Commune · 13132

VitacuraVitacura

Compare Vitacura with another place
Census population
86,420
68th of 346
Population density
3,031.4/km²
29th of 346
Average years of schooling
13.4 yrs
5th of 346
Foreign-born share
10.9%
40th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Women1st of 346 · Chile 51.5%53.8%
Men per 100 women346th of 346 · Chile 94.385.8
Indigenous peoples346th of 346 · Chile 11.4%1.0%
Average years of schooling, men1st of 346 · Chile 12.1 yrs16.7 yrs
Public water network1st of 345 · Chile 92.3%100.0%
Electricity access1st of 345 · Chile 99.6%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF38.4 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF38.4 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 · 440 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
30.6%
308th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
40.3%
23rd of 335
Came from another region
19.4%
97th of 335
Net internal migration
+5,679
+6.0 per 100 residents
Vitacurathis commune · 79,891elsewhere in the region38,158 peopleanother region18,419 peopleabroad9,169 peopleelsewhere in the region46,579 peopleanother region4,319 peopleVitacurathis commune · 94,739
Vitacurathis commune · 79,891elsewhere in th…38,158 peopleanother region18,419 peopleabroad9,169 peopleelsewhere in th…46,579 peopleanother region4,319 peopleVitacurathis commune · 94,739

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Retail and wholesale1Retail and wholesale▲11Agriculture and fishing2Agriculture and fishing▼13Construction3Construction6Accommodation and food4Accommodation and food▲27Administrative services5Administrative services▲25Education6Education▼14Manufacturing7Manufacturing▼38Health8Health10Professional services9Professional services▲19Information and communications10Information and communications▼114Other services11Other services▲315Finance and insurance12Finance and insurance▲311Transport15Transport▼412Mining16Mining▼4
2005202421Retail and wholesale▲112Agriculture and fishing▼133Construction64Accommodation and food▲275Administrative services▲256Education▼147Manufacturing▼388Health109Professional services▲1910Information and communications▼11411Other services▲31512Finance and insurance▲31115Transport▼41216Mining▼4

The ten branches that employ most of Vitacura

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.

0100 k200 k300 kprojection →256 k2029 · central2005201520242029
0100 k200 k300 kprojection →256 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.2% a year observed · 2.3% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0500 M1,000 M1,500 M2,000 Mprojection →1,298 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0500 M1,000 M1,500 M2,000 Mprojection →1,298 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.4% a year observed · 6.0% projected

What Vitacura is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Vitacura employs more people in 118 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.

118
activities it is specialised in
227,614
formal workers
34/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.13.7Suministro industrial de comidas …Construcción de edificios para us…Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de …Enseñanza superior en institutos …Venta al por menor en comercios d…Venta al por mayor no especializa…Venta al por menor de calzado en …Reparación de maquinaria metalúrg…Cultivo de productos agrícolas en…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.13.7Servicios de publicidad prestados…Elaboración de vinosActividades de ISAPRESeguros de vidaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Vitacura

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
Corretaje al por mayor de productos agrícolasVenta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata9,27613.7×
Venta al por menor de productos textiles, prendas de vestir y calzado en puestos de venta y mercadosVenta al por menor en puestos de venta y mercados1,25113.6×
Enseñanza superior en institutos profesionalesEnseñanza superior8,90113.4×
Televisión de pago satelitalActividades de telecomunicaciones por satélite20413.2×
Cultivo de uva para mesaCultivo de plantas perennes5,56911.5×
Edición de diarios, revistas y otras publicaciones periódicasEdición de libros y publicaciones periódicas y otras actividades de edición70311.3×
Actividades de organizaciones y órganos extraterritorialesActividades de organizaciones y órganos extraterritoriales1819.5×
Venta al por menor de calzado en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados3,4799.4×
Venta al por mayor de maquinaria y equipo de oficina; venta al por mayor de muebles de oficinaVenta al por mayor de maquinaria, equipo y materiales1139.4×
Organización de convenciones y exposiciones comercialesOrganización de convenciones y exposiciones comerciales1567.6×
Actividades de salones de masajes, baños turcos, saunas, servicio de baños públicosOtras actividades de servicios personales907.6×
Actividades de otros clubes deportivos n.c.p.Actividades deportivas1,5187.0×

