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Provincia de ChacabucoProvincia de Chacabuco

Compare Chacabuco with another place
Census population
338,195
15th of 56
Population density
163.0/km²
8th of 56
Average years of schooling
9.9 yrs
24th of 56
Foreign-born share
12.5%
8th of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People per household1st of 56 · Chile 2.803.28
One-person households56th of 56 · Chile 21.8%13.7%
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 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 56 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 56 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF32.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF32.3 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 · 1,697 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
42.6%
48th of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
35.6%
3rd of 54
Came from another region
12.7%
48th of 54
Net internal migration
+140,257
+38.7 per 100 residents
Chacabucothis province · 189,503elsewhere in the region123,681 peopleanother region46,204 peopleabroad33,039 peopleelsewhere in the region19,706 peopleanother region9,922 peopleChacabucothis province · 362,799
Chacabucothis province · 189,503elsewhere in th…123,681 peopleanother region46,204 peopleabroad33,039 peopleelsewhere in th…19,706 peopleanother region9,922 peopleChacabucothis province · 362,799

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Manufacturing1Manufacturing4Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▲23Construction3Construction5Administrative services4Administrative services▲17Education5Education▲26Transport6Transport2Agriculture and fishing7Agriculture and fishing▼511Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▲39Mining9Mining12Professional services10Professional services▲218Water and waste11Water and waste▲716Real estate12Real estate▲48Other services15Other services▼710Finance and insurance18Finance and insurance▼8
2005202411Manufacturing42Retail and wholesale▲233Construction54Administrative services▲175Education▲266Transport27Agriculture and fishing▼5118Accommodation and food▲399Mining1210Professional services▲21811Water and waste▲71612Real estate▲4815Other services▼71018Finance and insurance▼8

The ten branches that employ most of Chacabuco

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.

30 k80 k130 k180 kprojection →146 k2029 · central2005201520242029
30 k80 k130 k180 kprojection →146 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.3% a year observed · 3.1% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0200 M400 M600 Mprojection →484 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0200 M400 M600 Mprojection →484 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.8% a year observed · 2.8% projected

What Chacabuco is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Chacabuco employs more people in 146 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.

146
activities it is specialised in
125,479
formal workers
3/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.50.03.7Cultivo de uva para mesaFabricación de productos farmacéu…Fabricación de cemento, cal y yesoServicios personales de educaciónVenta al por mayor de frutas y ve…Fabricación de carrocerías para v…Cultivo de hortalizas y melonesCaptación, tratamiento y distribu…Fabricación de hojas de madera pa…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.50.03.7Cultivo de uva para mesaFabricación de productos farmacéu…Servicios personales de educaciónCaptación, tratamiento y distribu…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Chacabuco

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
Venta al por menor de pinturas, barnices y lacas en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros enseres domésticos en comercios especializados48135.6×
Fabricación de plásticos y caucho sintético en formas primariasFabricación sustancias químicas básicas, abonos y compuestos de nitrógeno, plásticos y caucho sint.1,35125.7×
Fabricación de carrocerías para vehículos automotores; fabricación de remolques y semirremolques y semirremolquesFabricación de carrocerías para vehículos automotores; fabricación de remolques y semirremolques51424.2×
Fabricación de otros tipos de maquinaria de uso especialFabricación de maquinaria de uso especial31016.9×
Venta al por mayor de maquinaria para la elaboración de alimentos, bebidas y tabacoVenta al por mayor de maquinaria, equipo y materiales22015.8×
Fabricación de fibras de vidrioFabricación de vidrio y productos de vidrio10115.4×
Venta al por mayor de desperdicios, desechos y otros productos n.c.p.Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada16015.2×
Venta al por mayor de metales y minerales metalíferosOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada69814.8×
Fabricación de cemento, cal y yesoFabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.60813.0×
Fabricación de otras sustancias químicas básicas n.c.p.Fabricación sustancias químicas básicas, abonos y compuestos de nitrógeno, plásticos y caucho sint.43512.6×
Fabricación de papel y cartón para su posterior uso industrial n.c.p.Fabricación de papel y de productos de papel51411.9×
Fabricación de productos de plásticoFabricación de productos de plástico3,31711.0×

