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Provincia de AntofagastaProvincia de Antofagasta

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Census population
428,749
11th of 56
Population density
6.3/km²
40th of 56
Average years of schooling
10.6 yrs
7th of 56
Foreign-born share
19.2%
5th of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Dependency ratio56th of 56 · Chile 46.540.6
Internet access1st of 56 · Chile 93.2%97.1%
Households heating with wood56th of 56 · Chile 24.4%0.1%
Average monthly pay2nd of 54 · Chile 32.0 UF35.8 UF
Literacy rate3rd of 56 · Chile 97.8%99.1%
Public water network3rd of 56 · Chile 92.3%96.9%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF35.8 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF35.8 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 · 6,749 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
58.6%
30th of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
9.0%
48th of 54
Came from another region
16.9%
29th of 54
Net internal migration
+7,516
+1.6 per 100 residents
Antofagastathis province · 393,989another region80,201 peopleelsewhere in the region34,631 peopleabroad74,344 peopleanother region98,622 peopleelsewhere in the region8,694 peopleAntofagastathis province · 475,849
Antofagastathis province · 393,989another region80,201 peopleelsewhere in th…34,631 peopleabroad74,344 peopleanother region98,622 peopleelsewhere in th…8,694 peopleAntofagastathis province · 475,849

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520244Administrative services1Administrative services▲31Construction2Construction▼15Manufacturing3Manufacturing▲23Education4Education▼16Transport5Transport▲12Retail and wholesale6Retail and wholesale▼410Professional services7Professional services▲38Public administration8Public administration7Mining9Mining▼29Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food▼112Other services11Other services▲111Health12Health▼1
2005202441Administrative services▲312Construction▼153Manufacturing▲234Education▼165Transport▲126Retail and wholesale▼4107Professional services▲388Public administration79Mining▼2910Accommodation and food▼11211Other services▲11112Health▼1

The ten branches that employ most of Antofagasta

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.

050 k100 k150 k200 kprojection →190 k2029 · central2005201520242029
050 k100 k150 k200 kprojection →190 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.0% a year observed · 1.5% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0200 M400 M600 Mprojection →493 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0200 M400 M600 Mprojection →493 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.1% a year observed · 0.9% projected

What Antofagasta is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Antofagasta employs more people in 127 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.

127
activities it is specialised in
176,225
formal workers
4/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.23.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Servicios de seguridad privada pr…Extracción y procesamiento de cob…Construcción de carreteras y líne…Fabricación de maquinaria para la…Fabricación de cemento, cal y yesoTransporte de carga por ferrocarr…Generación de energía eléctrica e…Captación, tratamiento y distribu…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.23.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Construcción de carreteras y líne…Captación, tratamiento y distribu…Otras actividades deportivas n.c.…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Antofagasta

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
Transporte de carga por ferrocarrilTransporte por ferrocarril1,19121.8×
Fabricación de cemento, cal y yesoFabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.1,39321.2×
Extracción de otros minerales metalíferos no ferrosos n.c.p. (excepto zinc, plomo y manganeso)Extracción de minerales metalíferos no ferrosos, excepto cobre2,06119.0×
Generación de energía eléctrica en centrales termoeléctricasGeneración, transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica1,17218.8×
Reparación de otros tipos de equipoReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo21915.3×
Reparación de otros efectos personales y enseres domésticosReparación de efectos personales y enseres domésticos62612.1×
Reparación de maquinaria metalúrgica, para la minería, extracción de petróleo y para la construcciónReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo4,09112.0×
Fabricación de maquinaria para la explotación de minas y canteras y para obras de construcciónFabricación de maquinaria de uso especial1,69010.8×
Servicios prestados por concesionarios de carreterasActividades de apoyo al transporte2559.2×
Alquiler de equipos de transporte sin operario, excepto vehículos automotoresAlquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles4119.2×
Tratamiento y eliminación de desechos peligrososTratamiento y eliminación de desechos1378.9×
Fabricación de componentes y tableros electrónicosFabricación de componentes y tableros electrónicos2468.5×

