Commune · 05107

QuinteroQuintero

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Census population
35,754
113th of 346
Population density
244.7/km²
68th of 346
Average years of schooling
10.1 yrs
72nd of 346
Foreign-born share
5.1%
99th 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%
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%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.6 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.6 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 · 370 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
45.5%
264th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
18.8%
163rd of 335
Came from another region
34.1%
16th of 335
Net internal migration
+13,592
+35.0 per 100 residents
Quinterothis commune · 24,651another region13,248 peopleelsewhere in the region7,306 peopleabroad592 peopleanother region3,865 peopleelsewhere in the region3,097 peopleQuinterothis commune · 38,835
Quinterothis commune · 24,651another region13,248 peopleelsewhere in th…7,306 peopleabroad592 peopleanother region3,865 peopleelsewhere in th…3,097 peopleQuinterothis commune · 38,835

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
2005202410Public administration1Public administration▲91Construction2Construction▼12Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼14Administrative services4Administrative services7Accommodation and food5Accommodation and food▲23Manufacturing6Manufacturing▼38Education7Education▲16Transport8Transport▼25Agriculture and fishing9Agriculture and fishing▼417Arts and entertainment10Arts and entertainment▲714Water and waste11Water and waste▲39Professional services12Professional services▼311Real estate14Real estate▼312Other services15Other services▼3
20052024101Public administration▲912Construction▼123Retail and wholesale▼144Administrative services75Accommodation and food▲236Manufacturing▼387Education▲168Transport▼259Agriculture and fishing▼41710Arts and entertainment▲71411Water and waste▲3912Professional services▼31114Real estate▼31215Other services▼3

The ten branches that employ most of Quintero

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.

2 k5 k7 k10 k12 kprojection →10 k2029 · central2005201520242029
2 k5 k7 k10 k12 kprojection →10 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.3% a year observed · 7.4% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

010 M20 M30 Mprojection →12 M2029 · central2005201520242029
010 M20 M30 Mprojection →12 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.0% a year observed · 11.3% projected

What Quintero is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Quintero employs more people in 78 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.

78
activities it is specialised in
6,652
formal workers
72/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.63.7Actividades de la administración …Otras actividades de servicios de…Actividades de hotelesConstrucción de carreteras y líne…Actividades de restaurantes y de …Actividades de defensaCentros médicos privados (estable…Fabricación de otros productos qu…Servicios de producción de obras …How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.63.7Actividades de hotelesPesca marítima industrial, except…Actividades de defensaActividades de servicios relacion…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Quintero

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
Pesca marítima industrial, excepto de barcos factoríaPesca18643.6×
Actividades de descontaminación y otros servicios de gestión de desechosActividades de descontaminación y otros servicios de gestión de desechos4822.9×
Actividades de residenciales para turistasActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas918.5×
Pesca marítima artesanalPesca2315.3×
Transporte de carga por vías de navegación interioresTransporte por vías de navegación interiores1315.2×
Aserrado y acepilladura de maderaAserrado y acepilladura de madera17413.2×
Otras actividades deportivas n.c.p.Actividades deportivas3512.2×
Conservador de bienes raícesActividades jurídicas1811.4×
Servicios de producción de obras de teatro, conciertos, espectáculos de danza, otras prod. escénicasActividades creativas, artísticas y de entretenimiento2810.0×
Fabricación de otros productos químicos n.c.p.Fabricación de otros productos químicos448.8×
Construcción de proyectos de servicio públicoConstrucción de proyectos de servicio público2798.0×
Otras actividades de limpieza de edificios e instalaciones industriales n.c.p.Actividades de limpieza1928.0×

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
5,443
hectares in holdings
81.4%
of them under a named use
61.1%
of the crop land is irrigated
59
holdings with land here
Pasture 63%Not farmed 23%Woodland 10%Pasture63%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings19%Untill…land4.1%Forest plantations9.4%FruittreesFoddercrops
Pasture 63%Not farmed 23%Woodland 10%Pasture63%Scrub, barren groundand buildings19%Unti…landForestplantations9.4%Fruit…Fodder…
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