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.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
47,266
hectares in holdings
69.9%
of them under a named use
99.3%
of the crop land is irrigated
Not farmed 38%Pasture 28%Woodland 15%Orchards and v… 10%Annual cro… 8.9%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings30%Untilled land8.2%Pasture28%Native woodland14%Fruit trees9.9%Vegetables5.8%Fodder crops2.4%
Not farmed 38%Pasture 28%Woodland 15%Orchards… 10%Annua… 8.9%Scrub, barren groundand buildings30%Untilled landPasture28%Native woodland14%Fruit trees9.9%Vegetables5.8%Fodder…
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
ChacabucoChile% of each territory's own population · 338,195 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
338,195
7,400,74118,480,43215th of 56
Average age
33.1 yrs
37.7 yrs38.1 yrs55th of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
32.0
76.279.055th of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
163.0/km²
480.6/km²24.7/km²8th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
102,956
2,599,6216,596,52720th of 56
Dwellings
113,308
2,764,7497,642,71621st of 56
People per household
3.28
2.852.801st of 56
Women
50.0%
51.6%51.5%47th of 56
Men per 100 women
100.1
93.894.310th of 56
Under 15
23.7%
17.3%17.7%3rd of 56
65 and over
7.6%
13.2%14.0%55th of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
45.6
43.846.543rd of 56
One-person households
13.7%
21.6%21.8%56th of 56
Households with children
48.5%
32.7%33.2%2nd of 56
Indigenous peoples
6.8%
7.4%11.4%39th of 56
Female-headed households
46.0%
50.7%49.9%49th of 56
Land area
2,075 km²
15,399 km²748,041 km²48th of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Chacabuco33%Arrived since 202067%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Chacabuco33%Arrived since 202067%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
12.5%
13.0%8.7%8th 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.
42.6%
38.4%50.5%48th 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.
35.6%
34.6%23.9%3rd of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
12.7%
14.9%17.2%48th of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
42,239
964,8351,608,6505th of 56
Average age, foreign-born
33.5 yrs
34.2 yrs33.5 yrs26th of 56
Women among foreign-born
51.6%
51.7%51.7%22nd of 56
Foreign-born of working age
82.3%
84.0%83.1%18th of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
32.9%
32.1%34.4%39th 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.
15.0%
15.7%10.6%8th of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.5 yrs
13.2 yrs12.9 yrs31st 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.
140,257
384,02502nd of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
38.7
4.60.02nd of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Chacabuco30%Higher34%Secondary25%Primary only6.8%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Chacabuco30%Higher34%Secondary25%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.9 yrs
10.9 yrs10.4 yrs24th of 56
Reached higher education
30.1%
35.9%31.1%12th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.2%
98.2%98.6%45th 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.
61.6%
54.8%55.6%8th 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.
101.1%
98.7%99.8%27th of 56
Literacy rate
98.0%
98.5%97.8%20th of 56
Reached secondary education
33.8%
35.7%36.7%51st of 56
Primary education only
25.3%
20.6%24.1%38th of 56
Never attended school
3.87%
2.75%3.01%14th 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.
12.3 yrs
12.8 yrs12.1 yrs11th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.5 yrs
12.6 yrs12.1 yrs8th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.97%
1.44%2.18%37th of 56
Households lacking schooling
22.1%
11.6%15.1%21st 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.
3,560
80,419217,56520th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
25.4%
31.7%33.9%45th 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.
9.4%
1.6%3.1%8th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
72.3%
68.9%67.2%9th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
18.8%
23.5%19.7%20th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
8.9%
7.7%13.1%45th 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.
2.2%
1.6%13.0%53rd 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.
51.2%
48.9%49.7%20th 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.

3,560left secondary school in 2024
2,193enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
61.6%continued immediately
72%of those, to a university
2%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%Ingenieria ComercialDerechoPsicologiaEnfermeriaKinesiologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialArquitecturaIngenieria CivilIngenieria en InformaticaMedicina Veterinaria
0.0%5.0%10.0%Ingenieria ComercialDerechoPsicologiaEnfermeriaKinesiologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialArquitecturaIngenieria CivilIngenieria en InformaticaMedicina Veterinaria
ChacabucoChile

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%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareSocial sciencesEducationServicesInformation technologyArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareSocial sciencesEducationServicesInformation technologyArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
ChacabucoChile

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

01,0002,0003,0004,0002006201520243,5602,193
01,0002,0003,0004,0002006201520243,5602,193
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 Chacabuco'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 Chacabuco 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

