Commune · 13130

San MiguelSan Miguel

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Census population
150,829
37th of 346
Population density
15,680.3/km²
3rd of 346
Average years of schooling
12.3 yrs
8th of 346
Foreign-born share
26.0%
12th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Public water network1st of 345 · Chile 92.3%100.0%
Electricity access1st of 345 · Chile 99.6%100.0%
People within 5 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 97.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 89.4%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF25.8 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF25.8 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 · 825 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
27.3%
319th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
38.7%
29th of 335
Came from another region
10.4%
287th of 335
Net internal migration
-90,265
-61.9 per 100 residents
San Miguelthis commune · 201,624elsewhere in the region56,394 peopleanother region15,112 peopleabroad34,408 peopleelsewhere in the region136,049 peopleanother region25,722 peopleSan Miguelthis commune · 145,767
San Miguelthis commune · 201,624elsewhere in th…56,394 peopleanother region15,112 peopleabroad34,408 peopleelsewhere in th…136,049 peopleanother region25,722 peopleSan Miguelthis commune · 145,767

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520243Administrative services1Administrative services▲24Health2Health▲25Construction3Construction▲22Retail and wholesale4Retail and wholesale▼21Manufacturing5Manufacturing▼46Other services6Other services7Education7Education9Professional services8Professional services▲111Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food▲212Information and communications10Information and communications▲28Transport11Transport▼313Public administration12Public administration▲110Agriculture and fishing14Agriculture and fishing▼4
2005202431Administrative services▲242Health▲253Construction▲224Retail and wholesale▼215Manufacturing▼466Other services77Education98Professional services▲1119Accommodation and food▲21210Information and communications▲2811Transport▼31312Public administration▲11014Agriculture and fishing▼4

The ten branches that employ most of San Miguel

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.

40 k60 k80 k100 kprojection →78 k2029 · central2005201520242029
40 k60 k80 k100 kprojection →78 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.2% a year observed · 4.1% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

50 M60 M70 M80 Mprojection →67 M2029 · central2005201520242029
50 M60 M70 M80 Mprojection →67 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval0.9% a year observed · 0.4% projected

What San Miguel is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, San Miguel employs more people in 114 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.

114
activities it is specialised in
64,023
formal workers
11/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.50.23.7Actividades de hospitales y clíni…Actividades de restaurantes y de …Actividades de consultoría de ges…Actividades de consultoría de inf…Venta al por mayor de productos t…Cultivo de otras plantas perennesElaboración y conservación de car…Servicios prestados por concesion…Actividades de contabilidad, tene…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.50.23.7Otras actividades de servicios de…Otras actividades de dotación de …Servicios prestados por concesion…Otras actividades de asistencia s…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in San Miguel

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
Fabricación de otras bombas, compresores, grifos y válvulasFabricación de maquinaria de uso general18936.3×
Fabricación de partes, piezas y accesorios para vehículos automotoresFabricación de partes, piezas y accesorios para vehículos automotores31026.1×
Fabricación de otros tipos de maquinaria de uso generalFabricación de maquinaria de uso general53421.6×
Actividades de hospitales y clínicas públicasActividades de hospitales públicos y privados4,88320.8×
Servicios prestados por concesionarios de carreterasActividades de apoyo al transporte14114.0×
Forja, prensado, estampado y laminado de metales; pulvimetalurgiaFabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal; actividades de servicios de trabajo de metales1159.6×
Reparación de otros efectos personales y enseres domésticosReparación de efectos personales y enseres domésticos1769.4×
Fabricación de equipo eléctrico de iluminaciónFabricación de equipo eléctrico de iluminación449.0×
Fabricación de motores, generadores y transformadores eléctricos, aparatos de distribución y controlFabricación de motores, generadores y transformadores eléctricos, aparatos de distribución y control2798.6×
Otras actividades de limpieza de edificios e instalaciones industriales n.c.p.Actividades de limpieza1,8277.9×
Fundaciones y corporaciones; asociaciones que promueven actividades culturales o recreativasActividades de otras asociaciones1,9947.2×
Otras actividades de transporte urbano y suburbano de pasajeros por vía terrestre n.c.p.Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre786.6×