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

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
VitacuraChile% of each territory's own population · 86,420 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
86,420
5,385,73718,480,43268th of 346
Average age
40.7 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs82nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
110.7
85.179.068th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
3,031.4/km²
2,653.4/km²24.7/km²29th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
31,114
1,951,4816,596,52764th of 346
Dwellings
34,538
2,060,6137,642,71661st of 346
People per household
2.78
2.762.80150th of 345
Women
53.8%
51.8%51.5%1st of 346
Men per 100 women
85.8
93.294.3346th of 346
Under 15
17.4%
16.3%17.7%211th of 346
65 and over
19.2%
13.8%14.0%39th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
57.8
43.046.533rd of 346
One-person households
21.5%
23.6%21.8%195th of 345
Households with children
28.0%
30.2%33.2%303rd of 345
Indigenous peoples
1.0%
7.2%11.4%346th of 346
Female-headed households
47.7%
51.1%49.9%186th of 345
Land area
29 km²
2,030 km²748,041 km²323rd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Vitacura22%Arrived since 202078%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Vitacura22%78%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
10.9%
15.4%8.7%40th 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.
30.6%
34.9%50.5%308th 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.
40.3%
35.2%23.9%23rd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
19.4%
16.4%17.2%97th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
9,401
828,3681,608,65049th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
41.9 yrs
34.4 yrs33.5 yrs9th of 345
Women among foreign-born
57.6%
51.8%51.7%13th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
77.4%
84.3%83.1%284th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
22.4%
31.7%34.4%306th 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.
13.3%
18.5%10.6%40th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
16.0 yrs
13.4 yrs12.9 yrs2nd 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.
5,679
-150,290061st of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
6.0
-2.50.0124th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Vitacura66%Higher14%Secondary11%Primary only6.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Vitacura66%HigherChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
13.4 yrs
11.2 yrs10.4 yrs5th of 346
Reached higher education
66.4%
38.6%31.1%5th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.2%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.
80.6%
54.9%55.6%1st 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.
92.8%
98.2%99.8%342nd of 346
Literacy rate
99.7%
98.7%97.8%3rd of 346
Reached secondary education
14.2%
34.9%36.7%344th of 346
Primary education only
11.1%
19.1%24.1%342nd of 346
Never attended school
2.24%
2.55%3.01%325th 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.
16.7 yrs
13.1 yrs12.1 yrs1st of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
15.5 yrs
12.8 yrs12.1 yrs2nd of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
0.26%
1.25%2.18%344th of 345
Households lacking schooling
0.6%
9.9%15.1%335th 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.
1,394
57,776217,56550th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
0.0%
31.5%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%
0.1%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
97.6%
70.6%67.2%3rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
2.1%
21.9%19.7%322nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
0.3%
7.5%13.1%322nd 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.
0.4%
1.3%13.0%314th 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.
53.3%
48.6%49.7%115th 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.

1,394left secondary school in 2024
1,123enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
80.6%continued immediately
98%of those, to a university
0%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%10.0%20.0%Ingenieria ComercialDerechoPsicologiaIngenieria CivilDiseñoCollege Ciencias Sociales (licenciatura)College Ciencias Naturales y Matematicas (licenciatura)Ingenieria Comercial, Plan ComunIngenieria Civil (plan Comun)Medicina
0.0%10.0%20.0%Ingenieria ComercialDerechoPsicologiaIngenieria CivilDiseñoCollege Ciencias Sociales (licenciatura)College Ciencias Naturales y Matematicas (licenciatura)Ingenieria Comercial, Plan ComunIngenieria Civil (plan Comun)Medicina
VitacuraChile

Each bar is that programme's share of everyone who continued, here and in the country — not a headcount, so a commune of a few hundred can be read beside a country of 121,050. Programme names as the register writes them: in capitals and without accents, and unmerged, since SIES publishes 1,481 distinct names in a single year and two spellings of one degree stay two rows. Only the capitals are undone here.

