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Provincia de Del TamarugalProvincia de Del Tamarugal

Compare Del Tamarugal with another place
Census population
28,133
47th of 56
Population density
0.7/km²
49th of 56
Average years of schooling
8.9 yrs
54th of 56
Foreign-born share
23.6%
2nd of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Foreign-born share of working-age population1st of 56 · Chile 10.6%29.4%
Households lacking health access54th of 54 · Chile 6.0%1.3%
Gini coefficient53rd of 53 · Chile 0.4880.373
Leaves from a rural school1st of 56 · Chile 3.1%100.0%
Under 152nd of 56 · Chile 17.7%24.1%
Average age, foreign-born55th of 56 · Chile 33.5 yrs30.4 yrs
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

020406020052015202432.0 UF21.3 UF
020406020052015202432.0 UF21.3 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 · 689 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
36.4%
51st of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
20.3%
13th of 54
Came from another region
24.9%
12th of 54
Net internal migration
-4,157
-13.4 per 100 residents
Del Tamarugalthis province · 29,537another region7,744 peopleelsewhere in the region5,060 peopleabroad5,720 peopleelsewhere in the region9,610 peopleanother region7,351 peopleDel Tamarugalthis province · 31,100
Del Tamarugalthis province · 29,537another region7,744 peopleelsewhere in th…5,060 peopleabroad5,720 peopleelsewhere in th…9,610 peopleanother region7,351 peopleDel Tamarugalthis province · 31,100

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520243Public administration1Public administration▲213Other services2Other services▲112Construction3Construction▼110Transport4Transport▲611Administrative services5Administrative services▲61Mining6Mining▼57Accommodation and food7Accommodation and food5Retail and wholesale8Retail and wholesale▼38Manufacturing9Manufacturing▼112Professional services10Professional services▲26Agriculture and fishing11Agriculture and fishing▼515Water and waste12Water and waste▲39Education13Education▼44Health17Health▼13
2005202431Public administration▲2132Other services▲1123Construction▼1104Transport▲6115Administrative services▲616Mining▼577Accommodation and food58Retail and wholesale▼389Manufacturing▼11210Professional services▲2611Agriculture and fishing▼51512Water and waste▲3913Education▼4417Health▼13

The ten branches that employ most of Del Tamarugal

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.

2 k4 k6 k8 kprojection →6 k2029 · central2005201520242029
2 k4 k6 k8 kprojection →6 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.4% a year observed · -2.1% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

025 M50 M75 M100 Mprojection →8.7 M2029 · central2005201520242029
025 M50 M75 M100 Mprojection →8.7 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval0.1% a year observed · -14.3% projected

What Del Tamarugal is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Del Tamarugal employs more people in 56 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.

56
activities it is specialised in
7,095
formal workers
23/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Actividades de la administración …Fundaciones y corporaciones; asoc…Actividades de apoyo para la expl…Actividades de hotelesEmpresas de servicios de ingenier…Otros servicios de almacenamiento…Actividades de residenciales para…Reparación de maquinaria metalúrg…Otras actividades profesionales, …How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de apoyo para la expl…Actividades de hotelesActividades de residenciales para…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Del Tamarugal

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, reproducción y manejo de algas marinasAcuicultura18799.3×
Fundaciones y corporaciones; asociaciones que promueven actividades culturales o recreativasActividades de otras asociaciones1,26641.3×
Actividades de salones de masajes, baños turcos, saunas, servicio de baños públicosOtras actividades de servicios personales1335.0×
Otras actividades de alojamiento para turistas n.c.p.Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas2429.0×
Tratamiento y revestimiento de metales, maquinadoFabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal; actividades de servicios de trabajo de metales8628.0×
Conservador de bienes raícesActividades jurídicas2514.8×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadoresOtras actividades de alojamiento2913.4×
Actividades de apoyo para la explotación de otras minas y canteras prestados por empresasActividades de apoyo para la explotación de otras minas y canteras44912.7×
Actividades de residenciales para turistasActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas59.6×
Otras actividades de apoyo al transporte n.c.p.Actividades de apoyo al transporte489.4×
Reparación de equipo de comunicaciones (incluye la reparación teléfonos celulares)Reparación de computadores y equipo de comunicaciones49.2×
Producción de aguas minerales y otras aguas embotelladasElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas138.3×