Chacabuco80%Fonasa17%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Chacabuco80%Fonasa17%Chile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
7.6%
9.4%10.6%53rd of 56
Public health insurance
80.0%
75.9%82.6%49th 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.
73.8
84.782.530th of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
76
10110044th of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
25,850
694,4691,950,38823rd of 56
Average age, people with a disability
49.2 yrs
55.7 yrs56.4 yrs55th of 56
Disability among 65+
30.1%
41.9%43.0%55th of 56
Difficulty walking
3.06%
4.30%4.92%52nd of 56
Difficulty seeing
3.47%
3.93%4.58%52nd of 56
Difficulty hearing
1.34%
1.87%2.16%53rd of 56
Difficulty concentrating
2.09%
2.53%2.70%46th of 56
Private health insurance
16.7%
20.6%13.2%2nd of 54
No health coverage
1.57%
1.83%1.98%32nd of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
94.9%
91.9%92.1%18th of 54
Households lacking health access
8.7%
6.0%6.0%5th of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
24,954
626,5951,523,71617th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
322
14,17536,69832nd of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
1.29%
2.26%2.41%49th of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.2 days
6.1 days6.1 days48th of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
9.5
19.219.949th of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
98
10410022nd of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
1,164
36,31289,72321st of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
4.7%
5.8%5.9%40th of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
34.4
49.148.639th 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.
91
10410021st of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tra… 22%Heart and lungs 18%Pregnancy, birth a… 18%Injuries, bones a… 17%Tumours, blood … 12%Infectio… 8.9%Digestivesystem13%Genitour…system8.5%Respiratorysystem12%Circulat…system6.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Perinatal…Congeni…Injuries andpoisoning9.7%Musculoskeletal5.9%Cancers andtumours7.4%Endocrine andmetabolicContact withhealthservicesInfecti…andparasit…2.7%Ill-…symp…Mentalandbehavi…NervoussystemEye
Digestive and urinary … 22%Heart and lungs 18%Pregnancy, birth and new… 18%Injuries, bones and skin 17%Tumours, blood a… 12%Infec… 8.9%Digestivesystem13%Genitour…system8.5%Respiratorysystem12%Circul…system6.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Peri…cond…Cong…malf…Injuries andpoisoning9.7%Musculoske…5.9%Cancers andtumours7.4%Endocr…andmetabo…Contact withhealth…Infec…and…Ill…sym…Mentalandbehavi…NervoussystemEye
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 digestivos21%Mama12%Sangre y sistemalinfático12%Genitalesmasculinos9.4%Tiroides yendocrinas8.8%Genitalesfemeninos8.0%Vías urinarias7.6%Piel ymelanoma5.3%Sitios maldefinidos4.1%Víasrespiratorias3.4%TejidosblandosHuesos1.7%Encéfaloy sistem…Boca yfaringe
Órganos digestivos21%Mama12%Sangre ysistemalinfático12%Genitalesmasculinos9.4%Tiroides yendocrinas8.8%Genitalesfemeninos8.0%Víasurinarias7.6%Piel ymelanomaSitiosmaldefinidos4.1%Víasrespir…3.4%Tejid…bland…2.9%HuesosEncéfa…
Órganos digestivosMamaSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales masculinosTiroides 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.
16.9%
13.3%17.3%41st of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
32.3 UF
36.4 UF32.0 UF5th of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
80.4%
74.2%78.9%46th 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.
69.2
93.485.648th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
58.9%
58.6%54.4%11th of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
6.8%
7.9%8.6%44th of 56
Self-employed
35.3%
33.3%33.8%28th of 56
Extreme poverty
7.5%
5.0%6.9%26th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
28.1%
19.7%17.7%2nd of 54
Unemployment rate
8.6%
8.4%8.8%30th of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 716,170
CLP 980,298CLP 783,12413th 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.
0.478
0.4890.48813th of 53
Registered firms
23,406
690,9041,582,39019th of 56
Annual sales
421,636,903 UF
27,202,331,144 UF34,347,683,688 UF8th 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.
125,507
5,785,7549,699,16413th of 56
Sales per firm
18,014 UF
39,372 UF21,706 UF4th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
3.6
5.53.94th of 56
Women among employees
30.7%
41.3%40.6%55th of 56
Independent contractors
40,304
2,639,1103,958,26913th of 56
Contractors as share of workers
24.3%
31.3%29.0%37th of 56