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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
QuinteroChile% of each territory's own population · 35,754 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
35,754
757,17618,480,432113th of 346
Average age
39.1 yrs
39.8 yrs38.1 yrs179th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
87.3
108.779.0185th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
244.7/km²
375.0/km²24.7/km²68th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
13,028
291,2616,596,527111th of 346
Dwellings
19,663
377,7757,642,716104th of 346
People per household
2.74
2.602.80179th of 345
Women
51.0%
51.9%51.5%156th of 346
Men per 100 women
95.9
92.794.3191st of 346
Under 15
18.7%
15.5%17.7%107th of 346
65 and over
16.3%
16.9%14.0%150th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
53.7
47.946.590th of 346
One-person households
22.3%
25.8%21.8%171st of 345
Households with children
33.4%
27.6%33.2%167th of 345
Indigenous peoples
6.3%
5.0%11.4%214th of 346
Female-headed households
50.5%
52.6%49.9%96th of 345
Land area
146 km²
2,019 km²748,041 km²284th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Quintero35%Arrived since 202065%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Quintero35%Arrived since 202065%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
5.1%
5.8%8.7%99th 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.
45.5%
57.1%50.5%264th 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.
18.8%
15.9%23.9%163rd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
34.1%
21.8%17.2%16th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
1,833
43,9371,608,65097th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.9 yrs
33.7 yrs33.5 yrs141st of 345
Women among foreign-born
49.0%
51.5%51.7%258th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
82.2%
81.3%83.1%123rd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
35.5%
35.1%34.4%194th 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%
7.0%10.6%96th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.3 yrs
13.6 yrs12.9 yrs180th 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.
13,592
-35,276037th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
35.0
-4.30.030th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Quintero28%Higher40%Secondary24%Primary only5.4%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Quintero28%Higher40%Secondary24%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
11.1 yrs10.4 yrs72nd of 346
Reached higher education
27.8%
37.9%31.1%79th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
97.7%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.
64.3%
62.3%55.6%37th 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.
99.2%
98.7%99.8%278th of 346
Literacy rate
98.2%
98.7%97.8%69th of 346
Reached secondary education
39.6%
36.4%36.7%78th of 346
Primary education only
24.2%
18.9%24.1%278th of 346
Never attended school
2.92%
2.27%3.01%260th 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.
11.9 yrs
12.9 yrs12.1 yrs71st of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.8 yrs
12.7 yrs12.1 yrs84th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.79%
1.30%2.18%276th of 345
Households lacking schooling
10.4%
9.2%15.1%302nd 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.
370
8,083217,565122nd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
21.1%
25.2%33.9%256th 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%
0.1%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
72.3%
74.7%67.2%73rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
20.2%
19.7%19.7%142nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
7.6%
5.6%13.1%274th 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.
5.0%
4.2%13.0%238th 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.
51.7%
49.9%49.7%149th 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.

370left secondary school in 2024
238enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
64.3%continued immediately
72%of those, to a university
5%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%Ingenieria ComercialDerechoIngenieria en InformaticaTecnico Universitario en Mantenimiento IndustrialEnfermeriaKinesiologiaTecnico Universitario en Mineria y MetalurgiaGastronomia InternacionalNutricion y DieteticaTecnico Universitario en Electronica
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%Ingenieria ComercialDerechoIngenieria en InformaticaTecnico Universitario en Mantenimiento IndustrialEnfermeriaKinesiologiaTecnico Universitario en Mineria y MetalurgiaGastronomia InternacionalNutricion y DieteticaTecnico Universitario en Electronica
QuinteroChile

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%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawServicesEducationArts and humanitiesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesNatural sciences
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawServicesEducationArts and humanitiesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesNatural sciences
QuinteroChile

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

0100200300400200620152024370238
0100200300400200620152024370238
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 Quintero'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 Quintero 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

