Commune · 05701

San FelipeSan Felipe

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Census population
80,413
73rd of 346
Population density
430.8/km²
53rd of 346
Average years of schooling
10.1 yrs
72nd of 346
Foreign-born share
10.2%
44th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
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%
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.4 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.4 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 · 855 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
65.3%
122nd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
14.1%
228th of 335
Came from another region
13.0%
229th of 335
Net internal migration
-19,191
-22.1 per 100 residents
San Felipethis commune · 99,608elsewhere in the region12,273 peopleanother region11,279 peopleabroad6,615 peopleelsewhere in the region24,064 peopleanother region18,679 peopleSan Felipethis commune · 87,032
San Felipethis commune · 99,608elsewhere in th…12,273 peopleanother region11,279 peopleabroad6,615 peopleelsewhere in th…24,064 peopleanother region18,679 peopleSan Felipethis commune · 87,032

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing14Health2Health▲123Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale4Public administration4Public administration2Manufacturing5Manufacturing▼39Administrative services6Administrative services▲35Construction7Construction▼210Transport8Transport▲28Education9Education▼113Other services10Other services▲311Accommodation and food11Accommodation and food7Professional services12Professional services▼512Real estate13Real estate▼16Arts and entertainment14Arts and entertainment▼8
2005202411Agriculture and fishing142Health▲1233Retail and wholesale44Public administration25Manufacturing▼396Administrative services▲357Construction▼2108Transport▲289Education▼11310Other services▲31111Accommodation and food712Professional services▼51213Real estate▼1614Arts and entertainment▼8

The ten branches that employ most of San Felipe

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.

27 k30 k32 k35 k37 kprojection →31 k2029 · central2005201520242029
27 k30 k32 k35 k37 kprojection →31 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval-0.4% a year observed · 0.8% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

010 M20 M30 M40 Mprojection →28 M2029 · central2005201520242029
010 M20 M30 M40 Mprojection →28 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.5% a year observed · 1.9% projected

What San Felipe is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, San Felipe employs more people in 92 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.

92
activities it is specialised in
30,155
formal workers
93/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Actividades de centros de salud m…Actividades de la administración …Cultivo de uva para mesaElaboración de otros productos al…Servicios de seguridad privada pr…Fundaciones y corporaciones; asoc…Venta al por menor de combustible…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Servicios de seguridad privada pr…Servicios de cementeriosServicio notarialActividades de agencias de cobroHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in San Felipe

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
Actividades de centros de salud municipalizados (servicios de salud pública)Actividades de médicos y odontólogos5,28740.5×
Fabricación de fibras de vidrioFabricación de vidrio y productos de vidrio4427.9×
Cultivo de uva para mesaCultivo de plantas perennes1,67026.1×
Reparación de equipo de comunicaciones (incluye la reparación teléfonos celulares)Reparación de computadores y equipo de comunicaciones3116.7×
Servicios de transporte a turistasOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre8114.7×
Actividades de clubes de futbol amateur y profesionalActividades deportivas8913.2×
Fabricación de maquinaria agropecuaria y forestalFabricación de maquinaria de uso especial5412.3×
Molienda de trigo: producción de harina, sémola y gránulosElaboración de productos de molinería, almidones y productos derivados del almidón12710.4×
Actividades de organizaciones religiosasActividades de otras asociaciones1799.3×
Fabricación de colchones, fabricación de otros muebles n.c.p.Fabricación de muebles1368.8×
Alquiler y arrendamiento de equipo recreativo y deportivoAlquiler y arrendamiento de efectos personales y enseres domésticos148.7×
Venta al por menor en comercios especializados de carne y productos cárnicosVenta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados4177.6×

