Commune · 13505

San PedroSan Pedro

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Census population
11,108
246th of 346
Population density
14.1/km²
232nd of 346
Average years of schooling
8.6 yrs
300th of 346
Foreign-born share
11.3%
37th 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%
Gini coefficient1st of 321 · Chile 0.4880.696
Leaves from a rural school1st of 331 · Chile 3.1%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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.8 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.8 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 · 117 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
59.4%
185th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
24.4%
108th of 335
Came from another region
11.3%
270th of 335
Net internal migration
+1,612
+12.8 per 100 residents
San Pedrothis commune · 10,350elsewhere in the region3,065 peopleanother region1,419 peopleabroad618 peopleelsewhere in the region1,984 peopleanother region888 peopleSan Pedrothis commune · 12,580
San Pedrothis commune · 10,350elsewhere in th…3,065 peopleanother region1,419 peopleabroad618 peopleelsewhere in th…1,984 peopleanother region888 peopleSan Pedrothis commune · 12,580

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Public administration1Public administration2Agriculture and fishing2Agriculture and fishing4Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲13Construction4Construction▼19Transport5Transport▲45Manufacturing6Manufacturing▼17Administrative services7Administrative services6Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▼28Water and waste9Water and waste▼1
2005202411Public administration22Agriculture and fishing43Retail and wholesale▲134Construction▼195Transport▲456Manufacturing▼177Administrative services68Accommodation and food▼289Water and waste▼1

The ten branches that employ most of San Pedro

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 →3 k2029 · central2005201520242029
01 k2 k3 k4 kprojection →3 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.4% a year observed · 4.1% 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 →5.9 M2029 · central2005201520242029
02.0 M4.0 M6.0 M8.0 Mprojection →5.9 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval14.7% a year observed · 1.5% projected

What San Pedro is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, San Pedro employs more people in 38 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.

38
activities it is specialised in
2,696
formal workers
284/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.23.7Actividades de la administración …Terminación y acabado de edificiosCría de aves de corral para la pr…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Servicio de lavado de vehículos a…Cultivo de frutas tropicales y su…Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de …Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Otros servicios de apoyo a la sil…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.23.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Transporte de carga por carreteraServicio de lavado de vehículos a…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in San Pedro

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

ActivityDivisionWorkers hereTimes the national share
Elaboración de aceites y grasas de origen vegetal y animal (excepto elaboración de mantequilla)Elaboración de aceites y grasas de origen vegetal y animal188236.3×
ApiculturaGanadería2289.8×
Cría de aves de corral para la producción de huevosGanadería3930.8×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductorGanadería6622.7×
Venta al por mayor de materias primas agrícolasVenta al por mayor de materias primas agropecuarias y animales vivos13220.4×
Venta al por mayor de frutas y verdurasVenta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco16415.8×
Suministro de comidas por encargo (servicios de banquetería)Suministro de comidas por encargo y otras actividades de servicio de comidas2012.2×
Cultivo de otros frutos y nueces de árboles y arbustosCultivo de plantas perennes2311.5×
Servicio de lavado de vehículos automotoresMantenimiento y reparación de vehículos automotores1210.5×
Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (incluye el cultivo de aceitunas)Cultivo de plantas perennes239.7×
Servicios de transporte de trabajadoresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre376.5×
Otras actividades de alojamiento n.c.p.Otras actividades de alojamiento105.2×