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
4,004,085
hectares in holdings
7.1%
of them under a named use
77.4%
of the crop land is irrigated
Not farmed 93%Scrub, barren ground and buildings93%Pasture7.1%
Not farmed 93%Scrub, barren ground and buildings93%
PastureOrchards and vineyardshover 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
AntofagastaChile% of each territory's own population · 428,749 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
428,749
635,41618,480,43211th of 56
Average age
35.1 yrs
35.1 yrs38.1 yrs50th of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
51.1
49.379.050th of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
6.3/km²
5.0/km²24.7/km²40th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
143,380
213,7476,596,52712th of 56
Dwellings
151,674
231,8297,642,71614th of 56
People per household
2.99
2.972.807th of 56
Women
50.6%
50.6%51.5%39th of 56
Men per 100 women
97.6
97.794.318th of 56
Under 15
19.1%
19.7%17.7%18th of 56
65 and over
9.8%
9.7%14.0%51st of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
40.6
41.646.556th of 56
One-person households
20.2%
21.0%21.8%46th of 56
Households with children
37.8%
38.4%33.2%11th of 56
Indigenous peoples
8.6%
14.4%11.4%32nd of 56
Female-headed households
47.3%
46.6%49.9%46th of 56
Land area
67,586 km²
126,131 km²748,041 km²1st of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Antofagasta35%Arrived since 202065%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Antofagasta35%Arrived since 202065%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born share
19.2%
19.5%8.7%5th of 56
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.
58.6%
57.9%50.5%30th of 54
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.
9.0%
7.5%23.9%48th of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
16.9%
17.3%17.2%29th of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
82,411
124,0061,608,6502nd of 56
Average age, foreign-born
32.1 yrs
31.9 yrs33.5 yrs40th of 56
Women among foreign-born
53.0%
53.6%51.7%10th of 56
Foreign-born of working age
84.1%
83.7%83.1%6th of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
35.2%
34.9%34.4%33rd of 56
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna.
22.7%
23.1%10.6%5th of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
11.7 yrs
11.7 yrs12.9 yrs47th of 56
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.
7,516
-43,855014th of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
1.6
-6.10.021st of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Antofagasta31%Higher40%Secondary20%Primary only5.1%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Antofagasta31%Higher40%Secondary20%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.6 yrs
10.5 yrs10.4 yrs7th of 56
Reached higher education
31.3%
29.8%31.1%9th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
97.6%
97.8%98.6%51st of 54
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.
60.0%
59.5%55.6%14th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
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.
98.6%
98.4%99.8%50th of 56
Literacy rate
99.1%
99.0%97.8%3rd of 56
Reached secondary education
40.2%
41.0%36.7%8th of 56
Primary education only
20.3%
21.0%24.1%51st of 56
Never attended school
2.98%
3.20%3.01%36th of 56
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.
12.7 yrs
12.6 yrs12.1 yrs5th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.5 yrs
12.4 yrs12.1 yrs6th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
0.93%
0.99%2.18%54th of 56
Households lacking schooling
12.1%
13.0%15.1%47th of 54
Secondary school leavers · Secondary education for children and young people, by the comuna of the school where they took it. Adults are counted apart.
5,431
8,407217,56511th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
38.8%
41.3%33.9%22nd of 56
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%
0.2%3.1%41st of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
62.2%
58.9%67.2%38th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
18.4%
22.4%19.7%22nd of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
19.4%
18.7%13.1%17th of 56
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.
12.6%
19.9%13.0%41st of 56
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.
50.2%
49.8%49.7%31st of 56

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.

5,431left secondary school in 2024
3,261enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
60.0%continued immediately
62%of those, to a university
13%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en Mantenimiento IndustrialKinesiologiaEnfermeriaMecanica Automotriz en Maquinaria PesadaIngenieria Civil en Computacion E InformaticaMaquinaria Pesada
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en Mantenimiento IndustrialKinesiologiaEnfermeriaMecanica Automotriz en Maquinaria PesadaIngenieria Civil en Computacion E InformaticaMaquinaria Pesada
AntofagastaChile

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%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinary
AntofagastaChile

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

02,0004,0006,0002006201520245,4313,261
02,0004,0006,0002006201520245,4313,261
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 Antofagasta'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 Antofagasta 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

