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Provincia de DiguillínProvincia de Diguillín

Compare Diguillín with another place
Census population
336,801
16th of 56
Population density
66.2/km²
13th of 56
Average years of schooling
10.0 yrs
22nd of 56
Foreign-born share
2.7%
43rd of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 56 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 56 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 56 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Women2nd of 56 · Chile 51.5%52.3%
Men per 100 women55th of 56 · Chile 94.391.2
Disability prevalence3rd of 56 · Chile 10.6%14.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.9 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.9 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 · 6,155 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
61.1%
22nd of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
14.5%
31st of 54
Came from another region
21.0%
19th of 54
Net internal migration
-47,762
-13.7 per 100 residents
Diguillínthis province · 385,011another region73,294 peopleelsewhere in the region16,797 peopleabroad12,020 peopleanother region124,884 peopleelsewhere in the region12,969 peopleDiguillínthis province · 349,269
Diguillínthis province · 385,011another region73,294 peopleelsewhere in th…16,797 peopleabroad12,020 peopleanother region124,884 peopleelsewhere in th…12,969 peopleDiguillínthis province · 349,269

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale4Education3Education▲17Health4Health▲35Manufacturing5Manufacturing3Construction6Construction▼36Administrative services7Administrative services▼111Public administration8Public administration▲38Transport9Transport▼19Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food▼110Other services11Other services▼112Professional services12Professional services
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Retail and wholesale43Education▲174Health▲355Manufacturing36Construction▼367Administrative services▼1118Public administration▲389Transport▼1910Accommodation and food▼11011Other services▼11212Professional services

The ten branches that employ most of Diguillín

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 k55 k80 k105 k130 kprojection →124 k2029 · central2005201520242029
30 k55 k80 k105 k130 kprojection →124 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.2% a year observed · 3.4% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

20 M70 M120 M170 Mprojection →114 M2029 · central2005201520242029
20 M70 M120 M170 Mprojection →114 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.2% a year observed · 1.6% projected

What Diguillín is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Diguillín employs more people in 131 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.

131
activities it is specialised in
104,519
formal workers
37/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Otros servicios de almacenamiento…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Elaboración de productos lácteosActividades de hospitales y clíni…Venta al por mayor de artículos d…Peluquería y otros tratamientos d…Destilación, rectificación y mezc…Fabricación de artículos de cuchi…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Destilación, rectificación y mezc…Fabricación de otros tipos de equ…Televisión de pago satelitalCría de ovejas (ovinos)How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Diguillín

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
Servicios de extinción y prevención de incendios forestalesServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura1,32350.1×
Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales (explotación mixta)Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales3,24813.4×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes1,94413.1×
Elaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizasElaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizas2,58812.8×
Cultivo de otros frutos y nueces de árboles y arbustosCultivo de plantas perennes97112.5×
Cultivos forrajeros en praderas mejoradas o sembradas; cultivos suplementarios forrajerosCultivo de plantas no perennes41510.2×
Corretaje al por mayor de ganadoVenta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata1329.2×
Molienda de trigo: producción de harina, sémola y gránulosElaboración de productos de molinería, almidones y productos derivados del almidón3799.0×
Venta de motocicletasVenta, mantenimiento y reparación de motocicletas y sus partes, piezas y accesorios1388.5×
Otros servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura n.c.p.Servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura3,5778.2×
Destilación, rectificación y mezclas de bebidas alcohólicas; excepto piscoElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas627.9×
Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (incluye el cultivo de aceitunas)Cultivo de plantas perennes6236.8×