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
49,091
hectares in holdings
83.6%
of them under a named use
82.1%
of the crop land is irrigated
644
holdings with land here
Not farmed 29%Woodland 27%Pasture 24%Orchards and vineyards 15%Ann… 4.5%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings16%Untilled land13%Native woodland23%Forest plantations4.3%Pasture24%Fruit trees13%Foddercrops3.6%Cereals
Not farmed 29%Woodland 27%Pasture 24%Orchards and vin… 15%Scrub, barren groundand buildings16%Untilled land13%Native woodland23%Forest plantationsPasture24%Fruit trees13%Fodder cropsCer…
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 PedroChile% of each territory's own population · 11,108 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
11,108
205,71818,480,432246th of 346
Average age
38.9 yrs
37.9 yrs38.1 yrs190th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
88.6
75.679.0178th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
14.1/km²
50.5/km²24.7/km²232nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
3,973
70,4486,596,527247th of 346
Dwellings
5,360
81,0237,642,716243rd of 346
People per household
2.80
2.922.80134th of 345
Women
48.7%
50.9%51.5%323rd of 346
Men per 100 women
105.2
96.694.324th of 346
Under 15
19.2%
19.2%17.7%74th of 346
65 and over
17.0%
14.5%14.0%119th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
56.8
50.946.541st of 346
One-person households
22.9%
18.9%21.8%157th of 345
Households with children
34.8%
36.7%33.2%111th of 345
Indigenous peoples
8.0%
6.1%11.4%177th of 346
Female-headed households
37.8%
47.9%49.9%339th of 345
Land area
787 km²
4,072 km²748,041 km²156th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

San Pedro54%Arrived since 202046%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
San Pedro54%Arrived since 202046%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
11.3%
7.3%8.7%37th of 346
Lives in the commune where they were born · Casen 2024 asks in which comuna each person's mother lived when they were born. It is lifetime migration, not last year's, and it measures origin, not moves: someone born here who left and came back counts as living where they were born.
59.4%
62.8%50.5%185th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region · Of those who live here, the ones born in another comuna of this same region. It is the short move: within the metropolitan area, the valley or the neighbouring province.
24.4%
21.4%23.9%108th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
11.3%
12.0%17.2%270th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
1,260
15,0631,608,650111th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
28.9 yrs
31.0 yrs33.5 yrs338th of 345
Women among foreign-born
47.6%
48.7%51.7%289th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
79.4%
82.3%83.1%239th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
54.0%
46.5%34.4%24th 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.
14.1%
9.1%10.6%36th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
9.9 yrs
11.4 yrs12.9 yrs335th 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.
1,612
17,9770104th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
12.8
8.00.096th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

San Pedro13%Higher40%Secondary37%Primary only5.6%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
San Pedro40%Secondary37%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.6 yrs
9.6 yrs10.4 yrs300th of 346
Reached higher education
13.4%
23.1%31.1%324th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
97.9%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.
39.7%
53.2%55.6%314th 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.
104.1%
102.6%99.8%66th of 346
Literacy rate
96.1%
97.0%97.8%197th of 346
Reached secondary education
39.9%
38.8%36.7%68th of 346
Primary education only
36.9%
28.9%24.1%85th of 346
Never attended school
5.56%
4.02%3.01%26th 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.
9.8 yrs
11.1 yrs12.1 yrs277th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.2 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs268th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.86%
2.95%2.18%150th of 345
Households lacking schooling
29.7%
22.4%15.1%87th 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.
78
2,331217,565258th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
0.0%
33.1%33.9%301st of 331
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates.
100.0%
6.8%3.1%1st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
51.6%
60.3%67.2%273rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
38.7%
33.7%19.7%11th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
9.7%
6.0%13.1%252nd of 331
Of those continuing, studies outside their region · Compares the region of the school they graduated from with the region of the campus where they enrol. A campus is not necessarily where the student lives.
9.7%
4.7%13.0%184th 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.
48.4%
48.7%49.7%235th 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.

