Sierra Gorda — PuroChile

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.

Female-headed households1st of 345 · Chile 49.9%57.6%

Average monthly pay1st of 342 · Chile 32.0 UF96.7 UF

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%

Average distance to a facility with an emergency service345th of 345 · Chile 2.30.4

People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 108 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

12.2%

332nd of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

42.2%

14th of 335

Came from another region

20.3%

83rd of 335

Net internal migration

+248

+13.8 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Sierra Gorda

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

01MiningNatural resources1,37068.0%+11,317%02Public administrationState and social services28514.2%+194%03Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics1326.6%+340%04Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics793.9%+259%05Other servicesOther services381.9%—06ConstructionIndustry and construction311.5%+63%07Arts and entertainmentOther services241.2%—08Professional servicesAdvanced services241.2%—09Administrative servicesAdvanced services90.4%—10TransportTrade and logistics90.4%—

Dependent workers, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval13.6% a year observed · 6.5% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval32.8% a year observed · 4.9% projected

What Sierra Gorda is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Sierra Gorda employs more people in 17 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.

17

activities it is specialised in

2,014

formal workers

110/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Each dot is one activity. Filled, Sierra Gorda is already specialised in it; hollow, it is not. Size is how many people work in it here.

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

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

Most over-represented in Sierra Gorda

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
Extracción y procesamiento de cobre	Extracción y procesamiento de cobre	1,354	133.8×
Servicios de producción de obras de teatro, conciertos, espectáculos de danza, otras prod. escénicas	Actividades creativas, artísticas y de entretenimiento	23	27.2×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadores	Otras actividades de alojamiento	10	16.3×
Extracción de piedra, arena y arcilla	Extracción de piedra, arena y arcilla	16	10.8×
Venta al por menor de combustibles para vehículos automotores en comercios especializados	Venta al por menor de combustibles para vehículos automotores en comercios especializados	65	8.8×
Fabricación de partes, piezas y accesorios para vehículos automotores	Fabricación de partes, piezas y accesorios para vehículos automotores	3	8.0×
Lavado y limpieza, incluida la limpieza en seco, de productos textiles y de piel	Otras actividades de servicios personales	14	6.5×
Servicios de cementerios	Otras actividades de servicios personales	8	5.3×
Otras actividades de alojamiento n.c.p.	Otras actividades de alojamiento	5	3.5×
Actividades de la administración pública en general	Administración del estado y aplicación de la política económica y social de la comunidad	285	2.2×
Alquiler de bienes inmuebles amoblados o con equipos y maquinarias	Actividades inmobiliarias realizadas con bienes propios o arrendados	7	1.9×
Fundaciones y corporaciones; asociaciones que promueven actividades culturales o recreativas	Actividades de otras asociaciones	16	1.8×

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.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

Sierra GordaChile% of each territory's own population · 1,472 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	1,472	428,749	18,480,432	330th of 346
Average age	32.0 yrs	35.1 yrs	38.1 yrs	344th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	27.9	51.1	79.0	342nd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	0.1/km²	6.3/km²	24.7/km²	337th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	481	143,380	6,596,527	331st of 346
Dwellings	734	151,674	7,642,716	333rd of 346
People per household	3.06	2.99	2.80	24th of 345
Women	52.0%	50.6%	51.5%	44th of 346
Men per 100 women	92.4	97.6	94.3	303rd of 346
Under 15	24.8%	19.1%	17.7%	4th of 346
65 and over	6.9%	9.8%	14.0%	341st of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	46.5	40.6	46.5	279th of 346
One-person households	24.1%	20.2%	21.8%	111th of 345
Households with children	46.8%	37.8%	33.2%	5th of 345
Indigenous peoples	14.7%	8.6%	11.4%	128th of 346
Female-headed households	57.6%	47.3%	49.9%	1st of 345
Land area	12,891 km²	67,586 km²	748,041 km²	14th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

