Commune · 13401

San BernardoSan Bernardo

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Census population
306,371
7th of 346
Population density
2,001.3/km²
33rd of 346
Average years of schooling
9.9 yrs
94th of 346
Foreign-born share
6.4%
78th 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 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 15 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 90.0%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF29.1 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF29.1 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 1,652 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
51.5%
243rd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
30.5%
59th of 335
Came from another region
12.4%
243rd of 335
Net internal migration
+40,154
+11.6 per 100 residents
San Bernardothis commune · 287,736elsewhere in the region106,029 peopleanother region42,984 peopleabroad19,278 peopleelsewhere in the region81,032 peopleanother region27,827 peopleSan Bernardothis commune · 347,168
San Bernardothis commune · 287,736elsewhere in th…106,029 peopleanother region42,984 peopleabroad19,278 peopleelsewhere in th…81,032 peopleanother region27,827 peopleSan Bernardothis commune · 347,168

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Manufacturing1Manufacturing2Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale4Transport3Transport▲110Health4Health▲63Construction5Construction▼28Water and waste6Water and waste▲26Agriculture and fishing7Agriculture and fishing▼17Administrative services8Administrative services▼15Education9Education▼411Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food▲112Professional services11Professional services▲19Other services12Other services▼3
2005202411Manufacturing22Retail and wholesale43Transport▲1104Health▲635Construction▼286Water and waste▲267Agriculture and fishing▼178Administrative services▼159Education▼41110Accommodation and food▲11211Professional services▲1912Other services▼3

The ten branches that employ most of San Bernardo

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.

60 k80 k100 k120 k140 kprojection →129 k2029 · central2005201520242029
60 k80 k100 k120 k140 kprojection →129 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.8% a year observed · 2.1% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0200 M400 M600 Mprojection →505 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0200 M400 M600 Mprojection →505 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.0% a year observed · -0.1% projected

What San Bernardo is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, San Bernardo employs more people in 131 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.

131
activities it is specialised in
116,302
formal workers
23/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%69%-2.50.03.7Elaboración de macarrones, fideos…Actividades de centros de salud m…Cultivo de otras plantas perennesFabricación de productos primario…Cultivo de productos agrícolas en…Fabricación de colchones, fabrica…Fabricación de otros artículos de…Actividades de paisajismo, servic…Aserrado y acepilladura de maderaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%69%-2.50.03.7Fabricación de artículos de hormi…Fabricación de productos farmacéu…Servicios prestados por concesion…Actividades poscosechaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in San Bernardo

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
Elaboración de macarrones, fideos, alcuzcuz y productos farináceos similaresElaboración de otros productos alimenticios10,73179.0×
Fabricación de cubiertas y cámaras de caucho; recauchutado y renovación de cubiertas de cauchoFabricación de productos de caucho1,72331.2×
Fabricación de productos primarios de metales preciosos y de otros metales no ferrosos n.c.p.Fabricación de productos primarios de metales preciosos y otros metales no ferrosos75019.5×
Fabricación de otros productos de cauchoFabricación de productos de caucho1,67818.0×
Tratamiento y eliminación de desechos no peligrososTratamiento y eliminación de desechos54918.0×
Fabricación de pinturas, barnices y productos de revestimiento, tintas de imprenta y masillasFabricación de otros productos químicos75117.6×
Venta al por mayor de maquinaria y equipo de oficina; venta al por mayor de muebles de oficinaVenta al por mayor de maquinaria, equipo y materiales10316.8×
Recogida de desechos no peligrososRecogida de desechos6,44415.6×
Fabricación de productos primarios de aluminioFabricación de productos primarios de metales preciosos y otros metales no ferrosos21214.6×
Actividades de centros de salud municipalizados (servicios de salud pública)Actividades de médicos y odontólogos5,96711.9×
Venta al por mayor de desperdicios, desechos y otros productos n.c.p.Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada10510.8×
Fabricación de artículos de hormigón, cemento y yesoFabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.1,1409.6×

