Commune · 06308

PlacillaPlacilla

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Census population
9,438
262nd of 346
Population density
65.4/km²
111th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.0 yrs
230th of 346
Foreign-born share
4.0%
129th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute1st of 331 · Chile 19.7%60.0%
Of those continuing, women331st of 331 · Chile 49.7%0.0%
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.3 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 · 161 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
62.8%
143rd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
19.8%
152nd of 335
Came from another region
15.5%
155th of 335
Net internal migration
+573
+6.2 per 100 residents
Placillathis commune · 8,532elsewhere in the region1,841 peopleanother region1,437 peopleabroad173 peopleelsewhere in the region1,694 peopleanother region1,011 peoplePlacillathis commune · 9,278
Placillathis commune · 8,532elsewhere in th…1,841 peopleanother region1,437 peopleabroad173 peopleelsewhere in th…1,694 peopleanother region1,011 peoplePlacillathis commune · 9,278

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing6Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▲45Manufacturing3Manufacturing▲22Public administration4Public administration▼211Administrative services5Administrative services▲612Construction6Construction▲614Information and communications7Information and communications▲710Transport8Transport▲29Education9Education7Water and waste10Water and waste▼313Accommodation and food11Accommodation and food▲23Professional services12Professional services▼94Other services13Other services▼98Real estate14Real estate▼6
2005202411Agriculture and fishing62Retail and wholesale▲453Manufacturing▲224Public administration▼2115Administrative services▲6126Construction▲6147Information and communications▲7108Transport▲299Education710Water and waste▼31311Accommodation and food▲2312Professional services▼9413Other services▼9814Real estate▼6

The ten branches that employ most of Placilla

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 →3 k2029 · central2005201520242029
02 k4 k6 k8 kprojection →3 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval-2.8% a year observed · -5.6% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

010 M20 M30 Mprojection →6.6 M2029 · central2005201520242029
010 M20 M30 Mprojection →6.6 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval9.0% a year observed · 5.2% projected

What Placilla is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Placilla employs more people in 45 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.

45
activities it is specialised in
3,548
formal workers
239/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.33.7Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de …Venta al por mayor de bebidas alc…Actividades de consultoría de inf…Elaboración de productos lácteosCultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Venta al por menor mediante máqui…Actividades de envasado y empaque…Actividades de clínicas veterinar…Fabricación de productos primario…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.33.7Otras actividades de venta al por…Actividades de consultoría de inf…Cultivo de papasFabricación de productos primario…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Placilla

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
Fabricación de recipientes de maderaFabricación de productos de madera, corcho, paja y materiales trenzables201356.2×
Otras actividades de venta al por menor en comercios no especializados n.c.p.Venta al por menor en comercios no especializados28071.8×
Venta al por menor mediante máquinas expendedorasVenta al por menor no realizada en comercios, puestos de venta o mercados944.4×
Venta al por mayor de materias primas agrícolasVenta al por mayor de materias primas agropecuarias y animales vivos34941.0×
Actividades de motelesActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas1121.5×
Cultivo de uva destinada a la producción de vinoCultivo de plantas perennes7516.4×
Cultivo de uva para mesaCultivo de plantas perennes8711.6×
Cultivo de papasCultivo de plantas no perennes711.1×
Reparación de otros equipos de transporte n.c.p., excepto vehículos automotoresReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo310.1×
Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de huesoCultivo de plantas perennes5779.7×
Actividades de apoyo a la agriculturaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha8878.2×
Cultivo de hortalizas y melonesCultivo de plantas no perennes227.2×