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
12,231
hectares in holdings
63.3%
of them under a named use
99.4%
of the crop land is irrigated
354
holdings with land here
Not farmed 51%Orchards and vineyards 34%Woodland 9.2%Annual crops 5.4%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings37%Untilledland15%Fruit trees32%Native woodland9.2%Foddercrops3.8%Cere…Vege…
Not farmed 51%Orchards and vineyards 34%Woodland 9.2%Annual … 5.4%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings37%Untilledland15%Fruit trees32%Nativewoodland9.2%FoddercropsCer…
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 FelipeChile% of each territory's own population · 80,413 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
80,413
159,39618,480,43273rd of 346
Average age
37.6 yrs
38.4 yrs38.1 yrs267th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
74.8
81.479.0249th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
430.8/km²
60.5/km²24.7/km²53rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
29,530
57,2046,596,52768th of 346
Dwellings
31,634
63,3767,642,71668th of 346
People per household
2.72
2.792.80187th of 345
Women
51.6%
51.3%51.5%78th of 346
Men per 100 women
93.8
94.994.3269th of 346
Under 15
18.6%
18.5%17.7%109th of 346
65 and over
13.9%
15.1%14.0%254th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
48.3
50.546.5239th of 346
One-person households
23.4%
21.9%21.8%134th of 345
Households with children
34.0%
34.6%33.2%138th of 345
Indigenous peoples
5.1%
5.2%11.4%256th of 346
Female-headed households
50.8%
50.0%49.9%86th of 345
Land area
187 km²
2,635 km²748,041 km²274th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

San Felipe45%Arrived since 202055%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
San Felipe45%Arrived since 202055%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
10.2%
6.5%8.7%44th 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.
65.3%
63.4%50.5%122nd 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.
14.1%
19.2%23.9%228th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
13.0%
12.7%17.2%229th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
8,232
10,3631,608,65051st of 346
Average age, foreign-born
31.8 yrs
31.7 yrs33.5 yrs256th of 345
Women among foreign-born
45.4%
46.3%51.7%321st of 345
Foreign-born of working age
84.9%
84.1%83.1%37th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
45.3%
45.3%34.4%83rd 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.
12.9%
8.2%10.6%41st of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
11.3 yrs
11.3 yrs12.9 yrs302nd 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.
-19,191
-13,2820308th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-22.1
-7.70.0232nd of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

San Felipe28%Higher40%Secondary24%Primary only5.6%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
San Felipe28%Higher40%Secondary24%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.1 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs72nd of 346
Reached higher education
27.7%
24.3%31.1%81st of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.0%
98.5%98.6%258th 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.
52.7%
53.9%55.6%198th 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.
100.8%
102.3%99.8%223rd of 346
Literacy rate
97.9%
97.3%97.8%96th of 346
Reached secondary education
39.6%
39.9%36.7%83rd of 346
Primary education only
24.3%
27.4%24.1%276th of 346
Never attended school
2.81%
2.98%3.01%282nd 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
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs71st of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.0 yrs
11.5 yrs12.1 yrs73rd of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
2.08%
2.69%2.18%252nd of 345
Households lacking schooling
15.8%
20.2%15.1%249th 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.
1,337
2,019217,56553rd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
50.6%
52.5%33.9%91st 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.
65.9%
63.7%67.2%133rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
29.8%
31.9%19.7%53rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
4.3%
4.4%13.1%312th 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.
22.4%
18.8%13.0%117th 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.
48.3%
49.8%49.7%236th 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.

1,337left secondary school in 2024
704enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
52.7%continued immediately
66%of those, to a university
22%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria ComercialMedicina VeterinariaPsicologiaTecnologia MedicaIngenieria en InformaticaTecnico en MineriaTecnico en Electricidad y ElectronicaTecnico en Mecanica Automotriz en Maquinaria PesadaArquitectura
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria ComercialMedicina VeterinariaPsicologiaTecnologia MedicaIngenieria en InformaticaTecnico en MineriaTecnico en Electricidad y ElectronicaTecnico en Mecanica Automotriz en Maquinaria PesadaArquitectura
San FelipeChile

Each bar is that programme's share of everyone who continued, here and in the country — not a headcount, so a commune of a few hundred can be read beside a country of 121,050. Programme names as the register writes them: in capitals and without accents, and unmerged, since SIES publishes 1,481 distinct names in a single year and two spellings of one degree stay two rows. Only the capitals are undone here.

