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Provincia de ChoapaProvincia de Choapa

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Census population
92,350
38th of 56
Population density
9.1/km²
39th of 56
Average years of schooling
9.2 yrs
46th of 56
Foreign-born share
4.0%
32nd of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 54 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 56 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 56 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Arrived since 20203rd of 56 · Chile 34.4%48.9%
Of those continuing, enters a university54th of 56 · Chile 67.2%50.3%
Sought care when ill52nd of 54 · Chile 92.1%83.3%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.6 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.6 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 · 1,205 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
72.3%
5th of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
7.7%
49th of 54
Came from another region
16.6%
30th of 54
Net internal migration
-25,153
-26.0 per 100 residents
Choapathis province · 118,687another region16,091 peopleelsewhere in the region2,356 peopleabroad3,190 peopleanother region35,768 peopleelsewhere in the region7,832 peopleChoapathis province · 96,724
Choapathis province · 118,687another region16,091 peopleelsewhere in th…2,356 peopleabroad3,190 peopleanother region35,768 peopleelsewhere in th…7,832 peopleChoapathis province · 96,724

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Construction1Construction▲11Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▼19Accommodation and food3Accommodation and food▲67Health4Health▲38Transport5Transport▲312Administrative services6Administrative services▲610Education7Education▲36Mining8Mining▼24Professional services9Professional services▼53Agriculture and fishing10Agriculture and fishing▼711Manufacturing11Manufacturing13Water and waste12Water and waste▲15Other services13Other services▼8
2005202421Construction▲112Retail and wholesale▼193Accommodation and food▲674Health▲385Transport▲3126Administrative services▲6107Education▲368Mining▼249Professional services▼5310Agriculture and fishing▼71111Manufacturing1312Water and waste▲1513Other services▼8

The ten branches that employ most of Choapa

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.

010 k20 k30 kprojection →24 k2029 · central2005201520242029
010 k20 k30 kprojection →24 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.8% a year observed · 2.0% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

010 M20 M30 Mprojection →21 M2029 · central2005201520242029
010 M20 M30 Mprojection →21 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.9% a year observed · 2.3% projected

What Choapa is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Choapa employs more people in 91 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.

91
activities it is specialised in
21,859
formal workers
33/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de hospitales y clíni…Empresas de servicios de ingenier…Terminación y acabado de edificiosActividades de residenciales para…Recuperación y reciclamiento de o…Producción de aguas minerales y o…Extracción de otros minerales met…Peluquería y otros tratamientos d…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Fabricación de motores, generador…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Cultivo de plantas vivas incluida…Cultivo de trigoHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Choapa

Ranked by how many times the national share this place reaches. The division each activity belongs to is a page of its own.

ActivityDivisionWorkers hereTimes the national share
Cultivo de uva destinada a la producción de pisco y aguardienteCultivo de plantas perennes5548.1×
Explotación de viveros forestalesSilvicultura y otras actividades forestales3711.8×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadoresOtras actividades de alojamiento7811.7×
Otras actividades de transporte de pasajeros por vía terrestre n.c.p.Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre5018.3×
Producción de aguas minerales y otras aguas embotelladasElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas387.9×
Extracción de piedra, arena y arcillaExtracción de piedra, arena y arcilla1116.9×
Servicios de forestación a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura1486.9×
Construcción de otras obras de ingeniería civilConstrucción de otras obras de ingeniería civil2,5016.7×
Actividades de apoyo para la explotación de otras minas y canteras prestados por empresasActividades de apoyo para la explotación de otras minas y canteras7036.5×
Televisión de pago satelitalActividades de telecomunicaciones por satélite96.1×
Alquiler de otros tipos de maquinarias y equipos sin operario n.c.p.Alquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles4905.6×
Alquiler de equipos de transporte sin operario, excepto vehículos automotoresAlquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles295.2×

