Commune · 10306

San Juan de la CostaSan Juan de la Costa

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Census population
7,776
278th of 346
Population density
5.1/km²
291st of 346
Average years of schooling
7.9 yrs
341st of 346
Foreign-born share
0.5%
327th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
Leaves from technical-vocational school1st of 331 · Chile 33.9%100.0%
Leaves from a rural school1st of 331 · Chile 3.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Primary education only2nd of 346 · Chile 24.1%48.1%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF27.7 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF27.7 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 · 165 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
59.4%
187th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
24.1%
113th of 335
Came from another region
16.0%
145th of 335
Net internal migration
-3,227
-43.5 per 100 residents
San Juan de la Costathis commune · 10,600elsewhere in the region1,784 peopleanother region1,184 peopleabroad42 peopleelsewhere in the region5,235 peopleanother region960 peopleSan Juan de la Costathis commune · 7,415
San Juan de la …this commune · 10,600elsewhere in th…1,784 peopleanother region1,184 peopleabroad42 peopleelsewhere in th…5,235 peopleanother region960 peopleSan Juan de la …this commune · 7,415

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Public administration1Public administration2Agriculture and fishing2Agriculture and fishing3Education3Education4Water and waste4Water and waste6Administrative services5Administrative services▲15Accommodation and food6Accommodation and food▼1
2005202411Public administration22Agriculture and fishing33Education44Water and waste65Administrative services▲156Accommodation and food▼1

The ten branches that employ most of San Juan de la Costa

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.

05001 k2 kprojection →9302029 · central2005201520242029
05001 k2 kprojection →9302029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.5% a year observed · 2.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0100 k200 k300 k400 kprojection →330 k2029 · central2005201520242029
0100 k200 k300 k400 kprojection →330 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.4% a year observed · 2.0% projected

What San Juan de la Costa is specialised in

2024 · SII

PuroChile does not compute this for San Juan de la Costa. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 808 formal workers here that division is a statement about a handful of people: one worker would move it further than a whole industry moves it in Santiago. The floor is 1,000 workers, and it is a floor rather than a caveat because a spectacular number nobody should read is worse than no number.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
51,078
hectares in holdings
92.3%
of them under a named use
4.1%
of the crop land is irrigated
835
holdings with land here
Woodland 77%Pasture 12%Not farmed 9.7%Native woodland53%Forest plantations24%Pasture12%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings7.7%Unti…land
Woodland 77%Pasture 12%Not farmed 9.7%Native woodland53%Forestplantations24%Pasture12%Scrub, barrenground andbuildingsUnt…land
PastureOrchards and vineyardshover 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 Juan de la CostaChile% of each territory's own population · 7,776 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
7,776
239,10718,480,432278th of 346
Average age
44.5 yrs
39.5 yrs38.1 yrs8th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
158.1
92.679.010th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
5.1/km²
25.8/km²24.7/km²291st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
3,340
90,4036,596,527270th of 346
Dwellings
6,797
107,1737,642,716214th of 346
People per household
2.33
2.642.80327th of 345
Women
48.0%
51.7%51.5%332nd of 346
Men per 100 women
108.2
93.594.315th of 346
Under 15
13.7%
16.9%17.7%334th of 346
65 and over
21.7%
15.6%14.0%17th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
54.7
48.246.565th of 346
One-person households
32.8%
23.4%21.8%22nd of 345
Households with children
22.8%
31.2%33.2%332nd of 345
Indigenous peoples
75.6%
31.9%11.4%10th of 346
Female-headed households
43.0%
49.8%49.9%296th of 345
Land area
1,519 km²
9,255 km²748,041 km²92nd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

San Juan de la Costa9.5%Arrived since 20…90%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
San Juan de la Costa90%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
0.5%
1.9%8.7%327th 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.
59.4%
65.9%50.5%187th 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.
24.1%
17.2%23.9%113th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
16.0%
15.6%17.2%145th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
42
4,6091,608,650315th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
44.8 yrs
34.8 yrs33.5 yrs4th of 345
Women among foreign-born
45.2%
48.9%51.7%322nd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
71.4%
81.5%83.1%335th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
9.5%
32.3%34.4%339th 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.
0.6%
2.3%10.6%330th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.5 yrs
13.2 yrs12.9 yrs44th 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.
-3,227
-51,0710223rd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-43.5
-20.60.0289th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

