Commune · 06117

San VicenteSan Vicente

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Census population
49,559
91st of 346
Population density
102.3/km²
90th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.5 yrs
136th of 346
Foreign-born share
3.5%
146th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
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 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.1 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.1 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 · 710 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
68.5%
88th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
13.4%
236th of 335
Came from another region
15.4%
159th of 335
Net internal migration
-1,120
-2.1 per 100 residents
San Vicentethis commune · 52,213another region8,092 peopleelsewhere in the region7,056 peopleabroad1,388 peopleanother region10,816 peopleelsewhere in the region5,452 peopleSan Vicentethis commune · 52,481
San Vicentethis commune · 52,213another region8,092 peopleelsewhere in th…7,056 peopleabroad1,388 peopleanother region10,816 peopleelsewhere in th…5,452 peopleSan Vicentethis commune · 52,481

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale5Education3Education▲211Administrative services4Administrative services▲710Arts and entertainment5Arts and entertainment▲59Accommodation and food6Accommodation and food▲37Transport7Transport3Manufacturing8Manufacturing▼56Health9Health▼38Construction10Construction▼213Water and waste11Water and waste▲212Professional services12Professional services4Other services13Other services▼9
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Retail and wholesale53Education▲2114Administrative services▲7105Arts and entertainment▲596Accommodation and food▲377Transport38Manufacturing▼569Health▼3810Construction▼21311Water and waste▲21212Professional services413Other services▼9

The ten branches that employ most of San Vicente

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.

7 k12 k17 k22 kprojection →18 k2029 · central2005201520242029
7 k12 k17 k22 kprojection →18 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.4% a year observed · 2.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 M20 Mprojection →17 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 M20 Mprojection →17 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.9% a year observed · 3.0% projected

What San Vicente is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, San Vicente employs more people in 98 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.

98
activities it is specialised in
15,492
formal workers
145/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Actividades de envasado y empaque…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Venta al por menor de otros produ…Cultivo de trigoMantenimiento y reparación de veh…Centros de atención odontológica …Recuperación y reciclamiento de o…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Actividades de motelesServicios de cementeriosFabricación de ropa de trabajoHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in San Vicente

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
Otras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas n.c.p.Otras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas72148.0×
Promoción y organización de competencias deportivasActividades deportivas2924.5×
Cultivo de cítricosCultivo de plantas perennes3424.1×
Otras actividades de servicio de bebidas n.c.p.Actividades de servicio de bebidas1619.2×
Cultivo de uva para mesaCultivo de plantas perennes51815.8×
Cultivo de plantas vivas incluida la producción en viveros (excepto viveros forestales)Propagación de plantas18013.9×
Actividades de motelesActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas3113.9×
Venta al por menor de productos de vidrio en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros enseres domésticos en comercios especializados2812.4×
Cultivos forrajeros en praderas mejoradas o sembradas; cultivos suplementarios forrajerosCultivo de plantas no perennes599.8×
Cultivo de maízCultivo de plantas no perennes429.7×
Enseñanza primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional públicaEnseñanza preescolar, primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional1,0589.4×
Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (incluye el cultivo de aceitunas)Cultivo de plantas perennes1138.3×

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
25,763
hectares in holdings
68.9%
of them under a named use
97.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
1,170
holdings with land here
Not farmed 37%Orchards and vineyards 32%Annual crops 17%Woodland 13%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings31%Untilled land5.5%Fruit trees25%Vines6.9%Cereals11%Vegetables3.2%Fodder crops2.1%Industri…Native woodland12%
Not farmed 37%Orchards and viney… 32%Annual crops 17%Woodland 13%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings31%Untilled landFruit trees25%VinesCereals11%Vegetables3.2%FoddercropsNative woodland12%
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 VicenteChile% of each territory's own population · 49,559 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
49,559
693,30818,480,43291st of 346
Average age
40.4 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs105th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
100.6
78.579.0108th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
102.3/km²
92.4/km²24.7/km²90th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
17,837
243,2256,596,52793rd of 346
Dwellings
19,278
270,9457,642,716106th of 346
People per household
2.78
2.852.80149th of 345
Women
50.9%
51.0%51.5%178th of 346
Men per 100 women
96.5
95.994.3169th of 346
Under 15
17.1%
18.3%17.7%222nd of 346
65 and over
17.2%
14.4%14.0%108th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.3
48.546.5125th of 346
One-person households
21.3%
19.6%21.8%204th of 345
Households with children
32.5%
35.2%33.2%192nd of 345
Indigenous peoples
4.3%
5.5%11.4%293rd of 346
Female-headed households
47.1%
48.2%49.9%201st of 345
Land area
484 km²
7,501 km²748,041 km²207th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

