Commune · 07406

San JavierSan Javier

Compare San Javier with another place
Census population
49,559
91st of 346
Population density
37.8/km²
152nd of 346
Average years of schooling
9.0 yrs
230th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.9%
222nd 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 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary1st of 345 · Chile 99.8%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.0 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.0 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 · 666 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
65.6%
117th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
16.5%
198th of 335
Came from another region
14.7%
185th of 335
Net internal migration
-5,682
-11.0 per 100 residents
San Javierthis commune · 55,517elsewhere in the region8,481 peopleanother region7,578 peopleabroad1,616 peopleelsewhere in the region11,126 peopleanother region10,615 peopleSan Javierthis commune · 51,451
San Javierthis commune · 55,517elsewhere in th…8,481 peopleanother region7,578 peopleabroad1,616 peopleelsewhere in th…11,126 peopleanother region10,615 peopleSan Javierthis commune · 51,451

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing3Manufacturing2Manufacturing▲19Administrative services3Administrative services▲62Retail and wholesale4Retail and wholesale▼25Transport5Transport4Construction6Construction▼26Education7Education▼110Professional services8Professional services▲28Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food▼17Other services10Other services▼313Health11Health▲212Information and communications12Information and communications11Water and waste13Water and waste▼2
2005202411Agriculture and fishing32Manufacturing▲193Administrative services▲624Retail and wholesale▼255Transport46Construction▼267Education▼1108Professional services▲289Accommodation and food▼1710Other services▼31311Health▲21212Information and communications1113Water and waste▼2

The ten branches that employ most of San Javier

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.

010 k20 k30 kprojection →21 k2029 · central2005201520242029
010 k20 k30 kprojection →21 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.2% a year observed · 5.1% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 M20 Mprojection →16 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 M20 Mprojection →16 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.8% a year observed · 3.4% projected

What San Javier is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, San Javier employs more people in 71 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.

71
activities it is specialised in
16,451
formal workers
169/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Elaboración y conservación de fru…Actividades de la administración …Otras actividades de dotación de …Investigaciones y desarrollo expe…Cultivo de trigoCultivo de productos agrícolas en…Otros servicios de atención de la…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Venta al por mayor de productos f…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Cultivo de trigoOtros servicios de atención de la…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Venta al por mayor de productos f…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in San Javier

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 y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizasElaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizas2,25170.8×
Investigaciones y desarrollo experimental en el campo de las ciencias naturales y la ingeniería y la ingenieríaInvestigaciones y desarrollo experimental en el campo de las ciencias naturales y la ingeniería18425.3×
Otras industrias manufactureras n.c.p.Otras industrias manufactureras n.c.p.6619.6×
Alquiler y arrendamiento de equipo recreativo y deportivoAlquiler y arrendamiento de efectos personales y enseres domésticos1314.8×
Elaboración de vinosElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas38113.9×
Fabricación de recipientes de maderaFabricación de productos de madera, corcho, paja y materiales trenzables2911.1×
Actividades de sindicatosActividades de sindicatos108.3×
Reparación de equipo eléctrico (excepto reparación de equipo y enseres domésticos)Reparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo1028.2×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura608.1×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada1147.8×
Venta al por mayor de combustibles sólidos, líquidos y gaseosos y productos conexosOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada977.1×
Cultivo de uva destinada a la producción de vinoCultivo de plantas perennes1476.9×