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
336,556
hectares in holdings
92.0%
of them under a named use
46.3%
of the crop land is irrigated
Woodland 40%Pasture 23%Annual crops 22%Not farmed 12%Orchards … 3.1%Forest plantations26%Native woodland15%Pasture23%Cereals16%Foddercrops2.6%IndustrialcropsVeget…0.8%Pulses…Seed…Scrub,barrenground and…8.0%Untilled land3.6%Fruit trees2.7%
Woodland 40%Pasture 23%Annual crops 22%Not farmed 12%Forestplantations26%Nativewoodland15%Pasture23%Cereals16%FoddercropsIndustr…Pul…Scrub,barrenground and…Untilled land
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
DiguillínChile% of each territory's own population · 336,801 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
336,801
512,28918,480,43216th of 56
Average age
39.6 yrs
40.0 yrs38.1 yrs12th of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
92.8
97.679.013th of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
66.2/km²
39.1/km²24.7/km²13th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
124,989
190,4026,596,52714th of 56
Dwellings
154,501
234,8457,642,71613th of 56
People per household
2.69
2.692.8037th of 56
Women
52.3%
51.9%51.5%2nd of 56
Men per 100 women
91.2
92.794.355th of 56
Under 15
17.2%
17.0%17.7%45th of 56
65 and over
15.9%
16.6%14.0%16th of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
49.5
50.846.525th of 56
One-person households
22.3%
22.3%21.8%27th of 56
Households with children
31.8%
31.5%33.2%42nd of 56
Indigenous peoples
4.0%
3.9%11.4%51st of 56
Female-headed households
50.2%
48.5%49.9%15th of 56
Land area
5,088 km²
13,092 km²748,041 km²38th of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Diguillín38%Arrived since 202062%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Diguillín38%Arrived since 202062%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
2.7%
2.1%8.7%43rd 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.
61.1%
63.3%50.5%22nd 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.
14.5%
14.6%23.9%31st of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
21.0%
19.1%17.2%19th of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
9,040
10,9341,608,65024th of 56
Average age, foreign-born
33.5 yrs
33.6 yrs33.5 yrs25th of 56
Women among foreign-born
51.1%
51.0%51.7%31st of 56
Foreign-born of working age
80.4%
80.4%83.1%42nd of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
38.1%
38.3%34.4%29th 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.
3.2%
2.6%10.6%43rd of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.5 yrs
13.3 yrs12.9 yrs7th 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.
-47,762
-76,453046th of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-13.7
-14.70.039th of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Diguillín27%Higher37%Secondary28%Primary only5.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Diguillín27%Higher37%Secondary28%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.0 yrs
9.6 yrs10.4 yrs22nd of 56
Reached higher education
27.1%
24.1%31.1%24th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.9%
99.1%98.6%32nd 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.
55.0%
56.5%55.6%27th 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.
101.4%
102.6%99.8%24th of 56
Literacy rate
96.6%
95.7%97.8%40th of 56
Reached secondary education
36.7%
36.2%36.7%35th of 56
Primary education only
28.0%
31.2%24.1%27th of 56
Never attended school
3.17%
3.65%3.01%29th 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.
11.4 yrs
10.9 yrs12.1 yrs30th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.6 yrs
11.2 yrs12.1 yrs29th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.39%
4.34%2.18%16th of 56
Households lacking schooling
18.8%
21.6%15.1%27th 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.
4,294
6,432217,56514th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
28.6%
32.5%33.9%40th 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.
6.0%
6.5%3.1%18th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
64.2%
63.5%67.2%33rd of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
17.6%
18.6%19.7%27th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
18.2%
17.9%13.1%22nd 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.
28.3%
31.5%13.0%22nd of 56
Of those continuing, women · The graduates module does not publish sex, so there is no continuation rate by sex: only the make-up of those who do continue.
51.1%
51.1%49.7%22nd 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.

4,294left secondary school in 2024
2,361enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
55.0%continued immediately
64%of those, to a university
28%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico en EnfermeriaDerechoIngenieria ComercialEnfermeriaPsicologiaIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizGastronomiaIngenieria Civil en InformaticaIngenieria Civil IndustrialKinesiologia
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico en EnfermeriaDerechoIngenieria ComercialEnfermeriaPsicologiaIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizGastronomiaIngenieria Civil en InformaticaIngenieria Civil IndustrialKinesiologia
DiguillínChile

Each bar is that programme's share of everyone who continued, here and in the country — not a headcount, so a commune of a few hundred can be read beside a country of 121,050. Programme names as the register writes them: in capitals and without accents, and unmerged, since SIES publishes 1,481 distinct names in a single year and two spellings of one degree stay two rows. Only the capitals are undone here.

