Salamanca — PuroChile

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 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%

People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%

Households lacking health access8th of 335 · Chile 6.0%15.4%

Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer313th of 330 · Chile 5.9%3.2%

Of those continuing, studies outside their region19th of 331 · Chile 13.0%74.5%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 346 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

70.0%

74th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

8.3%

310th of 335

Came from another region

18.2%

108th of 335

Net internal migration

-7,133

-23.8 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Salamanca

Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.

BranchWorkersShare of total2005–2024Change

01ConstructionIndustry and construction1,96621.9%+228%02Public administrationState and social services1,01611.3%—03TransportTrade and logistics8349.3%+192%04Administrative servicesAdvanced services8309.3%+876%05Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics7528.4%+311%06Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics6697.5%+36%07MiningNatural resources5686.3%+1,059%08Professional servicesAdvanced services5015.6%−19%09EducationState and social services4785.3%+1,095%10HealthState and social services3984.4%+174%

Dependent workers, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.5% a year observed · 1.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.4% a year observed · 1.6% projected

What Salamanca is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Salamanca employs more people in 64 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.

64

activities it is specialised in

8,951

formal workers

139/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in Salamanca

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

Activity	Division	Workers here	Times the national share
Cultivo de uva destinada a la producción de pisco y aguardiente	Cultivo de plantas perennes	50	106.8×
Otras actividades de transporte de pasajeros por vía terrestre n.c.p.	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	476	19.2×
Servicios de forestación a cambio de una retribución o por contrata	Servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura	148	16.8×
Televisión de pago satelital	Actividades de telecomunicaciones por satélite	9	14.8×
Actividades de apoyo para la explotación de otras minas y canteras prestados por empresas	Actividades de apoyo para la explotación de otras minas y canteras	548	12.3×
Actividades de discotecas y cabaret (night club), con predominio del servicio de bebidas	Actividades de servicio de bebidas	35	12.1×
Fabricación de productos primarios de aluminio	Fabricación de productos primarios de metales preciosos y otros metales no ferrosos	12	10.8×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadores	Otras actividades de alojamiento	29	10.6×
Alquiler de otros tipos de maquinarias y equipos sin operario n.c.p.	Alquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles	339	9.4×
Actividades de sindicatos	Actividades de sindicatos	6	9.1×
Servicios de transporte de trabajadores	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	173	9.1×
Construcción de otras obras de ingeniería civil	Construcción de otras obras de ingeniería civil	1,316	8.6×

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

185,731

hectares in holdings

2.9%

of them under a named use

99.2%

of the crop land is irrigated

1,199

holdings with land here

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.

The agricultural census measured 185,731 hectares of holdings in Salamanca in the 2020/2021 agricultural year, and this is how it divided them.

Fourteen of the fifteen tiles are categories the census publishes. The fifteenth is not: it is the censused surface less the other fourteen, and what it holds is scrub, barren ground, roads and buildings. Across Chile it is half of everything, because most of the censused surface is Patagonian scrub and northern desert inside very large holdings.

Irrigation is asked of eleven of the uses and not of forest, native woodland, natural pasture or untilled ground — so the 99.2% above is a share of the 2,757 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 1,199 holdings with land here, 394 are self-consumption plots — under two hectares and with nothing sold in the year. These counts are the census's own for this territory and they are not added to anything: a holding with land in two comunas is counted in both.

VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal 2021, INE

Population and territory

See all →

Population pyramid

SalamancaChile% of each territory's own population · 27,823 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	27,823	92,350	18,480,432	136th of 346
Average age	39.5 yrs	40.0 yrs	38.1 yrs	156th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	86.6	94.5	79.0	188th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	8.1/km²	9.1/km²	24.7/km²	274th of 346

See the other 13 indicators

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	10,035	33,900	6,596,527	134th of 346
Dwellings	12,142	46,335	7,642,716	145th of 346
People per household	2.77	2.72	2.80	155th of 345
Women	50.5%	50.8%	51.5%	233rd of 346
Men per 100 women	98.0	97.0	94.3	114th of 346
Under 15	18.4%	18.2%	17.7%	121st of 346
65 and over	16.0%	17.2%	14.0%	168th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	52.4	54.6	46.5	120th of 346
One-person households	23.2%	23.9%	21.8%	144th of 345
Households with children	34.5%	33.0%	33.2%	118th of 345
Indigenous peoples	9.6%	9.5%	11.4%	157th of 346
Female-headed households	46.8%	48.4%	49.9%	213th of 345
Land area	3,446 km²	10,128 km²	748,041 km²	52nd of 346

Migration

See all →

When the migrant population arrived

Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	4.6%	4.0%	8.7%	114th 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.	70.0%	72.3%	50.5%	74th 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.	8.3%	7.7%	23.9%	310th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	18.2%	16.6%	17.2%	108th of 335

