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Provincia de Cardenal CaroProvincia de Cardenal Caro

Compare Cardenal Caro with another place
Census population
58,136
43rd of 56
Population density
17.6/km²
35th of 56
Average years of schooling
9.4 yrs
42nd of 56
Foreign-born share
3.6%
38th of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 56 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 56 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 56 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 56 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary1st of 56 · Chile 99.8%100.0%
Average age2nd of 56 · Chile 38.1 yrs41.7 yrs
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.6 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.6 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 · 1,017 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
67.3%
11th of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
10.2%
45th of 54
Came from another region
19.9%
20th of 54
Net internal migration
-13,426
-26.8 per 100 residents
Cardenal Carothis province · 62,134another region9,967 peopleelsewhere in the region3,270 peopleabroad1,310 peopleanother region18,695 peopleelsewhere in the region7,968 peopleCardenal Carothis province · 50,018
Cardenal Carothis province · 62,134another region9,967 peopleelsewhere in th…3,270 peopleabroad1,310 peopleanother region18,695 peopleelsewhere in th…7,968 peopleCardenal Carothis province · 50,018

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing11Public administration2Public administration▲93Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale9Accommodation and food4Accommodation and food▲54Education5Education▼18Construction6Construction▲22Health7Health▼55Manufacturing8Manufacturing▼310Transport9Transport▲112Water and waste10Water and waste▲216Real estate11Real estate▲513Administrative services12Administrative services▲16Other services13Other services▼77Arts and entertainment16Arts and entertainment▼9
2005202411Agriculture and fishing112Public administration▲933Retail and wholesale94Accommodation and food▲545Education▼186Construction▲227Health▼558Manufacturing▼3109Transport▲11210Water and waste▲21611Real estate▲51312Administrative services▲1613Other services▼7716Arts and entertainment▼9

The ten branches that employ most of Cardenal Caro

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.

05 k10 k15 k20 kprojection →17 k2029 · central2005201520242029
05 k10 k15 k20 kprojection →17 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.3% a year observed · 3.5% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

010 M20 M30 Mprojection →24 M2029 · central2005201520242029
010 M20 M30 Mprojection →24 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval9.0% a year observed · 6.7% projected

What Cardenal Caro is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Cardenal Caro employs more people in 92 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.

92
activities it is specialised in
13,980
formal workers
44/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de restaurantes y de …Elaboración de productos de panad…Recogida de desechos no peligrososExtracción de maderaCultivo de uva destinada a la pro…Venta al por menor de libros en c…Generación de energía eléctrica e…Venta al por menor de productos t…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Cría de ovejas (ovinos)Servicios de producción de obras …Venta al por mayor de equipo de t…Actividades postalesHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Cardenal Caro

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
ApiculturaGanadería5845.6×
Actividades de residenciales para turistasActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas2019.6×
Cría de ovejas (ovinos)Ganadería3318.0×
Otras actividades de servicio de bebidas n.c.p.Actividades de servicio de bebidas1114.7×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada16813.6×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadoresOtras actividades de alojamiento5011.7×
Enseñanza deportiva y recreativaOtros tipos de enseñanza1411.6×
Actividades de discotecas y cabaret (night club), con predominio del servicio de bebidasActividades de servicio de bebidas4910.9×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura6310.0×
Elaboración de bebidas malteadas y de maltaElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas369.7×
Otras actividades de alojamiento n.c.p.Otras actividades de alojamiento858.6×
Extracción de maderaExtracción de madera1018.1×