San Vicente50%Arrived since 202050%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
San Vicente50%Arrived since 202050%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
3.5%
5.4%8.7%146th 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.
68.5%
58.8%50.5%88th 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.
13.4%
17.4%23.9%236th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
15.4%
18.9%17.2%159th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
1,755
37,5241,608,65098th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.1 yrs
32.1 yrs33.5 yrs189th of 345
Women among foreign-born
47.3%
50.6%51.7%297th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
83.4%
81.5%83.1%71st of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
49.5%
42.2%34.4%49th 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.
4.5%
6.5%10.6%141st of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.0 yrs
12.8 yrs12.9 yrs229th 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.
-1,120
14,7210183rd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-2.1
2.00.0161st of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

San Vicente22%Higher39%Secondary31%Primary only4.8%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
San Vicente22%39%Secondary31%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.5 yrs
9.9 yrs10.4 yrs136th of 346
Reached higher education
22.0%
26.9%31.1%151st of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.7%
98.6%98.6%235th of 333
Continues to higher education · Of young secondary-school graduates, those enrolled in first-year undergraduate studies the following March. By the comuna of the school where they finished secondary school, which is the approximation to origin that Mineduc publishes.
52.3%
52.0%55.6%206th 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.
103.7%
100.9%99.8%87th of 346
Literacy rate
96.5%
97.2%97.8%175th of 346
Reached secondary education
39.2%
37.3%36.7%97th of 346
Primary education only
30.7%
27.5%24.1%191st of 346
Never attended school
3.33%
3.34%3.01%207th 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.
10.8 yrs
11.5 yrs12.1 yrs157th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.2 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs139th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.50%
2.83%2.18%176th of 345
Households lacking schooling
23.8%
19.7%15.1%160th 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.
759
8,325217,56576th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
10.1%
35.1%33.9%290th 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.
17.4%
3.9%3.1%57th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
64.2%
61.9%67.2%149th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
15.4%
20.9%19.7%213th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
20.4%
17.2%13.1%113th 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.
52.1%
38.2%13.0%47th 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.
51.9%
48.6%49.7%144th 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.

759left secondary school in 2024
397enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
52.3%continued immediately
64%of those, to a university
52%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%KinesiologiaIngenieria ComercialPsicologiaIngenieria Civil Con EspecialidadEnfermeriaMedicina VeterinariaDerechoTecnico de Nivel Superior en EnfermeriaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizIngenieria Agricola
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%KinesiologiaIngenieria ComercialPsicologiaIngenieria Civil Con EspecialidadEnfermeriaMedicina VeterinariaDerechoTecnico de Nivel Superior en EnfermeriaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizIngenieria Agricola
San VicenteChile

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 industryBusiness and lawEducationAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technologySocial sciencesServicesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technologySocial sciencesServicesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
San VicenteChile

