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Provincia de CordilleraProvincia de Cordillera

Compare Cordillera with another place
Census population
614,587
6th of 56
Population density
111.4/km²
11th of 56
Average years of schooling
10.4 yrs
10th of 56
Foreign-born share
5.1%
22nd of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Unoccupied private dwellings56th of 56 · Chile 11.9%3.0%
Commute by public transport1st of 56 · Chile 42.1%56.3%
Walks to work56th of 56 · Chile 10.2%5.7%
Came from another commune of the same region1st of 54 · Chile 23.9%39.5%
Of those continuing, studies outside their region56th of 56 · Chile 13.0%1.3%
Firms per 1,000 residents56th of 56 · Chile 85.654.3
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.7 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.7 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 · 3,255 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
42.5%
49th of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
39.5%
1st of 54
Came from another region
13.9%
43rd of 54
Net internal migration
+233,369
+32.6 per 100 residents
Cordillerathis province · 452,765elsewhere in the region274,331 peopleanother region99,525 peopleabroad29,566 peopleelsewhere in the region97,609 peopleanother region42,878 peopleCordillerathis province · 715,700
Cordillerathis province · 452,765elsewhere in th…274,331 peopleanother region99,525 peopleabroad29,566 peopleelsewhere in th…97,609 peopleanother region42,878 peopleCordillerathis province · 715,700

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Education1Education▲13Health2Health▲11Construction3Construction▼212Administrative services4Administrative services▲85Manufacturing5Manufacturing4Retail and wholesale6Retail and wholesale▼29Accommodation and food7Accommodation and food▲26Transport8Transport▼28Other services9Other services▼111Public administration10Public administration▲17Agriculture and fishing11Agriculture and fishing▼413Professional services12Professional services▲110Real estate15Real estate▼5
2005202421Education▲132Health▲113Construction▼2124Administrative services▲855Manufacturing46Retail and wholesale▼297Accommodation and food▲268Transport▼289Other services▼11110Public administration▲1711Agriculture and fishing▼41312Professional services▲11015Real estate▼5

The ten branches that employ most of Cordillera

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 k50 k70 k90 kprojection →84 k2029 · central2005201520242029
30 k50 k70 k90 kprojection →84 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.5% a year observed · 0.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

050 M100 M150 M200 Mprojection →141 M2029 · central2005201520242029
050 M100 M150 M200 Mprojection →141 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.5% a year observed · 2.6% projected

What Cordillera is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Cordillera employs more people in 109 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.

109
activities it is specialised in
80,572
formal workers
11/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.53.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Fabricación de papel y cartón ond…Otras instalaciones para obras de…Instalaciones de gasfitería, cale…Actividades de ISAPREMantenimiento y reparación de veh…Elaboración de vinosActividades de programación infor…Servicios personales de educaciónHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.53.7Actividades de ISAPREElaboración de vinosCultivo de otros frutos y nueces …Cría de otros animales n.c.p.How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Cordillera

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
Fabricación de papel y cartón ondulado y de envases de papel y cartónFabricación de papel y de productos de papel2,00027.1×
Otras actividades de alojamiento n.c.p.Otras actividades de alojamiento1,05718.5×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción lecheraGanadería1,17411.3×
Enseñanza primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional públicaEnseñanza preescolar, primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional6,59911.3×
Otras actividades de asistencia social sin alojamientoOtras actividades de asistencia social sin alojamiento5448.4×
Fabricación de cemento, cal y yesoFabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.2387.9×
Fabricación de otros productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.Fabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.2627.5×
Actividades de apoyo a la enseñanzaActividades de apoyo a la enseñanza1787.2×
Venta al por menor de tabaco y productos de tabaco en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados286.6×
Instalación de maquinaria y equipos industrialesInstalación de maquinaria y equipos industriales2946.4×
Actividades de ISAPRESeguros4786.0×
Fabricación de plásticos y caucho sintético en formas primariasFabricación sustancias químicas básicas, abonos y compuestos de nitrógeno, plásticos y caucho sint.1725.1×