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Business and lawEngineering and industrySocial sciencesHealth and welfareArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesInformation technologyEducationAgriculture and veterinaryServices
0.0%20.0%40.0%Business and lawEngineering and industrySocial sciencesHealth and welfareArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesInformation technologyEducationAgriculture and veterinaryServices
VitacuraChile

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

05001,0001,5002006201520241,3941,123
05001,0001,5002006201520241,3941,123
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 Vitacura'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 Vitacura 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

Vitacura15%Fonasa83%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Vitacura15%83%IsapreChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
4.3%
9.3%10.6%342nd of 346
Public health insurance
15.2%
73.9%82.6%335th 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.
152.6
87.182.52nd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
60
100100271st of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
3,730
499,3711,950,388130th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
64.6 yrs
56.6 yrs56.4 yrs6th of 346
Disability among 65+
61.0%
43.7%43.0%4th of 346
Difficulty walking
2.04%
4.33%4.92%337th of 346
Difficulty seeing
1.41%
3.83%4.58%345th of 346
Difficulty hearing
1.05%
1.87%2.16%339th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
1.45%
2.50%2.70%337th of 346
Private health insurance
83.3%
22.4%13.2%1st of 335
No health coverage
0.62%
1.80%1.98%241st of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
91.2%
91.7%92.1%217th of 332
Households lacking health access
2.0%
5.8%6.0%279th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
13,184
469,3531,523,71636th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
146
10,69136,69877th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
1.11%
2.28%2.41%319th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
3.3 days
6.0 days6.1 days330th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
16.9
19.919.9207th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
171
1061002nd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
885
28,65989,72329th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.7%
6.1%5.9%90th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
102.4
53.248.61st 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.
186
1111001st of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Injuries, bones and skin 19%Digestive and urinary tra… 19%Heart and lungs 17%Infections and … 14%Tumours, blo… 12%Pregnancy, b… 12%Injuries andpoisoning9.8%Musculoske…8.7%Digestivesystem9.9%Genitourin…system9.2%Respiratory system10.0%Circulatory system7.2%Contact withhealth services9.0%InfectiousandparasiticIll-def…symptomsCancers andtumours9.4%Endocrine and…Blo…and…Pregnancy andchildbirth9.7%Congenital…Perinat…Nervoussystem2.6%Mentaland…Eye1.4%
Injuries, bones and … 19%Digestive and urina… 19%Heart and lungs 17%Infections and other … 14%Tumours, blood and … 12%Pregnancy… 12%Injuriesandpoisoning9.8%Musculosk…8.7%Digestivesystem9.9%Genitour…system9.2%Respiratorysystem10.0%Circula…system7.2%Contact withhealthservicesInfectio…and…Ill-def…symptomsCancers andtumours9.4%End…andmet…Bloo…Pregnancyandchildbirth9.7%Perina…Nervo…systemMentaland…Eye1.4%
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

Sangre y sistemalinfático15%Órganosdigestivos15%Mama15%Sitios maldefinidos11%Piel y melanoma9.6%Vías urinarias9.3%Genitalesmasculinos6.0%Genitalesfemeninos4.9%Vías respiratorias4.4%Tiroides yendocrinas4.4%Encéfalo ysistemanervioso2.6%Teji…blan…Hues…Siti…
Sangre ysistemalinfático15%Órganosdigestivos15%Mama15%Sitios maldefinidos11%Piel y melanoma9.6%Víasurinarias9.3%Genitalesmasculinos6.0%Genital…femenin…4.9%Víasrespir…4.4%Tiroi…yendoc…4.4%Encéfaloy…Tej…bla…Hue…Sit…
Sangre y sistema linfáticoÓrganos digestivosMamaSitios mal definidosPiel y melanomaVías urinariashover 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.
0.8%
12.4%17.3%331st of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
38.4 UF
37.3 UF32.0 UF8th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
74.7%
73.0%78.9%320th 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.
260.8
104.385.66th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
60.8%
59.5%54.4%34th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
3.7%
7.7%8.6%322nd of 345
Self-employed
40.8%
33.2%33.8%75th of 345
Extreme poverty
0.7%
4.4%6.9%325th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
1.1%
18.9%17.7%325th of 335
Unemployment rate
5.8%
8.4%8.8%274th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 2,714,244
CLP 1,019,380CLP 783,1241st 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.
0.374
0.5000.488299th of 321
Registered firms
22,537
561,5661,582,39013th of 346
Annual sales
971,648,937 UF
25,794,247,870 UF34,347,683,688 UF5th 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.
228,021
5,253,9409,699,1645th of 346
Sales per firm
43,113 UF
45,933 UF21,706 UF10th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
6.0
6.13.99th of 346
Women among employees
41.9%
41.7%40.6%148th of 345
Independent contractors
98,788
2,467,4083,958,2696th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
30.2%
32.0%29.0%122nd of 346