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.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MenWomen0022446688%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
MenWomen00335588%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 MiguelChile% of each territory's own population · 150,829 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
150,829
5,385,73718,480,43237th of 346
Average age
37.1 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs289th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
73.5
85.179.0255th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
15,680.3/km²
2,653.4/km²24.7/km²3rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
60,243
1,951,4816,596,52729th of 346
Dwellings
65,828
2,060,6137,642,71630th of 346
People per household
2.50
2.762.80306th of 345
Women
52.8%
51.8%51.5%9th of 346
Men per 100 women
89.5
93.294.3338th of 346
Under 15
15.6%
16.3%17.7%306th of 346
65 and over
11.5%
13.8%14.0%310th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
37.2
43.046.5340th of 346
One-person households
26.9%
23.6%21.8%52nd of 345
Households with children
28.5%
30.2%33.2%295th of 345
Indigenous peoples
4.7%
7.2%11.4%275th of 346
Female-headed households
50.2%
51.1%49.9%106th of 345
Land area
10 km²
2,030 km²748,041 km²340th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

San Miguel29%Arrived since 202071%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
San Miguel29%Arrived since 2…71%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
26.0%
15.4%8.7%12th 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.
27.3%
34.9%50.5%319th 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.
38.7%
35.2%23.9%29th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
10.4%
16.4%17.2%287th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
39,266
828,3681,608,6506th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.8 yrs
34.4 yrs33.5 yrs148th of 345
Women among foreign-born
53.4%
51.8%51.7%82nd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
83.3%
84.3%83.1%75th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
29.4%
31.7%34.4%262nd 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.
29.7%
18.5%10.6%13th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
14.4 yrs
13.4 yrs12.9 yrs12th 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.
-90,265
-150,2900332nd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-61.9
-2.50.0306th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

San Miguel53%Higher27%Secondary13%Primary only4.6%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
San Miguel53%Higher27%SecondaryChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
12.3 yrs
11.2 yrs10.4 yrs8th of 346
Reached higher education
52.9%
38.6%31.1%7th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.4%
98.2%98.6%200th 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.
48.9%
54.9%55.6%252nd 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.
97.9%
98.2%99.8%317th of 346
Literacy rate
99.5%
98.7%97.8%6th of 346
Reached secondary education
26.5%
34.9%36.7%337th of 346
Primary education only
13.4%
19.1%24.1%340th of 346
Never attended school
2.48%
2.55%3.01%311th 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.
14.4 yrs
13.1 yrs12.1 yrs8th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
14.1 yrs
12.8 yrs12.1 yrs8th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
0.48%
1.25%2.18%341st of 345
Households lacking schooling
4.6%
9.9%15.1%331st 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.
2,041
57,776217,56533rd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
45.2%
31.5%33.9%113th 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%
0.1%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
66.4%
70.6%67.2%127th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
23.5%
21.9%19.7%103rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
10.1%
7.5%13.1%241st of 331
Of those continuing, studies outside their region · Compares the region of the school they graduated from with the region of the campus where they enrol. A campus is not necessarily where the student lives.
1.2%
1.3%13.0%297th 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.
56.2%
48.6%49.7%72nd 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.

2,041left secondary school in 2024
999enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
48.9%continued immediately
66%of those, to a university
1%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%EnfermeriaDerechoIngenieria ComercialKinesiologiaTecnico en EnfermeriaIngenieria en InformaticaPsicologiaMedicina VeterinariaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y Autotronica
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%EnfermeriaDerechoIngenieria ComercialKinesiologiaTecnico en EnfermeriaIngenieria en InformaticaPsicologiaMedicina VeterinariaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y Autotronica
San MiguelChile

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%Health and welfareBusiness and lawEngineering and industryInformation technologyArts and humanitiesEducationServicesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareBusiness and lawEngineering and industryInformation technologyArts and humanitiesEducationServicesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
San MiguelChile