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
9,866
hectares in holdings
83.1%
of them under a named use
99.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
384
holdings with land here
Woodland 37%Orchards and vineyards 32%Not farmed 21%Annual crops 9.5%Native woodland37%Fruit trees25%Vines7.8%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings17%Untilled landCereals5.7%Foddercrops1.6%Veget…1.3%Seed…Pul…
Woodland 37%Orchards and viney… 32%Not farmed 21%Annual c… 9.5%Native woodland37%Fruit trees25%Vines7.8%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings17%Until…land3.8%Cereals5.7%FoddercropsVeget…
Pasturehover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MenWomen001122334455%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
MenWomen00224466%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
PlacillaChile% of each territory's own population · 9,438 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
9,438
235,78418,480,432262nd of 346
Average age
39.8 yrs
39.6 yrs38.1 yrs143rd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
94.8
90.079.0142nd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
65.4/km²
42.5/km²24.7/km²111th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
3,287
84,3546,596,527272nd of 346
Dwellings
3,758
95,5277,642,716284th of 346
People per household
2.87
2.802.8084th of 345
Women
49.8%
51.0%51.5%290th of 346
Men per 100 women
100.9
95.994.357th of 346
Under 15
17.4%
17.7%17.7%212th of 346
65 and over
16.5%
15.9%14.0%143rd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
51.1
50.646.5169th of 346
One-person households
19.7%
20.3%21.8%259th of 345
Households with children
33.8%
33.7%33.2%148th of 345
Indigenous peoples
5.3%
4.1%11.4%249th of 346
Female-headed households
43.2%
48.9%49.9%294th of 345
Land area
144 km²
5,553 km²748,041 km²285th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Placilla57%Arrived since 202043%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Placilla57%Arrived since 202043%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
4.0%
4.1%8.7%129th 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.
62.8%
64.1%50.5%143rd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region · Of those who live here, the ones born in another comuna of this same region. It is the short move: within the metropolitan area, the valley or the neighbouring province.
19.8%
14.1%23.9%152nd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
15.5%
18.1%17.2%155th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
380
9,6401,608,650183rd of 346
Average age, foreign-born
28.4 yrs
31.2 yrs33.5 yrs339th of 345
Women among foreign-born
47.4%
49.0%51.7%295th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
78.2%
80.4%83.1%267th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
56.6%
49.1%34.4%17th 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.
4.8%
4.9%10.6%133rd of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
10.8 yrs
12.4 yrs12.9 yrs327th 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.
573
-28,6440139th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
6.2
-11.70.0123rd of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Placilla17%Higher37%Secondary37%Primary only5.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Placilla17%37%Secondary37%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.0 yrs
9.4 yrs10.4 yrs230th of 346
Reached higher education
17.3%
20.9%31.1%252nd 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.
33.3%
44.4%55.6%327th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.
104.0%
103.1%99.8%73rd of 346
Literacy rate
95.5%
95.8%97.8%227th of 346
Reached secondary education
37.1%
38.5%36.7%173rd of 346
Primary education only
36.8%
31.8%24.1%87th of 346
Never attended school
3.77%
3.77%3.01%146th of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
10.1 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs240th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.5 yrs
11.0 yrs12.1 yrs222nd of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.47%
4.17%2.18%120th of 345
Households lacking schooling
28.6%
26.1%15.1%101st 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.
15
3,087217,565325th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
0.0%
39.3%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%
3.4%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
20.0%
64.4%67.2%330th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
60.0%
21.3%19.7%1st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
20.0%
14.4%13.1%118th 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.
0.0%
65.9%13.0%315th 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.
0.0%
52.4%49.7%331st 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.

15left secondary school in 2024
5enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
33.3%continued immediately
20%of those, to a university
0%of those, outside their region

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryServicesBusiness and law
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryServicesBusiness and law
PlacillaChile

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

0102030200620152024155
0102030200620152024155
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 Placilla'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 Placilla 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