See the other 9 indicators

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	1,271	3,729	1,608,650	109th of 346
Average age, foreign-born	31.2 yrs	31.2 yrs	33.5 yrs	279th of 345
Women among foreign-born	55.5%	54.3%	51.7%	37th of 345
Foreign-born of working age	80.2%	78.9%	83.1%	216th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	45.9%	48.9%	34.4%	75th 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.	5.6%	4.9%	10.6%	112th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	12.0 yrs	12.4 yrs	12.9 yrs	229th 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.	-7,133	-25,153	0	266th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	-23.8	-26.0	0.0	241st of 335

Education

See all →

How far schooling went

HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	9.2 yrs	9.2 yrs	10.4 yrs	191st of 346
Reached higher education	19.1%	19.9%	31.1%	214th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	100.0%	100.0%	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.	59.5%	60.2%	55.6%	87th of 331

See the other 17 indicators

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.	102.9%	101.7%	99.8%	118th of 346
Literacy rate	96.5%	96.3%	97.8%	170th of 346
Reached secondary education	37.9%	37.7%	36.7%	147th of 346
Primary education only	34.5%	33.4%	24.1%	128th of 346
Never attended school	3.52%	3.98%	3.01%	184th 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.	10.5 yrs	10.5 yrs	12.1 yrs	187th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	10.8 yrs	10.7 yrs	12.1 yrs	178th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	3.48%	3.72%	2.18%	177th of 345
Households lacking schooling	23.1%	25.6%	15.1%	174th 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	1,192	217,565	122nd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	14.9%	25.3%	33.9%	279th of 331
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates.	0.0%	0.0%	3.1%	114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	57.7%	50.3%	67.2%	218th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	19.5%	15.9%	19.7%	150th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	22.7%	33.8%	13.1%	94th of 331
Of those continuing, studies outside their region · Compares the region of the school they graduated from with the region of the campus where they enrol. A campus is not necessarily where the student lives.	74.5%	57.9%	13.0%	19th 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.	49.5%	50.1%	49.7%	202nd 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

220enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

59.5%continued immediately

58%of those, to a university

75%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

SalamancaChile

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

SalamancaChile

The ten broad fields of ISCED-F 2013, as SIES classifies each programme, as a share of everyone who continued, here and in the country.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

left secondary schoolenrolled the following year

Only enrolment the following March counts — someone who works for a year and starts after that is not here, so the rate is a floor under how many ever study, not an estimate of it. Adult secondary education is counted separately and is not in these figures. What the approximation above does not settle is catchment: this is the cohort Salamanca's schools taught, and where schools draw pupils from next door that is not the same set of children as the ones the territory raised.

Health

See all →

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 Salamanca against what its own age and sex structure would produce at the country's rates, with Chile fixed at 100. A commune of older people buries more people than a commune of young families, and that is demography, not health.

In 2024, 7.5% of the country's discharges arrive with every identifying field replaced by an asterisk and cannot be attached to any commune; what is counted here is the 91.4% that carries one.

Which health system

FonasaIsapreNo cover% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	10.1%	11.4%	10.6%	267th of 346
Public health insurance	90.8%	93.8%	82.6%	198th 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.	70.7	72.1	82.5	162nd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	80	80	100	207th of 331

See the other 21 indicators

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	2,797	10,501	1,950,388	163rd of 346
Average age, people with a disability	60.4 yrs	59.9 yrs	56.4 yrs	81st of 346
Disability among 65+	51.3%	50.6%	43.0%	58th of 346
Difficulty walking	4.78%	5.40%	4.92%	242nd of 346
Difficulty seeing	4.14%	4.84%	4.58%	278th of 346
Difficulty hearing	2.42%	2.60%	2.16%	201st of 346
Difficulty concentrating	2.27%	2.64%	2.70%	281st of 346
Private health insurance	7.6%	3.3%	13.2%	79th of 335
No health coverage	0.83%	2.21%	1.98%	224th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	80.5%	83.3%	92.1%	310th of 332
Households lacking health access	15.4%	12.1%	6.0%	8th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	1,967	6,658	1,523,716	140th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	51	178	36,698	156th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	2.59%	2.67%	2.41%	201st of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	5.4 days	5.7 days	6.1 days	284th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	18.3	19.3	19.9	182nd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	83	84	100	171st of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	63	276	89,723	199th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	3.2%	4.1%	5.9%	313th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	22.6	29.9	48.6	285th 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.	43	55	100	282nd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

By tumour site

Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoSitios mal definidosGenitales masculinosTiroides y endocrinashover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

See all →

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	16.1%	20.6%	17.3%	252nd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	23.6 UF	23.6 UF	32.0 UF	140th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	88.9%	94.7%	78.9%	258th 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.	108.5	92.2	85.6	52nd of 346

See the other 16 indicators

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	51.7%	50.3%	54.4%	158th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	9.5%	9.5%	8.6%	120th of 345
Self-employed	31.9%	36.4%	33.8%	243rd of 345
Extreme poverty	8.1%	9.3%	6.9%	161st of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	10.2%	11.6%	17.7%	289th of 335
Unemployment rate	8.7%	8.9%	8.8%	184th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 534,236	CLP 523,094	CLP 783,124	168th 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.	0.444	0.442	0.488	141st of 321
Registered firms	3,019	8,515	1,582,390	112th of 346
Annual sales	8,209,965 UF	19,094,911 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	151st 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.	8,968	21,887	9,699,164	129th of 346
Sales per firm	2,719 UF	2,243 UF	21,706 UF	223rd of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	1.9	1.7	3.9	220th of 346
Women among employees	33.1%	40.4%	40.6%	295th of 345
Independent contractors	3,724	10,929	3,958,269	104th of 346
Contractors as share of workers	29.3%	33.3%	29.0%	137th of 346

Employment by industry

hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Elementary occupationsArmed forceshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itCIUO-08 (ISCO) skill levels.