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
81,500
hectares in holdings
85.8%
of them under a named use
74.0%
of the crop land is irrigated
1,073
holdings with land here
Woodland 39%Not farmed 26%Pasture 18%Orchards and vin… 9.8%Annual c… 6.9%Forest plantations27%Native woodland12%Scrub, barren groundand buildings14%Untilled land12%Pasture18%Vines8.1%Fruit treesCereals3.9%Pulsesandtubers1.3%Fodd…cropsIndus…
Woodland 39%Not farmed 26%Pasture 18%Orchar… 9.8%Forest plantations27%Native woodland12%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings14%Untilled land12%Pasture18%Vines8.1%Cereals3.9%
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 JavierChile% of each territory's own population · 49,559 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
49,559
307,82618,480,43291st of 346
Average age
38.4 yrs
39.4 yrs38.1 yrs227th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
80.2
88.979.0223rd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
37.8/km²
30.6/km²24.7/km²152nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
18,058
112,4046,596,52791st of 346
Dwellings
22,233
135,5247,642,71695th of 346
People per household
2.74
2.742.80177th of 345
Women
52.1%
51.6%51.5%32nd of 346
Men per 100 women
91.9
94.094.3315th of 346
Under 15
19.1%
18.3%17.7%81st of 346
65 and over
15.3%
16.2%14.0%203rd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.5
52.646.5114th of 346
One-person households
21.2%
20.9%21.8%206th of 345
Households with children
34.8%
33.7%33.2%111th of 345
Indigenous peoples
3.4%
3.8%11.4%325th of 346
Female-headed households
50.9%
47.3%49.9%82nd of 345
Land area
1,310 km²
10,068 km²748,041 km²109th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

San Javier43%Arrived since 202057%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
San Javier43%Arrived since 202057%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
1.9%
1.7%8.7%222nd 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.
65.6%
68.1%50.5%117th 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.
16.5%
16.2%23.9%198th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
14.7%
13.8%17.2%185th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
918
5,3371,608,650128th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
32.3 yrs
33.7 yrs33.5 yrs233rd of 345
Women among foreign-born
47.5%
49.8%51.7%291st of 345
Foreign-born of working age
81.7%
81.3%83.1%148th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
43.5%
38.8%34.4%106th 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.
2.3%
2.2%10.6%219th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.0 yrs
12.4 yrs12.9 yrs229th 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.
-5,682
-50,7200260th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-11.0
-16.00.0195th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

San Javier19%Higher37%Secondary34%Primary only5.4%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
San Javier19%37%Secondary34%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.0 yrs
9.1 yrs10.4 yrs230th of 346
Reached higher education
19.4%
19.7%31.1%207th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
97.9%
98.4%98.6%260th 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.
60.6%
49.3%55.6%67th 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.
102.9%
103.9%99.8%115th of 346
Literacy rate
95.4%
95.3%97.8%233rd of 346
Reached secondary education
37.2%
36.4%36.7%170th of 346
Primary education only
33.9%
34.9%24.1%137th of 346
Never attended school
4.08%
3.81%3.01%116th 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.
10.4 yrs
10.3 yrs12.1 yrs197th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.7 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs191st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.62%
4.68%2.18%112th of 345
Households lacking schooling
33.9%
27.1%15.1%55th 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.
719
3,750217,56581st of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
36.0%
44.1%33.9%176th 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%
4.4%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
62.4%
56.9%67.2%171st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
11.7%
8.6%19.7%256th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
25.9%
34.5%13.1%69th 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.
6.7%
21.2%13.0%219th 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.
50.2%
52.3%49.7%180th 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.

719left secondary school in 2024
436enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
60.6%continued immediately
62%of those, to a university
7%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoTecnico en EnfermeriaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizIngenieria ComercialGastronomiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria Civil InformaticaIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizAuditoria E Ingenieria en Control de GestionEnfermeria
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoTecnico en EnfermeriaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizIngenieria ComercialGastronomiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria Civil InformaticaIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizAuditoria E Ingenieria en Control de GestionEnfermeria
San JavierChile

