Commune · 13127

RecoletaRecoleta

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Census population
154,615
35th of 346
Population density
9,787.7/km²
17th of 346
Average years of schooling
10.2 yrs
65th of 346
Foreign-born share
22.0%
16th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 5 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 97.0%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 5 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 89.4%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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.2 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.2 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 · 878 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
45.5%
265th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
25.2%
96th of 335
Came from another region
12.7%
233rd of 335
Net internal migration
-54,488
-27.7 per 100 residents
Recoletathis commune · 218,286elsewhere in the region49,459 peopleanother region25,042 peopleabroad32,636 peopleelsewhere in the region113,342 peopleanother region15,647 peopleRecoletathis commune · 196,434
Recoletathis commune · 218,286elsewhere in th…49,459 peopleanother region25,042 peopleabroad32,636 peopleelsewhere in th…113,342 peopleanother region15,647 peopleRecoletathis commune · 196,434

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520244Administrative services1Administrative services▲31Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▼12Manufacturing3Manufacturing▼15Health4Health▲13Construction5Construction▼28Other services6Other services▲29Education7Education▲27Transport8Transport▼110Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food▲113Information and communications10Information and communications▲36Professional services11Professional services▼515Real estate12Real estate▲311Finance and insurance14Finance and insurance▼312Agriculture and fishing15Agriculture and fishing▼3
2005202441Administrative services▲312Retail and wholesale▼123Manufacturing▼154Health▲135Construction▼286Other services▲297Education▲278Transport▼1109Accommodation and food▲11310Information and communications▲3611Professional services▼51512Real estate▲31114Finance and insurance▼31215Agriculture and fishing▼3

The ten branches that employ most of Recoleta

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.

30 k50 k70 k90 k110 kprojection →97 k2029 · central2005201520242029
30 k50 k70 k90 k110 kprojection →97 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.0% a year observed · 6.3% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

050 M100 M150 M200 Mprojection →183 M2029 · central2005201520242029
050 M100 M150 M200 Mprojection →183 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.4% a year observed · 6.1% projected

What Recoleta is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Recoleta employs more people in 118 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.

118
activities it is specialised in
71,860
formal workers
19/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.50.13.7Otras actividades de servicios de…Venta al por mayor de productos t…Construcción de carreteras y líne…Venta al por menor de alimentos e…Otras actividades de esparcimient…Venta al por mayor de frutas y ve…Servicios de publicidad prestados…Venta al por mayor de huevos, lác…Venta al por menor en comercios e…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.50.13.7Otras actividades de servicios de…Actividades de hospitales y clíni…Construcción de carreteras y líne…Venta al por menor de alimentos e…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Recoleta

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
Tejedura de productos textilesHilatura, tejedura y acabado de productos textiles14025.0×
Fabricación de ropa de trabajoFabricación de prendas de vestir, excepto prendas de piel33824.1×
Fabricación de prendas de vestir de materiales textiles y similaresFabricación de prendas de vestir, excepto prendas de piel1,13721.8×
Forja, prensado, estampado y laminado de metales; pulvimetalurgiaFabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal; actividades de servicios de trabajo de metales20615.3×
Fabricación de artículos confeccionados de materiales textiles, excepto prendas de vestirFabricación de otros productos textiles35815.0×
Venta al por mayor de productos de confiteríaVenta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco52914.9×
Elaboración de hielo (excepto fabricación de hielo seco)Suministro de vapor y de aire acondicionado5312.6×
Acabado de productos textilesHilatura, tejedura y acabado de productos textiles8411.8×
Venta al por menor de artículos de perfumería, de tocador y cosméticos en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados9289.7×
Otros servicios de telecomunicaciones alámbricas n.c.p.Actividades de telecomunicaciones alámbricas6919.7×
Limpieza general de edificiosActividades de limpieza9,6059.7×
Fundaciones y corporaciones; asociaciones que promueven actividades culturales o recreativasActividades de otras asociaciones2,9269.4×

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.