Housing and services

See all →

House or flat

HouseFlat% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	4.4%	4.7%	5.7%	277th of 345
Internet access	86.7%	86.5%	93.2%	221st 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.	8.4	7.0	2.3	46th 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.	7.8	7.4	1.6	46th of 345

See the other 35 indicators

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	9,810	33,192	6,408,172	134th of 346
Critically overcrowded	0.21%	0.28%	0.57%	283rd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	1.48%	1.76%	1.13%	114th of 345
Public water network	89.0%	83.2%	92.3%	134th of 345
Electricity access	98.9%	99.0%	99.6%	251st of 345
Detached houses	98.3%	98.6%	78.7%	160th of 345
Apartments	1.0%	0.7%	19.9%	129th of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.20%	0.19%	0.23%	140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	15.6%	23.0%	11.9%	163rd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	595	2,075	491,904	126th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	5.9%	6.1%	7.5%	133rd of 345
Renting households	14.6%	15.5%	26.2%	181st of 345
Owner-occupiers	71.2%	70.2%	61.1%	107th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	24.6%	20.2%	24.4%	234th of 345
Commute by public transport	20.2%	25.4%	42.1%	239th of 345
Walks to work	23.0%	21.8%	10.2%	78th of 345
Households with a computer	43.9%	42.3%	54.9%	154th 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.	1.8	1.8	1.1	157th 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.	90.5%	90.1%	97.0%	225th 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.	99.6%	99.7%	99.9%	278th 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.	54.0%	59.6%	89.4%	260th 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.	80.7%	82.9%	98.1%	301st 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.	92.6%	97.4%	99.7%	317th 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.	8.0	10.0	5.9	183rd 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.	60.6%	58.7%	80.3%	141st 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.	81.2%	72.4%	90.0%	174th 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.	93.5%	88.2%	96.2%	228th of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	1.0	1.1	0.6	194th 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.	97.9%	96.2%	99.0%	195th 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.	99.6%	99.8%	99.9%	290th 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.	60.2%	63.3%	91.6%	254th 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.	81.8%	78.7%	98.5%	300th 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.	94.2%	97.4%	99.8%	315th of 345

How people commute

Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

No 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

86.1%

voted in the runoff

24,680

registered voters on the roll

8.7%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman45.4%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist54.6%58.3%

SalamancaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez28.7%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman27.0%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.6%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist20.2%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.0%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%

SalamancaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile30.6%30.6%

KCambio por Chile20.8%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido13.4%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente22.1%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.0%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista5.6%2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile2.6%0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%

HPopular—0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

SalamancaChileshare of the valid vote

Congress is compared by list, not by candidate: the candidates change at every district line, and the list — the pact — is the same across the country.

Región de Coquimbo renewed its senators in 2021, not in 2025, so Salamanca has no Senate result in this election.

District 5

The deputies elected for the district Salamanca votes in:

Daniel Manouchehri Moghadam Kashan Lobos Partido Socialista de Chile · list C · 95,526 votes
Marco Antonio Sulantay Olivares Union Democrata Independiente · list J · 23,061 votes
Nathalie Castillo Rojas Partido Comunista de Chile · list C · 19,490 votes
Eileen Patricia Urqueta Rojas Partido de la Gente · list I · 15,849 votes
Carolina Tello Rojas Frente Amplio · list C · 15,199 votes
Erich Grohs Marin Partido Nacional Libertario · list K · 13,688 votes
Bernardo Salinas Maya Independiente Comunista de Chile · list C · 3,843 votes

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Salamanca 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.

Illapel0.32Coquimbo · 32,009 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Economy.Cabildo0.50Valparaíso · 20,015 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Population structure.Vicuña0.59Coquimbo · 28,047 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Health.María Pinto0.63Metropolitana · 15,352 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Economy.

ScalePopulation structureMigrationEducationHealthEconomyHousing and services

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

Inside the commune

Census districts

Loading

Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of Salamanca

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Salamanca is specialised in

Most over-represented in Salamanca

The land and who works it

Population and territory

Population pyramid

Migration

When the migrant population arrived

Education

How far schooling went

The class of 2024

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

By field of study

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

Health

Which health system

What people are hospitalised for

By tumour site

Economy and poverty

Employment by industry

Employment by occupation

Housing and services

House or flat

How people commute

Housing tenure

Home heating fuel

How it voted in 2025

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

Sister communes

Inside the commune