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

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
San JavierChile

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

0200400600800200620152024719436
0200400600800200620152024719436
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 Javier'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 Javier 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 Javier92%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
San Javier92%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.9%
13.6%10.6%135th of 346
Public health insurance
91.9%
92.0%82.6%181st 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.
89.6
76.682.557th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
168
1171006th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
6,380
41,8951,950,38887th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
57.2 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs212th of 346
Disability among 65+
44.8%
45.2%43.0%196th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.66%
6.74%4.92%112th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.72%
6.31%4.58%141st of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.69%
2.79%2.16%145th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.07%
3.23%2.70%114th of 346
Private health insurance
2.4%
1.9%13.2%204th of 335
No health coverage
3.17%
3.18%1.98%72nd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
87.3%
96.9%92.1%273rd of 332
Households lacking health access
3.3%
6.8%6.0%239th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
4,442
23,5811,523,71689th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
179
79936,69863rd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
4.03%
3.39%2.41%49th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.7 days
6.0 days6.1 days252nd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
36.1
26.019.913th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
107
9010063rd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
173
1,37989,723106th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
3.9%
5.8%5.9%291st of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
34.9
44.848.6218th 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.
68
84100208th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 25%Heart and lungs 23%Injuries, bones … 16%Pregnancy, b… 13%Tumours, bloo… 11%Infections and… 7.7%Mind, nerves a… 4.2%Digestive system15%Genitourin…system10.0%Respiratorysystem15%Circulato…system7.9%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskelet…4.2%Skin1.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Cancers andtumours6.7%Endocrine andmetabolicIll-d…sympt…2.9%Contact withhealth…Infectiousand…Mental andbehaviouralNervo…system
Digestive and urinary… 25%Heart and lungs 23%Injuries,… 16%Pregnancy, birth a… 13%Tumours, blood and… 11%Inf… 7.7%Min… 4.2%Digestivesystem15%Genitour…system10.0%Respiratorysystem15%Circul…system7.9%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculosk…4.2%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth12%Cancers andtumours6.7%Endocri…andmetabol…Ill-definedsymptomsConta…withhealt…2.7%Inf…andpar…Mentalandbehavi…
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 digestivos35%Mama14%Genitalesfemeninos8.7%Sangre ysistemalinfático8.1%Sitiosreservados5.8%Vías urinarias5.2%Piel ymelanoma4.6%Sitios maldefinidos4.6%Víasrespiratorias3.5%Huesos3.5%Genital…masculi…3.5%Encéfalo y sistemanervioso
Órganos digestivos35%Mama14%Genitalesfemeninos8.7%Sangre ysistemalinfático8.1%Sitiosreservad…5.8%Víasurinarias5.2%Piel ymelanoma4.6%SitiosmaldefinidosVíasrespirato…Huesos3.5%GenitalesmasculinosEncéfalo ysistemanervioso
Órganos digestivosMamaGenitales femeninosSangre y sistema linfáticoSitios reservadosVías urinariashover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
25.0%
29.7%17.3%96th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
19.0 UF
19.2 UF32.0 UF303rd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
113.4%
109.0%78.9%66th 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.
89.5
89.685.6111th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
46.6%
46.7%54.4%243rd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.7%
10.7%8.6%114th of 345
Self-employed
35.0%
35.3%33.8%172nd of 345
Extreme poverty
11.3%
12.5%6.9%74th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
17.5%
14.9%17.7%171st of 335
Unemployment rate
9.8%
9.0%8.8%135th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 465,429
CLP 466,464CLP 783,124257th 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.
0.475
0.4420.48865th of 321
Registered firms
4,438
27,5711,582,39083rd of 346
Annual sales
13,355,086 UF
83,517,785 UF34,347,683,688 UF117th 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.
16,453
92,1109,699,16489th of 346
Sales per firm
3,009 UF
3,029 UF21,706 UF206th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.0
1.83.9192nd of 346
Women among employees
38.0%
42.3%40.6%227th of 345
Independent contractors
3,263
22,1653,958,269114th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
16.6%
19.4%29.0%322nd of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 26%State and social services 21%Natural resources 21%Industry and constru… 20%Advance… 6.2%Other s… 5.6%Retail andwholesale16%Transport7.1%Accommodationand food3.4%Education9.2%Health6.4%Publicadministration5.5%Agriculture and fishing19%Manufacturing9.2%Construction9.1%Admini…servic…2.3%Profes…servic…2.1%Informa…Fin…Domes…work2.8%Otherservi…2.1%Arts an…