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
RecoletaChile% of each territory's own population · 154,615 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
154,615
5,385,73718,480,43235th of 346
Average age
38.7 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs209th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
88.6
85.179.0176th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
9,787.7/km²
2,653.4/km²24.7/km²17th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
55,579
1,951,4816,596,52734th of 346
Dwellings
55,881
2,060,6137,642,71636th of 346
People per household
2.78
2.762.80147th of 345
Women
50.8%
51.8%51.5%183rd of 346
Men per 100 women
96.7
93.294.3164th of 346
Under 15
16.5%
16.3%17.7%265th of 346
65 and over
14.6%
13.8%14.0%230th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
45.1
43.046.5298th of 346
One-person households
26.0%
23.6%21.8%64th of 345
Households with children
30.7%
30.2%33.2%244th of 345
Indigenous peoples
7.8%
7.2%11.4%180th of 346
Female-headed households
51.4%
51.1%49.9%60th of 345
Land area
16 km²
2,030 km²748,041 km²329th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Recoleta32%Arrived since 202068%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Recoleta32%Arrived since 202068%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
22.0%
15.4%8.7%16th 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%
34.9%50.5%265th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region · Of those who live here, the ones born in another comuna of this same region. It is the short move: within the metropolitan area, the valley or the neighbouring province.
25.2%
35.2%23.9%96th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
12.7%
16.4%17.2%233rd of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
34,009
828,3681,608,65012th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
34.3 yrs
34.4 yrs33.5 yrs120th of 345
Women among foreign-born
50.6%
51.8%51.7%186th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
85.6%
84.3%83.1%26th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
32.5%
31.7%34.4%229th 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.
27.3%
18.5%10.6%15th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
11.9 yrs
13.4 yrs12.9 yrs248th 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.
-54,488
-150,2900329th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-27.7
-2.50.0247th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Recoleta27%Higher43%Secondary22%Primary only4.8%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Recoleta27%Higher43%Secondary22%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.2 yrs
11.2 yrs10.4 yrs65th of 346
Reached higher education
26.8%
38.6%31.1%91st of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.3%
98.2%98.6%251st 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.
52.8%
54.9%55.6%194th 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.
98.3%
98.2%99.8%306th of 346
Literacy rate
98.3%
98.7%97.8%59th of 346
Reached secondary education
43.3%
34.9%36.7%23rd of 346
Primary education only
22.2%
19.1%24.1%298th of 346
Never attended school
2.88%
2.55%3.01%269th 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
13.1 yrs12.1 yrs71st of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.7 yrs
12.8 yrs12.1 yrs95th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.67%
1.25%2.18%288th of 345
Households lacking schooling
14.6%
9.9%15.1%260th 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.
2,103
57,776217,56531st of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
45.5%
31.5%33.9%111th 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.
57.1%
70.6%67.2%222nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
32.6%
21.9%19.7%34th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
10.3%
7.5%13.1%238th 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.
0.8%
1.3%13.0%306th 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.
49.1%
48.6%49.7%213th 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.

2,103left secondary school in 2024
1,110enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
52.8%continued immediately
57%of those, to a university
1%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil IndustrialDerechoPsicologiaEnfermeriaIngenieria en InformaticaIngenieria en Electricidad y Automatizacion IndustrialMedicina VeterinariaIngenieria en Gestion LogisticaTecnico en Enfermeria
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil IndustrialDerechoPsicologiaEnfermeriaIngenieria en InformaticaIngenieria en Electricidad y Automatizacion IndustrialMedicina VeterinariaIngenieria en Gestion LogisticaTecnico en Enfermeria
RecoletaChile

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 industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareInformation technologyServicesEducationSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareInformation technologyServicesEducationSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
RecoletaChile

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

01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,1031,110
01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,1031,110
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 Recoleta'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 Recoleta 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