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
204,930
hectares in holdings
84.2%
of them under a named use
60.3%
of the crop land is irrigated
Woodland 39%Pasture 33%Not farmed 22%Orchards and … 4.4%Annu… 2.6%Forest plantations33%Native woodland5.7%Pasture33%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings16%Untilled land5.8%Fruittrees2.2%Vines2.2%Foddercrops1.5%Cer…
Woodland 39%Pasture 33%Not farmed 22%Orch… 4.4%Forest plantations33%Native woodlandPasture33%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings16%Untilledland5.8%FruittreesVinesFoddercropsCer…
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
Cardenal CaroChile% of each territory's own population · 58,136 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
58,136
987,22818,480,43243rd of 56
Average age
41.7 yrs
38.8 yrs38.1 yrs2nd of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
113.5
83.179.02nd of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
17.6/km²
60.4/km²24.7/km²35th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
22,793
350,3726,596,52743rd of 56
Dwellings
41,498
407,9707,642,71640th of 56
People per household
2.55
2.822.8048th of 56
Women
50.0%
51.0%51.5%45th of 56
Men per 100 women
100.0
96.294.312th of 56
Under 15
16.8%
18.1%17.7%51st of 56
65 and over
19.1%
15.0%14.0%2nd of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
56.0
49.446.56th of 56
One-person households
25.9%
20.2%21.8%9th of 56
Households with children
28.6%
34.4%33.2%52nd of 56
Indigenous peoples
4.8%
5.1%11.4%48th of 56
Female-headed households
45.4%
48.2%49.9%51st of 56
Land area
3,296 km²
16,350 km²748,041 km²42nd of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Cardenal Caro40%Arrived since 202060%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Cardenal Caro40%Arrived since 202060%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
3.6%
5.0%8.7%38th 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.
67.3%
60.4%50.5%11th 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.
10.2%
15.9%23.9%45th of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
19.9%
18.6%17.2%20th of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
2,108
49,2721,608,65042nd of 56
Average age, foreign-born
33.9 yrs
32.0 yrs33.5 yrs20th of 56
Women among foreign-born
49.1%
50.2%51.7%48th of 56
Foreign-born of working age
81.5%
81.3%83.1%32nd of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
39.8%
43.5%34.4%23rd 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.
4.6%
6.1%10.6%37th of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.6 yrs
12.7 yrs12.9 yrs25th 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.
-13,426
-18,495032nd of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-26.8
-1.80.047th of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Cardenal Caro23%Higher35%Secondary33%Primary only4.6%4.6%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Cardenal Caro23%35%Secondary33%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.4 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs42nd of 56
Reached higher education
23.1%
25.2%31.1%36th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
97.5%
98.4%98.6%52nd 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.
45.0%
49.7%55.6%53rd 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.
103.7%
101.6%99.8%10th of 56
Literacy rate
95.3%
96.7%97.8%50th of 56
Reached secondary education
35.2%
37.4%36.7%46th of 56
Primary education only
32.5%
28.8%24.1%14th of 56
Never attended school
4.63%
3.52%3.01%5th 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.
10.6 yrs
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs45th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.0 yrs
11.5 yrs12.1 yrs43rd of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.68%
3.26%2.18%7th of 56
Households lacking schooling
27.9%
21.5%15.1%4th 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.
444
11,856217,56544th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
16.7%
35.5%33.9%53rd 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%
3.6%3.1%41st of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
66.0%
62.6%67.2%25th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
18.0%
20.9%19.7%26th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
16.0%
16.5%13.1%33rd 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.
79.5%
46.0%13.0%2nd 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.
51.5%
49.6%49.7%16th 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.

444left secondary school in 2024
200enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
45.0%continued immediately
66%of those, to a university
80%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil IndustrialArquitecturaKinesiologiaNutricion y DieteticaPsicologiaDerechoPedagogia en Educacion FisicaGastronomiaTecnico de Nivel Superior en Administracion Con Especialidad en Turismo y Servicios
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil IndustrialArquitecturaKinesiologiaNutricion y DieteticaPsicologiaDerechoPedagogia en Educacion FisicaGastronomiaTecnico de Nivel Superior en Administracion Con Especialidad en Turismo y Servicios
Cardenal CaroChile

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%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
Cardenal CaroChile

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

0200400600200620152024444200
0200400600200620152024444200
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 Cardenal Caro'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 Cardenal Caro 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