San Juan de la Costa9.5%Higher34%Secondary48%Primary only5.9%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
San Juan de la Costa34%Secondary48%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
7.9 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs341st of 346
Reached higher education
9.5%
25.7%31.1%342nd of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.9%98.6%1st of 333
Continues to higher education · Of young secondary-school graduates, those enrolled in first-year undergraduate studies the following March. By the comuna of the school where they finished secondary school, which is the approximation to origin that Mineduc publishes.
52.4%
62.3%55.6%203rd 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.
102.4%
100.2%99.8%136th of 346
Literacy rate
92.6%
96.9%97.8%331st of 346
Reached secondary education
33.9%
36.5%36.7%283rd of 346
Primary education only
48.1%
29.9%24.1%2nd of 346
Never attended school
5.93%
3.14%3.01%20th 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.
8.5 yrs
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs343rd of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
8.7 yrs
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs341st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
7.41%
3.13%2.18%16th of 345
Households lacking schooling
36.2%
20.6%15.1%39th 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.
42
3,101217,565301st of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
100.0%
38.8%33.9%1st 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.
100.0%
7.4%3.1%1st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
27.3%
68.2%67.2%328th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
27.3%
13.6%19.7%71st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
45.5%
18.2%13.1%9th 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.
9.1%
22.8%13.0%192nd 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.
50.0%
51.0%49.7%182nd 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.

42left secondary school in 2024
22enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
52.4%continued immediately
27%of those, to a university
9%of those, outside their region

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareServicesEngineering and industryAgriculture and veterinaryEducation
0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareServicesEngineering and industryAgriculture and veterinaryEducation
San Juan de la CostaChile

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. The list of individual programmes is withheld here: fewer than 30 of this territory's leavers continued, and a ranking built on that few names people.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

