Commune · 10307

San PabloSan Pablo

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Census population
10,883
247th of 346
Population density
17.3/km²
219th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.0 yrs
230th of 346
Foreign-born share
0.9%
298th 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%
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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.5 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.5 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 · 167 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
55.0%
215th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
32.7%
49th of 335
Came from another region
12.3%
246th of 335
Net internal migration
-1,195
-11.7 per 100 residents
San Pablothis commune · 11,413elsewhere in the region3,343 peopleanother region1,253 peopleelsewhere in the region4,349 peopleanother region1,442 peopleSan Pablothis commune · 10,218
San Pablothis commune · 11,413elsewhere in th…3,343 peopleanother region1,253 peopleelsewhere in th…4,349 peopleanother region1,442 peopleSan Pablothis commune · 10,218

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing4Education2Education▲29Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲66Health4Health▲23Construction5Construction▼28Manufacturing6Manufacturing▲25Administrative services7Administrative services▼27Public administration8Public administration▼110Transport9Transport▲111Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food▲12Professional services11Professional services▼912Water and waste12Water and waste
2005202411Agriculture and fishing42Education▲293Retail and wholesale▲664Health▲235Construction▼286Manufacturing▲257Administrative services▼278Public administration▼1109Transport▲11110Accommodation and food▲1211Professional services▼91212Water and waste

The ten branches that employ most of San Pablo

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.

01 k2 k3 k4 kprojection →2 k2029 · central2005201520242029
01 k2 k3 k4 kprojection →2 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval-0.8% a year observed · -5.5% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

02.0 M4.0 M6.0 M8.0 Mprojection →5.1 M2029 · central2005201520242029
02.0 M4.0 M6.0 M8.0 Mprojection →5.1 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.9% a year observed · -3.5% projected

What San Pablo is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, San Pablo employs more people in 44 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.

44
activities it is specialised in
2,156
formal workers
240/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.13.7Cría de ganado bovino para la pro…Actividades de hospitales y clíni…Molienda de trigo: producción de …Venta al por menor de alimentos e…Cultivo de trigoOtras instalaciones para obras de…Instalaciones de gasfitería, cale…Venta al por mayor de desechos me…Cultivos forrajeros en praderas m…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.13.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Cría de ganado bovino para la pro…Cultivo de trigoInstalaciones de gasfitería, cale…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in San Pablo

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
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción lecheraGanadería342123.6×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductorGanadería262112.7×
Elaboración de piensos preparados para animalesElaboración de piensos preparados para animales5860.4×
Molienda de trigo: producción de harina, sémola y gránulosElaboración de productos de molinería, almidones y productos derivados del almidón3236.7×
Cría de otros animales n.c.p.Ganadería632.3×
Otras actividades especializadas de diseño n.c.p.Actividades especializadas de diseño1324.6×
Servicios de transporte de escolaresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre814.4×
Actividades de paisajismo, servicios de jardinería y servicios conexosActividades de paisajismo y servicios de mantenimiento conexos5912.9×
Venta al por menor de combustibles para vehículos automotores en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de combustibles para vehículos automotores en comercios especializados8010.2×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada178.9×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes258.2×
Forja, prensado, estampado y laminado de metales; pulvimetalurgiaFabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal; actividades de servicios de trabajo de metales37.4×

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
27,483
hectares in holdings
94.9%
of them under a named use
10.9%
of the crop land is irrigated
892
holdings with land here
Pasture 56%Annual crops 20%Woodland 16%Not farmed 6.4%Pasture56%Cereals9.6%Fodder crops9.3%Forestplantations10%Nativewoodland5.4%Scrub,barrenground and…5.1%Untilled landFruit trees
Pasture 56%Annual crops 20%Woodland 16%Pasture56%Cereals9.6%Foddercrops9.3%Indus…Vege…Forestplantations10%Native woodland5.4%Scrub,barrengroun…5.1%
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 PabloChile% of each territory's own population · 10,883 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
10,883
239,10718,480,432247th of 346
Average age
41.6 yrs
39.5 yrs38.1 yrs44th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
113.7
92.679.055th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
17.3/km²
25.8/km²24.7/km²219th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
4,192
90,4036,596,527239th of 346
Dwellings
5,133
107,1737,642,716256th of 346
People per household
2.60
2.642.80264th of 345
Women
50.8%
51.7%51.5%192nd of 346
Men per 100 women
96.9
93.594.3155th of 346
Under 15
16.6%
16.9%17.7%258th of 346
65 and over
18.9%
15.6%14.0%48th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
54.9
48.246.562nd of 346
One-person households
24.6%
23.4%21.8%96th of 345
Households with children
29.6%
31.2%33.2%275th of 345
Indigenous peoples
40.1%
31.9%11.4%39th of 346
Female-headed households
48.0%
49.8%49.9%173rd of 345
Land area
628 km²
9,255 km²748,041 km²174th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