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
DiguillínChile

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

02,0004,0006,0002006201520244,2942,361
02,0004,0006,0002006201520244,2942,361
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 Diguillín'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 Diguillín 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

Diguillín90%Fonasa5.0%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Diguillín90%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
14.0%
14.6%10.6%3rd of 56
Public health insurance
90.0%
90.8%82.6%27th 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.
82.8
79.482.520th of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
113
11010012th of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
47,278
74,7111,950,38811th of 56
Average age, people with a disability
57.4 yrs
58.2 yrs56.4 yrs23rd of 56
Disability among 65+
43.9%
45.3%43.0%29th of 56
Difficulty walking
6.84%
7.23%4.92%7th of 56
Difficulty seeing
6.43%
6.70%4.58%5th of 56
Difficulty hearing
2.82%
2.98%2.16%9th of 56
Difficulty concentrating
3.62%
3.67%2.70%4th of 56
Private health insurance
5.0%
4.8%13.2%29th of 54
No health coverage
2.51%
2.25%1.98%17th of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
93.8%
93.5%92.1%23rd of 54
Households lacking health access
6.2%
6.2%6.0%27th of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
27,878
40,6561,523,71616th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
842
1,29436,69810th of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.02%
3.18%2.41%14th of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.3 days
6.3 days6.1 days27th of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
25.0
25.319.98th of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
98
9310023rd of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
1,552
2,26489,72316th of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.6%
5.6%5.9%25th of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
46.1
44.248.619th 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
8210025th of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 24%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries, bones … 16%Pregnancy, bir… 14%Tumours, blood a… 13%Mind, nerves… 5.7%Infections a… 5.7%Digestive system14%Genitourina…system9.6%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem11%Injuries andpoisoning8.8%Musculoskele…5.3%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth13%Congenital…Perinatal…Cancers and tumours7.8%Endocrine andmetabolicBlo…andimm…Mentalandbehavio…Nervo…system2.4%Ill-de…sympto…2.5%Infe…andpara…Con…withhea…
Digestive and urinary… 24%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries… 16%Pregnancy, birth and… 14%Tumours, blood and m… 13%Digestivesystem14%Genitour…system9.6%Circulato…system11%Respirat…system11%Injuries andpoisoning8.8%Musculos…5.3%Pregnancy andchildbirth13%Cancers andtumours7.8%Endocri…andmetabol…Mental andbehaviour…NervoussystemIll-defin…Infe…and…Con…wit…
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 digestivos27%Mama15%Sangre y sistemalinfático13%Genitalesfemeninos9.3%Vías urinarias8.7%Genitalesmasculinos8.6%Tiroides yendocrinas5.5%Víasrespir…3.5%Boca yfaringe2.0%Sitiosmaldefinid…Tejid…bland…1.5%Encéf…ysiste…1.5%Piel ymelan…1.4%Sitiosreserv…1.4%
Órganos digestivos27%Mama15%Sangre ysistemalinfático13%Genitalesfemeninos9.3%Víasurinarias8.7%Genitalesmasculinos8.6%Tiroides yendocrinas5.5%Víasrespirat…3.5%Boca yfarin…2.0%Sitiosmaldefin…TejidosblandosEnc…ysis…Pielymel…Sitios…
Órganos digestivosMamaSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales femeninosVías urinariasGenitales masculinoshover 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.
23.2%
23.9%17.3%14th of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.9 UF
21.7 UF32.0 UF38th of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
101.8%
105.5%78.9%11th 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.
78.7
78.885.631st of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
47.5%
46.1%54.4%48th of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
10.5%
10.2%8.6%8th of 56
Self-employed
34.5%
34.7%33.8%32nd of 56
Extreme poverty
9.7%
10.3%6.9%11th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
16.1%
17.0%17.7%34th of 54
Unemployment rate
10.3%
9.5%8.8%14th of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 556,977
CLP 551,152CLP 783,12435th of 54
Gini coefficient · 0 is a perfectly equal split and 1 a perfectly unequal one. On household per-capita income (ypchtotcor). A survey estimate: in comunas with a small sample the interval is wide.
0.478
0.4760.48814th of 53
Registered firms
26,520
40,3861,582,39015th of 56
Annual sales
105,460,046 UF
141,760,752 UF34,347,683,688 UF23rd 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.
104,592
154,7709,699,16415th of 56
Sales per firm
3,977 UF
3,510 UF21,706 UF37th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.5
2.33.925th of 56
Women among employees
43.6%
44.2%40.6%14th of 56
Independent contractors
34,211
46,6323,958,26917th of 56
Contractors as share of workers
24.6%
23.2%29.0%35th of 56