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
2,286,499
hectares in holdings
9.8%
of them under a named use
82.9%
of the crop land is irrigated
Not farmed 90%Pas… 8.0%Scrub, barren ground and buildings90%Pasture8.0%Forestplant…1.1%
Not farmed 90%Scrub, barren ground and buildings90%PastureFor…
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
Del TamarugalChile% of each territory's own population · 28,133 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
28,133
369,80618,480,43247th of 56
Average age
34.2 yrs
34.0 yrs38.1 yrs53rd of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
50.1
43.979.051st of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
0.7/km²
8.7/km²24.7/km²49th of 56
See the other 13 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
9,561
121,5116,596,52748th of 56
Dwellings
21,308
143,2537,642,71645th of 56
People per household
2.94
3.042.809th of 56
Women
49.2%
50.4%51.5%50th of 56
Men per 100 women
103.1
98.394.37th of 56
Under 15
24.1%
21.8%17.7%2nd of 56
65 and over
12.1%
9.6%14.0%44th of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
56.6
45.646.54th of 56
One-person households
26.5%
21.1%21.8%8th of 56
Households with children
39.7%
41.1%33.2%7th of 56
Indigenous peoples
54.6%
24.3%11.4%3rd of 56
Female-headed households
45.7%
47.7%49.9%50th of 56
Land area
39,460 km²
42,323 km²748,041 km²5th of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Del Tamarugal37%Arrived since 202063%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Del Tamarugal37%Arrived since 202063%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
23.6%
23.0%8.7%2nd 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.
36.4%
42.2%50.5%51st 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.
20.3%
12.0%23.9%13th of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
24.9%
26.6%17.2%12th of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
6,652
84,9351,608,65029th of 56
Average age, foreign-born
30.4 yrs
31.7 yrs33.5 yrs55th of 56
Women among foreign-born
52.8%
53.2%51.7%15th of 56
Foreign-born of working age
79.5%
82.3%83.1%47th of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
37.2%
36.2%34.4%30th 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.
29.4%
27.5%10.6%1st of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
10.5 yrs
11.4 yrs12.9 yrs55th 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.
-4,157
43,092027th of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-13.4
10.60.038th of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Del Tamarugal16%Higher43%Secondary30%Primary only6.6%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Del Tamarugal16%43%Secondary30%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.9 yrs
10.1 yrs10.4 yrs54th of 56
Reached higher education
16.0%
26.1%31.1%55th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.0%
98.7%98.6%31st 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.
47.7%
54.0%55.6%51st 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.
97.9%
99.0%99.8%54th of 56
Literacy rate
97.7%
98.9%97.8%25th of 56
Reached secondary education
42.7%
42.0%36.7%4th of 56
Primary education only
30.4%
22.7%24.1%18th of 56
Never attended school
4.26%
3.17%3.01%8th 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.
11.1 yrs
12.3 yrs12.1 yrs36th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.8 yrs
12.1 yrs12.1 yrs44th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
2.35%
1.08%2.18%32nd of 56
Households lacking schooling
24.1%
15.6%15.1%16th 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.
369
4,871217,56547th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
75.1%
50.9%33.9%2nd 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.
100.0%
14.3%3.1%1st of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
67.6%
63.7%67.2%22nd of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
10.8%
18.5%19.7%46th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
21.6%
17.9%13.1%11th 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.
27.3%
22.6%13.0%23rd 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.
55.1%
49.5%49.7%7th 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.

369left secondary school in 2024
176enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
47.7%continued immediately
68%of those, to a university
27%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria Comercial Con Mencion en Gestion y Comercio ExteriorIngenieria Civil IndustrialEducacion ParvulariaAgronomiaEnfermeriaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en Informacion y Control de GestionOdontologiaTecnico en LogisticaDerecho
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria Comercial Con Mencion en Gestion y Comercio ExteriorIngenieria Civil IndustrialEducacion ParvulariaAgronomiaEnfermeriaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en Informacion y Control de GestionOdontologiaTecnico en LogisticaDerecho
Del TamarugalChile

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 welfareEducationAgriculture and veterinaryServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareEducationAgriculture and veterinaryServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
Del TamarugalChile

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

0100200300400200620152024369176
0100200300400200620152024369176
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 Del Tamarugal'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 Del Tamarugal 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