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
5,203
hectares in holdings
79.1%
of them under a named use
100.0%
of the crop land is irrigated
163
holdings with land here
Orchards and vineyards 42%Not farmed 26%Annual crops 23%Pasture 8.9%Fruit trees35%Vines6.9%Scrub, barren groundand buildings21%Untilled land5.4%Cereals7.6%Fodder crops6.6%Vegetables4.4%Seedcrops2.0%Pulsesandtubers2.0%Nurser…Pasture8.9%
Orchards and vineyards 42%Not farmed 26%Annual crops 23%Pasture 8.9%Fruit trees35%VinesScrub, barrenground andbuildings21%Untilled land5.4%Cereals7.6%Foddercrops6.6%Veget…4.4%SeedcropsPulsesand…Pasture8.9%
Pasturehover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MenWomen001122334455%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
MenWomen00224466%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
San BernardoChile% of each territory's own population · 306,371 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
306,371
527,65918,480,4327th of 346
Average age
35.9 yrs
36.0 yrs38.1 yrs319th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
57.0
57.179.0316th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
2,001.3/km²
470.5/km²24.7/km²33rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
98,580
169,9236,596,52712th of 346
Dwellings
102,253
183,9367,642,71614th of 346
People per household
3.11
3.112.8016th of 345
Women
51.5%
51.3%51.5%92nd of 346
Men per 100 women
94.3
94.894.3255th of 346
Under 15
19.8%
20.0%17.7%48th of 346
65 and over
11.3%
11.4%14.0%313th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
45.3
45.946.5296th of 346
One-person households
16.7%
16.2%21.8%321st of 345
Households with children
39.8%
40.3%33.2%23rd of 345
Indigenous peoples
9.5%
8.2%11.4%158th of 346
Female-headed households
51.6%
49.8%49.9%56th of 345
Land area
153 km²
1,121 km²748,041 km²282nd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

San Bernardo33%Arrived since 202067%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
San Bernardo33%Arrived since 202067%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
6.4%
6.0%8.7%78th 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.
51.5%
51.5%50.5%243rd 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.
30.5%
30.7%23.9%59th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
12.4%
12.5%17.2%243rd of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
19,544
31,7671,608,65023rd of 346
Average age, foreign-born
32.7 yrs
32.8 yrs33.5 yrs208th of 345
Women among foreign-born
49.1%
49.8%51.7%254th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
83.2%
82.4%83.1%79th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
33.2%
34.3%34.4%224th 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.
7.7%
7.2%10.6%76th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.2 yrs
12.3 yrs12.9 yrs191st 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.
40,154
94,787019th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
11.6
16.20.0103rd of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

San Bernardo26%Higher41%Secondary25%Primary only5.5%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
San Bernardo26%Higher41%Secondary25%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.9 yrs
9.9 yrs10.4 yrs94th of 346
Reached higher education
25.6%
27.1%31.1%100th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
96.6%
97.4%98.6%298th 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.
51.9%
54.5%55.6%211th 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%
99.7%99.8%281st of 346
Literacy rate
98.0%
97.9%97.8%84th of 346
Reached secondary education
40.8%
38.6%36.7%51st of 346
Primary education only
24.8%
25.4%24.1%270th of 346
Never attended school
3.27%
3.39%3.01%215th 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.
11.8 yrs
11.8 yrs12.1 yrs78th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.7 yrs
11.8 yrs12.1 yrs95th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.97%
2.07%2.18%260th of 345
Households lacking schooling
15.5%
17.1%15.1%253rd 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.
3,395
5,956217,56513th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
35.6%
32.2%33.9%181st 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%
4.3%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
62.6%
63.5%67.2%165th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
32.0%
30.0%19.7%37th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
5.4%
6.4%13.1%301st 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.
1.4%
2.5%13.0%289th 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.
48.4%
49.7%49.7%234th 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.

3,395left secondary school in 2024
1,763enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
51.9%continued immediately
63%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%PsicologiaIngenieria en InformaticaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y AutotronicaEnfermeriaDerechoIngenieria en Gestion LogisticaKinesiologiaMedicina Veterinaria
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%PsicologiaIngenieria en InformaticaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y AutotronicaEnfermeriaDerechoIngenieria en Gestion LogisticaKinesiologiaMedicina Veterinaria
San BernardoChile

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%Business and lawEngineering and industryHealth and welfareInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesEducationArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Business and lawEngineering and industryHealth and welfareInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesEducationArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
San BernardoChile

