Commune · 05706
Santa María
Compare Santa María with another placeCensus population
15,134
206th of 346
Population density
91.3/km²
99th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.4 yrs
153rd of 346
Foreign-born share
2.6%
179th of 346
Where it stands out
Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.Sought care when ill1st of 332 · Chile 92.1%100.0%
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024
Average monthly pay
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 · 267 surveyedLives in the commune where they were born
54.6%
219th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
28.1%
70th of 335
Came from another region
14.5%
191st of 335
Net internal migration
+4,371
+25.7 per 100 residents
Formal employment, 2005–2024
2005–2024 · Source SIIThe ten branches that employ most of Santa María
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
01Agriculture and fishingNatural resources2,401−37%02Public administrationState and social services575+110%03Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics487+12,075%04Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics467+64%05ManufacturingIndustry and construction309+544%06EducationState and social services258+187%07ConstructionIndustry and construction149+831%08TransportTrade and logistics127+568%09Administrative servicesAdvanced services93+90%10Professional servicesAdvanced services30—Dependent workers, projected
Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.
Annual sales in UF, projected
UF is indexed to inflation, so this is a projection in real terms.
What Santa María is specialised in
2024 · SIIOf the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Santa María 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
4,976
formal workers
201/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
Most over-represented in Santa María
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultivo de uva para mesa | Cultivo de plantas perennes | 604 | 57.2× |
| Televisión de pago satelital | Actividades de telecomunicaciones por satélite | 15 | 44.4× |
| Cultivo de semillas de cereales, legumbres y oleaginosas (excepto semillas de raps y maravilla) | Cultivo de plantas no perennes | 24 | 23.3× |
| Elaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizas | Elaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizas | 168 | 17.5× |
| Corretaje al por mayor de productos agrícolas | Venta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata | 225 | 15.2× |
| Fabricación de otros artículos de papel y cartón | Fabricación de papel y de productos de papel | 31 | 8.7× |
| Actividades de apoyo a la agricultura | Actividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha | 1,271 | 8.3× |
| Venta al por mayor de desechos metálicos (chatarra) | Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada | 7 | 7.7× |
| Desratización, desinfección y exterminio de plagas no agrícolas | Actividades de limpieza | 14 | 5.9× |
| Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de hueso | Cultivo de plantas perennes | 473 | 5.7× |
| Actividades de hoteles | Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas | 145 | 4.1× |
| Reparación de otro tipo de maquinaria y equipos industriales n.c.p. | Reparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo | 64 | 3.3× |
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 · 2020/20213,972
hectares in holdings
80.6%
of them under a named use
99.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
234
holdings with land here
Woodlandhover 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
See all →Population pyramid
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Census population | 15,134 | 159,396 | 18,480,432 | 206th of 346 | |
Average age | 39.5 yrs | 38.4 yrs | 38.1 yrs | 156th of 346 | |
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15. | 90.9 | 81.4 | 79.0 | 165th of 345 | |
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography. | 91.3/km² | 60.5/km² | 24.7/km² | 99th of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Households | 5,360 | 57,204 | 6,596,527 | 210th of 346 | |
Dwellings | 6,090 | 63,376 | 7,642,716 | 228th of 346 | |
People per household | 2.82 | 2.79 | 2.80 | 115th of 345 | |
Women | 51.6% | 51.3% | 51.5% | 77th of 346 | |
Men per 100 women | 93.8 | 94.9 | 94.3 | 270th of 346 | |
Under 15 | 17.9% | 18.5% | 17.7% | 164th of 346 | |
65 and over | 16.3% | 15.1% | 14.0% | 149th of 346 | |
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age. | 52.0 | 50.5 | 46.5 | 137th of 346 | |
One-person households | 19.6% | 21.9% | 21.8% | 263rd of 345 | |
Households with children | 34.5% | 34.6% | 33.2% | 118th of 345 | |
Indigenous peoples | 5.4% | 5.2% | 11.4% | 241st of 346 | |
Female-headed households | 47.7% | 50.0% | 49.9% | 185th of 345 | |
Land area | 166 km² | 2,635 km² | 748,041 km² | 277th of 346 |
Migration
See all →When the migrant population arrived
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign-born share | 2.6% | 6.5% | 8.7% | 179th 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. | 54.6% | 63.4% | 50.5% | 219th 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. | 28.1% | 19.2% | 23.9% | 70th of 335 | |
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region. | 14.5% | 12.7% | 17.2% | 191st of 335 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign-born population | 392 | 10,363 | 1,608,650 | 180th of 346 | |