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 29%Industry and construction 22%State and social services 18%Advanced servi… 17%Other ser… 7.5%Natural r… 6.6%Retail andwholesale18%Transport7.8%Accommodationand food3.8%Manufacturing11%Construction9.0%Water and…Electri…Education7.3%Health6.9%Publicadmin…3.5%Administrativeservices5.6%Professio…services4.6%Finan…andinsur…3.0%Informationand…Realestate1.2%Domest…work3.8%Otherservi…2.6%Arts…Agricu…andfishing3.3%Mining3.3%
Trade and logistics 29%Industry and con… 22%State and so… 18%Advanced se… 17%Other s… 7.5%Natural… 6.6%Retail andwholesale18%Transport7.8%Accommoda…and foodManufacturing11%Construction9.0%Education7.3%Health6.9%Publicadmin…3.5%Adminis…services5.6%Profes…servic…4.6%Finan…andinsur…Infor…andcommu…2.7%Domes…work3.8%Otherservic…2.6%Arts…Agric…andfishi…Mining3.3%
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 47%Managers and professionals 39%Elementary occupations 14%Service and sales17%Craft and trades13%Plant and machineoperators8.3%Clericalsupport6.2%Skilledagricult…2.5%Professionals19%Technicians11%Managers8.7%Elementary occupations14%
Skilled occupations 47%Managers and prof… 39%Elementary occupations 14%Service and sales17%Craft andtrades13%Plant and machineoperators8.3%Cleri…suppo…6.2%Skill…agric…Professionals19%Technicia…11%Managers8.7%Elementary occupations
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

Chacabuco94%House4.5%Chile79%House20%Flat
Chacabuco94%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.8%
6.5%5.7%7th of 56
Internet access
95.9%
95.7%93.2%5th 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.
2.9
1.32.335th 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.
1.3
0.61.645th of 56
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
101,009
2,499,5306,408,17220th of 56
Critically overcrowded
0.52%
0.79%0.57%10th of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.18%
0.62%1.13%33rd of 56
Public water network
86.8%
97.9%92.3%32nd of 56
Electricity access
99.8%
99.9%99.6%4th of 56
Detached houses
94.5%
64.8%78.7%28th of 56
Apartments
4.5%
33.3%19.9%29th of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.15%
0.12%0.23%49th of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
6.0%
5.2%11.9%52nd of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
6,646
238,934491,90418th of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
6.5%
9.2%7.5%20th of 56
Renting households
19.0%
33.1%26.2%33rd of 56
Owner-occupiers
71.3%
56.1%61.1%8th of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
9.5%
2.4%24.4%38th of 56
Commute by public transport
30.5%
51.3%42.1%23rd of 56
Walks to work
6.7%
8.1%10.2%55th of 56
Households with a computer
57.2%
61.2%54.9%9th 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.
1.6
0.71.122nd 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.
99.2%
99.3%97.0%4th 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.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%14th 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.
82.5%
96.5%89.4%29th 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.
99.5%
99.9%98.1%12th 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.
3.2
1.65.944th 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.
83.2%
95.0%80.3%19th 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.
99.3%
98.9%90.0%6th 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.
100.0%
99.9%96.2%1st 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.
0.7
0.40.639th 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.
98.4%
99.8%99.0%27th 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.
96.5%
98.7%91.6%11th 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.
99.5%
99.9%98.5%13th 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 54%Public transport 30%On foot or by b… 9.6%Other… 6.0%Car52%Public transport30%Walking6.7%Bicyc…2.9%Other6.0%
Private vehicle 54%Public transport 30%On foot o… 9.6%Other mea… 6.0%Car52%Public transport30%Walking6.7%Bic…Other
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 71%Rented 19%Provided… 7.0%Owned outright41%Owned, stillpaying30%Rented, withcontract11%Rented, no contract7.6%Provided byfamily5.8%Otherarra…
Owned 71%Rented 19%Prov… 7.0%Owned outright41%Owned, stillpaying30%Rented, withcontract11%Rented, nocontract7.6%Provided byfamily5.8%
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 48%Electricity 28%No heating 13%Wood and biomass 10%Gas35%Paraffin13%Electricity28%No heating13%Firewood9.5%
Fossil fuels 48%Electricity 28%No heating 13%Wood and biomass 10%Gas35%Paraffin13%Electricity28%No heating13%Firewood9.5%
ElectricityNo heatingOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
89.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.3%
voted in the runoff
206,404
registered voters on the roll
6.3%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman33.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist66.9%58.3%
ChacabucoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez19.1%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman20.1%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist29.0%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet14.6%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%
ChacabucoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile21.5%30.6%
KCambio por Chile27.7%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido27.8%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente14.3%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.6%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.8%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios1.2%0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
ChacabucoChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

3
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Colina173,29313.0%10.1 yrs15.7%
Lampa145,16012.8%9.8 yrs18.3%
Tiltil19,7425.7%9.7 yrs17.1%
Chacabuco338,19512.5%9.9 yrs16.9%