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

01,0002,0003,0004,0002006201520243,3951,763
01,0002,0003,0004,0002006201520243,3951,763
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 San Bernardo'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 San Bernardo 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

San Bernardo90%Fonasa7.1%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
San Bernardo90%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.7%
10.1%10.6%235th of 346
Public health insurance
89.9%
88.4%82.6%215th 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.
79.6
75.882.5108th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
124
11010053rd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
32,891
53,3111,950,3886th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
52.9 yrs
53.2 yrs56.4 yrs315th of 346
Disability among 65+
36.3%
37.1%43.0%320th of 346
Difficulty walking
4.85%
4.50%4.92%238th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.60%
4.37%4.58%245th of 346
Difficulty hearing
1.96%
1.92%2.16%278th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.88%
2.68%2.70%159th of 346
Private health insurance
7.1%
8.8%13.2%85th of 335
No health coverage
1.45%
1.39%1.98%165th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
95.3%
91.3%92.1%129th of 332
Households lacking health access
9.5%
8.0%6.0%47th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
24,395
39,9961,523,71610th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
620
95836,6988th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.54%
2.40%2.41%208th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.4 days
6.0 days6.1 days182nd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
20.2
18.219.9152nd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
101
9610079th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
1,073
1,77789,72323rd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
4.4%
4.4%5.9%268th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
35.0
33.748.6216th 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.
79
76100156th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 24%Heart and lungs 19%Pregnancy, birth a… 17%Injuries, bones… 15%Tumours, blood … 12%Infections and o… 8.3%Mind, nerves and… 5.3%Digestivesystem15%Genitouri…system8.9%Respiratorysystem10%Circulatorysystem8.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Perinatal…Congen…malfor…Injuries andpoisoning9.5%Musculoskelet…4.2%SkinCancers andtumours6.7%Endocrine andmetabolic4.9%Infect…andparasi…3.3%Contactwithhealth…2.5%Ill-d…sympt…2.4%Mental andbehaviouralNervoussystem
Digestive and urinary t… 24%Heart and lungs 19%Pregnancy, birth and ne… 17%Injuries, bones and skin 15%Tumours, blood an… 12%Infect… 8.3%Digestivesystem15%Genitour…system8.9%Respirato…system10%Circula…system8.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Per…con…Cong…Injuries andpoisoning9.5%Musculos…4.2%Cancersandtumours6.7%EndocrineandmetabolicInfecti…and…Contactwith…Mentalandbehav…Nerv…syst…
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 digestivos23%Sangre y sistemalinfático20%Mama10%Genitalesfemeninos8.3%Tiroides yendocrinas6.8%Genitalesmasculinos6.1%Víasrespiratori…6.0%Víasurinarias5.8%Sitios maldefinidos4.8%Tejidos blandos3.2%Encéfalo ysistemanerviosoHuesos1.3%Piel ymelanoma
Órganos digestivos23%Sangre y sistemalinfático20%Mama10%Genitalesfemeninos8.3%Tiroidesyendocrin…6.8%Genitalesmasculin…6.1%Víasrespirat…6.0%Víasurinarias5.8%Sitios maldefinidos4.8%TejidosblandosEncéfaloy sistem…HuesosPiel ymelano…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaGenitales femeninosTiroides y endocrinasGenitales 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.
18.4%
17.3%17.3%207th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
29.1 UF
27.2 UF32.0 UF49th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
86.7%
86.4%78.9%275th 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.
57.3
64.885.6299th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
55.3%
55.7%54.4%83rd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.8%
8.9%8.6%106th of 345
Self-employed
32.7%
33.2%33.8%221st of 345
Extreme poverty
8.1%
6.1%6.9%159th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
27.5%
23.1%17.7%43rd of 335
Unemployment rate
13.6%
10.9%8.8%42nd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 566,914
CLP 620,925CLP 783,124137th 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.
0.394
0.4240.488268th of 321
Registered firms
17,557
34,1831,582,39022nd of 346
Annual sales
507,819,412 UF
618,663,481 UF34,347,683,688 UF10th 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.
116,345
189,3009,699,16416th of 346
Sales per firm
28,924 UF
18,099 UF21,706 UF17th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
4.6
3.63.922nd of 346
Women among employees
31.8%
36.0%40.6%308th of 345
Independent contractors
24,608
46,9313,958,26927th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
17.5%
19.9%29.0%310th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 34%Industry and construction 23%State and social services 19%Advanced servi… 14%Other… 6.6%Natur… 2.9%Retail andwholesale21%Transport9.2%Accommodationand food4.2%Manufacturing11%Construction9.6%Education7.9%Health7.8%PublicadministrationAdministrativeservices5.3%Profession…services3.2%Informationandcommunicat…Financeandinsura…2.4%Real…Otherservices3.4%Domest…work2.2%Mining1.7%Agr…and…
Trade and logistics 34%Industry and c… 23%State and social … 19%Advanced s… 14%Oth… 6.6%Nat… 2.9%Retail andwholesale21%Transport9.2%Accommoda…and food4.2%Manufacturing11%Construction9.6%Education7.9%Health7.8%Pub…adm…Adminis…services5.3%Profe…servi…3.2%Infor…andcommu…Financeandinsura…OtherservicesDomest…workMiningAgr…
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 56%Managers and professionals 29%Elementary occupations 15%Service and sales22%Craft andtrades15%Plant and machineoperators9.2%Clerical support8.1%Professionals14%Technicians12%Elementary occupations15%
Skilled occupations 56%Managers and professionals 29%Elementary … 15%Service andsales22%Craft andtrades15%Plant andmachineoperators9.2%Clericalsupport8.1%Professiona…14%Technicians12%Elementaryoccupations15%
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