Quintero89%Fonasa8.8%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Quintero89%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.2%
10.9%10.6%116th of 346
Public health insurance
89.1%
82.2%82.6%227th 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.
67.0
90.682.5186th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
97
97100141st of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
4,715
82,2661,950,388106th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
56.0 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs265th of 346
Disability among 65+
42.1%
46.3%43.0%266th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.98%
5.18%4.92%173rd of 346
Difficulty seeing
6.23%
4.48%4.58%101st of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.63%
2.23%2.16%158th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.35%
2.91%2.70%70th of 346
Private health insurance
8.8%
12.1%13.2%66th of 335
No health coverage
0.47%
1.00%1.98%256th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
92.5%
91.3%92.1%191st of 332
Households lacking health access
11.8%
7.3%6.0%28th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
2,397
68,6051,523,716124th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
78
1,69336,698116th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.25%
2.47%2.41%119th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.3 days
6.3 days6.1 days195th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
21.8
22.419.9119th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
79
106100189th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
141
5,15089,723120th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.9%
7.5%5.9%139th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
39.4
68.048.6172nd 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.
76
130100176th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 21%Digestive and urinary tract 21%Injuries, bones and… 18%Pregnancy, bir… 15%Tumours, blood and… 13%Mind, nerves a… 7.5%Infections and… 4.5%Respiratorysystem11%Circulatorysystem10%Digestivesystem13%Genitouri…system8.2%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskeletal5.4%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth13%Perinatal…Congen…Cancers andtumours7.8%Endocri…andmetabol…4.4%Blood and…Mental andbehavioural5.3%Nervo…systemIll-def…symptomsInfect…and…Con…wit…
Heart and lungs 21%Digestive and urinar… 21%Injuries,… 18%Pregnancy, birth a… 15%Tumours, blood and… 13%Respirato…system11%Circulato…system10%Digestivesystem13%Genitou…system8.2%Injuriesandpoisoning11%Musculoske…5.4%Pregnancy andchildbirth13%Cancers andtumours7.8%Endocri…andmetabol…Mentalandbehavio…5.3%Ner…sys…EyeIll-de…Infecti…
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 sistemalinfático24%Órganos digestivos16%Vías respiratorias16%Genitalesfemeninos12%Sitiosreservados11%Vías urinarias8.5%Boca y faringe4.3%Piel ymelanoma4.3%Mama3.5%
Sangre y sistemalinfático24%Órganosdigestivos16%Vías respiratorias16%Genitales femeninos12%Sitiosreservados11%Víasurinarias8.5%Boca yfaringe4.3%Piel ymelanoma4.3%Mama3.5%
Sangre y sistema linfáticoÓrganos digestivosVías respiratoriasGenitales femeninosSitios reservadosVías urinariashover 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.
19.0%
17.2%17.3%193rd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
23.6 UF
29.3 UF32.0 UF143rd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
74.6%
83.6%78.9%321st 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.
63.2
86.085.6266th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
50.6%
53.0%54.4%174th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.8%
8.4%8.6%105th of 345
Self-employed
46.6%
36.4%33.8%28th of 345
Extreme poverty
9.7%
7.1%6.9%114th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
19.0%
17.0%17.7%147th of 335
Unemployment rate
9.1%
8.7%8.8%163rd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 666,487
CLP 749,502CLP 783,12465th 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.
0.496
0.5000.48840th of 321
Registered firms
2,260
65,1271,582,390129th of 346
Annual sales
6,920,687 UF
1,063,691,359 UF34,347,683,688 UF167th of 342
Employees reported · People reported at some point in the tax year, not average employment: the national total exceeds the employed because someone who worked two months counts the same as someone who worked twelve.
6,659
376,8749,699,164148th of 346
Sales per firm
3,062 UF
16,333 UF21,706 UF201st of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.9
4.13.9209th of 346
Women among employees
40.8%
38.9%40.6%178th of 345
Independent contractors
2,612
138,8773,958,269136th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
28.2%
26.9%29.0%153rd of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 32%State and social services 21%Industry and construction 21%Advanced services 11%Natural resources 8.2%Retail andwholesale18%Transport7.6%Accommodationand food6.5%Education7.1%Publicadministra…7.0%Health6.7%Construction11%Manufacturing7.4%Electrici…Waterand…Administ…services4.8%ProfessionalservicesInfor…andcommu…Realest…Fin…andins…Mining4.5%Agricultureand fishing3.7%Otherservic…3.3%Domest…work2.4%Arts andenterta…
Trade and logistics 32%State and soc… 21%Industry and con… 21%Advanced servic… 11%Natural resour… 8.2%Retail andwholesale18%Transport7.6%Accommodat…and food6.5%Educati…7.1%Publicadminis…7.0%Health6.7%Construction11%Manufacturing7.4%Elec…andgasWate…Admini…servic…4.8%Profe…servi…3.5%Inf…Real…Fina…Mining4.5%Agricul…and…Otherservic…3.3%Domest…work2.4%Artsand…
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 57%Managers and professionals 28%Elementary occupations 15%Service and sales24%Craft andtrades17%Plant and machineoperators8.1%Clericalsupport5.4%Skilledagricu…2.9%Professionals12%Technicians11%ManagersElementary occupations15%
Skilled occupations 57%Managers and professionals 28%Elementary o… 15%Service andsales24%Craft andtrades17%Plant andmachineoperators8.1%Clericalsupport5.4%Ski…agr…Profession…12%Technicians11%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