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

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	31.8%	19.2%	8.7%	5th 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.	12.2%	58.6%	50.5%	332nd 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.	42.2%	9.0%	23.9%	14th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	20.3%	16.9%	17.2%	83rd of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	468	82,411	1,608,650	167th of 346
Average age, foreign-born	29.9 yrs	32.1 yrs	33.5 yrs	323rd of 345
Women among foreign-born	57.3%	53.0%	51.7%	16th of 345
Foreign-born of working age	77.6%	84.1%	83.1%	282nd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	37.0%	35.2%	34.4%	183rd 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.	36.1%	22.7%	10.6%	5th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	11.3 yrs	11.7 yrs	12.9 yrs	302nd 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.	248	7,516	0	141st of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	13.8	1.6	0.0	90th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

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

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	9.1 yrs	10.6 yrs	10.4 yrs	211th of 346
Reached higher education	16.6%	31.3%	31.1%	271st of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	91.1%	97.6%	98.6%	328th 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.	71.4%	60.0%	55.6%	8th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.	97.4%	98.6%	99.8%	329th of 346
Literacy rate	98.0%	99.1%	97.8%	89th of 346
Reached secondary education	45.9%	40.2%	36.7%	7th of 346
Primary education only	26.9%	20.3%	24.1%	239th of 346
Never attended school	4.74%	2.98%	3.01%	59th of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.	11.4 yrs	12.7 yrs	12.1 yrs	112th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	11.1 yrs	12.5 yrs	12.1 yrs	149th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	1.99%	0.93%	2.18%	259th of 345
Households lacking schooling	22.1%	12.1%	15.1%	189th 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.	7	5,431	217,565	330th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	0.0%	38.8%	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.	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.	60.0%	62.2%	67.2%	194th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	20.0%	18.4%	19.7%	143rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	20.0%	19.4%	13.1%	118th 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.	20.0%	12.6%	13.0%	127th 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.	40.0%	50.2%	49.7%	311th 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.

7left secondary school in 2024

5enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

71.4%continued immediately

60%of those, to a university

20%of those, outside their region

By field of study

Sierra GordaChile

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. The list of individual programmes is withheld here: fewer than 30 of this territory's leavers continued, and a ranking built on that few names people.

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 Sierra Gorda's schools taught, and where schools draw pupils from next door that is not the same set of children as the ones the territory raised.

Health

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The hospital figures come from DEIS's discharge register: one row per completed stay, in any establishment in the country, counted in the commune where the patient lives rather than where the hospital is. It counts stays, not people — someone admitted three times is three of them.

The deaths it records are the ones that happened during a stay. Deaths at home or in the street are in the vital statistics register, which is a different DEIS release and is not in PuroChile — so nothing here is this place's mortality, and every label says «hospitalaria» for that reason.

The two standardised ratios are the ones meant for comparing places: they hold Sierra Gorda against what its own age and sex structure would produce at the country's rates, with Chile fixed at 100. A commune of older people buries more people than a commune of young families, and that is demography, not health.

In 2024, 7.5% of the country's discharges arrive with every identifying field replaced by an asterisk and cannot be attached to any commune; what is counted here is the 91.4% that carries one.

Which health system

FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	5.1%	7.8%	10.6%	340th of 346
Public health insurance	89.3%	79.8%	82.6%	225th 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.	2.7	84.6	82.5	330th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	0	123	100	326th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	75	33,633	1,950,388	335th of 346
Average age, people with a disability	51.6 yrs	51.4 yrs	56.4 yrs	330th of 346
Disability among 65+	26.7%	35.2%	43.0%	341st of 346
Difficulty walking	2.24%	3.16%	4.92%	334th of 346
Difficulty seeing	2.38%	3.53%	4.58%	335th of 346
Difficulty hearing	0.88%	1.55%	2.16%	341st of 346
Difficulty concentrating	1.22%	1.97%	2.70%	342nd of 346
Private health insurance	3.8%	15.3%	13.2%	149th of 335
No health coverage	5.83%	2.70%	1.98%	16th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	92.2%	94.9%	92.1%	194th of 332
Households lacking health access	5.0%	4.0%	6.0%	181st of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	4	36,279	1,523,716	330th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	0	771	36,698	326th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	0.00%	2.13%	2.41%	326th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	4.0 days	5.6 days	6.1 days	328th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	0.0	18.0	19.9	326th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	4	109	100	330th of 331