Recoleta87%Fonasa8.8%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Recoleta87%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.7%
9.3%10.6%236th of 346
Public health insurance
87.3%
73.9%82.6%258th 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.
77.8
87.182.5119th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
98
100100140th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
16,561
499,3711,950,38830th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
57.9 yrs
56.6 yrs56.4 yrs175th of 346
Disability among 65+
45.6%
43.7%43.0%172nd of 346
Difficulty walking
5.33%
4.33%4.92%216th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.47%
3.83%4.58%255th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.23%
1.87%2.16%234th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.73%
2.50%2.70%195th of 346
Private health insurance
8.8%
22.4%13.2%65th of 335
No health coverage
3.01%
1.80%1.98%80th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
96.2%
91.7%92.1%110th of 332
Households lacking health access
3.1%
5.8%6.0%243rd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
12,036
469,3531,523,71642nd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
315
10,69136,69833rd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.62%
2.28%2.41%196th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
11.8 days
6.0 days6.1 days7th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
20.4
19.919.9148th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
94
106100110th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
831
28,65989,72332nd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.9%
6.1%5.9%70th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
53.7
53.248.659th 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.
110
11110049th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 22%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones … 15%Pregnancy, birth… 15%Tumours, blood and… 15%Infections and… 6.6%Mind, nerves a… 6.3%Digestive system15%Genitour…system7.9%Respiratorysystem11%Circulatorysystem9.0%Injuries andpoisoning9.0%Musculoskeletal5.1%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth13%Perinatal…Congeni…Cancers andtumours9.8%Endocrine andmetabolicInfect…andparasi…2.8%Conta…withhealt…2.6%Mental andbehaviour…3.6%NervoussystemEye
Digestive and urinary … 22%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones and s… 15%Pregnancy, birth and … 15%Tumours, blood and… 15%Infe… 6.6%Min… 6.3%Digestivesystem15%Genitou…system7.9%Respirato…system11%Circulat…system9.0%Injuries andpoisoning9.0%Musculosk…5.1%Pregnancy andchildbirth13%Cancers andtumours9.8%Endoc…andmetab…4.1%Infectio…and…Contactwith…Mental andbehaviouralNervo…systemEye
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

Órganos digestivos22%Mama14%Sangre y sistemalinfático13%Vías urinarias11%Genitalesfemeninos7.9%Genitalesmasculinos7.9%Víasrespiratori…5.8%Tiroides yendocrinas4.8%Sitios maldefinidos3.6%Boca yfaringePiel ymelan…2.3%Tejid…bland…2.0%Encéfaloy sistem…Hues…
Órganos digestivos22%Mama14%Sangre ysistemalinfático13%Vías urinarias11%Genitalesfemeninos7.9%Genitalesmasculinos7.9%Víasrespirator…5.8%Tiroides yendocrinasSitiosmaldefinid…Boca yfarin…2.5%Piel ymelan…2.3%Teji…blan…Encé…ysist…Hues…
Órganos digestivosMamaSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariasGenitales femeninosGenitales masculinoshover 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.
17.1%
12.4%17.3%239th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
26.2 UF
37.3 UF32.0 UF86th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
90.2%
73.0%78.9%248th 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.
92.4
104.385.697th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
57.7%
59.5%54.4%61st of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
8.9%
7.7%8.6%160th of 345
Self-employed
35.7%
33.2%33.8%153rd of 345
Extreme poverty
6.8%
4.4%6.9%202nd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
23.3%
18.9%17.7%79th of 335
Unemployment rate
8.4%
8.4%8.8%195th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 627,419
CLP 1,019,380CLP 783,124100th 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.
0.415
0.5000.488221st of 321
Registered firms
14,290
561,5661,582,39028th of 346
Annual sales
135,857,450 UF
25,794,247,870 UF34,347,683,688 UF29th 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.
71,911
5,253,9409,699,16423rd of 346
Sales per firm
9,507 UF
45,933 UF21,706 UF57th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
3.3
6.13.955th of 346
Women among employees
46.6%
41.7%40.6%81st of 345
Independent contractors
28,689
2,467,4083,958,26923rd of 346
Contractors as share of workers
28.5%
32.0%29.0%148th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 34%Industry and construction 21%State and social services 17%Advanced services 16%Other services 12%Retail andwholesale20%Transport7.5%Accommodationand food6.3%Manufacturing9.8%Construction9.7%Health7.5%Education6.2%Publicadmin…3.1%Administra…services7.1%Profession…services3.4%Informationand…Finan…andinsur…1.9%RealestateOtherservices5.2%Domesticwork4.8%Artsandent…
Trade and logistics 34%Industry and … 21%State and so… 17%Advanced se… 16%Other s… 12%Retail andwholesale20%Transport7.5%Accommoda…and food6.3%Manufacturing9.8%Construction9.7%Health7.5%Education6.2%Publicadmin…3.1%Administrativeservices7.1%Profe…servi…3.4%Info…andcomm…Fin…andins…OtherservicesDomesticwork4.8%
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 26%Elementary occupations 19%Service and sales24%Craft and trades16%Clerical support7.4%Plant andmachineoperators7.1%Professiona…13%Technicians11%ManagersElementary occupations19%
Skilled occupations 55%Managers and professiona… 26%Elementary occu… 19%Service andsales24%Craft andtrades16%Clericalsupport7.4%Plant andmachineoperators7.1%Professiona…13%Technicians11%ManagersElementaryoccupations19%
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