Employment by industry

Advanced services 35%State and social services 23%Trade and logistics 20%Other services 9.8%Industry and construc… 9.0%Professionalservices16%Finance and insurance7.7%Informat…andcommunic…5.0%Real estate4.4%Administrativ…Health11%Education9.4%Pub…adm…Retail andwholesale14%Transp…3.0%Accomm…andfood2.4%Domesticwork5.4%Arts andentertainme…OtherservicesManufactur…4.6%Constru…3.3%Min…Agr…andfis…
Advanced services 35%State and soc… 23%Trade and logistics 20%Oth… 9.8%Industr… 9.0%Professionalservices16%Finance andinsurance7.7%Inform…andcommun…5.0%Realestate4.4%Health11%Education9.4%Retail andwholesale14%Trans…3.0%Accom…andfood2.4%Domesticwork5.4%Artsandente…Otherserv…Manuf…4.6%Const…3.3%Elec…MiningAgri…and…
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

Managers and professionals 82%Skilled… 13%Elemen… 4.9%Professionals50%Managers23%Technicians9.1%Service andsales7.8%ClericalsupportCraftandtradesPlantand…Skill…Elementaryoccupations4.9%
Managers and professionals 82%Skilled occupations 13%Eleme… 4.9%Professionals50%Managers23%Technicians9.1%Service and salesCleric…supportCra…andtra…Elementaryoccupations
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

Vitacura36%House64%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Vitacura36%House64%FlatChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
1.1%
6.7%5.7%343rd of 345
Internet access
99.1%
95.9%93.2%1st 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.
1.3
1.02.3303rd 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.
0.5
0.51.6327th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
30,770
1,868,7116,408,17261st of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.12%
0.93%0.57%325th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.05%
0.51%1.13%343rd of 345
Public water network
100.0%
99.6%92.3%1st of 345
Electricity access
100.0%
99.9%99.6%1st of 345
Detached houses
35.5%
55.8%78.7%339th of 345
Apartments
64.4%
42.0%19.9%6th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.00%
0.09%0.23%324th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
5.4%
5.2%11.9%311th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
645
193,039491,904119th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
2.1%
9.9%7.5%342nd of 345
Renting households
34.2%
37.8%26.2%19th of 345
Owner-occupiers
61.9%
51.5%61.1%270th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
0.0%
0.2%24.4%342nd of 345
Commute by public transport
14.5%
54.0%42.1%304th of 345
Walks to work
6.4%
8.4%10.2%323rd of 345
Households with a computer
88.9%
62.8%54.9%2nd 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.
0.6
0.51.1314th 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%
100.0%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.
100.0%
99.6%89.4%1st 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%
100.0%98.1%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.7
1.05.9338th 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.
100.0%
99.7%80.3%1st 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%
100.0%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%
100.0%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.4
0.30.6299th 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%
100.0%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.
100.0%
100.0%91.6%1st 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%
100.0%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 70%Public transport 14%On foot or by bic… 13%Car69%Public transport14%Walking6.4%Bicycle6.3%Other
Private vehicle 70%Public transport 14%On foot or by b… 13%Car69%Public transport14%Walking6.4%Bicycle6.3%
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 62%Rented 34%Owned outright39%Owned, still paying23%Rented, with contract33%Provided by familyOther…
Owned 62%Rented 34%Owned outright39%Owned, stillpaying23%Rented, with contract33%Pro…byfam…Oth…arr…
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

Fossil fuels 64%Electricity 32%No heating 2.7%Gas52%Paraffin12%Electricity32%Other
Fossil fuels 64%Electricity 32%Gas52%Paraffin12%Electricity32%Nohea…Other
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
80.5%
of the registered voted in the first round
80.7%
voted in the runoff
87,395
registered voters on the roll
5.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman12.9%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist87.1%58.3%
VitacuraChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez0.8%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman7.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist35.2%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.2%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet42.4%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.9%1.3%
VitacuraChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile9.5%30.6%
KCambio por Chile36.3%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido49.6%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente1.0%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.2%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista1.2%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular0.2%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
VitacuraChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Vitacura across the 28 figures PuroChile publishes for the 345 communes with complete data, grouped into seven dimensions of equal weight. This is not proximity: nothing in the computation knows where any commune is.

ScalePopulation structureMigrationEducationHealthEconomyHousing and services

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

Inside the commune

Census districts
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