Placilla97%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Placilla97%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
14.4%
13.2%10.6%70th of 346
Public health insurance
96.5%
91.2%82.6%55th 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.
52.7
62.782.5255th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
90
74100167th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,361
31,0611,950,388250th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
57.8 yrs
58.0 yrs56.4 yrs179th of 346
Disability among 65+
43.8%
44.8%43.0%231st of 346
Difficulty walking
7.30%
6.78%4.92%61st of 346
Difficulty seeing
7.30%
5.90%4.58%37th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.71%
2.63%2.16%140th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.75%
3.05%2.70%189th of 346
Private health insurance
2.8%
3.8%13.2%183rd of 335
No health coverage
0.71%
3.65%1.98%236th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
80.0%
96.2%92.1%312th of 332
Households lacking health access
1.5%
7.4%6.0%292nd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
497
14,7821,523,716261st of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
19
38536,698242nd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.82%
2.60%2.41%61st of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.1 days
5.9 days6.1 days210th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
20.1
16.319.9153rd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
62
74100258th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
28
81189,723269th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.6%
5.5%5.9%166th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
29.7
34.448.6256th 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.
55
65100254th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 26%Injuries, bones and skin 23%Heart and lungs 21%Tumours, blood and met… 12%Pregnancy, birth and … 9.7%Mind… 5.2%Infe… 4.6%Digestive system16%Genitourin…system9.3%Injuries andpoisoning14%Musculoske…7.2%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem9.1%Cancers andtumours8.7%Endoc…andmetab…2.8%Pregnancy andchildbirth7.4%Perin…condi…2.2%NervoussystemMental andbehaviour…Infectiousand…Contactwith healt…
Digestive and urinary … 26%Injuries, bones an… 23%Heart and lungs 21%Tumours, blood … 12%Pregnancy, bir… 9.7%Digestivesystem16%Genitou…system9.3%Injuries andpoisoning14%Muscul…7.2%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem9.1%Cancers andtumours8.7%Endo…andmeta…Pregnancy andchildbirth7.4%Per…con…NervoussystemMental…Infecti…Contac…
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

Sangre y sistema linfático36%Sitios reservados36%Órganosdigestivos29%
Sangre y sistemalinfático36%Sitios reservados36%Órganos digestivos29%
Sangre y sistema linfáticoSitios reservadosÓrganos digestivoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
22.3%
19.2%17.3%138th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
20.3 UF
20.5 UF32.0 UF267th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
94.1%
101.5%78.9%212th 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.
98.9
100.185.674th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
49.3%
51.5%54.4%201st of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
4.4%
8.5%8.6%316th of 345
Self-employed
20.4%
28.7%33.8%342nd of 345
Extreme poverty
7.8%
8.2%6.9%170th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
25.4%
19.4%17.7%59th of 335
Unemployment rate
10.5%
9.4%8.8%109th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 548,507
CLP 539,306CLP 783,124157th 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.
0.464
0.4380.48886th of 321
Registered firms
933
23,6031,582,390242nd of 346
Annual sales
5,116,257 UF
122,253,759 UF34,347,683,688 UF192nd 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.
3,548
102,5889,699,164218th of 346
Sales per firm
5,484 UF
5,180 UF21,706 UF110th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.9
2.33.9208th of 346
Women among employees
37.0%
39.2%40.6%239th of 345
Independent contractors
914
25,7013,958,269252nd of 346
Contractors as share of workers
20.5%
20.0%29.0%279th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 41%Trade and logistics 20%State and soci… 15%Industry and constructi… 15%Other ser… 4.6%Advanced … 4.2%Agriculture and fishing40%Retail andwholesale14%Transport3.3%Accomm…andfoodEducation6.4%Health4.9%Publicadmini…4.0%Manufacturi…7.5%Constructi…6.2%Water…Electr…Domesticwork2.9%Otherservi…Arts…Profe…servi…1.9%Adm…ser…Inf…Fin…
Natural resources 41%Trade and… 20%State and soc… 15%Industry and … 15%Oth… 4.6%Adv… 4.2%Agriculture and fishing40%Retail andwholesale14%Transport3.3%Acco…andfoodEducation6.4%Health4.9%Pub…adm…Manufac…7.5%Constru…6.2%Wate…Ele…Domes…work2.9%Pro…ser…Admin…
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 46%Elementary occupations 34%Managers and professionals 20%Service andsales12%Craft andtrades11%Plant andmachineoperators9.4%Skilledagricultural8.8%Clerical support4.3%Elementary occupations34%Professionals9.2%Technicians7.5%Manag…3.1%
Skilled occupations 46%Elementary occu… 34%Managers and professionals 20%Service andsales12%Craft andtrades11%Plant andmachineoperators9.4%Skilledagricultural8.8%Clerical supportElementaryoccupations34%Professionals9.2%Technicians7.5%Manag…3.1%
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