What people are hospitalised for

Injuries, bones and skinhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	17.6%	16.2%	17.3%	224th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	96.7 UF	35.8 UF	32.0 UF	1st of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	46.7%	79.0%	78.9%	340th 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.	120.9	72.1	85.6	39th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	63.7%	57.9%	54.4%	24th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	5.9%	7.8%	8.6%	288th of 345
Self-employed	35.9%	34.8%	33.8%	151st of 345
Extreme poverty	4.3%	6.6%	6.9%	278th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	24.9%	16.1%	17.7%	65th of 335
Unemployment rate	8.6%	7.4%	8.8%	186th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 605,861	CLP 777,636	CLP 783,124	112th 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.	0.333	0.441	0.488	320th of 321
Registered firms	178	30,910	1,582,390	327th of 346
Annual sales	21,316,381 UF	470,867,064 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	94th 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.	2,014	176,321	9,699,164	256th of 346
Sales per firm	119,755 UF	15,233 UF	21,706 UF	3rd of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	9.1	3.7	3.9	4th of 346
Women among employees	24.6%	31.5%	40.6%	339th of 345
Independent contractors	394	57,632	3,958,269	321st of 346
Contractors as share of workers	16.4%	24.6%	29.0%	325th 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 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

HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	13.5%	6.8%	5.7%	10th of 345
Internet access	94.5%	97.1%	93.2%	60th 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.	0.4	1.3	2.3	345th 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.	38.3	1.0	1.6	10th of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	446	135,652	6,408,172	331st of 346
Critically overcrowded	2.47%	0.82%	0.57%	8th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	4.71%	2.72%	1.13%	28th of 345
Public water network	89.6%	96.9%	92.3%	130th of 345
Electricity access	98.0%	99.6%	99.6%	306th of 345
Detached houses	94.6%	71.9%	78.7%	238th of 345
Apartments	0.7%	25.7%	19.9%	140th of 345
Precarious wall materials	1.30%	0.52%	0.23%	8th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	30.4%	6.4%	11.9%	59th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	96	17,093	491,904	310th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	20.0%	11.9%	7.5%	8th of 345
Renting households	29.7%	33.6%	26.2%	33rd of 345
Owner-occupiers	48.9%	49.3%	61.1%	318th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	0.2%	0.1%	24.4%	322nd of 345
Commute by public transport	11.8%	43.7%	42.1%	313th of 345
Walks to work	54.2%	10.1%	10.2%	8th of 345
Households with a computer	58.0%	59.6%	54.9%	40th 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.	0.4	0.9	1.1	336th 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.	98.9%	98.7%	97.0%	83rd 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%	99.7%	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%	99.8%	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.	98.9%	97.4%	89.4%	41st 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%	99.3%	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%	99.7%	99.7%	1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	61.0	4.8	5.9	32nd 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%	95.4%	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%	96.5%	90.0%	249th of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	0.0%	96.6%	96.2%	306th of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	0.4	0.6	0.6	295th of 345
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.	98.9%	99.1%	99.0%	155th 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%	99.7%	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%	99.8%	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.	36.5%	98.5%	91.6%	319th 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.	36.5%	99.4%	98.5%	333rd 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.	36.5%	99.5%	99.8%	335th of 345

How people commute

Private vehicleOther meansPublic 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 sourceWood and biomasshover 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

70.7%

of the registered voted in the first round

70.1%

voted in the runoff

1,530

registered voters on the roll

11.0%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman40.0%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist60.0%58.3%

Sierra GordaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez41.9%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman22.8%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.8%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.1%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist16.3%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.2%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet5.0%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.9%1.3%

Sierra GordaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile35.6%30.6%

KCambio por Chile14.8%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido11.9%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente23.0%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.5%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista2.5%2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios3.9%0.6%

HPopular1.7%0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

Sierra GordaChileshare of the valid vote

No sister communes

How this is computed

No commune in Chile resembles Sierra Gorda 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.

Mejillones1.25Antofagasta · 14,084 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Scale.San Pedro de Atacama1.44Antofagasta · 9,843 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Economy.María Elena1.46Antofagasta · 4,834 peopleAlike in Health; apart in Economy.Pozo Almonte1.53Tarapacá · 16,878 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Economy.

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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