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

0200400600800200620152024759397
0200400600800200620152024759397
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 Vicente'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 Vicente 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 Vicente90%Fonasa4.6%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
San Vicente90%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.2%
11.5%10.6%111th of 346
Public health insurance
90.1%
86.4%82.6%212th 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.
86.9
73.682.566th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
109
10110096th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
6,565
79,4081,950,38883rd of 346
Average age, people with a disability
58.7 yrs
56.3 yrs56.4 yrs136th of 346
Disability among 65+
46.9%
42.6%43.0%138th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.87%
5.49%4.92%94th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.46%
4.90%4.58%164th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.65%
2.33%2.16%151st of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.21%
2.82%2.70%89th of 346
Private health insurance
4.6%
10.2%13.2%131st of 335
No health coverage
3.77%
1.75%1.98%52nd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
97.3%
94.1%92.1%77th of 332
Households lacking health access
4.1%
6.1%6.0%216th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
4,308
51,0161,523,71691st of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
128
1,40336,69885th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.97%
2.75%2.41%146th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.4 days
5.7 days6.1 days287th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
25.8
20.219.972nd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
101
8910080th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
186
2,47489,723103rd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
4.3%
4.8%5.9%271st of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
37.5
35.748.6195th 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
72100206th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 26%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones an… 16%Tumours, bl… 12%Pregnancy, bir… 12%Mind, nerves a… 6.6%Infections and… 5.9%Digestivesystem14%Genitourina…system12%Respiratorysystem10%Circulatorysystem9.8%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculoskeletal4.6%SkinCancers andtumours6.3%Endocrineandmetabolic4.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Mental andbehavioural4.2%Nervo…system2.2%Contactwithhealth…Infec…andparas…1.9%
Digestive and urinary t… 26%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries,… 16%Tumours, blood an… 12%Pregnancy, birth … 12%Min… 6.6%Inf… 5.9%Digestivesystem14%Genitourin…system12%Respiratory system10%Circulatory system9.8%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculosk…4.6%CancersandtumoursEndocrineandmetabolicPregnancy andchildbirth11%Mental andbehaviour…Nervous…Cont…withheal…Infe…andpara…Ill-…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

By tumour site

Órganos digestivos32%Mama13%Genitales masculinos13%Genitalesfemeninos7.5%Víasurinarias7.5%Víasrespiratori…5.9%Sangre ysistemalinfático4.8%Tiroides yendocrinas4.3%Sitiosreservados3.8%Tejidosblandos3.2%Encéfalo ysistemanervioso2.7%Sitios maldefinidos2.7%
Órganos digestivos32%Mama13%Genitalesmasculinos13%Genitalesfemeninos7.5%Víasurinarias7.5%Víasrespirato…5.9%Sangre ysistemalinfático4.8%Tiroidesyendocri…4.3%Sitiosreservados3.8%TejidosblandosEncéfa…ysistem…Sitiosmaldefini…
Órganos digestivosMamaGenitales masculinosGenitales femeninosVías urinariasVías respiratoriashover 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.
22.7%
17.5%17.3%133rd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.1 UF
23.7 UF32.0 UF239th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
110.4%
87.1%78.9%84th 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.
96.3
76.185.678th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
52.0%
52.7%54.4%155th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.4%
8.6%8.6%237th of 345
Self-employed
30.5%
30.2%33.8%273rd of 345
Extreme poverty
8.5%
6.8%6.9%153rd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
14.1%
17.4%17.7%231st of 335
Unemployment rate
9.9%
9.4%8.8%128th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 556,993
CLP 647,045CLP 783,124146th 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.
0.449
0.4560.488123rd of 321
Registered firms
4,773
52,7451,582,39077th of 346
Annual sales
14,578,304 UF
674,035,977 UF34,347,683,688 UF110th 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.
15,502
318,7739,699,16492nd of 346
Sales per firm
3,054 UF
12,779 UF21,706 UF203rd of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.8
3.33.9228th of 346
Women among employees
39.7%
40.6%40.6%200th of 345
Independent contractors
5,541
63,3093,958,26980th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
26.3%
16.6%29.0%195th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 25%Trade and logistics 25%Industry and construction 19%State and social … 18%Advanced… 6.8%Other se… 5.8%Agriculture and fishing24%Retail andwholesale17%Transport4.3%Accommoda…and food3.7%Manufacturing12%Construction5.6%Water…Electr…Education8.5%Health6.0%Publicadmini…3.8%Admini…servic…2.5%Profes…servic…2.5%Finance…Infor…Domes…work3.1%Otherservi…1.9%Arts an…
Natural resources 25%Trade and logistics 25%Industry and … 19%State and so… 18%Adva… 6.8%Othe… 5.8%Agriculture andfishing24%Retail andwholesale17%Trans…4.3%Accom…andfood3.7%Manufacturing12%Construction5.6%Wat…and…Ele…Education8.5%Health6.0%Publicadmin…3.8%Adminis…servicesProfess…servicesDomes…work3.1%Otherserv…
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 51%Elementary occupations 25%Managers and professionals 24%Service and sales17%Craft andtrades14%Plant andmachineoperators8.3%Skilledagricultur…6.6%Clericalsupport4.9%Elementary occupations25%Professionals12%Technicians8.2%Managers3.5%
Skilled occupations 51%Elementary occupatio… 25%Managers and profes… 24%Service andsales17%Craft andtrades14%Plant and machineoperators8.3%Skilledagricult…6.6%Cleric…support4.9%Elementaryoccupations25%Professio…12%Technici…8.2%Managers3.5%
Elementary occupationsArmed forceshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itCIUO-08 (ISCO) skill levels.