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
San FelipeChile

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

05001,0001,5002006201520241,337704
05001,0001,5002006201520241,337704
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 Felipe'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 Felipe 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 Felipe89%Fonasa4.9%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
San Felipe89%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.3%
11.7%10.6%210th of 346
Public health insurance
89.2%
90.8%82.6%226th 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.
88.7
85.282.561st of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
120
13610065th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
9,085
18,5951,950,38868th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
55.9 yrs
57.0 yrs56.4 yrs271st of 346
Disability among 65+
42.7%
44.6%43.0%253rd of 346
Difficulty walking
5.38%
5.67%4.92%213th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.72%
4.88%4.58%229th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.19%
2.30%2.16%242nd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.95%
2.92%2.70%149th of 346
Private health insurance
4.3%
3.3%13.2%134th of 335
No health coverage
4.94%
4.48%1.98%22nd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
88.3%
88.5%92.1%260th of 332
Households lacking health access
5.7%
4.9%6.0%149th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
7,131
13,5881,523,71661st of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
189
45836,69859th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.65%
3.37%2.41%189th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.7 days
10.6 days6.1 days151st of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
23.5
28.719.993rd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
108
10210059th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
454
84489,72357th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.4%
6.2%5.9%110th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
56.5
52.948.641st 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.
118
10510035th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, bones and … 19%Tumours, bloo… 14%Pregnancy, birth a… 13%Mind, nerves a… 7.0%Infections and… 4.5%Digestivesystem14%Genitouri…system8.6%Respiratorysystem9.8%Circulatorysystem9.5%Injuries andpoisoning12%Musculoskeletal6.3%SkinCancers andtumours9.4%Endocrine andmetabolic4.1%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Mental andbehavioural4.6%Nervo…system1.7%Contactwith…Infecti…and…
Digestive and urinary … 23%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, … 19%Tumours, blood and… 14%Pregnancy, birth a… 13%Digestivesystem14%Genitour…system8.6%Respirat…system9.8%Circulat…system9.5%Injuries andpoisoning12%Musculoske…6.3%Cancers andtumours9.4%Endoc…andmetab…4.1%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Mentalandbehavio…Nervo…systemCon…withhea…Inf…andpar…
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