Recoleta63%House25%Flat12%Other dwelling typeChile79%House20%Flat
Recoleta63%House25%FlatChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
11.6%
6.7%5.7%14th of 345
Internet access
93.7%
95.9%93.2%78th 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.
0.8
1.02.3333rd 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.
0.4
0.51.6331st of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
52,071
1,868,7116,408,17234th of 346
Critically overcrowded
2.50%
0.93%0.57%7th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.96%
0.51%1.13%204th of 345
Public water network
99.8%
99.6%92.3%17th of 345
Electricity access
99.9%
99.9%99.6%24th of 345
Detached houses
63.0%
55.8%78.7%330th of 345
Apartments
24.8%
42.0%19.9%25th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.09%0.23%298th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
4.4%
5.2%11.9%319th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
9,140
193,039491,9049th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
16.4%
9.9%7.5%18th of 345
Renting households
43.3%
37.8%26.2%11th of 345
Owner-occupiers
40.4%
51.5%61.1%330th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
0.1%
0.2%24.4%329th of 345
Commute by public transport
61.2%
54.0%42.1%7th of 345
Walks to work
11.2%
8.4%10.2%226th of 345
Households with a computer
49.0%
62.8%54.9%104th 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.
0.5
0.51.1330th 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.
100.0%
100.0%97.0%1st 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.
100.0%
99.6%89.4%1st 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%
100.0%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%
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.
1.1
1.05.9324th 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.
100.0%
99.7%80.3%1st 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%
100.0%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%
100.0%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.
0.2
0.30.6335th 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%
100.0%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%
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.
100.0%
100.0%91.6%1st 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

Public transport 61%Private vehicle 21%On foot or by bicycle 15%Public transport61%Car20%Walking11%Bicyc…4.2%
Public transport 61%Private vehicle 21%On foot or by … 15%Public transport61%Car20%Walking11%Bicy…
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Rented 43%Owned 40%Provided rent-free 12%Other 4.7%Rented, with contract24%Rented, no contract19%Owned outright32%Owned,stillpaying8.4%Provided by family11%Otherarrangeme…4.7%
Rented 43%Owned 40%Provided rent-free 12%Other 4.7%Rented, withcontract24%Rented, no contract19%Owned outright32%Owned, still paying8.4%Provided by familyOtherarrangement
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 52%No heating 24%Electricity 23%Gas37%Paraffin15%No heating24%Electricity23%
Fossil fuels 52%No heating 24%Electricity 23%Gas37%Paraffin15%No heating24%Electricity23%
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
81.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
81.4%
voted in the runoff
135,935
registered voters on the roll
5.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman51.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist48.8%58.3%
RecoletaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez14.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman34.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.5%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist20.2%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.9%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet13.6%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.5%1.3%
RecoletaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile33.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile25.5%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido15.5%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente12.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.1%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista5.8%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular3.0%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
RecoletaChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Recoleta 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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