Commune · 07407

Villa AlegreVilla Alegre

Compare Villa Alegre with another place
Census population
17,919
188th of 346
Population density
94.4/km²
96th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.8 yrs
264th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.1%
275th 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%
Leaves from technical-vocational school1st of 331 · Chile 33.9%100.0%
People within 5 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 97.0%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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.1 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.1 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 · 234 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
56.5%
208th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
27.3%
78th of 335
Came from another region
15.3%
164th of 335
Net internal migration
-1,342
-7.4 per 100 residents
Villa Alegrethis commune · 19,258elsewhere in the region4,933 peopleanother region2,760 peopleabroad168 peopleanother region5,402 peopleelsewhere in the region3,633 peopleVilla Alegrethis commune · 18,084
Villa Alegrethis commune · 19,258elsewhere in th…4,933 peopleanother region2,760 peopleabroad168 peopleanother region5,402 peopleelsewhere in th…3,633 peopleVilla Alegrethis commune · 18,084

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing9Construction2Construction▲74Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲12Manufacturing4Manufacturing▼25Transport5Transport10Administrative services6Administrative services▲48Accommodation and food7Accommodation and food▲16Education8Education▼214Other services9Other services▲511Water and waste10Water and waste▲112Mining11Mining▲113Professional services12Professional services▲13Health13Health▼107Finance and insurance14Finance and insurance▼7
2005202411Agriculture and fishing92Construction▲743Retail and wholesale▲124Manufacturing▼255Transport106Administrative services▲487Accommodation and food▲168Education▼2149Other services▲51110Water and waste▲11211Mining▲11312Professional services▲1313Health▼10714Finance and insurance▼7

The ten branches that employ most of Villa Alegre

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.

2 k3 k4 k5 k6 kprojection →4 k2029 · central2005201520242029
2 k3 k4 k5 k6 kprojection →4 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval0.6% a year observed · -5.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

1.0 M2.0 M3.0 M4.0 Mprojection →3.6 M2029 · central2005201520242029
1.0 M2.0 M3.0 M4.0 Mprojection →3.6 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.9% a year observed · -0.5% projected

What Villa Alegre is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Villa Alegre employs more people in 50 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.

50
activities it is specialised in
5,646
formal workers
257/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.23.7Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Actividades de la administración …Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Construcción de otras obras de in…Venta al por mayor de bebidas alc…Fabricación de carrocerías para v…Cultivo de trigoServicios de transporte de trabaj…Elaboración de productos lácteosHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.23.7Actividades de la administración …Fabricación de carrocerías para v…Cultivo de trigoRecuperación y reciclamiento de p…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Villa Alegre

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
Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (incluye el cultivo de aceitunas)Cultivo de plantas perennes584118.1×
Fabricación de carrocerías para vehículos automotores; fabricación de remolques y semirremolques y semirremolquesFabricación de carrocerías para vehículos automotores; fabricación de remolques y semirremolques6770.2×
Cultivo de uva destinada a la producción de vinoCultivo de plantas perennes39253.8×
Destilación, rectificación y mezclas de bebidas alcohólicas; excepto piscoElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas1842.7×
Recuperación y reciclamiento de papelRecuperación de materiales614.4×
Actividades de apoyo a la agriculturaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha1,7019.8×
Corretaje al por mayor de ganadoVenta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata79.1×
ApiculturaGanadería47.8×
Servicios de transporte de escolaresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre117.6×
Cultivo de maízCultivo de plantas no perennes117.0×
Cultivo de uva para mesaCultivo de plantas perennes816.8×
Venta al por mayor de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicasVenta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco1426.6×