Del Tamarugal83%Fonasa9.8%Other system or …Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Del Tamarugal83%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.1%
8.8%10.6%37th of 56
Public health insurance
82.6%
84.9%82.6%47th 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.
28.2
78.082.551st of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
42
9110050th of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
2,843
32,6711,950,38847th of 56
Average age, people with a disability
54.5 yrs
50.7 yrs56.4 yrs42nd of 56
Disability among 65+
41.8%
33.9%43.0%38th of 56
Difficulty walking
4.07%
3.66%4.92%45th of 56
Difficulty seeing
4.99%
4.03%4.58%28th of 56
Difficulty hearing
2.28%
1.60%2.16%29th of 56
Difficulty concentrating
2.18%
2.25%2.70%43rd of 56
Private health insurance
3.9%
8.0%13.2%35th of 54
No health coverage
3.70%
3.55%1.98%8th of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
94.3%
88.9%92.1%20th of 54
Households lacking health access
1.3%
6.5%6.0%54th of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
793
28,8471,523,71649th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
20
47736,69848th of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.52%
1.65%2.41%26th of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.7 days
5.2 days6.1 days15th of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
7.1
12.919.950th of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
36
10210051st of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
30
1,08389,72350th of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
3.8%
3.8%5.9%47th of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
10.7
29.348.653rd 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.
25
7310053rd of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 24%Injuries, bones and skin 21%Heart and lungs 16%Pregnancy, b… 13%Infecti… 9.2%Mind, … 8.8%Tumou… 8.3%Digestive system16%Genitour…system7.3%Injuries andpoisoning16%Muscu…3.3%Skin1.8%Circulatory system9.6%Respiratory system6.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Contactwith healthservices6.2%Infect…andparasi…Spec…codesIll-…Mental andbehavioural5.2%Eye2.3%Ner…sys…Cancersandtumours4.4%Endocrineandmetabolic3.5%
Digestive and urinary… 24%Injuries, bones an… 21%Heart an… 16%Pregnancy, bir… 13%Infections an… 9.2%Mind, ne… 8.8%Tumours,… 8.3%Digestivesystem16%Genit…system7.3%Injuries andpoisoning16%Musc…SkinCirculatorysystem9.6%Respiratorysystem6.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Contact withhealthservicesInfec…and…Spe…Mentalandbehavi…5.2%Eye2.3%Nervo…Cance…andtumou…4.4%Endoc…andmetab…3.5%
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

Sitios reservados63%Mama20%Órganos digestivos17%
Sitios reservados63%Mama20%Órganos digestivos17%
Sitios reservadosMamaÓrganos digestivoshover 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.
22.5%
20.8%17.3%16th of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.3 UF
24.8 UF32.0 UF40th of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
101.3%
84.7%78.9%13th 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.
74.5
71.285.639th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
55.6%
57.7%54.4%20th of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
6.7%
8.2%8.6%45th of 56
Self-employed
41.2%
38.3%33.8%8th of 56
Extreme poverty
5.4%
9.0%6.9%45th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
19.2%
22.2%17.7%18th of 54
Unemployment rate
6.9%
7.5%8.8%44th of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 512,057
CLP 682,509CLP 783,12446th 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.
0.373
0.4290.48853rd of 53
Registered firms
2,096
26,3261,582,39048th of 56
Annual sales
18,898,101 UF
320,488,008 UF34,347,683,688 UF42nd 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.
7,095
112,0089,699,16447th of 56
Sales per firm
9,016 UF
12,174 UF21,706 UF14th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.3
2.83.929th of 56
Women among employees
40.5%
38.1%40.6%26th of 56
Independent contractors
4,342
41,9143,958,26945th of 56
Contractors as share of workers
38.0%
27.2%29.0%7th of 56

Employment by industry

Natural resources 26%Trade and logistics 26%State and social services 23%Industry and cons… 15%Advanc… 5.4%Other … 4.2%Mining14%Agricultureand fishing12%Retail andwholesale12%Accommodation andfood7.8%Transport5.4%Publicadministrati…11%Education8.0%Health3.9%Construction9.5%Manufacturing4.2%Waterand…Elect…Admini…servic…3.5%Pro…ser…Inf…Otherservi…1.9%DomesticworkArts an…
Natural resources 26%Trade and logistics 26%State and social se… 23%Industry … 15%Mining14%Agricult…andfishing12%Retail and wholesale12%Accommodat…and food7.8%Transpo…5.4%Publicadminist…11%Education8.0%Health3.9%Construction9.5%Manufactu…4.2%Wat…and…Ele…Adminis…servicesProfe…Oth…ser…Dome…workArts…
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 65%Managers and professio… 17%Elementary occupations 16%Service and sales20%Craft and trades15%Plant and machineoperators14%Skilledagricultural9.9%Clericalsupport5.8%Technicians7.3%Professionals7.0%Elementaryoccupations16%
Skilled occupations 65%Managers and profes… 17%Elementary occupa… 16%Service and sales20%Craft and trades15%Plant and machineoperators14%Skilledagricultural9.9%Cleric…support5.8%Technici…7.3%Profession…7.0%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