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
547,123
hectares in holdings
19.6%
of them under a named use
89.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
Not farmed 82%Pasture 12%Woodland 4.4%Scrub, barren ground and buildings80%Pasture12%Nativewoodland2.7%Forest…
Not farmed 82%Pasture 12%Wood… 4.4%Scrub, barren ground and buildings80%PastureNativewoodla…For…pla…
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
ChoapaChile% of each territory's own population · 92,350 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
92,350
832,86418,480,43238th of 56
Average age
40.0 yrs
38.0 yrs38.1 yrs8th of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
94.5
77.679.012th of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
9.1/km²
20.5/km²24.7/km²39th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
33,900
292,5676,596,52738th of 56
Dwellings
46,335
372,7857,642,71638th of 56
People per household
2.72
2.852.8035th of 56
Women
50.8%
51.4%51.5%38th of 56
Men per 100 women
97.0
94.494.319th of 56
Under 15
18.2%
18.5%17.7%33rd of 56
65 and over
17.2%
14.4%14.0%7th of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
54.6
49.146.57th of 56
One-person households
23.9%
21.5%21.8%18th of 56
Households with children
33.0%
34.9%33.2%35th of 56
Indigenous peoples
9.5%
11.1%11.4%29th of 56
Female-headed households
48.4%
49.0%49.9%34th of 56
Land area
10,128 km²
40,579 km²748,041 km²23rd of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Choapa49%Arrived since 202051%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Choapa49%Arrived since 202051%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
4.0%
5.4%8.7%32nd 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.
72.3%
60.8%50.5%5th 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.
7.7%
11.8%23.9%49th of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
16.6%
22.4%17.2%30th of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
3,729
44,5781,608,65035th of 56
Average age, foreign-born
31.2 yrs
32.1 yrs33.5 yrs49th of 56
Women among foreign-born
54.3%
51.7%51.7%5th of 56
Foreign-born of working age
78.9%
81.4%83.1%53rd of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
48.9%
43.5%34.4%3rd 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.
4.9%
6.5%10.6%32nd of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.4 yrs
12.7 yrs12.9 yrs32nd 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.
-25,153
34,192038th of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-26.0
3.90.046th of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Choapa20%Higher38%Secondary33%Primary only5.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Choapa20%38%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
9.2 yrs
10.1 yrs10.4 yrs46th of 56
Reached higher education
19.9%
27.8%31.1%45th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.8%98.6%1st 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.
60.2%
58.9%55.6%13th 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.
101.7%
100.5%99.8%22nd of 56
Literacy rate
96.3%
97.9%97.8%43rd of 56
Reached secondary education
37.7%
38.3%36.7%25th of 56
Primary education only
33.4%
25.9%24.1%13th of 56
Never attended school
3.98%
3.02%3.01%13th 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.
10.5 yrs
11.8 yrs12.1 yrs47th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.7 yrs
11.9 yrs12.1 yrs47th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.72%
2.14%2.18%14th of 56
Households lacking schooling
25.6%
14.8%15.1%13th 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.
1,192
10,037217,56538th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
25.3%
30.6%33.9%46th 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%
2.3%3.1%41st of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
50.3%
58.7%67.2%54th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
15.9%
17.5%19.7%32nd of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
33.8%
23.8%13.1%5th 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.
57.9%
21.2%13.0%11th 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.
50.1%
49.2%49.7%33rd 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.

1,192left secondary school in 2024
717enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
60.2%continued immediately
50%of those, to a university
58%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%Maquinaria PesadaIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaKinesiologiaDerechoIngenieria ComercialOperacion de Plantas MinerasTecnico de Nivel Superior en EnfermeriaAdministracion de Empresas Mencion LogisticaElectricidad y Eficiencia Energetica
0.0%5.0%10.0%Maquinaria PesadaIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaKinesiologiaDerechoIngenieria ComercialOperacion de Plantas MinerasTecnico de Nivel Superior en EnfermeriaAdministracion de Empresas Mencion LogisticaElectricidad y Eficiencia Energetica
ChoapaChile

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 lawEducationServicesSocial sciencesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesSocial sciencesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
ChoapaChile

The ten broad fields of ISCED-F 2013, as SIES classifies each programme, as a share of everyone who continued, here and in the country.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

05001,0001,5002006201520241,192717
05001,0001,5002006201520241,192717
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 Choapa'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 Choapa 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