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
8,726
hectares in holdings
93.1%
of them under a named use
93.2%
of the crop land is irrigated
489
holdings with land here
Orchards and vineyards 36%Annual crops 34%Pasture 17%Not farmed 12%Vines21%Fruit trees15%Cereals22%Foddercrops3.7%Pulsesandtubers3.5%Industrialcrops2.5%Seedcrops1.3%Vege…Pasture17%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings6.9%Untilledland4.6%
Orchards and vineyar… 36%Annual crops 34%Pasture 17%Not farmed 12%Vines21%Fruit trees15%Cereals22%Foddercrops3.7%Pulsesandtubers3.5%Industri…cropsSeedcropsPasture17%Scrub,barrenground…6.9%Untill…land4.6%
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
Villa AlegreChile% of each territory's own population · 17,919 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
17,919
307,82618,480,432188th of 346
Average age
40.2 yrs
39.4 yrs38.1 yrs114th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
99.0
88.979.0122nd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
94.4/km²
30.6/km²24.7/km²96th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
6,674
112,4046,596,527186th of 346
Dwellings
8,164
135,5247,642,716187th of 346
People per household
2.68
2.742.80215th of 345
Women
51.9%
51.6%51.5%48th of 346
Men per 100 women
92.6
94.094.3299th of 346
Under 15
18.1%
18.3%17.7%154th of 346
65 and over
17.9%
16.2%14.0%82nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
56.1
52.646.547th of 346
One-person households
22.5%
20.9%21.8%164th of 345
Households with children
32.5%
33.7%33.2%191st of 345
Indigenous peoples
3.7%
3.8%11.4%314th of 346
Female-headed households
47.8%
47.3%49.9%179th of 345
Land area
190 km²
10,068 km²748,041 km²272nd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Villa Alegre42%Arrived since 202058%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Villa Alegre42%Arrived since 202058%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
1.1%
1.7%8.7%275th 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.
56.5%
68.1%50.5%208th 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.
27.3%
16.2%23.9%78th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
15.3%
13.8%17.2%164th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
194
5,3371,608,650236th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
32.4 yrs
33.7 yrs33.5 yrs227th of 345
Women among foreign-born
46.9%
49.8%51.7%303rd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
83.5%
81.3%83.1%66th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
41.8%
38.8%34.4%125th 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.
1.4%
2.2%10.6%270th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
11.8 yrs
12.4 yrs12.9 yrs255th 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.
-1,342
-50,7200190th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-7.4
-16.00.0181st of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Villa Alegre17%Higher36%Secondary37%Primary only5.7%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Villa Alegre17%36%Secondary37%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.8 yrs
9.1 yrs10.4 yrs264th of 346
Reached higher education
17.4%
19.7%31.1%249th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.4%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.
37.5%
49.3%55.6%321st of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.
104.0%
103.9%99.8%72nd of 346
Literacy rate
95.0%
95.3%97.8%252nd of 346
Reached secondary education
36.1%
36.4%36.7%217th of 346
Primary education only
37.3%
34.9%24.1%81st of 346
Never attended school
3.39%
3.81%3.01%202nd 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.
10.0 yrs
10.3 yrs12.1 yrs257th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.4 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs237th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
5.00%
4.68%2.18%92nd of 345
Households lacking schooling
37.6%
27.1%15.1%35th 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.
72
3,750217,565269th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
100.0%
44.1%33.9%1st 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.
30.6%
4.4%3.1%36th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
51.9%
56.9%67.2%270th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
11.1%
8.6%19.7%264th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
37.0%
34.5%13.1%22nd 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.
7.4%
21.2%13.0%208th 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%
52.3%49.7%145th 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.

72left secondary school in 2024
27enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
37.5%continued immediately
52%of those, to a university
7%of those, outside their region

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%60.0%Health and welfareNatural sciencesEducationBusiness and lawEngineering and industryAgriculture and veterinaryServicesArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesInformation technology
0.0%20.0%40.0%60.0%Health and welfareNatural sciencesEducationBusiness and lawEngineering and industryAgriculture and veterinaryServicesArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesInformation technology
Villa AlegreChile

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

0501001502006201520247227
0501001502006201520247227
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 Villa Alegre'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 Villa Alegre 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