Cardenal Caro91%Fonasa5.0%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Cardenal Caro91%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.6%
12.0%10.6%8th of 56
Public health insurance
91.0%
87.3%82.6%21st 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.
47.4
69.482.548th of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
73
9210046th of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
7,907
118,3761,950,38842nd of 56
Average age, people with a disability
60.2 yrs
57.0 yrs56.4 yrs5th of 56
Disability among 65+
49.0%
43.6%43.0%7th of 56
Difficulty walking
6.95%
5.88%4.92%4th of 56
Difficulty seeing
6.14%
5.21%4.58%7th of 56
Difficulty hearing
2.84%
2.43%2.16%7th of 56
Difficulty concentrating
3.22%
2.90%2.70%6th of 56
Private health insurance
2.3%
8.6%13.2%46th of 54
No health coverage
5.00%
2.50%1.98%2nd of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
95.9%
94.5%92.1%11th of 54
Households lacking health access
5.3%
6.2%6.0%38th of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
2,757
68,5551,523,71644th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
109
1,89736,69842nd of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.95%
2.77%2.41%2nd of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.9 days
5.8 days6.1 days5th of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
18.7
19.219.929th of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
53
8310049th of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
158
3,44389,72344th 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%
5.0%5.9%22nd of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
27.2
34.948.647th 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.
47
6910049th of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 24%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries, bones and… 19%Tumours, b… 13%Pregnancy, birt… 11%Mind, nerves … 5.6%Infections an… 5.0%Digestive system15%Genitourin…system9.4%Respiratorysystem12%Circulatorysystem9.8%Injuries andpoisoning14%Musculoskeletal3.8%Skin1.5%Cancers andtumours7.9%Endocrineandmetabolic4.1%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Mental andbehavioural3.8%Nervo…system1.6%Infect…andparasi…Cont…withheal…Ill…sym…
Digestive and urinary… 24%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries, b… 19%Tumours, blood an… 13%Pregnancy, birth … 11%Digestivesystem15%Genitour…system9.4%Respiratorysystem12%Circulat…system9.8%Injuries andpoisoning14%Musculoske…3.8%SkinCancers andtumours7.9%Endocr…andmetabo…4.1%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Mentalandbehavio…Nervous…Infectio…Con…wit…Ill…sym…
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 sistemalinfático20%Órganos digestivos19%Genitales masculinos10%Genitalesfemeninos9.5%Víasurinarias7.0%Tiroides yendocrinas5.7%Sitios maldefinidos5.7%Mama5.1%Boca yfaringe3.8%Huesos3.8%Piel ymelanoma3.8%Sitiosreserva…3.8%Vías respiratorias
Sangre y sistemalinfático20%Órganos digestivos19%Genitalesmasculinos10%Genitalesfemeninos9.5%Víasurinarias7.0%Tiroides yendocrinas5.7%Sitios maldefinidos5.7%Mama5.1%Boca yfaringe3.8%Huesos3.8%Piel ymelanoma3.8%Sitiosreservad…3.8%Víasrespir…3.2%
Sangre y sistema linfáticoÓrganos digestivosGenitales masculinosGenitales femeninosVías urinariasTiroides y endocrinashover 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.
19.2%
17.9%17.3%27th of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.6 UF
22.9 UF32.0 UF39th of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
101.8%
90.3%78.9%10th 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.
115.2
84.185.610th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
51.2%
52.3%54.4%38th of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
6.3%
8.5%8.6%46th of 56
Self-employed
43.7%
30.6%33.8%5th of 56
Extreme poverty
8.3%
7.0%6.9%21st of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
17.3%
17.9%17.7%27th of 54
Unemployment rate
4.0%
8.7%8.8%53rd of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 528,636
CLP 634,668CLP 783,12442nd 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.
0.436
0.4460.48840th of 53
Registered firms
6,696
83,0441,582,39041st of 56
Annual sales
17,584,889 UF
813,874,625 UF34,347,683,688 UF44th 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.
14,004
435,3659,699,16442nd of 56
Sales per firm
2,626 UF
9,801 UF21,706 UF45th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.4
2.83.949th of 56
Women among employees
43.8%
40.4%40.6%13th of 56
Independent contractors
7,843
96,8533,958,26941st of 56
Contractors as share of workers
35.9%
18.2%29.0%8th of 56

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 26%Industry and construction 23%State and social services 21%Natural reso… 14%Advanced serv… 9.1%Other services 6.4%Retail andwholesale15%Accommodati…and food7.9%Transport3.6%Construction13%Manufacturi…7.8%Water…Electr…Education8.3%Publicadministra…7.3%Health5.3%Agricultureand fishing13%Professionalservices3.1%Administrat…servicesInfor…andcommu…RealestateFinanc…Domesticwork3.4%OtherservicesArts and…
Trade and logistics 26%Industry and const… 23%State and socia… 21%Natural… 14%Advanced… 9.1%Other se… 6.4%Retail andwholesale15%Accommod…and food7.9%Transport3.6%Constructi…13%Manufac…7.8%Wat…and…Ele…and…Educati…8.3%Publicadminis…7.3%HealthAgricultureand fishing13%Professio…servicesAdministr…servicesInf…and…Rea…Fina…Domes…workOtherservic…Arts an…
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 57%Managers and professionals 25%Elementary occupations 18%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades17%Plant andmachineoperators7.9%Skilledagricultural7.1%Clericalsupport4.4%Professiona…13%Technicians8.3%Managers4.1%Elementary occupations18%
Skilled occupations 57%Managers and professiona… 25%Elementary occu… 18%Service andsales21%Craft andtrades17%Plant andmachineoperatorsSkilledagricult…7.1%Cleri…suppo…4.4%Professiona…13%Technicians8.3%ManagersElementaryoccupations18%
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