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
465,873
hectares in holdings
22.4%
of them under a named use
97.0%
of the crop land is irrigated
Not farmed 79%Pasture 12%Woodland 8.2%Scrub, barren ground and buildings78%Pasture12%Native woodland8.2%
Not farmed 79%Pasture 12%Woodland 8.2%Scrub, barren ground and buildings78%Pasture12%Native woodland8.2%
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
CordilleraChile% of each territory's own population · 614,587 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
614,587
7,400,74118,480,4326th of 56
Average age
37.1 yrs
37.7 yrs38.1 yrs41st of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
65.1
76.279.039th of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
111.4/km²
480.6/km²24.7/km²11th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
198,406
2,599,6216,596,5276th of 56
Dwellings
208,590
2,764,7497,642,7167th of 56
People per household
3.10
2.852.803rd of 56
Women
51.7%
51.6%51.5%11th of 56
Men per 100 women
93.5
93.894.346th of 56
Under 15
18.3%
17.3%17.7%27th of 56
65 and over
11.9%
13.2%14.0%45th of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
43.4
43.846.551st of 56
One-person households
15.2%
21.6%21.8%55th of 56
Households with children
37.5%
32.7%33.2%12th of 56
Indigenous peoples
8.9%
7.4%11.4%31st of 56
Female-headed households
51.3%
50.7%49.9%8th of 56
Land area
5,519 km²
15,399 km²748,041 km²35th of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Cordillera31%Arrived since 202069%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Cordillera31%Arrived since 20…69%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
5.1%
13.0%8.7%22nd 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.
42.5%
38.4%50.5%49th 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.
39.5%
34.6%23.9%1st of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
13.9%
14.9%17.2%43rd of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
31,220
964,8351,608,65012th of 56
Average age, foreign-born
34.1 yrs
34.2 yrs33.5 yrs16th of 56
Women among foreign-born
51.5%
51.7%51.7%23rd of 56
Foreign-born of working age
83.2%
84.0%83.1%9th of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
30.7%
32.1%34.4%48th 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.
6.1%
15.7%10.6%24th of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.6 yrs
13.2 yrs12.9 yrs26th 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.
233,369
384,02501st of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
32.6
4.60.04th of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Cordillera31%Higher39%Secondary22%Primary only5.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Cordillera31%Higher39%Secondary22%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.4 yrs
10.9 yrs10.4 yrs10th of 56
Reached higher education
31.3%
35.9%31.1%10th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.8%
98.2%98.6%36th 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.
52.7%
54.8%55.6%37th 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.
99.4%
98.7%99.8%46th of 56
Literacy rate
98.5%
98.5%97.8%15th of 56
Reached secondary education
38.9%
35.7%36.7%15th of 56
Primary education only
22.2%
20.6%24.1%45th of 56
Never attended school
2.62%
2.75%3.01%47th 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 yrs12th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.2 yrs
12.6 yrs12.1 yrs13th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.47%
1.44%2.18%43rd of 56
Households lacking schooling
15.2%
11.6%15.1%38th 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.
6,733
80,419217,5656th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
29.8%
31.7%33.9%38th 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.
7.1%
1.6%3.1%13th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
61.6%
68.9%67.2%41st of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
28.4%
23.5%19.7%5th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
9.9%
7.7%13.1%44th 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.
1.3%
1.6%13.0%56th 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.
49.2%
48.9%49.7%40th 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.

6,733left secondary school in 2024
3,546enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
52.7%continued immediately
62%of those, to a university
1%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria en InformaticaDerechoIngenieria ComercialPsicologiaEnfermeriaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y AutotronicaKinesiologiaMedicina VeterinariaGastronomia
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria en InformaticaDerechoIngenieria ComercialPsicologiaEnfermeriaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y AutotronicaKinesiologiaMedicina VeterinariaGastronomia
CordilleraChile

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 industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawInformation technologyServicesEducationSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawInformation technologyServicesEducationSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
CordilleraChile

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

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

02,0004,0006,0008,0002006201520246,7333,546
02,0004,0006,0008,0002006201520246,7333,546
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 Cordillera'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 Cordillera 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