Placilla98%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Placilla98%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.5%
5.3%5.7%144th of 345
Internet access
88.7%
89.5%93.2%179th 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.
3.5
3.82.3190th 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.
3.3
2.91.6172nd of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
3,231
82,5286,408,172272nd of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.37%
0.32%0.57%126th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.70%
0.91%1.13%91st of 345
Public water network
92.9%
94.8%92.3%96th of 345
Electricity access
99.3%
99.6%99.6%187th of 345
Detached houses
98.4%
93.9%78.7%159th of 345
Apartments
0.3%
5.5%19.9%163rd of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.30%
0.19%0.23%100th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
8.9%
9.9%11.9%257th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
194
4,873491,904254th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
5.9%
5.8%7.5%137th of 345
Renting households
10.9%
16.6%26.2%270th of 345
Owner-occupiers
65.5%
68.8%61.1%234th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
61.5%
48.8%24.4%157th of 345
Commute by public transport
15.9%
19.6%42.1%293rd of 345
Walks to work
7.3%
10.3%10.2%300th of 345
Households with a computer
40.2%
44.9%54.9%210th 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.
2.5
1.61.178th 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.
92.9%
94.8%97.0%195th 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.
66.0%
68.0%89.4%217th of 345
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
99.0%98.1%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
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.
8.4
9.25.9182nd 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.
15.0%
41.5%80.3%171st 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.
100.0%
75.8%90.0%1st 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.
1.1
1.00.6163rd 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.
71.5%
75.6%91.6%206th 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

Private vehicle 45%On foot or by bicycle 25%Public transport 16%Other means 15%Car42%Bicycle18%Walking7.3%Public transport16%Other15%
Private vehicle 45%On foot or b… 25%Public transport 16%Other means 15%Car42%Bicycle18%Walking7.3%Public transport16%Other15%
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 66%Provided rent-free 16%Rented 11%Other 7.2%Owned outright64%Provided byfamily12%Provi…byemplo…4.0%Rented, nocontract5.8%Rented,withcontract5.1%Other arrangement7.2%
Owned 66%Provided rent-free 16%Rented 11%Owned outright64%Provided byfamily12%Prov…byempl…Rente…nocontr…5.8%Rente…withcontr…5.1%Otherarrange…7.2%
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 63%Fossil fuels 18%Electricity 10%No heating 7.8%Firewood62%Gas12%Paraffin6.5%Electricity10%No heating7.8%
Wood and biomass 63%Fossil fuels 18%Electri… 10%No … 7.8%Firewood62%Gas12%Paraff…6.5%Electricity10%Noheating7.8%
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
94.0%
of the registered voted in the first round
94.4%
voted in the runoff
8,749
registered voters on the roll
7.2%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman34.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist65.8%58.3%
PlacillaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez24.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman20.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist29.1%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.2%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.9%1.3%
PlacillaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile37.9%30.6%
KCambio por Chile12.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido30.7%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente9.9%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas8.7%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%
PlacillaChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Placilla across the 28 figures PuroChile publishes for the 345 communes with complete data, grouped into seven dimensions of equal weight. This is not proximity: nothing in the computation knows where any commune is.

ScalePopulation structureMigrationEducationHealthEconomyHousing and services

The figure beside each name is the distance between the two communes: 0 would be identical, and 1.48 is what separates any two communes in the country. Each bar is one of the seven dimensions, and reaches the end when the two differ on it by twice what two communes picked at random do. Location is not part of the computation: 52% of these pairings cross into another region.

Inside the commune

Census districts
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