Cardenal Caro99%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Cardenal Caro99%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.8%
5.1%5.7%39th of 56
Internet access
86.8%
91.2%93.2%49th 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.
5.7
3.02.39th 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.
5.4
2.41.69th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
22,481
342,8126,408,17243rd of 56
Critically overcrowded
0.33%
0.32%0.57%30th of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.87%
0.93%1.13%16th of 56
Public water network
76.1%
94.7%92.3%49th of 56
Electricity access
99.1%
99.7%99.6%42nd of 56
Detached houses
98.6%
91.5%78.7%9th of 56
Apartments
0.1%
7.7%19.9%51st of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.18%0.23%37th of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
43.0%
12.3%11.9%4th of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
1,178
20,332491,90443rd of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
5.2%
5.8%7.5%37th of 56
Renting households
16.1%
19.9%26.2%46th of 56
Owner-occupiers
66.4%
66.4%61.1%25th of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
52.1%
35.4%24.4%20th of 56
Commute by public transport
15.8%
23.3%42.1%48th of 56
Walks to work
18.1%
9.2%10.2%18th of 56
Households with a computer
41.9%
49.2%54.9%44th 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.
2.7
1.41.17th 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.
83.1%
96.4%97.0%54th 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.
99.8%
100.0%99.9%33rd 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.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st 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.
55.8%
79.4%89.4%52nd 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.
92.9%
98.5%98.1%41st 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.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st 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.
48.8
8.15.95th 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.
0.0%
56.2%80.3%51st 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.
0.0%
86.8%90.0%52nd 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.
5.9%
94.1%96.2%53rd 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.
1.6
0.80.610th 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.
95.9%
99.3%99.0%40th 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.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st 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.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st 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.
57.6%
83.9%91.6%54th 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.
93.7%
98.8%98.5%40th 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.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 56

How people commute

Private vehicle 53%On foot or by bicycle 22%Public transport 16%Other… 9.1%Car52%Walking18%Bicy…Publictransport16%Other8.9%
Private vehicle 53%On foot or by bicy… 22%Public tra… 16%Car52%Walking18%Publictransport16%Other8.9%
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 66%Rented 16%Provided rent-free 13%Other 4.4%Owned outright64%Rented,withcontract9.1%Rented,nocontract7.1%Provided byfamily10%Prov…byempl…Other arrangement
Owned 66%Rented 16%Provided rent… 13%Owned outright64%Rented,withcontract9.1%Rented,nocontract7.1%Provided byfamily10%Otherarran…4.4%
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 53%Fossil fuels 25%No heating 12%Electricity 9.4%Firewood52%Gas19%Paraffin5.7%No heating12%Electricity9.4%
Wood and biomass 53%Fossil fuels 25%No heating 12%Electricity 9.4%Firewood52%Gas19%Paraf…5.7%No heating12%Electricity9.4%
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
90.2%
of the registered voted in the first round
90.1%
voted in the runoff
55,816
registered voters on the roll
6.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman40.0%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist60.0%58.3%
Cardenal CaroChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez14.8%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman27.6%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist27.1%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet13.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%
Cardenal CaroChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile24.5%30.6%
KCambio por Chile17.9%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido28.5%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.9%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas18.1%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%
Cardenal CaroChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

6
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Pichilemu19,8475.2%10.1 yrs18.3%
La Estrella4,6094.0%9.1 yrs15.5%
Litueche8,8523.7%9.2 yrs19.4%
Marchihue8,7151.8%8.9 yrs14.3%
Navidad8,8853.6%9.5 yrs25.9%
Paredones7,2281.3%8.3 yrs21.6%
Cardenal Caro58,1363.6%9.4 yrs19.2%