78left secondary school in 2024
31enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
39.7%continued immediately
52%of those, to a university
10%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%Psicologia
0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%Psicologia
San PedroChile

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 welfareEngineering and industrySocial sciencesBusiness and lawInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryServices
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industrySocial sciencesBusiness and lawInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryServices
San PedroChile

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

02550751002006201520247831
02550751002006201520247831
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'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 Pedro 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 Pedro96%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
San Pedro96%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.8%
10.3%10.6%233rd of 346
Public health insurance
96.4%
92.7%82.6%57th 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.
40.4
73.182.5289th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
27
83100317th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,200
21,2201,950,388266th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.9 yrs
56.9 yrs56.4 yrs61st of 346
Disability among 65+
53.0%
44.6%43.0%36th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.37%
4.73%4.92%214th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.01%
4.54%4.58%209th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.42%
2.19%2.16%196th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.49%
2.57%2.70%243rd of 346
Private health insurance
0.0%
5.4%13.2%311th of 335
No health coverage
3.55%
1.28%1.98%58th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
93.4%
95.4%92.1%169th of 332
Households lacking health access
2.2%
7.0%6.0%272nd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
449
15,0441,523,716267th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
7
34736,698295th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
1.56%
2.31%2.41%304th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
8.2 days
6.0 days6.1 days45th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
6.3
16.919.9314th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
47
88100287th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
40
90289,723241st of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
8.9%
6.0%5.9%23rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
36.0
43.848.6211th of 330
Cancer hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. It is the only one of the four made for comparing places.
68
89100207th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 21%Injuries, bones and skin 20%Tumours, blood and… 19%Pregnancy, birt… 17%Heart and lungs 14%Mind, ner… 6.7%Digestivesystem15%Genito…system6.2%Injuries andpoisoning15%Muscu…3.6%Skin1.3%Cancers andtumours14%Endocrine andmetabolicPregnancy andchildbirth17%Circulatorysystem8.2%Respirato…system6.0%Mentalandbehaviou…4.5%Nerv…syst…Contac…
Digestive and urinary… 21%Injuries, bones an… 20%Tumours, b… 19%Pregnancy, birth and … 17%Heart and lungs 14%Digestivesystem15%Genito…system6.2%Injuries andpoisoning15%Musc…SkinCancers andtumours14%Endocrine andmetabolicPregnancy and childbirth17%Circulatorysystem8.2%Respirat…system6.0%Mentalandbehav…4.5%Nervo…system
Pregnancy, birth and newbornshover 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