Trade and logistics 26%State and social … 21%Natural resour… 21%Industry and … 20%Adv… 6.2%Oth… 5.6%Retail andwholesale16%Transport7.1%Accommoda…and foodEducation9.2%Health6.4%Public administrationAgriculture andfishing19%Manufacturing9.2%Construction9.1%Admi…serv…Pro…ser…Infor…Dome…workOtherserv…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Skilled occupations 55%Managers and professionals 23%Elementary occupations 21%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades13%Plant and machineoperators11%Skilledagricultural5.6%Clerical support4.7%Professionals12%Technicians8.5%ManagersElementary occupations21%
Skilled occupations 55%Managers and professi… 23%Elementary occupati… 21%Service andsales20%Craft and trades13%Plant and machineoperators11%Skilledagricul…5.6%Clericalsupport4.7%Profession…12%Technicia…8.5%ManagersElementaryoccupations21%
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 Javier99%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
San Javier99%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.2%
5.7%5.7%74th of 345
Internet access
87.8%
87.3%93.2%195th 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.
4.2
4.62.3154th 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.
3.5
3.31.6163rd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
17,851
111,0606,408,17291st of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.39%
0.32%0.57%112th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.96%
0.96%1.13%203rd of 345
Public water network
85.5%
88.5%92.3%166th of 345
Electricity access
99.7%
99.6%99.6%79th of 345
Detached houses
98.5%
98.3%78.7%155th of 345
Apartments
0.9%
1.2%19.9%131st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.14%0.23%298th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
15.0%
13.8%11.9%171st of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
823
5,214491,904101st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.6%
4.6%7.5%236th of 345
Renting households
12.9%
13.6%26.2%224th of 345
Owner-occupiers
74.6%
73.0%61.1%48th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
58.7%
64.9%24.4%165th of 345
Commute by public transport
25.6%
23.0%42.1%168th of 345
Walks to work
12.3%
11.3%10.2%202nd of 345
Households with a computer
41.3%
41.6%54.9%192nd of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.5
1.61.1217th 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.
95.1%
95.3%97.0%161st 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.
78.2%
67.4%89.4%150th 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.
92.1%
93.3%98.1%249th 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%
99.8%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.
4.9
6.55.9223rd 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.
78.6%
56.1%80.3%103rd 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.
87.5%
86.3%90.0%155th 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.
96.3%
99.0%96.2%221st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.9
1.10.6214th 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.
98.8%
98.5%99.0%160th 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.
80.6%
74.5%91.6%160th 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.
92.2%
96.7%98.5%259th 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 41%Public transport 26%On foot or by bicycle 21%Other mea… 12%Car40%Public transport26%Walking12%Bicycle9.1%Other12%
Private vehicle 41%Public transp… 26%On foot or by bicycle 21%Other means 12%Car40%Publictransport26%Walking12%Bicycle9.1%Other12%
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 75%Rented 13%Provided ren… 9.1%Other 3.4%Owned outright65%Owned,stillpaying9.6%Rented, withcontract8.1%Rented, nocontract4.9%Provided byfamily7.2%Other arrangement
Owned 75%Rented 13%Provided re… 9.1%Owned outright65%Owned,stillpaying9.6%Rented, withcontract8.1%Rented,nocontract4.9%Provided byfamily7.2%Otherarran…3.4%
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

Wood and biomass 61%Fossil fuels 24%Electricity 9.6%No heati… 4.9%Firewood59%Gas15%Paraffin9.5%Electricity9.6%No heating4.9%
Wood and biomass 61%Fossil fuels 24%Electricity 9.6%No heating 4.9%Firewood59%Gas15%Paraffin9.5%Electricity9.6%
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
90.9%
of the registered voted in the first round
90.6%
voted in the runoff
42,473
registered voters on the roll
6.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman30.8%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist69.2%58.3%
San JavierChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez24.5%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman19.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.5%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist33.3%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.7%1.3%
San JavierChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile24.3%30.6%
KCambio por Chile37.5%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido15.0%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente15.7%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas7.5%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
San JavierChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile16.6%
KCambio por Chile34.7%
JChile Grande y Unido14.0%
IPartido de la Gente12.8%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas17.5%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.9%
Independents outside a pact2.4%
San Javiershare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble San Javier 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

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