Cordillera84%Fonasa12%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Cordillera84%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.2%
9.4%10.6%36th of 56
Public health insurance
84.3%
75.9%82.6%45th 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.
87.4
84.782.514th of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
133
1011003rd of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
62,719
694,4691,950,3886th of 56
Average age, people with a disability
53.1 yrs
55.7 yrs56.4 yrs49th of 56
Disability among 65+
36.2%
41.9%43.0%49th of 56
Difficulty walking
4.47%
4.30%4.92%34th of 56
Difficulty seeing
4.29%
3.93%4.58%42nd of 56
Difficulty hearing
1.91%
1.87%2.16%45th of 56
Difficulty concentrating
2.86%
2.53%2.70%20th of 56
Private health insurance
12.4%
20.6%13.2%7th of 54
No health coverage
1.48%
1.83%1.98%33rd of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
92.9%
91.9%92.1%26th of 54
Households lacking health access
6.9%
6.0%6.0%20th of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
53,703
626,5951,523,7165th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
1,371
14,17536,6986th of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.55%
2.26%2.41%25th of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.8 days
6.1 days6.1 days6th of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
22.3
19.219.915th of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
110
10410012th of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
2,514
36,31289,7236th 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%38th of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
40.9
49.148.630th 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.
88
10410024th of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 22%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries, bones a… 16%Pregnancy, birt… 14%Tumours, bloo… 12%Infections and ot… 8.9%Mind, nerves and … 5.5%Digestivesystem13%Genitourin…system9.1%Respiratorysystem12%Circulatorysystem9.4%Injuries andpoisoning9.5%Musculoskeletal5.1%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth12%Perinatal…Congen…Cancers andtumours7.1%Endocrine andmetabolic4.1%Contactwithhealth…4.0%InfectiousandparasiticIll-defined…Mental andbehaviouralNervoussystem
Digestive and urinar… 22%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries, bones and sk… 16%Pregnancy, birth and n… 14%Tumours, blood and… 12%Infect… 8.9%Digestivesystem13%Genitour…system9.1%Respiratorysystem12%Circulat…system9.4%Injuries andpoisoning9.5%Musculos…5.1%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Per…con…Con…Cancers andtumours7.1%Endocri…andmetabol…Contactwith…Infectiousand…Mentaland…Nerv…syst…
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%Sangre y sistemalinfático16%Vías urinarias9.1%Genitalesfemeninos9.0%Sitios maldefinidos8.6%Tiroides yendocrinas7.3%Mama6.6%Genitalesmasculinos6.2%Víasrespirato…5.3%Encéf…ysiste…1.8%Piel ymelano…1.6%Hues…Bocayfar…Sit…res…
Órganos digestivos26%Sangre ysistemalinfático16%Víasurinarias9.1%Genitalesfemeninos9.0%Sitios maldefinidos8.6%Tiroides yendocrinas7.3%Mama6.6%Genitalesmasculin…6.2%Víasrespira…5.3%Encéf…ysiste…Pielymela…Hue…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariasGenitales femeninosSitios mal definidosTiroides 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.
14.2%
13.3%17.3%47th of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
26.7 UF
36.4 UF32.0 UF12th of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
103.9%
74.2%78.9%7th 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.
54.3
93.485.656th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
56.8%
58.6%54.4%17th of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.0%
7.9%8.6%24th of 56
Self-employed
33.2%
33.3%33.8%38th of 56
Extreme poverty
6.3%
5.0%6.9%37th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
21.2%
19.7%17.7%12th of 54
Unemployment rate
9.2%
8.4%8.8%23rd of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 728,662
CLP 980,298CLP 783,12412th 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.
0.424
0.4890.48848th of 53
Registered firms
33,372
690,9041,582,39010th of 56
Annual sales
123,487,892 UF
27,202,331,144 UF34,347,683,688 UF20th 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.
80,595
5,785,7549,699,16420th of 56
Sales per firm
3,700 UF
39,372 UF21,706 UF39th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.7
5.53.946th of 56
Women among employees
45.4%
41.3%40.6%8th of 56
Independent contractors
41,126
2,639,1103,958,26912th of 56
Contractors as share of workers
33.8%
31.3%29.0%10th of 56