Antofagasta80%Fonasa15%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Antofagasta80%Fonasa15%Chile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
7.8%
7.8%10.6%52nd of 56
Public health insurance
79.8%
78.4%82.6%50th of 54
Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents · Not age-adjusted. It mixes how much illness there is with how much hospital there is nearby.
84.6
87.882.518th of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
123
1231006th of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
33,633
49,8761,950,38817th of 56
Average age, people with a disability
51.4 yrs
51.5 yrs56.4 yrs51st of 56
Disability among 65+
35.2%
35.2%43.0%51st of 56
Difficulty walking
3.16%
3.17%4.92%51st of 56
Difficulty seeing
3.53%
3.55%4.58%51st of 56
Difficulty hearing
1.55%
1.59%2.16%50th of 56
Difficulty concentrating
1.97%
1.92%2.70%49th of 56
Private health insurance
15.3%
16.2%13.2%4th of 54
No health coverage
2.70%
3.27%1.98%15th of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
94.9%
92.3%92.1%19th of 54
Households lacking health access
4.0%
4.8%6.0%46th of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
36,279
55,7691,523,71611th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
771
1,13536,69813th of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.13%
2.04%2.41%40th of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.6 days
5.5 days6.1 days44th of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
18.0
17.919.933rd of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
109
11310013th of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
2,084
2,99389,72311th of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.7%
5.4%5.9%21st of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
48.6
47.148.613th of 54
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.
118
1141007th of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 25%Pregnancy, birth and newborns 17%Injuries, bones an… 17%Heart and lungs 15%Tumours, blood and … 14%Infections a… 6.5%Mind, nerves… 4.6%Digestivesystem14%Genitourin…system11%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Perin…condi…1.9%Conge…malfo…1.4%Injuries andpoisoning9.4%Musculoskeletal6.2%SkinRespiratorysystem7.8%Circulatorysystem7.1%Cancers andtumours9.3%Endocr…andmetabo…4.6%Contactwithhealth…3.2%Ill-defi…symptomsInfecti…and…Mentaland…Nervo…system1.6%
Digestive and urinary tra… 25%Pregnancy, bir… 17%Injuries, bones and skin 17%Heart and lungs 15%Tumours, blood a… 14%Infec… 6.5%Digestivesystem14%Genitourin…system11%Pregnancyandchildbirth14%Injuries andpoisoning9.4%Musculoske…6.2%Respiratorysystem7.8%Circulatorysystem7.1%Cancers andtumours9.3%Endoc…andmetab…4.6%Conta…withhealt…3.2%Ill-d…sympt…Infec…and…Mental…Nervo…system
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 digestivos28%Sangre y sistema linfático17%Vías urinarias12%Mama11%Tiroides yendocrinas9.1%Genitalesfemeninos7.0%Víasrespirat…3.9%Genitalesmasculin…3.6%Sitiosmaldefinid…2.2%Piel ymelanoma1.8%Boca yfaringeTejid…bland…1.5%Encéf…ysiste…1.4%
Órganos digestivos28%Sangre ysistemalinfático17%Vías urinarias12%Mama11%Tiroides yendocrinas9.1%Genitalesfemeninos7.0%Víasrespi…3.9%Genit…mascu…3.6%Sitiosmal…Piel ymelan…Bocayfar…Tejidos…Encéfal…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariasMamaTiroides y endocrinasGenitales femeninoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
16.2%
16.4%17.3%43rd of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
35.8 UF
35.1 UF32.0 UF2nd of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
79.0%
77.2%78.9%48th of 54
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.
72.1
69.785.642nd of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
57.9%
57.7%54.4%15th of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.8%
8.0%8.6%36th of 56
Self-employed
34.8%
34.7%33.8%30th of 56
Extreme poverty
6.6%
7.1%6.9%36th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
16.1%
17.3%17.7%35th of 54
Unemployment rate
7.4%
7.8%8.8%42nd of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 777,636
CLP 806,072CLP 783,12410th of 54
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
0.4440.48835th of 53
Registered firms
30,910
44,2881,582,39013th of 56
Annual sales
470,867,064 UF
594,510,665 UF34,347,683,688 UF7th of 54
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.
176,321
230,6089,699,1649th of 56
Sales per firm
15,233 UF
13,424 UF21,706 UF7th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
3.7
3.43.93rd of 56
Women among employees
31.5%
32.8%40.6%53rd of 56
Independent contractors
57,632
76,9443,958,2697th of 56
Contractors as share of workers
24.6%
25.0%29.0%36th of 56

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 30%State and social services 19%Natural resour… 17%Industry and … 16%Advanced services 11%Other… 5.9%Retail andwholesale15%Transport9.3%Accommodationand food5.9%Education7.8%Health7.5%Publicadmin…4.0%Mining16%Construction7.7%Manufactur…6.4%Ele…andgasWat…andwas…Administ…services5.3%Professionalservices3.3%Inf…andcom…Fin…andins…Otherservices3.4%Domest…workArtsandente…
Trade and logistics 30%State and soc… 19%Natural re… 17%Industry a… 16%Advanced s… 11%Other ser… 5.9%Retail andwholesale15%Transport9.3%Accommodationand foodEducati…7.8%Health7.5%Public administrationMining16%Construction7.7%Manufact…6.4%Ele…andgasWat…and…Admin…servi…5.3%Profes…servic…Fina…Real…Otherservices
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 52%Managers and professionals 35%Elementary occupations 12%Service andsales19%Craft andtrades15%Plant and machineoperators11%Clericalsupport6.8%Professionals18%Technicians12%Managers5.5%Elementary occupations12%
Skilled occupations 52%Managers and professionals 35%Elemen… 12%Service andsales19%Craft andtrades15%Plant andmachineoperators11%Clericalsupport6.8%Professionals18%Technicians12%ManagersElementaryoccupatio…12%
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