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

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

01,0002,0003,0004,0002006201520242,041999
01,0002,0003,0004,0002006201520242,041999
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 Miguel'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 Miguel 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 Miguel64%Fonasa30%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
San Miguel64%Fonasa30%IsapreChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
7.1%
9.3%10.6%328th of 346
Public health insurance
63.6%
73.9%82.6%326th 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.
80.4
87.182.5101st of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
84
100100190th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
10,672
499,3711,950,38860th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
56.2 yrs
56.6 yrs56.4 yrs261st of 346
Disability among 65+
43.9%
43.7%43.0%225th of 346
Difficulty walking
3.18%
4.33%4.92%319th of 346
Difficulty seeing
2.81%
3.83%4.58%330th of 346
Difficulty hearing
1.42%
1.87%2.16%327th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.02%
2.50%2.70%305th of 346
Private health insurance
30.1%
22.4%13.2%9th of 335
No health coverage
3.75%
1.80%1.98%53rd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
89.4%
91.7%92.1%247th of 332
Households lacking health access
7.2%
5.8%6.0%93rd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
12,132
469,3531,523,71640th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
218
10,69136,69850th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
1.80%
2.28%2.41%291st of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.2 days
6.0 days6.1 days304th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
14.5
19.919.9251st of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
98
10610091st of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
663
28,65989,72343rd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.5%
6.1%5.9%176th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
44.0
53.248.6123rd 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.
101
11110069th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Injuries, bones and skin 17%Heart and lungs 17%Pregnancy, birth … 17%Tumours, blood an… 13%Infections and o… 7.7%Mind, nerves and… 5.4%Digestivesystem14%Genitour…system8.9%Injuries andpoisoning9.6%Musculoske…6.3%Respiratory system9.5%Circulatory system7.5%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Perinatal…Congeni…Cancers andtumours8.7%Endoc…andmetab…3.8%Blood…Contactwithhealth…3.3%Infect…andparasi…2.8%Ill…sym…NervoussystemMentaland…Eye
Digestive and urinary tr… 23%Injuries, bones… 17%Heart and lungs 17%Pregnancy, birth and ne… 17%Tumours, blood a… 13%Infec… 7.7%Digestivesystem14%Genitour…system8.9%Injuriesandpoisoning9.6%Musculo…6.3%Respiratorysystem9.5%Circulato…system7.5%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Per…con…Con…mal…Cancers andtumours8.7%Endoc…andmetab…3.8%Conta…withhealt…3.3%Infe…andpara…Nervous…Men…andbeh…
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 digestivos21%Sangre y sistemalinfático17%Mama13%Vías urinarias11%Sitios maldefinidos7.7%Tiroides yendocrinas6.6%Genitalesmasculinos6.5%Víasrespirator…5.0%Genitalesfemeninos5.0%Tejidosblandos2.9%Huesos2.0%SitiosreservadosPiel ymelan…
Órganos digestivos21%Sangre y sistemalinfático17%Mama13%Vías urinarias11%Sitios maldefinidos7.7%Tiroides yendocrinas6.6%Genitalesmasculinos6.5%VíasrespiratoriasGenitalesfemeninosTejid…bland…2.9%HuesosSitiosreser…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaVías urinariasSitios mal definidosTiroides y endocrinashover 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.
8.1%
12.4%17.3%317th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
25.8 UF
37.3 UF32.0 UF94th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
100.6%
73.0%78.9%165th 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.
74.2
104.385.6189th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
68.2%
59.5%54.4%14th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
5.6%
7.7%8.6%297th of 345
Self-employed
25.6%
33.2%33.8%327th of 345
Extreme poverty
3.2%
4.4%6.9%301st of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
13.3%
18.9%17.7%250th of 335
Unemployment rate
8.9%
8.4%8.8%176th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 1,182,259
CLP 1,019,380CLP 783,12413th 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.
0.397
0.5000.488262nd of 321
Registered firms
11,191
561,5661,582,39035th of 346
Annual sales
65,645,606 UF
25,794,247,870 UF34,347,683,688 UF51st 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.
64,193
5,253,9409,699,16430th of 346
Sales per firm
5,866 UF
45,933 UF21,706 UF102nd of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
3.7
6.13.941st of 346
Women among employees
40.8%
41.7%40.6%176th of 345
Independent contractors
20,106
2,467,4083,958,26939th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
23.9%
32.0%29.0%229th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 30%State and social services 25%Advanced services 22%Industry and co… 14%Other… 7.1%Retail andwholesale18%Transport6.6%Accommodationand food5.3%Health11%Education8.4%Publicadmini…5.3%Professionalservices6.5%Finance andinsurance5.2%Informationandcommunicatio…5.0%Adminis…services3.4%Realest…Manufacturing7.7%Construction4.9%Ele…andgasWate…Otherservices4.1%Domes…work1.7%Artsandente…Mining
Trade and logistics 30%State and social … 25%Advanced services 22%Industry … 14%Retail andwholesale18%Transpo…6.6%Accommo…and food5.3%Health11%Education8.4%Publicadmini…5.3%Profession…services6.5%Finance andinsurance5.2%Informati…andcommunica…5.0%Admini…servic…3.4%Manufacturi…7.7%Constructi…4.9%Otherservices4.1%Dome…workMining
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