Mama22%Órganos digestivos22%Sangre y sistema linfático21%Genitalesfemeninos8.6%Tiroides yendocrinas5.5%Genitalesmasculinos4.6%Víasurinarias4.4%Víasrespiratori…4.2%SitiosreservadosBoca yfaringeSitios maldefinidosEncéfalo y…
Mama22%Órganos digestivos22%Sangre ysistemalinfático21%Genitalesfemeninos8.6%Tiroides yendocrinas5.5%Genital…masculi…4.6%Víasurinari…4.4%Víasrespirato…4.2%SitiosreservadosBoca yfaringeSitiosmal…Encéfal…
MamaÓrganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales 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.
20.1%
18.1%17.3%172nd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
23.4 UF
22.8 UF32.0 UF148th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
102.4%
102.4%78.9%150th 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.
82.1
78.785.6147th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
55.6%
52.9%54.4%79th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
8.9%
9.1%8.6%154th of 345
Self-employed
27.2%
28.6%33.8%315th of 345
Extreme poverty
8.4%
6.0%6.9%155th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
15.6%
17.2%17.7%207th of 335
Unemployment rate
8.2%
10.0%8.8%200th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 546,336
CLP 527,654CLP 783,124159th 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.
0.387
0.4010.488281st of 321
Registered firms
6,602
12,5391,582,39062nd of 346
Annual sales
25,678,543 UF
57,210,672 UF34,347,683,688 UF83rd 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.
30,160
55,8229,699,16460th of 346
Sales per firm
3,890 UF
4,563 UF21,706 UF168th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.8
2.73.995th of 346
Women among employees
48.8%
43.3%40.6%52nd of 345
Independent contractors
8,002
13,8223,958,26965th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
21.0%
19.8%29.0%270th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 28%State and social services 22%Natural resources 22%Industry and … 14%Advanced ser… 8.1%Other servic… 6.0%Retail andwholesale18%Transport5.6%Accommodat…and food4.4%Education9.4%Health8.7%Public administrationAgriculture andfishing17%Mining5.0%Manufacturing6.7%Constructi…5.7%Administra…servicesProfession…servicesFinan…andinsur…Infor…and…Otherservi…2.5%Domes…work2.1%
Trade and logistics 28%State and social… 22%Natural resources 22%Industr… 14%Advanc… 8.1%Other … 6.0%Retail andwholesale18%Transpo…5.6%Accommo…and food4.4%Education9.4%Health8.7%Public administrationAgriculture andfishing17%MiningManufactur…6.7%Construc…5.7%Administ…servicesProfessi…servicesFin…and…Inf…and…Otherserv…Domest…
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 49%Managers and professionals 29%Elementary occupations 22%Service and sales19%Craft and trades12%Plant and machineoperators8.5%Clericalsupport5.8%Skilledagricult…3.3%Professionals15%Technicians10%Managers3.4%Elementary occupations22%
Skilled occupations 49%Managers and profession… 29%Elementary occup… 22%Service andsales19%Craft andtrades12%Plant andmachineoperatorsClericalsupport5.8%Skill…agric…3.3%Professiona…15%Technicians10%Managers3.4%Elementaryoccupations22%
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 Felipe85%House13%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
San Felipe85%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.4%
5.3%5.7%155th of 345
Internet access
92.7%
90.9%93.2%104th 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.
1.6
2.42.3286th 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.
0.8
1.71.6299th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
28,723
55,8596,408,17269th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.31%
0.37%0.57%192nd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.92%
1.69%1.13%78th of 345
Public water network
95.2%
94.0%92.3%71st of 345
Electricity access
99.1%
99.3%99.6%229th of 345
Detached houses
85.0%
90.4%78.7%293rd of 345
Apartments
12.7%
7.8%19.9%57th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.50%
0.40%0.23%43rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
5.5%
7.8%11.9%309th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
2,395
4,038491,90458th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
8.1%
7.1%7.5%68th of 345
Renting households
28.6%
21.5%26.2%37th of 345
Owner-occupiers
59.8%
64.9%61.1%281st of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
17.9%
25.4%24.4%251st of 345
Commute by public transport
23.9%
23.9%42.1%197th of 345
Walks to work
12.6%
11.8%10.2%198th of 345
Households with a computer
49.5%
45.7%54.9%98th 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.
0.9
1.41.1285th 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%
95.9%97.0%53rd of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
99.9%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
99.9%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%
86.4%89.4%55th 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%
99.9%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.5
7.65.9303rd 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.
93.3%
56.6%80.3%71st 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%
73.9%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%
99.9%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.4
0.60.6296th 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%
99.4%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.
99.6%
90.8%91.6%46th of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
99.9%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%
99.9%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 38%Public transport 24%On foot or by b… 19%Other means 19%Car36%Public transport24%Walking13%Bicycle6.6%Other19%
Private vehicle 38%Public transp… 24%On foot or by bicycle 19%Other means 19%Car36%Publictransport24%Walking13%Bicycle6.6%Other19%
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 60%Rented 29%Provided rent-fr… 8.6%Owned outright44%Owned, still paying15%Rented, with contract18%Rented, no contract10%Provided byfamily7.3%Otherarrang…3.1%
Owned 60%Rented 29%Provide… 8.6%Owned outright44%Owned,stillpaying15%Rented, withcontract18%Rented, nocontract10%Providedby family7.3%Other…
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 37%Electricity 25%No heating 20%Wood and biomass 18%Gas28%Paraffin8.8%Electricity25%No heating20%Firewood18%
Fossil fuels 37%Electricity 25%No heating 20%Wood and biomass 18%Gas28%ParaffinElectricity25%No heating20%Firewood18%
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
88.3%
of the registered voted in the first round
87.8%
voted in the runoff
61,965
registered voters on the roll
8.1%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman44.4%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist55.6%58.3%
San FelipeChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez24.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman27.6%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.8%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist21.1%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.8%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.2%1.3%
San FelipeChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile41.8%30.6%
KCambio por Chile23.2%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido16.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente14.2%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.4%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
San FelipeChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile36.8%
KCambio por Chile18.2%
JChile Grande y Unido27.8%
IPartido de la Gente13.4%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.8%
San Felipeshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble San Felipe 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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