Antofagasta72%House26%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Antofagasta72%House26%FlatChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.8%
7.6%5.7%8th of 56
Internet access
97.1%
96.5%93.2%1st of 56
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
1.52.354th of 56
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.
1.0
1.11.649th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
135,652
202,0656,408,17212th of 56
Critically overcrowded
0.82%
0.94%0.57%7th of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
2.72%
2.66%1.13%9th of 56
Public water network
96.9%
95.9%92.3%3rd of 56
Electricity access
99.6%
99.5%99.6%22nd of 56
Detached houses
71.9%
78.3%78.7%53rd of 56
Apartments
25.7%
19.2%19.9%4th of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.52%
0.53%0.23%12th of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
6.4%
8.2%11.9%51st of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
17,093
27,028491,9044th of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
11.9%
12.6%7.5%6th of 56
Renting households
33.6%
34.6%26.2%4th of 56
Owner-occupiers
49.3%
48.6%61.1%52nd of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
0.1%
0.7%24.4%56th of 56
Commute by public transport
43.7%
40.8%42.1%7th of 56
Walks to work
10.1%
10.7%10.2%45th of 56
Households with a computer
59.6%
57.7%54.9%6th of 56
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.
0.9
0.91.149th of 56
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.
98.7%
98.5%97.0%9th of 56
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.
99.7%
99.4%99.9%38th of 56
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.
99.8%
99.7%100.0%42nd of 56
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.
97.4%
97.3%89.4%3rd of 56
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.
99.3%
98.9%98.1%13th of 56
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.
99.7%
99.4%99.7%31st of 56
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
4.8
5.55.938th of 56
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.
95.4%
94.1%80.3%7th of 56
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.
96.5%
95.1%90.0%15th of 56
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.
96.6%
95.3%96.2%23rd of 56
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.
0.6
0.70.648th of 56
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
99.1%
98.8%99.0%14th of 56
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.
99.7%
99.4%99.9%40th of 56
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.
99.8%
99.7%100.0%46th of 56
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.
98.5%
98.3%91.6%4th of 56
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.
99.4%
99.1%98.5%15th of 56
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.
99.5%
99.3%99.8%34th of 56

How people commute

Public transport 44%Private vehicle 27%Other means 18%On foot or… 11%Public transport44%Car26%Other18%Walking10%
Public transport 44%Private vehic… 27%Other means 18%On foot or by… 11%Public transport44%Car26%Other18%Walking10%
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 49%Rented 34%Provided rent… 8.9%Other 8.2%Owned outright35%Owned, still paying15%Rented, withcontract22%Rented, nocontract12%Provided byfamily7.5%Otherarrangement8.2%
Owned 49%Rented 34%Provided … 8.9%Other 8.2%Owned outright35%Owned, stillpaying15%Rented, withcontract22%Rented,nocontract12%Provided byfamily7.5%Otherarrangement8.2%
Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

No heating 66%Fossil fuels 21%Electricity 12%No heating66%Gas21%Electricity12%
No heating 66%Fossil fuels 21%Electricity 12%No heating66%Gas21%Electricity12%
No heatingElectricityOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
83.4%
of the registered voted in the first round
82.7%
voted in the runoff
329,813
registered voters on the roll
10.2%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman45.4%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist54.6%58.3%
AntofagastaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez33.0%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman24.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist17.8%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.2%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.6%1.3%
AntofagastaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile47.1%30.6%
KCambio por Chile15.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido10.0%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente17.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.9%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista1.8%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios4.1%0.6%
HPopular0.9%0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
AntofagastaChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

4
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Antofagasta401,09619.1%10.7 yrs16.0%
Mejillones14,08429.8%9.3 yrs21.7%
Sierra Gorda1,47231.8%9.1 yrs17.6%
Taltal12,0977.8%9.5 yrs15.6%
Antofagasta428,74919.2%10.6 yrs16.2%