Managers and professionals 53%Skilled occupations 40%Elementary occupations 6.5%Professionals32%Technicians14%Managers7.4%Service and sales20%Clericalsupport8.1%Craft and trades7.3%Plant and machineoperators4.8%Elementary occupations
Managers and professionals 53%Skilled occupations 40%Professionals32%Technicians14%Managers7.4%Service and sales20%Clericalsupport8.1%Craft andtrades7.3%Plant and machine…Eleme…occup…6.5%
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 Miguel23%House76%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
San Miguel23%76%FlatChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.2%
6.7%5.7%78th of 345
Internet access
97.9%
95.9%93.2%7th 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.
1.0
1.02.3323rd 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.
0.3
0.51.6342nd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
58,485
1,868,7116,408,17229th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.58%
0.93%0.57%52nd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.18%
0.51%1.13%339th of 345
Public water network
100.0%
99.6%92.3%1st of 345
Electricity access
100.0%
99.9%99.6%1st of 345
Detached houses
22.7%
55.8%78.7%342nd of 345
Apartments
76.2%
42.0%19.9%4th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.00%
0.09%0.23%324th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
5.3%
5.2%11.9%312th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
5,193
193,039491,90429th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
8.6%
9.9%7.5%58th of 345
Renting households
51.9%
37.8%26.2%4th of 345
Owner-occupiers
40.9%
51.5%61.1%329th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
0.0%
0.2%24.4%340th of 345
Commute by public transport
57.8%
54.0%42.1%18th of 345
Walks to work
6.8%
8.4%10.2%313th of 345
Households with a computer
74.3%
62.8%54.9%8th 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.
0.3
0.51.1344th 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%
100.0%97.0%1st of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
99.6%89.4%1st 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%
100.0%98.1%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.5
1.05.9343rd 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.
100.0%
99.7%80.3%1st 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%
100.0%90.0%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.2
0.30.6337th 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%
100.0%99.0%1st of 345
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%91.6%1st of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Public transport 58%Private vehicle 30%On foot or by bicy… 8.9%Public transport58%Car29%Walking6.8%Bicy…Other2.8%
Public transport 58%Private vehicle 30%On foo… 8.9%Public transport58%Car29%Walking6.8%Other
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Rented 52%Owned 41%Provided rent-free 4.7%Other 2.5%Rented, with contract47%Rented, no contractOwned, still paying23%Owned outright18%Provided by familyOther…
Rented 52%Owned 41%Rented, with contract47%Ren…nocon…Owned, stillpaying23%Owned outright18%Provid…byfamily4.3%Otherarrang…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

Electricity 50%Fossil fuels 33%No heating 16%Electricity50%Gas24%Paraffin8.5%No heating16%
Electricity 50%Fossil fuels 33%No heating 16%Electricity50%Gas24%Paraff…8.5%No heating16%
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
78.4%
of the registered voted in the first round
78.2%
voted in the runoff
119,383
registered voters on the roll
5.6%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman48.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist51.8%58.3%
San MiguelChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez7.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman33.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist19.8%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.9%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet22.1%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.7%1.3%
San MiguelChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile31.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile26.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido17.8%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente6.3%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas11.8%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.9%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.1%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios2.0%0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
San MiguelChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble San Miguel 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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