Villa Alegre95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Villa Alegre95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
16.2%
13.6%10.6%19th of 346
Public health insurance
95.3%
92.0%82.6%85th 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.
73.9
76.682.5141st of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
126
11710049th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,906
41,8951,950,388157th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
59.4 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs108th of 346
Disability among 65+
48.2%
45.2%43.0%111th of 346
Difficulty walking
8.76%
6.74%4.92%12th of 346
Difficulty seeing
7.68%
6.31%4.58%25th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.39%
2.79%2.16%56th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.83%
3.23%2.70%22nd of 346
Private health insurance
1.4%
1.9%13.2%257th of 335
No health coverage
1.37%
3.18%1.98%174th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
100.0%
96.9%92.1%1st of 332
Households lacking health access
5.4%
6.8%6.0%166th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,325
23,5811,523,716175th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
55
79936,698147th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
4.15%
3.39%2.41%42nd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.5 days
6.0 days6.1 days174th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
30.7
26.019.931st of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
85
90100156th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
81
1,37989,723163rd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.1%
5.8%5.9%128th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
45.2
44.848.6113th 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.
82
84100138th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 25%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries, bones … 16%Pregnancy, b… 14%Tumours, blood and… 14%Infections… 6.0%Mind, nerv… 3.8%Digestive system14%Genitourina…system10%Respiratorysystem11%Circulatorysystem11%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculoskele…4.5%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth12%Congenital…Perin…Cancers andtumours9.1%Endocr…andmetabo…4.3%Conta…withhealt…2.9%Ill-def…symptomsInfecti…and…Mentaland…Ner…sys…
Digestive and urinary… 25%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries… 16%Pregnancy, birth and… 14%Tumours, blood and m… 14%Digestivesystem14%Genitour…system10%Respirat…system11%Circulat…system11%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculosk…4.5%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Cancers andtumours9.1%Endocr…andmetabo…4.3%Contactwith…Ill…sym…Men…andbeh…
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%Sitios reservados27%Sangre y sistemalinfático20%Mama14%Tiroidesyendocrin…7.4%
Órganos digestivos32%Sitiosreservados27%Sangre y sistemalinfático20%Mama14%Tiroidesyendocri…7.4%
Órganos digestivosSitios reservadosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaTiroides y endocrinashover 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.
24.5%
29.7%17.3%106th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
20.1 UF
19.2 UF32.0 UF274th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
115.3%
109.0%78.9%44th 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.
75.7
89.685.6182nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
46.5%
46.7%54.4%245th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.8%
10.7%8.6%101st of 345
Self-employed
32.6%
35.3%33.8%226th of 345
Extreme poverty
11.3%
12.5%6.9%73rd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
18.2%
14.9%17.7%160th of 335
Unemployment rate
10.9%
9.0%8.8%98th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 466,467
CLP 466,464CLP 783,124253rd 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.
0.441
0.4420.488152nd of 321
Registered firms
1,357
27,5711,582,390197th of 346
Annual sales
3,689,265 UF
83,517,785 UF34,347,683,688 UF226th 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.
5,646
92,1109,699,164165th of 346
Sales per firm
2,719 UF
3,029 UF21,706 UF224th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.9
1.83.9219th of 346
Women among employees
35.3%
42.3%40.6%264th of 345
Independent contractors
1,209
22,1653,958,269209th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
17.6%
19.4%29.0%306th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 27%Industry and construction 21%Trade and logistics 21%State and social se… 19%Other s… 6.0%Advance… 5.4%Agriculture and fishing26%Construction10.0%Manufacturing10.0%Retail and wholesale13%Transport5.2%Accommodationand foodEducation8.7%Health5.8%Publicadminist…4.5%DomesticworkOtherservicesProfessi…servicesAdminist…servicesInf…andcom…Fina…
Natural resources 27%Industry and con… 21%Trade and logi… 21%State and so… 19%Oth… 6.0%Adv… 5.4%Agriculture andfishing26%Constru…10.0%Manufac…10.0%Retail andwholesale13%Transport5.2%Accom…andfood2.6%Education8.7%Health5.8%Publicadmin…4.5%DomesticworkOther…Profes…servic…Admini…servic…
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 53%Elementary occupations 27%Managers and professionals 20%Service and sales16%Craft andtrades14%Plant andmachineoperators11%Skilledagricultural7.1%Clerical support4.9%Elementary occupations27%Technicians9.2%Professionals9.1%Managers
Skilled occupations 53%Elementary occupations 27%Managers and pro… 20%Service andsales16%Craft andtrades14%Plant and machineoperators11%Skilledagricultu…7.1%Cleric…support4.9%Elementaryoccupations27%Technic…9.2%Professi…9.1%
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