Average age, foreign-born | 30.9 yrs | 31.7 yrs | 33.5 yrs | 293rd of 345 | |
Women among foreign-born | 50.5% | 46.3% | 51.7% | 191st of 345 | |
Foreign-born of working age | 79.8% | 84.1% | 83.1% | 228th of 345 | |
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later. | 43.6% | 45.3% | 34.4% | 100th 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. | 3.1% | 8.2% | 10.6% | 179th of 346 | |
Average schooling, foreign-born | 11.5 yrs | 11.3 yrs | 12.9 yrs | 290th 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. | 4,371 | -13,282 | 0 | 72nd of 335 | |
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory. | 25.7 | -7.7 | 0.0 | 52nd of 335 |
Education
See all →How far schooling went
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Average years of schooling | 9.4 yrs | 9.8 yrs | 10.4 yrs | 153rd of 346 | |
Reached higher education | 19.9% | 24.3% | 31.1% | 191st 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. | 55.2% | 53.9% | 55.6% | 155th of 331 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | 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. | 104.7% | 102.3% | 99.8% | 54th of 346 | |
Literacy rate | 97.0% | 97.3% | 97.8% | 141st of 346 | |
Reached secondary education | 41.1% | 39.9% | 36.7% | 44th of 346 | |
Primary education only | 31.0% | 27.4% | 24.1% | 184th of 346 | |
Never attended school | 2.68% | 2.98% | 3.01% | 297th 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. | 10.6 yrs | 11.3 yrs | 12.1 yrs | 182nd of 346 | |
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men. | 11.1 yrs | 11.5 yrs | 12.1 yrs | 149th of 346 | |
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write. | 2.97% | 2.69% | 2.18% | 205th of 345 | |
Households lacking schooling | 24.3% | 20.2% | 15.1% | 154th 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. | 96 | 2,019 | 217,565 | 243rd of 331 | |
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks. | 77.1% | 52.5% | 33.9% | 25th of 331 | |
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.1% | 114th of 331 | |
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 67.9% | 63.7% | 67.2% | 116th of 331 | |
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 30.2% | 31.9% | 19.7% | 47th of 331 | |
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 1.9% | 4.4% | 13.1% | 321st 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. | 17.0% | 18.8% | 13.0% | 141st 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. | 54.7% | 49.8% | 49.7% | 88th of 331 |
The class of 2024
Mineduc (SIES), by the comuna they went to school inApproximation: 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.
96left secondary school in 2024
53enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
55.2%continued immediately
68%of those, to a university
17%of those, outside their region
The ten programmes they enrolled in most
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
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 Santa María'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
See all →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 Santa María 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
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Disability prevalence | 11.7% | 11.7% | 10.6% | 193rd of 346 | |
Public health insurance | 96.1% | 90.8% | 82.6% | 67th 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. | 74.1 | 85.2 | 82.5 | 140th of 331 | |
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. | 108 | 136 | 100 | 99th of 331 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
People with a disability | 1,770 | 18,595 | 1,950,388 | 222nd of 346 | |
Average age, people with a disability | 56.5 yrs | 57.0 yrs | 56.4 yrs | 248th of 346 | |
Disability among 65+ | 44.1% | 44.6% | 43.0% | 218th of 346 | |
Difficulty walking | 6.01% | 5.67% | 4.92% | 168th of 346 | |
Difficulty seeing | 4.66% | 4.88% | 4.58% | 235th of 346 | |
Difficulty hearing | 2.42% | 2.30% | 2.16% | 199th of 346 | |
Difficulty concentrating | 2.87% | 2.92% | 2.70% | 165th of 346 | |
Private health insurance | 0.7% | 3.3% | 13.2% | 293rd of 335 | |
No health coverage | 1.97% | 4.48% | 1.98% | 138th of 335 | |
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months. | 100.0% | 88.5% | 92.1% | 1st of 332 | |
Households lacking health access | 1.5% | 4.9% | 6.0% | 290th of 335 | |
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times. | 1,121 | 13,588 | 1,523,716 | 191st of 331 | |
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register. | 37 | 458 | 36,698 | 191st of 331 | |
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death. | 3.30% | 3.37% | 2.41% | 114th of 331 | |
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up. | 6.9 days | 10.6 days | 6.1 days | 122nd of 331 | |
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older. | 24.4 | 28.7 | 19.9 | 84th of 331 | |
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. | 87 | 102 | 100 | 144th of 331 | |
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people. | 69 | 844 | 89,723 | 183rd of 330 | |
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour. | 6.2% | 6.2% | 5.9% | 121st of 330 | |
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is. | 45.6 | 52.9 | 48.6 | 111th 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. | 86 | 105 | 100 | 122nd 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.