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House or flat

Quintero89%House11%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Quintero89%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.0%
4.5%5.7%88th of 345
Internet access
93.8%
95.1%93.2%73rd 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.
2.2
1.42.3256th 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.
2.1
1.01.6238th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
12,668
283,7526,408,172112th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.52%
0.57%0.57%64th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.17%
1.69%1.13%161st of 345
Public water network
75.0%
94.4%92.3%249th of 345
Electricity access
99.5%
99.6%99.6%140th of 345
Detached houses
88.5%
64.9%78.7%277th of 345
Apartments
10.6%
33.7%19.9%62nd of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.30%
0.36%0.23%100th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
30.3%
19.9%11.9%60th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
894
19,434491,90495th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
6.9%
6.7%7.5%87th of 345
Renting households
21.2%
30.4%26.2%91st of 345
Owner-occupiers
59.2%
54.0%61.1%283rd of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
17.9%
9.0%24.4%250th of 345
Commute by public transport
36.2%
49.8%42.1%74th of 345
Walks to work
14.0%
9.6%10.2%179th of 345
Households with a computer
43.3%
58.9%54.9%165th 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.
1.5
0.91.1209th 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.
88.1%
97.8%97.0%245th 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%
100.0%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.
87.4%
97.3%89.4%110th 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%
99.9%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%
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.
13.2
3.55.9158th 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.
5.5%
89.7%80.3%178th 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.
78.9%
96.0%90.0%179th 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%
99.9%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.
0.9
0.50.6223rd 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.
99.9%
99.2%99.0%89th 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.
87.8%
96.3%91.6%125th 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%
100.0%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 41%Public transport 36%On foot or by bicycle 15%Other m… 7.6%Car40%Public transport36%Walking14%Other7.5%
Private vehicle 41%Public transport 36%On foot or by bicycle 15%Other mea… 7.6%Car40%Public transport36%Walking14%Other7.5%
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 59%Rented 21%Provided rent-fr… 14%Owned outright49%Owned, still paying10%Rented, withcontract12%Rented, nocontract9.5%Provided byfamily12%Provided by employerOtherarrang…5.6%
Owned 59%Rented 21%Provided re… 14%Owned outright49%Owned,stillpaying10%Rented,withcontract12%Rented,nocontract9.5%Provided byfamily12%Otherarran…5.6%
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

Fossil fuels 38%No heating 28%Wood and biomass 19%Electricity 14%Gas30%Paraffin8.6%No heating28%Firewood18%Electricity14%
Fossil fuels 38%No heating 28%Wood and biomass 19%Electricity 14%Gas30%Paraffin8.6%No heating28%Firewood18%Electricity14%
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
86.5%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.0%
voted in the runoff
28,595
registered voters on the roll
8.9%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman46.9%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist53.1%58.3%
QuinteroChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez23.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman28.0%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.6%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist18.8%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.6%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.2%1.3%
QuinteroChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile30.7%30.6%
KCambio por Chile26.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido17.7%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente18.3%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.5%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%
QuinteroChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile32.9%
KCambio por Chile21.2%
JChile Grande y Unido26.6%
IPartido de la Gente14.9%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.4%
Quinteroshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Quintero 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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