San Pedro de Atacama

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%

Critically overcrowded5th of 345 · Chile 0.57%2.79%

Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents326th of 331 · Chile 82.514.4

Precarious wall materials7th of 345 · Chile 0.23%1.40%

In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents325th of 331 · Chile 19.91.0

Hospitalisation, standardised ratio325th of 331 · Chile 10019

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 140 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

33.0%

305th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

17.8%

179th of 335

Came from another region

34.1%

17th of 335

Net internal migration

+3,055

+27.6 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of San Pedro de Atacama

Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.

BranchWorkersShare of total2005–2024Change

01Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics1,03528.7%+297%02Public administrationState and social services71919.9%—03ConstructionIndustry and construction55815.5%+4,973%04Other servicesOther services2867.9%+461%05Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics2376.6%+65%06Administrative servicesAdvanced services2156.0%+514%07TransportTrade and logistics1233.4%+925%08Water and wasteIndustry and construction1103.1%+10,900%09ManufacturingIndustry and construction1002.8%−24%10Finance and insuranceAdvanced services752.1%—

Dependent workers, projected

Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval8.2% a year observed · 2.1% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2011–2024central projection80% interval11.7% a year observed · 0.5% projected

What San Pedro de Atacama is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, San Pedro de Atacama employs more people in 41 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.

41

activities it is specialised in

3,606

formal workers

122/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Each dot is one activity. Filled, San Pedro de Atacama is already specialised in it; hollow, it is not. Size is how many people work in it here.

Across: how much of what tends to sit beside that activity this place already does. Up: how few and how diversified the places that do it are. Two activities are counted as close when the places good at one tend also to be good at the other — that co-occurrence is the whole of it.

The corners are not labelled on purpose. Which one is worth being in depends on what a place wants and can afford, and neither is in the tax register. The dashed lines are this place's own medians; the axes are the same on every commune's page, so two of them can be laid side by side. The named ones are those whose name fits without covering another dot; the rest are a hover away.

Most over-represented in San Pedro de Atacama

Ranked by how many times the national share this place reaches. The division each activity belongs to is a page of its own.

Activity	Division	Workers here	Times the national share
Actividades de residenciales para turistas	Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas	47	178.4×
Venta al por menor de recuerdos, artesanías y artículos religiosos en comercios especializados	Venta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados	84	173.5×
Actividades de operadores turísticos	Actividades de agencias de viajes y operadores turísticos	38	152.2×
Actividades de agencias de viajes	Actividades de agencias de viajes y operadores turísticos	168	74.8×
Servicios de transporte a turistas	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	35	53.0×
Evacuación y tratamiento de aguas servidas	Evacuación de aguas residuales	75	32.4×
Otras actividades de alojamiento para turistas n.c.p.	Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas	12	28.5×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadores	Otras actividades de alojamiento	30	27.3×
Actividades de veterinarios, técnicos y otro personal auxiliar, prestados de forma independiente	Actividades veterinarias	14	24.5×
Extracción de piedra, arena y arcilla	Extracción de piedra, arena y arcilla	59	22.3×
Otras actividades de alojamiento n.c.p.	Otras actividades de alojamiento	56	22.0×
Actividades de hoteles	Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas	548	21.5×

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

196,897

hectares in holdings

40.0%

of them under a named use

92.4%

of the crop land is irrigated

916

holdings with land here

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.

The agricultural census measured 196,897 hectares of holdings in San Pedro de Atacama in the 2020/2021 agricultural year, and this is how it divided them.

Fourteen of the fifteen tiles are categories the census publishes. The fifteenth is not: it is the censused surface less the other fourteen, and what it holds is scrub, barren ground, roads and buildings. Across Chile it is half of everything, because most of the censused surface is Patagonian scrub and northern desert inside very large holdings.

Irrigation is asked of eleven of the uses and not of forest, native woodland, natural pasture or untilled ground — so the 92.4% above is a share of the 608 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 916 holdings with land here, 590 are self-consumption plots — under two hectares and with nothing sold in the year. These counts are the census's own for this territory and they are not added to anything: a holding with land in two comunas is counted in both.

VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal 2021, INE

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

San Pedro de AtacamaChile% of each territory's own population · 9,843 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	9,843	176,433	18,480,432	256th of 346
Average age	34.2 yrs	34.6 yrs	38.1 yrs	337th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	40.8	43.1	79.0	334th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	0.4/km²	4.2/km²	24.7/km²	326th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	3,895	60,042	6,596,527	249th of 346
Dwellings	5,071	66,344	7,642,716	259th of 346
People per household	2.53	2.94	2.80	302nd of 345
Women	51.6%	50.6%	51.5%	81st of 346
Men per 100 women	94.0	97.6	94.3	266th of 346
Under 15	20.9%	20.9%	17.7%	23rd of 346
65 and over	8.5%	9.0%	14.0%	333rd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	41.7	42.7	46.5	325th of 346
One-person households	33.4%	22.8%	21.8%	20th of 345
Households with children	35.1%	39.8%	33.2%	96th of 345
Indigenous peoples	61.9%	29.3%	11.4%	15th of 346
Female-headed households	53.6%	44.5%	49.9%	16th of 345
Land area	23,550 km²	42,071 km²	748,041 km²	4th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	27.8%	21.6%	8.7%	7th 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.	33.0%	54.7%	50.5%	305th 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.	17.8%	4.8%	23.9%	179th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	34.1%	19.0%	17.2%	17th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	2,740	38,023	1,608,650	82nd of 346
Average age, foreign-born	32.1 yrs	31.8 yrs	33.5 yrs	246th of 345
Women among foreign-born	53.6%	55.0%	51.7%	74th of 345
Foreign-born of working age	83.5%	83.0%	83.1%	69th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	31.7%	33.7%	34.4%	246th 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.	32.9%	25.5%	10.6%	9th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	11.6 yrs	11.7 yrs	12.9 yrs	281st 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.	3,055	-28,914	0	87th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	27.6	-13.9	0.0	42nd of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	9.8 yrs	10.3 yrs	10.4 yrs	108th of 346
Reached higher education	24.8%	27.8%	31.1%	112th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	100.0%	98.5%	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.	56.7%	59.7%	55.6%	133rd of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
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.	98.3%	97.6%	99.8%	306th of 346
Literacy rate	98.1%	98.9%	97.8%	77th of 346
Reached secondary education	41.4%	41.9%	36.7%	41st of 346
Primary education only	23.7%	21.7%	24.1%	282nd of 346
Never attended school	4.31%	3.83%	3.01%	97th of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.	11.9 yrs	12.5 yrs	12.1 yrs	71st of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	11.7 yrs	12.2 yrs	12.1 yrs	95th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	1.89%	1.10%	2.18%	269th of 345
Households lacking schooling	13.5%	15.5%	15.1%	272nd 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.	120	2,533	217,565	221st of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	67.5%	45.2%	33.9%	39th 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.	15.8%	0.8%	3.1%	65th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	79.4%	51.2%	67.2%	27th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	14.7%	31.4%	19.7%	225th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	5.9%	17.3%	13.1%	292nd 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.	64.7%	34.5%	13.0%	29th 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%	49.0%	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.

120left secondary school in 2024

68enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

56.7%continued immediately

79%of those, to a university

65%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

San Pedro de AtacamaChile

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

San Pedro de AtacamaChile

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

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 Pedro de Atacama'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.

Health

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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 Pedro de Atacama 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

FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	7.3%	7.4%	10.6%	326th of 346
Public health insurance	88.8%	76.5%	82.6%	231st 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.	14.4	100.3	82.5	326th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	7	123	100	325th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	718	12,981	1,950,388	301st of 346
Average age, people with a disability	51.2 yrs	51.2 yrs	56.4 yrs	334th of 346
Disability among 65+	35.1%	34.5%	43.0%	327th of 346
Difficulty walking	2.40%	2.99%	4.92%	332nd of 346
Difficulty seeing	3.63%	3.31%	4.58%	313th of 346
Difficulty hearing	1.76%	1.55%	2.16%	303rd of 346
Difficulty concentrating	1.50%	1.72%	2.70%	335th of 346
Private health insurance	7.1%	16.6%	13.2%	87th of 335
No health coverage	1.90%	4.55%	1.98%	142nd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	74.8%	87.7%	92.1%	323rd of 332
Households lacking health access	9.9%	7.3%	6.0%	40th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	142	17,702	1,523,716	308th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	1	303	36,698	321st of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	0.70%	1.71%	2.41%	324th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	5.1 days	4.9 days	6.1 days	308th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	1.0	17.2	19.9	325th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	19	131	100	325th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	9	819	89,723	304th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	6.3%	4.6%	5.9%	112th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	9.1	46.4	48.6	320th 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.	24	114	100	315th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

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.