Choapa94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Choapa94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.4%
10.4%10.6%25th of 56
Public health insurance
93.8%
88.7%82.6%9th 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.
72.1
63.382.535th of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
80
8510041st of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
10,501
86,6461,950,38838th of 56
Average age, people with a disability
59.9 yrs
56.2 yrs56.4 yrs7th of 56
Disability among 65+
50.6%
43.6%43.0%5th of 56
Difficulty walking
5.40%
4.65%4.92%24th of 56
Difficulty seeing
4.84%
4.50%4.58%31st of 56
Difficulty hearing
2.60%
2.13%2.16%17th of 56
Difficulty concentrating
2.64%
2.67%2.70%27th of 56
Private health insurance
3.3%
6.2%13.2%38th of 54
No health coverage
2.21%
3.13%1.98%24th of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
83.3%
88.7%92.1%52nd of 54
Households lacking health access
12.1%
7.7%6.0%3rd of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
6,658
52,6901,523,71638th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
178
1,43636,69839th of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.67%
2.73%2.41%19th of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.7 days
6.4 days6.1 days43rd of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
19.3
17.219.928th of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
84
7710038th of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
276
3,03989,72340th of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
4.1%
5.8%5.9%46th of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
29.9
36.548.644th 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.
55
7510045th of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 27%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries, bone… 14%Pregnancy, bi… 13%Tumours, b… 10%Infections and o… 7.3%Mind, nerves and… 6.4%Digestive system18%Genitouri…system8.8%Respiratorysystem12%Circulatorysystem9.3%Injuries andpoisoning9.1%Musculoskele…3.7%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth12%Congenital…Perina…Cancers andtumours6.7%EndocrineandmetabolicContactwithhealth…3.1%Ill-d…sympt…2.1%Infec…andparas…2.0%Mentalandbehaviou…Nervoussystem2.8%
Digestive and urinary t… 27%Heart and lungs 22%Injurie… 14%Pregnancy, birth … 13%Tumours, blood an… 10%Infec… 7.3%Mind,… 6.4%Digestivesystem18%Genito…system8.8%Respiratory system12%Circulatory system9.3%Injuriesandpoisoning9.1%Musculos…3.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Cancers andtumoursEndocr…and…Contactwith…Ill-defi…Mentalandbehav…3.2%Nervo…system2.8%
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 digestivos26%Genitales femeninos20%Sangre y sistemalinfático9.8%Tiroides yendocrinas6.2%Genitalesmasculinos5.8%Encéfalo ysistema nervioso5.8%Víasrespiratorias5.4%Sitios maldefinidos5.4%Mama5.1%Víasurinarias5.1%Sitiosreservados4.0%Piel ymelanoma
Órganos digestivos26%Genitalesfemeninos20%Sangre ysistemalinfático9.8%Tiroides yendocrinas6.2%Genitalesmasculin…5.8%Encéfaloy sistemanervioso5.8%Víasrespirato…5.4%Sitios maldefinidos5.4%Mama5.1%Vías urinarias5.1%Sitiosreserva…4.0%Piel ymelanoma
Órganos digestivosGenitales femeninosSangre y sistema linfáticoTiroides y endocrinasGenitales masculinosEncéfalo y sistema nerviosohover 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.
20.6%
20.7%17.3%21st of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
23.6 UF
25.4 UF32.0 UF25th of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
94.7%
89.3%78.9%24th 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.
92.2
72.885.618th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
50.3%
51.0%54.4%42nd of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.5%
10.0%8.6%14th of 56
Self-employed
36.4%
35.1%33.8%19th of 56
Extreme poverty
9.3%
9.1%6.9%13th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
11.6%
17.0%17.7%47th of 54
Unemployment rate
8.9%
9.5%8.8%28th of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 523,094
CLP 628,365CLP 783,12445th 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.
0.442
0.4440.48833rd of 53
Registered firms
8,515
60,6611,582,39038th of 56
Annual sales
19,094,911 UF
278,962,355 UF34,347,683,688 UF41st 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.
21,887
225,5119,699,16439th of 56
Sales per firm
2,243 UF
4,599 UF21,706 UF49th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.7
2.43.944th of 56
Women among employees
40.4%
40.9%40.6%27th of 56
Independent contractors
10,929
81,4293,958,26936th of 56
Contractors as share of workers
33.3%
26.5%29.0%12th of 56