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 31%State and social services 22%Industry and construction 20%Advanced services 16%Other … 8.5%Retail andwholesale19%Transport7.2%Accommodati…and food4.6%Health9.7%Education8.6%Publicadmini…3.7%Construction9.3%Manufacturing8.6%Electricity…Water…Administr…services5.3%Profes…servic…3.8%Informa…andcommuni…3.1%Finance andinsurance3.0%Otherservices4.0%Domesticwork3.2%MiningAgr…andfis…
Trade and logistics 31%State and socia… 22%Industry and co… 20%Advanced se… 16%Oth… 8.5%Retail andwholesale19%Transport7.2%Accommoda…and food4.6%Health9.7%Education8.6%Publicadmin…3.7%Construc…9.3%Manufact…8.6%Adminis…services5.3%Profe…servi…3.8%Infor…andcommu…3.1%Financeand…OtherservicesDomes…work3.2%Mining
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Skilled occupations 52%Managers and professionals 34%Elementary occupations 13%Service and sales22%Craft andtrades14%Plant and machineoperators7.6%Clericalsupport7.3%Professionals16%Technicians14%Manag…3.9%Elementary occupations13%
Skilled occupations 52%Managers and professionals 34%Element… 13%Service and sales22%Craft andtrades14%Plant andmachineoperatorsClericalsupport7.3%Professionals16%Technicians14%ManagersElementaryoccupations13%
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

Cordillera90%House9.3%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Cordillera90%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.2%
6.5%5.7%29th of 56
Internet access
95.8%
95.7%93.2%6th of 56
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.7
1.32.347th 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.
0.7
0.61.655th of 56
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
193,137
2,499,5306,408,1726th of 56
Critically overcrowded
0.34%
0.79%0.57%28th of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.78%
0.62%1.13%50th of 56
Public water network
97.7%
97.9%92.3%2nd of 56
Electricity access
99.9%
99.9%99.6%3rd of 56
Detached houses
89.9%
64.8%78.7%43rd of 56
Apartments
9.3%
33.3%19.9%13th of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.21%
0.12%0.23%31st of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
3.0%
5.2%11.9%56th of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
13,485
238,934491,9048th of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
6.8%
9.2%7.5%16th of 56
Renting households
18.5%
33.1%26.2%37th of 56
Owner-occupiers
72.4%
56.1%61.1%4th of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
3.7%
2.4%24.4%45th of 56
Commute by public transport
56.3%
51.3%42.1%1st of 56
Walks to work
5.7%
8.1%10.2%56th of 56
Households with a computer
60.1%
61.2%54.9%5th of 56
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.9
0.71.152nd 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.
99.0%
99.3%97.0%8th 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%20th 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%31st 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.
95.2%
96.5%89.4%14th 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.
99.7%
99.9%98.1%9th 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%18th 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.
1.8
1.65.954th of 56
People within 5 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
95.8%
95.0%80.3%4th 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.
99.7%
98.9%90.0%3rd 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%8th 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.
0.4
0.40.654th of 56
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
99.4%
99.8%99.0%9th 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%21st 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%35th of 56
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
98.5%
98.7%91.6%3rd 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.
99.7%
99.9%98.5%11th 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%18th of 56

How people commute

Public transport 56%Private vehicle 32%On foot or by … 7.4%Othe… 4.2%Public transport56%Car31%Walking5.7%Bic…Other4.1%
Public transport 56%Private vehicle 32%On fo… 7.4%Other… 4.2%Public transport56%Car31%Walking5.7%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 72%Rented 18%Provide… 6.4%Owned outright49%Owned, stillpaying24%Rented, withcontract12%Rented, nocontract6.1%Provided byfamily5.7%Otherarra…
Owned 72%Rented 18%Pro… 6.4%Owned outright49%Owned, stillpaying24%Rented, withcontract12%Rented,nocontract6.1%Providedby family5.7%Oth…arr…
Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

Fossil fuels 65%Electricity 21%No heating 9.9%Wood… 4.0%Gas44%Paraffin21%Electricity21%No heating9.9%Firewood3.7%
Fossil fuels 65%Electricity 21%No hea… 9.9%Gas44%Paraffin21%Electricity21%No heating9.9%Fire…
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
90.2%
of the registered voted in the first round
90.0%
voted in the runoff
465,955
registered voters on the roll
6.9%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman53.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist46.9%58.3%
CordilleraChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez17.3%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman35.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.4%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.6%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist19.2%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.8%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet11.9%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.6%1.3%
CordilleraChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile16.8%30.6%
KCambio por Chile22.4%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido14.1%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente20.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas19.7%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista5.0%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.8%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
CordilleraChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

3
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Puente Alto568,0865.2%10.4 yrs13.4%
Pirque29,0602.2%10.6 yrs26.7%
San José de Maipo17,4414.7%10.6 yrs24.6%
Cordillera614,5875.1%10.4 yrs14.2%