By tumour site
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoTiroides y endocrinasGenitales femeninoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile
Economy and poverty
See all →| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line. | 10.5% | 18.1% | 17.3% | 308th of 335 | |
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked. | 20.4 UF | 22.8 UF | 32.0 UF | 265th of 342 | |
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job. | 103.3% | 102.4% | 78.9% | 142nd 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. | 84.8 | 78.7 | 85.6 | 134th of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over. | 51.3% | 52.9% | 54.4% | 165th of 345 | |
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently. | 7.7% | 9.1% | 8.6% | 220th of 345 | |
Self-employed | 29.0% | 28.6% | 33.8% | 299th of 345 | |
Extreme poverty | 2.6% | 6.0% | 6.9% | 309th of 335 | |
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks. | 18.8% | 17.2% | 17.7% | 151st of 335 | |
Unemployment rate | 10.8% | 10.0% | 8.8% | 99th of 335 | |
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income. | CLP 490,080 | CLP 527,654 | CLP 783,124 | 222nd 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. | 0.389 | 0.401 | 0.488 | 280th of 321 | |
Registered firms | 1,283 | 12,539 | 1,582,390 | 204th of 346 | |
Annual sales | 6,943,414 UF | 57,210,672 UF | 34,347,683,688 UF | 165th 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. | 4,995 | 55,822 | 9,699,164 | 176th of 346 | |
Sales per firm | 5,412 UF | 4,563 UF | 21,706 UF | 112th of 342 | |
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions. | 2.2 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 146th of 346 | |
Women among employees | 43.7% | 43.3% | 40.6% | 117th of 345 | |
Independent contractors | 1,264 | 13,822 | 3,958,269 | 204th of 346 | |
Contractors as share of workers | 20.2% | 19.8% | 29.0% | 281st 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
See all →House or flat
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Overcrowded dwellings | 4.5% | 5.3% | 5.7% | 269th of 345 | |
Internet access | 88.1% | 90.9% | 93.2% | 190th 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. | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 239th 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. | 2.3 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 224th of 345 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Occupied dwellings with residents | 5,286 | 55,859 | 6,408,172 | 210th of 346 | |
Critically overcrowded | 0.28% | 0.37% | 0.57% | 229th of 345 | |
Irrecoverable dwellings | 1.21% | 1.69% | 1.13% | 155th of 345 | |
Public water network | 90.6% | 94.0% | 92.3% | 126th of 345 | |
Electricity access | 99.6% | 99.3% | 99.6% | 118th of 345 | |
Detached houses | 95.5% | 90.4% | 78.7% | 226th of 345 | |
Apartments | 3.8% | 7.8% | 19.9% | 101st of 345 | |
Precarious wall materials | 0.20% | 0.40% | 0.23% | 140th of 345 | |
Unoccupied private dwellings | 10.1% | 7.8% | 11.9% | 244th of 345 | |
Quantitative housing deficit | 272 | 4,038 | 491,904 | 213th of 345 | |
Housing deficit as share of households | 5.1% | 7.1% | 7.5% | 190th of 345 | |
Renting households | 13.0% | 21.5% | 26.2% | 222nd of 345 | |
Owner-occupiers | 70.9% | 64.9% | 61.1% | 119th of 345 | |
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south. | 37.1% | 25.4% | 24.4% | 205th of 345 | |
Commute by public transport | 19.6% | 23.9% | 42.1% | 251st of 345 | |
Walks to work | 9.4% | 11.8% | 10.2% | 259th of 345 | |
Households with a computer | 41.3% | 45.7% | 54.9% | 191st 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. | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 230th 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. | 99.5% | 95.9% | 97.0% | 67th of 345 | |
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 100.0% | 99.9% | 99.9% | 1st of 345 | |
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 100.0% | 99.9% | 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. | 88.4% | 86.4% | 89.4% | 107th 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% | 99.9% | 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% | 99.9% | 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. | 5.9 | 7.6 | 5.9 | 206th 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. | 42.4% | 56.6% | 80.3% | 160th of 345 | |
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 100.0% | 73.9% | 90.0% | 1st of 345 | |
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 100.0% | 99.9% | 96.2% | 1st of 345 | |
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line. | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 239th 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% | 99.4% | 99.0% | 121st 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. | 89.6% | 90.8% | 91.6% | 114th 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% | 99.9% | 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% | 99.9% | 99.8% | 1st 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 result92.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
92.3%
voted in the runoff
12,887
registered voters on the roll
8.6%
of runoff ballots were null or blank
Presidential runoff · 14 December
Jeannette Jara Roman36.9%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist63.1%58.3%
Presidential, first round · 16 November
Franco Parisi Fernandez30.8%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman20.5%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.5%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist23.2%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.8%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
Chamber of Deputies · 16 November
CUnidad por Chile39.2%30.6%
KCambio por Chile19.9%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido17.9%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente17.3%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.7%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%
Senate · 16 November
CUnidad por Chile33.2%
KCambio por Chile15.8%
JChile Grande y Unido29.9%
IPartido de la Gente16.6%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.5%
Sister communes
How this is computedThe four communes that most resemble Santa María 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.
Llaillay0.44Valparaíso · 25,484 peopleAlike in Health; apart in Migration.Nogales0.51Valparaíso · 22,136 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Economy.Cabildo0.53Valparaíso · 20,015 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Health.San Vicente0.53O'Higgins · 49,559 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Scale.
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
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