221st 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.
64
47100230th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 23%Digestive and urinary tract 23%Injuries, bones … 16%Pregnancy, bi… 14%Tumours, blood… 12%Mind, nerves … 6.8%Infections an… 4.8%Respiratorysystem14%Circulatorysystem8.8%Digestivesystem15%Genitourin…system8.5%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskele…3.3%Skin1.8%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Cancers andtumours6.5%Endocrine andmetabolic4.5%Mental andbehavioural5.0%Nerv…syst…Infectio…and…Cont…withheal…
Heart and lungs 23%Digestive and urinar… 23%Injuries… 16%Pregnancy, birth an… 14%Tumours, blood and … 12%Respiratorysystem14%Circula…system8.8%Digestivesystem15%Genitou…system8.5%Injuriesandpoisoning11%Musculo…3.3%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth14%Cancers andtumours6.5%Endocri…andmetabol…Mentalandbehaviou…Nervous…Inf…andpar…Con…wit…Ill-…
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 reservados28%Sangre y sistema linfático24%Genitales femeninos16%Órganosdigestivos13%Genitalesmasculinos10%Sitios mal definidos8.8%
Sitios reservados28%Sangre y sistemalinfático24%Genitalesfemeninos16%Órganosdigestivos13%Genitalesmasculinos10%Sitios maldefinidos8.8%
Sitios reservadosSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales femeninosÓrganos digestivosGenitales masculinosSitios mal definidoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

See all →
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
18.3%
19.2%17.3%210th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
19.1 UF
21.6 UF32.0 UF302nd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
104.3%
101.8%78.9%131st 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.
149.9
115.285.622nd of 346
See the other 16 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
55.7%
51.2%54.4%78th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
5.9%
6.3%8.6%287th of 345
Self-employed
44.5%
43.7%33.8%38th of 345
Extreme poverty
7.2%
8.3%6.9%185th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
16.9%
17.3%17.7%181st of 335
Unemployment rate
3.0%
4.0%8.8%309th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 547,046
CLP 528,636CLP 783,124158th 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.
0.458
0.4360.488101st of 321
Registered firms
2,976
6,6961,582,390115th of 346
Annual sales
3,619,376 UF
17,584,889 UF34,347,683,688 UF228th 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.
5,047
14,0049,699,164174th of 346
Sales per firm
1,216 UF
2,626 UF21,706 UF325th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.1
1.43.9315th of 346
Women among employees
48.3%
43.8%40.6%58th of 345
Independent contractors
3,564
7,8433,958,269106th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
41.4%
35.9%29.0%42nd of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 32%State and social services 23%Industry and construction 21%Advanced services 11%Natural resources 7.5%Retail andwholesale16%Accommodationand food13%TransportEducation8.9%Publicadministrat…8.3%Health5.7%Construction12%Manufactur…6.6%Waterand…Elect…and…Professi…services4.3%Administ…services2.7%Informati…and…Realest…Fin…and…Agriculture andfishing6.7%Domest…work2.3%Otherservic…2.2%Artsandentert…
Trade and logistics 32%State and socia… 23%Industry and cons… 21%Adva… 11%Natural … 7.5%Other se… 6.3%Retail andwholesale16%Accommodat…and food13%TransportEducation8.9%Publicadminis…8.3%HealthConstructi…12%Manufa…6.6%Wate…Professio…services4.3%Administra…servicesInf…andcom…Real…Agricultureand fishing6.7%Dome…workOtherserv…Artsandent…
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 55%Managers and professionals 30%Elementary occupations 15%Service and sales24%Craft andtrades16%Plant and machineoperators5.8%Clericalsupport4.6%Skilledagricul…4.3%Professionals16%Technicians9.6%Managers4.9%Elementary occupations15%
Skilled occupations 55%Managers and professionals 30%Elementary… 15%Service andsales24%Craft andtrades16%Plant andmachineoperators5.8%ClericalsupportSkilledagriculturalProfessionals16%Technicians9.6%ManagersElementaryoccupations15%
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

See all →

House or flat

Pichilemu99%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Pichilemu99%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.3%
4.8%5.7%282nd of 345
Internet access
91.5%
86.8%93.2%125th 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.
3.8
5.72.3176th 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.
2.8
5.41.6192nd of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
7,642
22,4816,408,172165th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.31%
0.33%0.57%191st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.27%
1.87%1.13%142nd of 345
Public water network
85.8%
76.1%92.3%163rd of 345
Electricity access
99.6%
99.1%99.6%118th of 345
Detached houses
98.7%
98.6%78.7%138th of 345
Apartments
0.2%
0.1%19.9%169th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.20%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
45.2%
43.0%11.9%29th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
358
1,178491,904183rd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.6%
5.2%7.5%227th of 345
Renting households
24.1%
16.1%26.2%64th of 345
Owner-occupiers
57.9%
66.4%61.1%292nd of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
42.0%
52.1%24.4%197th of 345
Commute by public transport
18.3%
15.8%42.1%268th of 345
Walks to work
18.7%
18.1%10.2%129th of 345
Households with a computer
48.0%
41.9%54.9%113th 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.
1.7
2.71.1185th 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.
95.8%
83.1%97.0%148th 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%
99.8%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.
79.5%
55.8%89.4%143rd 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.
95.1%
92.9%98.1%223rd 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.
62.9
48.85.929th 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%
0.0%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%
0.0%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%
5.9%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.
1.0
1.60.6188th 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.
98.1%
95.9%99.0%192nd 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.
82.8%
57.6%91.6%151st 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.
96.4%
93.7%98.5%219th 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

Private vehicle 52%On foot or by bicycle 24%Public transport 18%Car50%Walking19%Bicyc…5.1%Public transport18%Other6.2%
Private vehicle 52%On foot or by bicyc… 24%Public transport 18%Car50%Walking19%Bicy…Public transport18%Other
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 58%Rented 24%Provided rent-free 13%Owned outright53%Owned, still payingRented, withcontract15%Rented,nocontract8.8%Provided byfamily11%Otherarran…4.5%
Owned 58%Rented 24%Provided rent-f… 13%Owned outright53%Own…sti…pay…Rented, withcontract15%Rented,nocontract8.8%Provided byfamily11%Other arrangement
Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

Wood and biomass 43%Fossil fuels 32%No heating 13%Electricity 12%Firewood42%Gas24%Paraffin8.6%No heating13%Electricity12%
Wood and biomass 43%Fossil fuels 32%No heating 13%Electricity 12%Firewood42%Gas24%Paraffin8.6%No heating13%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
87.3%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.9%
voted in the runoff
19,437
registered voters on the roll
6.1%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman40.6%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist59.4%58.3%
PichilemuChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez13.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman27.9%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.8%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist26.8%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet14.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.2%1.3%
PichilemuChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile25.1%30.6%
KCambio por Chile20.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido27.9%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.7%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas16.3%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%
PichilemuChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Pichilemu 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
Loading