San Pablo16%Arrived since 202084%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
San Pablo16%84%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
0.9%
1.9%8.7%298th 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.
55.0%
65.9%50.5%215th 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.
32.7%
17.2%23.9%49th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
12.3%
15.6%17.2%246th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
96
4,6091,608,650286th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
39.9 yrs
34.8 yrs33.5 yrs22nd of 345
Women among foreign-born
45.8%
48.9%51.7%316th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
66.7%
81.5%83.1%343rd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
15.6%
32.3%34.4%334th 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.
0.9%
2.3%10.6%311th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.8 yrs
13.2 yrs12.9 yrs30th 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.
-1,195
-51,0710186th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-11.7
-20.60.0200th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

San Pablo18%Higher35%Secondary38%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
San Pablo18%35%Secondary38%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
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs230th of 346
Reached higher education
18.5%
25.7%31.1%225th 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.
58.2%
62.3%55.6%110th 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.
103.0%
100.2%99.8%103rd of 346
Literacy rate
95.4%
96.9%97.8%235th of 346
Reached secondary education
35.5%
36.5%36.7%241st of 346
Primary education only
38.0%
29.9%24.1%70th of 346
Never attended school
3.62%
3.14%3.01%168th 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.
10.0 yrs
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs257th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.3 yrs
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs251st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.55%
3.13%2.18%116th of 345
Households lacking schooling
30.8%
20.6%15.1%81st 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.
79
3,101217,565257th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
68.4%
38.8%33.9%36th 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.
27.8%
7.4%3.1%38th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
58.7%
68.2%67.2%203rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
8.7%
13.6%19.7%291st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
32.6%
18.2%13.1%33rd 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.
10.9%
22.8%13.0%174th 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.
67.4%
51.0%49.7%8th 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.

79left secondary school in 2024
46enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
58.2%continued immediately
59%of those, to a university
11%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%AgronomiaTecnico en EnfermeriaDerechoTecnico en Educacion Parvularia 1° y 2° BasicoTecnico en Veterinaria y Produccion Pecuaria
0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%AgronomiaTecnico en EnfermeriaDerechoTecnico en Educacion Parvularia 1° y 2° BasicoTecnico en Veterinaria y Produccion Pecuaria
San PabloChile

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

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareAgriculture and veterinaryEducationEngineering and industryBusiness and lawInformation technologyServicesArts and humanitiesSocial sciences
0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareAgriculture and veterinaryEducationEngineering and industryBusiness and lawInformation technologyServicesArts and humanitiesSocial sciences
San PabloChile

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

0501001502006201520247946
0501001502006201520247946
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 Pablo'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 Pablo 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 Pablo94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
San Pablo94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.6%
11.5%10.6%152nd of 346
Public health insurance
94.1%
91.8%82.6%128th 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.
76.3
101.382.5127th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
25
94100318th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,367
27,6101,950,388248th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
61.5 yrs
58.9 yrs56.4 yrs46th of 346
Disability among 65+
51.6%
46.9%43.0%50th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.74%
5.65%4.92%105th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.54%
5.00%4.58%158th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.03%
2.57%2.16%90th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.09%
2.81%2.70%110th of 346
Private health insurance
2.0%
5.7%13.2%225th of 335
No health coverage
1.94%
1.23%1.98%139th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
71.0%
90.6%92.1%325th of 332
Households lacking health access
2.7%
6.2%6.0%261st of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
830
24,2271,523,716220th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
7
49436,698295th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
0.84%
2.04%2.41%321st of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
8.1 days
5.9 days6.1 days49th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
6.4
20.719.9313th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
87
120100147th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
41
1,66489,723239th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
4.9%
6.9%5.9%234th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
37.7
69.648.6194th 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.
65
134100225th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 26%Injuries, bones and skin 24%Digestive and urinary tract 20%Tumours, blood and … 10%Pregnancy, birth a… 8.6%Mind, … 5.7%Infect… 5.4%Circulatorysystem14%Respiratorysystem12%Injuries andpoisoning17%Musculos…3.6%Skin3.3%Digestive system13%Genitourina…system7.2%Cancers andtumours6.6%Endocr…andmetabo…3.5%Pregnancy andchildbirth7.8%Nervoussystem2.2%Eye2.2%Conta…withhealt…2.2%Infec…andparas…2.0%
Heart and lungs 26%Injuries, bones an… 24%Digestive and … 20%Tumours, bloo… 10%Pregnancy, b… 8.6%Min… 5.7%Inf… 5.4%Circulatorysystem14%Respirat…system12%Injuries andpoisoning17%Muscul…3.6%Skin3.3%Digestive system13%GenitourinarysystemCancersandtumours6.6%Endocr…andmetabo…3.5%Pregnancy andchildbirthNervou…EyeContac…Infect…
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