San Bernardo81%House18%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
San Bernardo81%House18%Chile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.8%
6.5%5.7%47th of 345
Internet access
95.1%
95.0%93.2%50th 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.
1.1
1.82.3311th 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.
0.6
0.91.6313th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
95,042
164,4436,408,17212th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.50%
0.45%0.57%66th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.92%
1.06%1.13%219th of 345
Public water network
99.1%
95.6%92.3%32nd of 345
Electricity access
99.8%
99.8%99.6%55th of 345
Detached houses
81.1%
88.3%78.7%306th of 345
Apartments
17.5%
10.5%19.9%40th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.21%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
2.9%
4.9%11.9%330th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
8,922
13,751491,90410th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
9.1%
8.1%7.5%53rd of 345
Renting households
22.4%
20.1%26.2%80th of 345
Owner-occupiers
65.9%
67.0%61.1%230th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
1.7%
9.7%24.4%296th of 345
Commute by public transport
53.9%
43.8%42.1%26th of 345
Walks to work
7.2%
7.6%10.2%303rd of 345
Households with a computer
55.1%
55.6%54.9%59th 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.
0.6
0.91.1312th 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%
99.2%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.
97.7%
91.8%89.4%56th 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.
1.1
2.25.9322nd 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.
98.5%
86.5%80.3%39th 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%
99.4%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.
0.3
0.50.6320th of 345
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
99.8%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%
97.7%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 54%Private vehicle 31%On foot or by bic… 9.9%Othe… 5.1%Public transport54%Car29%Walking7.2%Bicyc…2.7%Other5.1%
Public transport 54%Private vehicle 31%On foot o… 9.9%Other mea… 5.1%Public transport54%Car29%Walking7.2%Other
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 66%Rented 22%Provided rent… 8.9%Owned outright45%Owned, still paying21%Rented, with contract13%Rented, no contract9.3%Provided byfamily7.8%Otherarra…
Owned 66%Rented 22%Provided r… 8.9%Owned outright45%Owned, stillpaying21%Rented, withcontract13%Rented, nocontract9.3%Provided byfamily7.8%
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 63%Electricity 21%No heating 13%Gas42%Paraffin21%Electricity21%No heating13%Fire…
Fossil fuels 63%Electricity 21%No heating 13%Gas42%Paraffin21%Electricity21%No heating13%
ElectricityNo heatingOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
87.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
87.6%
voted in the runoff
233,003
registered voters on the roll
7.1%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman48.0%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist52.0%58.3%
San BernardoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez20.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman30.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.5%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.6%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist22.6%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.3%1.3%
San BernardoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile41.1%30.6%
KCambio por Chile21.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido14.6%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente13.5%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.7%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista5.6%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.5%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
San BernardoChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble San Bernardo 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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