02040602006201520244222
02040602006201520244222
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 Juan de la Costa'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 Juan de la Costa 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 Juan de la Costa95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
San Juan de la Costa95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
17.0%
11.5%10.6%8th of 346
Public health insurance
94.7%
91.8%82.6%104th 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.
69.7
101.382.5171st of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
55
94100281st of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,319
27,6101,950,388254th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
61.9 yrs
58.9 yrs56.4 yrs36th of 346
Disability among 65+
51.0%
46.9%43.0%63rd of 346
Difficulty walking
8.49%
5.65%4.92%16th of 346
Difficulty seeing
7.66%
5.00%4.58%26th of 346
Difficulty hearing
4.68%
2.57%2.16%6th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.68%
2.81%2.70%29th of 346
Private health insurance
2.5%
5.7%13.2%199th of 335
No health coverage
2.14%
1.23%1.98%122nd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
69.1%
90.6%92.1%326th of 332
Households lacking health access
10.5%
6.2%6.0%34th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
542
24,2271,523,716256th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
13
49436,698268th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.40%
2.04%2.41%229th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
11.6 days
5.9 days6.1 days8th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
16.7
20.719.9211th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
76
120100196th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
43
1,66489,723234th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
7.9%
6.9%5.9%40th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
55.3
69.648.651st 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.
86
134100123rd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 27%Injuries, bones and skin 21%Digestive and urinary tract 19%Tumours, blood … 17%Mind, nerve… 6.5%Infections … 6.1%Circulatorysystem15%Respiratorysystem12%Injuries andpoisoning14%Skin4.6%Musculoskel…2.0%Digestive system13%Genitouri…system6.3%Cancers andtumours11%Endocrine andmetabolic5.5%Mentalandbehav…2.6%Eye2.0%NervoussystemInfecti…andparasit…3.3%Ill-de…sympto…Contac…Pregnancy and…
Heart and lungs 27%Injuries, bones … 21%Digestive and… 19%Tumours, b… 17%Mind, n… 6.5%Infecti… 6.1%Circulatorysystem15%Respirato…system12%Injuries andpoisoning14%SkinMuscu…2.0%Digestivesystem13%GenitourinarysystemCancers andtumours11%Endocrine andmetabolic5.5%Ment…andbeha…EyeNervou…Infec…andparas…Ill-de…Contac…Pregnancy and…
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 digestivos47%Sitios reservados42%Vías urinarias12%
Órganos digestivos47%Sitios reservados42%Vías urinarias
Órganos digestivosSitios 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.
19.4%
18.3%17.3%185th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
27.7 UF
26.3 UF32.0 UF62nd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
119.2%
93.3%78.9%27th 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.
45.1
90.485.6334th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
32.1%
51.3%54.4%344th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.3%
8.9%8.6%132nd of 345
Self-employed
53.5%
32.7%33.8%9th of 345
Extreme poverty
12.0%
7.2%6.9%60th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
29.6%
17.4%17.7%30th of 335
Unemployment rate
12.1%
8.3%8.8%72nd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 467,400
CLP 604,837CLP 783,124250th 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.
0.440
0.4650.488156th of 321
Registered firms
351
21,6211,582,390311th of 346
Annual sales
298,239 UF
251,143,478 UF34,347,683,688 UF325th 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.
808
91,0799,699,164308th of 346
Sales per firm
850 UF
11,616 UF21,706 UF336th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.8
2.83.9225th of 346
Women among employees
60.9%
36.7%40.6%2nd of 345
Independent contractors
466
30,0703,958,269310th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
36.6%
24.8%29.0%66th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 31%Industry and construction 22%Trade and logistics 20%State and social s… 18%Oth… 4.5%Adv… 4.2%Agriculture and fishing31%Construction13%Manufacturing6.6%Electricityand gasWaterand…Retail andwholesale10%Accommodationand food5.4%Transport4.5%Education7.7%Health5.2%Publicadminist…4.9%Domesticwork2.9%Otherservic…Artsand…Administra…servicesProfes…servic…Inf…
Natural resources 31%Industry and c… 22%Trade and logist… 20%State and soc… 18%Agriculture andfishing31%Construction13%Manufacturing6.6%Elec…andgasWater…Retail andwholesale10%Accommoda…and food5.4%Transpo…4.5%Education7.7%Health5.2%Publicadmini…4.9%DomesticworkOthe…Adminis…Prof…
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 70%Elementary occupa… 17%Managers and prof… 13%Skilled agricultural22%Service and sales21%Craft and trades18%Plant andmachineoperators6.6%Clerical supportElementaryoccupations17%Technici…6.4%Professi…5.3%Managers
Skilled occupations 70%Elementary occupations 17%Managers and pro… 13%Skilled agricultural22%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades18%Plant andmachineoperators6.6%Cleri…suppo…3.3%Elementary occupations17%Technici…6.4%Professio…5.3%
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 Juan de la Costa97%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
San Juan de la Costa97%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.9%
4.9%5.7%219th of 345
Internet access
71.1%
90.3%93.2%340th 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.
5.7
3.72.393rd 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.
10.8
3.11.624th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
3,329
89,3196,408,172269th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.42%
0.34%0.57%91st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
3.69%
1.73%1.13%38th of 345
Public water network
16.3%
82.0%92.3%344th of 345
Electricity access
91.8%
99.3%99.6%343rd of 345
Detached houses
97.0%
91.9%78.7%208th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
6.7%19.9%247th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.50%
0.56%0.23%43rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
48.1%
12.0%11.9%26th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
177
4,760491,904262nd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
5.3%
5.3%7.5%176th of 345
Renting households
3.2%
19.3%26.2%344th of 345
Owner-occupiers
81.5%
63.8%61.1%3rd of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
96.3%
73.6%24.4%5th of 345
Commute by public transport
33.7%
34.4%42.1%85th of 345
Walks to work
20.2%
12.4%10.2%106th of 345
Households with a computer
19.6%
46.0%54.9%342nd 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.
3.9
1.81.123rd 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.
67.0%
88.4%97.0%327th of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
99.3%
99.9%99.9%288th 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.
41.8%
80.8%89.4%295th 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.
98.3%
93.3%98.1%164th 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.
99.6%
99.7%99.7%268th 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.
33.3
8.05.973rd 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.
0.0%
69.7%80.3%194th 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.
0.0%
82.2%90.0%249th 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.
50.6%
92.1%96.2%260th 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.
2.5
1.00.633rd 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.
88.9%
96.2%99.0%311th of 345
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
99.3%
100.0%99.9%299th 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.
23.1%
81.7%91.6%329th 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.
68.5%
94.1%98.5%322nd 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.
99.6%
99.7%99.8%270th of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 39%Public transport 34%On foot or by bicycle 21%Oth… 6.6%Car39%Public transport34%Walking20%Other6.0%
Private vehicle 39%Public transport 34%On foot or by bicycle 21%Othe… 6.6%Car39%Public transport34%Walking20%Other6.0%
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 82%Provide… 13%Rented 3.2%Other 2.5%Owned outright81%Provided byfamily10%Provided byemployerRented,no…Rent…withcont…Other…
Owned 82%Provided rent-free 13%Owned outright81%Provided by familyProvid…byemploy…Ren…nocon…Otherarran…2.5%
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 97%Firewood96%
Wood and biomass 97%Firewood96%
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
86.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.6%
voted in the runoff
8,406
registered voters on the roll
6.6%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman39.4%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist60.6%58.3%
San Juan de la CostaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez24.3%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman26.4%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.6%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.8%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist24.3%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.1%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
San Juan de la CostaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile60.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile15.5%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido10.7%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente9.5%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 Juan de la CostaChileshare of the valid vote

No sister communes

How this is computed

No commune in Chile resembles San Juan de la Costa closely enough: its best match sits further away than the best match of nine out of ten communes in the country. These four are the least unlike it, which is not the same thing as sisters.

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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