Sangre y sistemalinfático43%Sitios reservados28%Órganos digestivos18%Genitalesfemeninos13%
Sangre y sistemalinfático43%Sitiosreservados28%Órganos digestivos18%Genitalesfemeninos13%
Sangre y sistema linfáticoSitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosGenitales femeninoshover 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.
7.9%
19.5%17.3%318th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
20.8 UF
23.3 UF32.0 UF249th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
113.9%
90.3%78.9%62nd 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.
100.9
82.085.668th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
52.7%
52.8%54.4%138th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
3.8%
8.5%8.6%321st of 345
Self-employed
47.2%
35.5%33.8%25th of 345
Extreme poverty
2.8%
7.5%6.9%308th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
28.9%
24.2%17.7%32nd of 335
Unemployment rate
6.1%
11.5%8.8%269th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 844,428
CLP 638,375CLP 783,12436th 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.
0.696
0.4980.4881st of 321
Registered firms
1,121
16,8631,582,390220th of 346
Annual sales
5,445,421 UF
147,179,218 UF34,347,683,688 UF185th 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.
2,696
70,2879,699,164241st of 346
Sales per firm
4,858 UF
8,728 UF21,706 UF126th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.6
2.53.9262nd of 346
Women among employees
40.7%
39.0%40.6%180th of 345
Independent contractors
781
19,6843,958,269264th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
22.5%
21.9%29.0%253rd of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 42%Industry and cons… 19%Trade and logist… 18%State and social services 14%Advanc… 3.3%Other … 3.0%Agriculture and fishing41%Manufacturing9.7%Construction7.7%Retail andwholesale11%Transport4.9%Accom…andfood2.5%Education6.1%Publicadminis…4.3%Health3.9%Admin…servi…1.6%Profe…servi…Domest…workOtherservi…
Natural resources 42%Industry … 19%Trade and logistics 18%State and so… 14%Agriculture and fishing41%Manufacturi…9.7%Construct…7.7%Retail andwholesale11%Transpo…4.9%Accommod…and foodEducation6.1%Publicadministrat…Hea…Adminis…servicesPro…ser…DomesticworkOthe…
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 59%Elementary occupations 27%Managers and professionals 14%Skilledagricultural21%Service andsales14%Craft and trades11%Plant andmachineoperators9.7%Cleri…suppo…3.3%Elementary occupations27%Profession…6.1%Technicia…5.7%Mana…
Skilled occupations 59%Elementary occupations 27%Managers an… 14%Skilledagricultural21%Service and sales14%Craft and trades11%Plant andmachineoperators9.7%ClericalsupportElementary occupations27%Profes…6.1%Techn…5.7%
Elementary occupationshover 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 Pedro100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
San Pedro100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
7.3%
5.8%5.7%41st of 345
Internet access
85.4%
91.4%93.2%243rd 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.
7.3
4.92.365th 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.
7.3
3.21.649th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
3,899
68,7806,408,172247th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.77%
0.39%0.57%35th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.54%
1.10%1.13%107th of 345
Public water network
51.8%
86.9%92.3%324th of 345
Electricity access
99.4%
99.7%99.6%175th of 345
Detached houses
99.4%
94.4%78.7%65th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
4.5%19.9%236th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.60%
0.19%0.23%31st of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
20.5%
10.3%11.9%117th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
287
4,590491,904204th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
7.2%
6.5%7.5%80th of 345
Renting households
15.8%
18.6%26.2%154th of 345
Owner-occupiers
70.2%
67.8%61.1%139th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
39.9%
20.2%24.4%201st of 345
Commute by public transport
10.6%
29.2%42.1%323rd of 345
Walks to work
12.6%
11.0%10.2%199th of 345
Households with a computer
34.4%
47.0%54.9%287th of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
3.7
2.21.127th 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.
74.0%
85.7%97.0%317th 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.
33.3%
58.5%89.4%314th 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.
91.9%
97.8%98.1%251st 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.
33.3
11.55.974th 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%
40.8%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%
63.7%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.
20.2%
95.5%96.2%279th 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.
2.6
1.30.631st of 345
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
88.6%
96.3%99.0%313th 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.
33.3%
72.6%91.6%325th 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.
91.9%
99.4%98.5%262nd 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

Private vehicle 53%Other means 21%On foot or by b… 15%Public t… 11%Car52%Other21%Walking13%BicyclePublictransport11%
Private vehicle 53%Other means 21%On foot o… 15%Publ… 11%Car52%Other21%Walking13%Publictransport11%
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%Rented 16%Provided rent-free 12%Owned outright69%Rented, nocontract13%Rented, with contractProvided byfamily7.4%Provid…byemploy…5.0%
Owned 70%Rented 16%Provided rent-f… 12%Owned outright69%Rented, nocontract13%Rent…withcont…Providedby family7.4%Provid…byemploy…5.0%
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 41%No heating 22%Fossil fuels 21%Electricity 15%Firewood40%No heating22%Gas18%Paraf…2.8%Electricity15%
Wood and biomass 41%No heating 22%Fossil fuels 21%Electricity 15%Firewood40%No heating22%Gas18%Electricity15%
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
91.9%
of the registered voted in the first round
91.6%
voted in the runoff
9,437
registered voters on the roll
5.7%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman31.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist68.9%58.3%
San PedroChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez18.4%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman20.3%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.8%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist33.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
San PedroChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile23.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile22.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido32.1%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente12.4%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.2%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.4%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.8%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
San PedroChileshare of the valid vote

No sister communes

How this is computed

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

ScalePopulation structureMigrationEducationHealthEconomyHousing and services

The figure beside each name is the distance between the two communes: 0 would be identical, and 1.48 is what separates any two communes in the country. Each bar is one of the seven dimensions, and reaches the end when the two differ on it by twice what two communes picked at random do. Location is not part of the computation: 52% of these pairings cross into another region.

Inside the commune

Census districts
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