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 27%Natural resources 24%State and social services 21%Industry and con… 17%Advanced… 6.1%Other se… 5.6%Retail andwholesale14%Accommodationand food6.8%Transport5.9%Mining16%Agricultu…andfishing7.7%Education9.0%Health6.3%Publicadminist…5.6%Construction9.6%Manufacturi…4.9%WaterandwasteElectr…and gasAdministr…servicesProfessionalservicesDomes…work2.6%Otherservi…2.1%Arts an…
Trade and logistics 27%Natural resources 24%State and socia… 21%Industry an… 17%Adva… 6.1%Othe… 5.6%Retail andwholesale14%Accommoda…and food6.8%Transport5.9%Mining16%Agriculture and fishing7.7%Education9.0%Health6.3%Public administrationConstruction9.6%Manufactu…4.9%Waterand…Elec…Adminis…servicesProfess…Dome…workOtherservi…Arts…
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 61%Managers and professionals 24%Elementary occupations 16%Service and sales20%Craft and trades16%Plant and machineoperators14%Skilledagricultural5.5%Clerical support4.7%Professiona…11%Technicians9.4%ManagersElementary occupations16%
Skilled occupations 61%Managers and professionals 24%Elementary occ… 16%Service andsales20%Craft and trades16%Plant and machineoperators14%Skilledagricu…5.5%Cleric…support4.7%Professiona…11%Technicians9.4%ManagersElementaryoccupations16%
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

Choapa99%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Choapa99%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.7%
4.5%5.7%41st of 56
Internet access
86.5%
92.1%93.2%50th 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.
7.0
3.62.37th 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.
7.4
3.11.66th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
33,192
285,1476,408,17238th of 56
Critically overcrowded
0.28%
0.31%0.57%43rd of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.76%
1.60%1.13%17th of 56
Public water network
83.2%
90.0%92.3%40th of 56
Electricity access
99.0%
99.3%99.6%46th of 56
Detached houses
98.6%
89.2%78.7%8th of 56
Apartments
0.7%
9.8%19.9%42nd of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.19%
0.23%0.23%44th of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
23.0%
19.8%11.9%14th of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
2,075
19,423491,90438th of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
6.1%
6.6%7.5%23rd of 56
Renting households
15.5%
21.2%26.2%47th of 56
Owner-occupiers
70.2%
66.1%61.1%11th of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
20.2%
8.1%24.4%33rd of 56
Commute by public transport
25.4%
37.4%42.1%33rd of 56
Walks to work
21.8%
13.4%10.2%13th of 56
Households with a computer
42.3%
50.7%54.9%43rd 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.
1.8
1.31.116th 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.
90.1%
95.0%97.0%42nd 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%
99.8%99.9%36th 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.
59.6%
82.5%89.4%50th 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.
82.9%
93.5%98.1%51st 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.
97.4%
99.2%99.7%45th 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.
10.0
7.15.926th 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.
58.7%
75.1%80.3%33rd 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.
72.4%
82.4%90.0%35th 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.
88.2%
91.4%96.2%40th 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.
1.1
0.70.623rd 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.
96.2%
98.5%99.0%38th 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.
99.8%
99.9%99.9%38th 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.
63.3%
83.6%91.6%52nd 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.
78.7%
93.5%98.5%53rd 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.
97.4%
99.0%99.8%44th of 56

How people commute

Private vehicle 36%Public transport 25%On foot or by bicycle 24%Other means 14%Car35%Public transport25%Walking22%Other14%
Private vehicle 36%Public transport 25%On foot or by bicycle 24%Other means 14%Car35%Public transport25%Walking22%Other14%
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 70%Rented 15%Provided rent-free 11%Other 3.6%Owned outright68%Rented, withcontract8.2%Rented, no contract7.3%Provided byfamily9.3%
Owned 70%Rented 15%Provided ren… 11%Owned outright68%Rented,withcontract8.2%Rented, nocontract7.3%Provided byfamily9.3%Otherarra…
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 40%Fossil fuels 25%Wood and biomass 22%Electric… 13%No heating40%Gas23%Par…Firewood20%Electricity13%
No heating 40%Fossil fuels 25%Wood and biomass 22%Electricity 13%No heating40%Gas23%Firewood20%Electricity13%
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
86.2%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.0%
voted in the runoff
82,217
registered voters on the roll
8.3%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman48.8%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist51.2%58.3%
ChoapaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez27.4%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman30.4%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen11.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist19.4%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.2%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%
ChoapaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile33.8%30.6%
KCambio por Chile15.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido11.2%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente28.2%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.2%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista4.4%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile2.3%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
ChoapaChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

4
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Illapel32,0093.1%9.4 yrs17.5%
Canela9,6390.9%8.2 yrs27.4%
Los Vilos22,8796.0%9.4 yrs27.1%
Salamanca27,8234.6%9.2 yrs16.1%
Choapa92,3504.0%9.2 yrs20.6%