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	20.6%	17.4%	17.3%	163rd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	25.0 UF	34.1 UF	32.0 UF	105th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	92.7%	71.2%	78.9%	224th 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.	136.5	65.3	85.6	30th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	68.4%	58.6%	54.4%	13th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	3.6%	7.8%	8.6%	323rd of 345
Self-employed	44.2%	32.8%	33.8%	41st of 345
Extreme poverty	8.9%	8.7%	6.9%	136th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	15.6%	22.1%	17.7%	206th of 335
Unemployment rate	8.4%	9.0%	8.8%	194th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 966,546	CLP 801,571	CLP 783,124	20th 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.	0.493	0.468	0.488	43rd of 321
Registered firms	1,344	11,520	1,582,390	198th of 346
Annual sales	3,887,930 UF	115,690,121 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	222nd 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.	3,606	48,131	9,699,164	213th of 346
Sales per firm	2,893 UF	10,043 UF	21,706 UF	216th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	1.8	2.7	3.9	236th of 346
Women among employees	49.6%	36.6%	40.6%	43rd of 345
Independent contractors	3,333	17,180	3,958,269	112th of 346
Contractors as share of workers	48.0%	26.3%	29.0%	21st of 346

Employment by industry

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

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

HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	13.7%	9.6%	5.7%	9th of 345
Internet access	88.3%	95.8%	93.2%	185th 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.	6.6	1.7	2.3	70th 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.	5.1	1.1	1.6	94th of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	3,690	56,312	6,408,172	258th of 346
Critically overcrowded	2.79%	1.30%	0.57%	5th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	6.67%	2.21%	1.13%	17th of 345
Public water network	78.9%	93.8%	92.3%	214th of 345
Electricity access	98.3%	99.5%	99.6%	294th of 345
Detached houses	93.4%	91.6%	78.7%	245th of 345
Apartments	0.2%	5.3%	19.9%	173rd of 345
Precarious wall materials	1.40%	0.56%	0.23%	7th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	17.0%	9.7%	11.9%	141st of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	749	8,814	491,904	110th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	19.2%	14.7%	7.5%	11th of 345
Renting households	37.1%	38.3%	26.2%	16th of 345
Owner-occupiers	34.7%	46.6%	61.1%	334th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	6.8%	2.4%	24.4%	277th of 345
Commute by public transport	11.7%	33.6%	42.1%	316th of 345
Walks to work	29.2%	10.3%	10.2%	38th of 345
Households with a computer	41.7%	55.3%	54.9%	179th 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.	2.9	0.8	1.1	54th 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.	90.4%	98.5%	97.0%	227th 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.	97.1%	99.5%	99.9%	316th 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.	98.7%	99.8%	100.0%	323rd 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.	81.4%	97.4%	89.4%	137th 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.	86.5%	98.5%	98.1%	283rd 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.	89.3%	99.1%	99.7%	319th 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.	96.3	6.2	5.9	14th 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%	93.2%	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%	94.1%	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.	0.0%	94.5%	96.2%	306th 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.	2.8	0.7	0.6	29th 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.	89.8%	98.5%	99.0%	308th 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.	94.7%	99.4%	99.9%	331st 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.	98.2%	99.7%	100.0%	328th 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.	88.4%	98.2%	91.6%	122nd 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.	93.0%	98.9%	98.5%	252nd 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.	94.1%	99.3%	99.8%	316th of 345

How people commute

Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

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

No heatingElectricityOther 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

79.7%

of the registered voted in the first round

78.5%

voted in the runoff

8,433

registered voters on the roll

9.5%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman50.7%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist49.3%58.3%

San Pedro de AtacamaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez33.8%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman31.9%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.4%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen10.3%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist14.4%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet6.2%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%

San Pedro de AtacamaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile23.3%30.6%

KCambio por Chile16.0%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido8.3%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente24.1%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas14.2%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista6.1%2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios5.8%0.6%

HPopular2.2%0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

San Pedro de AtacamaChileshare of the valid vote

No sister communes

How this is computed

No commune in Chile resembles San Pedro de Atacama 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.

Pozo Almonte1.10Tarapacá · 16,878 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Economy.Pica1.16Tarapacá · 6,272 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Health.María Elena1.42Antofagasta · 4,834 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Population structure.Porvenir1.43Magallanes · 6,809 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Migration.

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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Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of San Pedro de Atacama

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What San Pedro de Atacama is specialised in

Most over-represented in San Pedro de Atacama

The land and who works it

Population and territory

Population pyramid

Migration

When the migrant population arrived

Education

How far schooling went

The class of 2024

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

By field of study

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

Health

Which health system

What people are hospitalised for

Economy and poverty

Employment by industry

Employment by occupation

Housing and services

House or flat

How people commute

Housing tenure

Home heating fuel

How it voted in 2025

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

No sister communes

Inside the commune