Villa Alegre100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Villa Alegre100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.9%
5.7%5.7%98th of 345
Internet access
86.8%
87.3%93.2%217th 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.
3.7
4.62.3179th 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.
3.4
3.31.6166th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
6,611
111,0606,408,172186th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.30%
0.32%0.57%207th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.95%
0.96%1.13%209th of 345
Public water network
86.7%
88.5%92.3%154th of 345
Electricity access
99.7%
99.6%99.6%76th of 345
Detached houses
99.6%
98.3%78.7%32nd of 345
Apartments
0.0%
1.2%19.9%236th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.30%
0.14%0.23%86th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
13.8%
13.8%11.9%188th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
292
5,214491,904203rd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.4%
4.6%7.5%253rd of 345
Renting households
9.8%
13.6%26.2%297th of 345
Owner-occupiers
74.1%
73.0%61.1%54th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
67.7%
64.9%24.4%137th of 345
Commute by public transport
23.0%
23.0%42.1%207th of 345
Walks to work
8.4%
11.3%10.2%280th of 345
Households with a computer
39.2%
41.6%54.9%233rd 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
1.61.1227th 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.
100.0%
95.3%97.0%1st 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.
65.6%
67.4%89.4%218th 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%
93.3%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%
99.8%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.
9.0
6.55.9178th 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.
5.6%
56.1%80.3%177th 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%
86.3%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%
99.0%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.
1.0
1.10.6201st 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.
100.0%
98.5%99.0%1st 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.
65.1%
74.5%91.6%235th 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%
96.7%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

Private vehicle 45%Public transport 23%On foot or by bicycle 20%Other mea… 12%Car43%Public transport23%Bicycle11%Walking8.4%Other12%
Private vehicle 45%Public transport 23%On foot or b… 20%Othe… 12%Car43%Public transport23%Bicycle11%Walking8.4%Other12%
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 74%Provided rent-… 11%Rented 9.8%Other 5.1%Owned outright69%Provided byfamily8.2%Provided by employerRented,nocontract5.0%Rented,withcontract4.8%Other arrangement5.1%
Owned 74%Provided rent-f… 11%Rented 9.8%Owned outright69%Provided byfamily8.2%Pro…byemp…Rented,nocontract5.0%Rented,withcontract4.8%Otherarrange…5.1%
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 70%Fossil fuels 20%Electricity 6.2%No heat… 4.5%Firewood68%Gas12%Paraffin7.3%Electricity6.2%No heating4.5%
Wood and biomass 70%Fossil fuels 20%Firewood68%Gas12%Paraffin7.3%Electri…6.2%Noheati…4.5%
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
91.1%
of the registered voted in the first round
90.9%
voted in the runoff
15,260
registered voters on the roll
6.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman29.3%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist70.7%58.3%
Villa AlegreChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez22.3%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman18.5%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist32.2%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
Villa AlegreChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile27.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile37.2%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido15.4%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente13.4%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas7.0%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%
Villa AlegreChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile22.7%
KCambio por Chile36.9%
JChile Grande y Unido12.2%
IPartido de la Gente9.8%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas13.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.8%
Independents outside a pact2.8%
Villa Alegreshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Villa Alegre 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

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