Del Tamarugal96%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Del Tamarugal96%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
12.9%
10.4%5.7%2nd of 56
Internet access
88.7%
95.4%93.2%39th of 56
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
5.4
1.32.312th 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.
9.9
1.61.65th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
9,152
116,1026,408,17248th of 56
Critically overcrowded
2.11%
1.43%0.57%2nd of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
7.07%
4.53%1.13%2nd of 56
Public water network
66.2%
88.4%92.3%54th of 56
Electricity access
97.5%
99.3%99.6%55th of 56
Detached houses
96.2%
68.6%78.7%21st of 56
Apartments
0.1%
25.1%19.9%53rd of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.87%
0.72%0.23%2nd of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
55.0%
14.7%11.9%2nd of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
1,588
18,126491,90439th of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
16.6%
14.9%7.5%2nd of 56
Renting households
23.8%
35.2%26.2%15th of 56
Owner-occupiers
51.7%
47.7%61.1%49th of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
1.2%
0.2%24.4%50th of 56
Commute by public transport
24.2%
40.0%42.1%36th of 56
Walks to work
29.4%
13.7%10.2%6th of 56
Households with a computer
35.8%
51.0%54.9%54th of 56
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
2.9
0.81.16th of 56
People within 5 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
83.7%
98.2%97.0%53rd 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.
95.6%
99.5%99.9%53rd of 56
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
99.2%
99.9%100.0%50th 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.
78.7%
97.8%89.4%35th 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.
89.3%
98.9%98.1%48th 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.
95.3%
99.5%99.7%49th 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.
25.5
3.15.910th 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.
40.6%
94.1%80.3%48th 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.
44.5%
95.3%90.0%50th 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.
63.3%
96.8%96.2%48th 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.
2.2
0.50.67th 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.
88.4%
98.6%99.0%53rd 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.
97.1%
99.6%99.9%50th of 56
People within 30 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
99.7%
100.0%100.0%49th 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.
68.4%
96.7%91.6%48th 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.
73.5%
97.4%98.5%54th 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.
94.2%
99.0%99.8%52nd of 56

How people commute

On foot or by bicycle 33%Private vehicle 31%Public transport 24%Other means 12%Walking29%Bic…Car31%Public transport24%Other12%
On foot or by bicycle 33%Private vehicle 31%Public transport 24%Other means 12%Walking29%Car31%Public transport24%Other12%
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 52%Rented 24%Provided rent-free 18%Owned outright49%Rented, nocontract14%Rented, withcontract9.5%Provided byfamily11%Providedbyemployer7.2%Otherarrang…6.2%
Owned 52%Rented 24%Provided rent… 18%Owned outright49%Rented, nocontract14%Rented,withcontract9.5%Provided byfamily11%Provided byemployerOtherarra…
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 81%Fossil fuels 11%Electricity 5.5%No heating81%Gas11%Electricity5.5%FirewoodOther
No heating 81%Fossil fuels 11%Electri… 5.5%No heating81%GasElectricity
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
77.5%
of the registered voted in the first round
76.0%
voted in the runoff
27,068
registered voters on the roll
7.7%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman30.4%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist69.6%58.3%
Del TamarugalChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez39.9%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman17.0%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.7%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist22.8%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet4.6%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.6%1.3%
Del TamarugalChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile54.4%30.6%
KCambio por Chile15.2%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido12.0%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente13.5%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.9%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
Del TamarugalChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile30.9%
KCambio por Chile31.8%
JChile Grande y Unido12.8%
IPartido de la Gente18.9%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.7%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista2.9%
Del Tamarugalshare of the valid vote

Territories within

5
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Pozo Almonte16,87821.9%9.1 yrs17.2%
Camiña1,33518.4%7.5 yrs28.4%
Colchane79042.8%6.7 yrs22.9%
Huara2,85824.1%8.1 yrs17.4%
Pica6,27226.9%9.4 yrs36.1%
Del Tamarugal28,13323.6%8.9 yrs22.5%