Sitios reservados54%Órganos digestivos24%Genitales masculinos22%
Sitios reservados54%Órganos digestivos24%Genitalesmasculinos22%
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosGenitales masculinoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
24.2%
18.3%17.3%112th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
22.5 UF
26.3 UF32.0 UF175th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
98.6%
93.3%78.9%178th 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.
71.4
90.485.6217th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
47.6%
51.3%54.4%230th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.1%
8.9%8.6%250th of 345
Self-employed
34.7%
32.7%33.8%181st of 345
Extreme poverty
8.1%
7.2%6.9%160th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
16.7%
17.4%17.7%188th of 335
Unemployment rate
9.3%
8.3%8.8%153rd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 426,783
CLP 604,837CLP 783,124293rd 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.
0.472
0.4650.48867th of 321
Registered firms
777
21,6211,582,390259th of 346
Annual sales
6,072,935 UF
251,143,478 UF34,347,683,688 UF176th 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.
2,156
91,0799,699,164254th of 346
Sales per firm
7,816 UF
11,616 UF21,706 UF75th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.1
2.83.9169th of 346
Women among employees
37.0%
36.7%40.6%238th of 345
Independent contractors
1,039
30,0703,958,269234th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
32.5%
24.8%29.0%99th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 27%Trade and logistics 24%State and social services 19%Industry and con… 18%Other se… 6.5%Advanced… 6.0%Agriculture and fishing27%Retail andwholesale15%Transport5.6%Accommodationand foodEducation8.0%Health6.6%Publicadmini…4.5%Construction9.1%Manufacturing6.8%Domesticwork4.6%Professio…servicesAdministra…servicesInf…andcom…Fin…and…
Natural resources 27%Trade and logistics 24%State and soc… 19%Industry and… 18%Other… 6.5%Advan… 6.0%Agriculture andfishing27%Retail andwholesale15%Transport5.6%Accomm…andfoodEducation8.0%Health6.6%Publicadmin…4.5%Construction9.1%Manufacturi…6.8%Domest…work4.6%Profess…Adminis…
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 60%Managers and professionals 21%Elementary occupations 18%Service and sales19%Skilledagricultural14%Craft and trades13%Plant and machineoperators10%Clerical supportProfessiona…10%Technicians8.5%ManagersElementary occupations18%
Skilled occupations 60%Managers and professio… 21%Elementary occupa… 18%Service andsales19%Skilled agricultural14%Craft and trades13%Plant andmachineoperators10%ClericalsupportProfessio…10%Technicians8.5%ManagersElementaryoccupations18%
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 Pablo100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
San Pablo100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.4%
4.9%5.7%280th of 345
Internet access
84.3%
90.3%93.2%266th 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.
4.4
3.72.3138th 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.
4.0
3.11.6143rd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
4,155
89,3196,408,172239th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.24%
0.34%0.57%259th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.89%
1.73%1.13%233rd of 345
Public water network
55.3%
82.0%92.3%318th of 345
Electricity access
99.1%
99.3%99.6%235th of 345
Detached houses
99.4%
91.9%78.7%70th of 345
Apartments
0.1%
6.7%19.9%197th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.40%
0.56%0.23%56th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
17.3%
12.0%11.9%139th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
149
4,760491,904282nd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.6%
5.3%7.5%315th of 345
Renting households
9.0%
19.3%26.2%310th of 345
Owner-occupiers
69.8%
63.8%61.1%146th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
89.9%
73.6%24.4%56th of 345
Commute by public transport
24.6%
34.4%42.1%190th of 345
Walks to work
20.3%
12.4%10.2%103rd of 345
Households with a computer
35.1%
46.0%54.9%276th 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.
2.8
1.81.159th 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.
75.5%
88.4%97.0%312th of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
99.9%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
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.
61.9%
80.8%89.4%233rd 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.
94.1%
93.3%98.1%231st 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%
99.7%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.
13.1
8.05.9159th 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.
74.7%
82.2%90.0%183rd 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.
99.3%
92.1%96.2%186th 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.
1.3
1.00.6132nd 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.
98.7%
96.2%99.0%168th 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.
65.4%
81.7%91.6%234th 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.
98.3%
94.1%98.5%182nd 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%
99.7%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 45%Public transport 25%On foot or by bicycle 24%Car43%Public transport25%Walking20%Bicy…Other6.0%
Private vehicle 45%Public tran… 25%On foot or by bicycle 24%Car43%Publictransport25%Walking20%Bicyc…3.8%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 70%Provided rent-free 18%Rented 9.0%Owned outright68%Provided byemployer9.2%Provided by family8.8%Rented, withcontract4.9%Rented, nocontractOtherarra…
Owned 70%Provided rent-free 18%Rented 9.0%Owned outright68%Provided byemployer9.2%Provided byfamily8.8%Rente…withcontr…4.9%Rente…nocontr…4.1%Oth…arr…
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 92%Firewood90%Gas2.7%Paraff…1.5%Electr…2.8%Noheati…
Wood and biomass 92%Firewood90%Paraffin
ElectricityNo heatingOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
88.9%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.0%
voted in the runoff
10,148
registered voters on the roll
6.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman34.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist65.8%58.3%
San PabloChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez21.8%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman22.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen17.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist27.7%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.8%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.7%1.3%
San PabloChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile47.4%30.6%
KCambio por Chile20.5%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido17.6%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.2%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.3%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 PabloChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble San Pablo 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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