Housing and services

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House or flat

San Vicente98%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
San Vicente98%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.2%
5.1%5.7%174th of 345
Internet access
89.5%
92.2%93.2%161st 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.
3.6
2.52.3188th 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.
2.4
2.01.6216th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
17,267
237,8036,408,17294th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.43%
0.32%0.57%84th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.74%
0.85%1.13%89th of 345
Public water network
96.3%
96.4%92.3%64th of 345
Electricity access
99.6%
99.7%99.6%108th of 345
Detached houses
97.7%
90.0%78.7%192nd of 345
Apartments
0.6%
9.2%19.9%144th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.17%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
7.8%
8.5%11.9%274th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
1,381
14,281491,90477th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
7.7%
5.9%7.5%73rd of 345
Renting households
18.2%
21.5%26.2%124th of 345
Owner-occupiers
64.6%
65.5%61.1%245th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
51.9%
29.2%24.4%178th of 345
Commute by public transport
15.3%
25.0%42.1%298th of 345
Walks to work
9.0%
8.3%10.2%266th of 345
Households with a computer
46.1%
51.4%54.9%129th 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.
2.0
1.31.1137th 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.
96.1%
98.1%97.0%139th 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.
72.6%
85.3%89.4%185th of 345
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
98.8%98.1%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
4.1
4.35.9236th 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.
64.7%
65.9%80.3%134th 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.
98.0%
97.9%90.0%100th of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.2
0.70.6149th 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.
99.5%
99.8%99.0%117th 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.
83.7%
88.9%91.6%145th of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
98.9%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 46%On foot or by bicycle 30%Public transport 15%Other m… 8.6%Car43%Bicycle21%Walking9.0%Public transport15%Other8.6%
Private vehicle 46%On foot or by … 30%Public transport 15%Other means 8.6%Car43%Bicycle21%Walking9.0%Public transport15%Other8.6%
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 65%Rented 18%Provided rent-free 12%Other 5.2%Owned outright59%Owned, still payingRented, withcontract12%Rented,nocontract6.6%Provided byfamily9.8%Pro…byemp…Other arrangement
Owned 65%Rented 18%Provided r… 12%Owned outright59%Own…sti…pay…Rented, withcontract12%Rented,nocontract6.6%Provided byfamily9.8%Otherarrang…5.2%
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 54%Fossil fuels 24%Electricity 14%No heating 7.8%Firewood52%Gas14%Paraffin9.7%Electricity14%No heating7.8%
Wood and biomass 54%Fossil fuels 24%Electrici… 14%Firewood52%Gas14%Paraffin9.7%Electricity14%Noheating7.8%
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
91.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
91.8%
voted in the runoff
42,929
registered voters on the roll
7.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman40.6%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist59.4%58.3%
San VicenteChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez19.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman25.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist25.2%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet13.0%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%
San VicenteChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile19.5%30.6%
KCambio por Chile19.3%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido25.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente11.3%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas24.7%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 VicenteChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble San Vicente 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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