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 28%State and social services 26%Industry and construction 20%Natural resources 11%Advanced services 8.3%Retail andwholesale17%Transport6.2%Accommodationand food4.4%Education11%Health9.3%Public administration5.5%Construction9.7%Manufacturing8.4%Electrici…Water…Agriculture andfishing9.6%Adminis…services3.1%Profes…servic…2.7%Inform…Fina…and…Domes…work3.1%Otherservi…2.2%Arts…
Trade and logistics 28%State and social se… 26%Industry and con… 20%Natur… 11%Advanced… 8.3%Other se… 6.2%Retail and wholesale17%Transport6.2%Accommod…and food4.4%Education11%Health9.3%Public administrationConstruction9.7%Manufacturing8.4%Agricult…andfishing9.6%Admi…serv…Professi…servicesInf…and…Domest…workOtherserv…
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 53%Managers and professionals 31%Elementary occupations 15%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades14%Plant and machineoperators9.1%Clericalsupport5.7%Skilledagricul…4.1%Professionals18%Technicians9.6%Managers3.7%Elementary occupations15%
Skilled occupations 53%Managers and professionals 31%Elementary… 15%Service andsales21%Craft andtrades14%Plant andmachineoperators9.1%Clericalsupport5.7%Skill…agric…4.1%Professionals18%Technicians9.6%ManagersElementaryoccupations15%
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

Diguillín95%House4.9%Chile79%House20%Flat
Diguillín95%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.3%
4.4%5.7%51st of 56
Internet access
89.3%
87.3%93.2%38th 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.
3.1
3.82.332nd 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.
2.5
3.01.634th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
122,903
187,5136,408,17214th of 56
Critically overcrowded
0.27%
0.26%0.57%48th of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.79%
1.16%1.13%49th of 56
Public water network
84.0%
81.5%92.3%37th of 56
Electricity access
99.6%
99.4%99.6%21st of 56
Detached houses
94.6%
95.8%78.7%26th of 56
Apartments
4.9%
3.4%19.9%26th of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.24%0.23%39th of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
16.5%
16.4%11.9%26th of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
5,628
8,879491,90421st of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
4.5%
4.7%7.5%47th of 56
Renting households
18.8%
16.4%26.2%34th of 56
Owner-occupiers
67.8%
69.4%61.1%21st of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
51.8%
60.6%24.4%21st of 56
Commute by public transport
30.0%
27.6%42.1%24th of 56
Walks to work
11.7%
13.5%10.2%33rd of 56
Households with a computer
47.4%
43.8%54.9%31st 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.
1.5
1.81.128th 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.
93.4%
90.8%97.0%33rd 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.
99.9%
99.9%99.9%31st 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.
81.6%
72.9%89.4%31st 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.
97.1%
96.4%98.1%28th 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.
99.7%
99.8%99.7%32nd 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.
10.6
13.25.922nd 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.
60.9%
47.2%80.3%31st 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.
67.2%
60.4%90.0%39th 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.
89.0%
84.9%96.2%39th 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.
0.9
1.00.631st 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.
99.0%
98.6%99.0%17th of 56
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 56
People within 30 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 56
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
84.9%
78.5%91.6%30th 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.
97.3%
97.6%98.5%30th 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.
99.7%
99.8%99.8%32nd of 56

How people commute

Private vehicle 43%Public transport 30%On foot or by bicycle 19%Other… 8.3%Car41%Public transport30%Walking12%Bicycle7.2%Other8.2%
Private vehicle 43%Public transport 30%On foot or by bicycle 19%Other m… 8.3%Car41%Public transport30%Walking12%Bicycle7.2%Other8.2%
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 68%Rented 19%Provided re… 9.9%Owned outright57%Owned, still paying11%Rented, withcontract13%Rented, no contract6.1%Provided byfamily8.2%Otherarra…
Owned 68%Rented 19%Provided… 9.9%Owned outright57%Owned,stillpaying11%Rented, withcontract13%Rented,nocontract6.1%Providedby family8.2%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

Wood and biomass 60%Fossil fuels 23%Electricity 13%Firewood52%Pellets7.7%Gas12%Paraffin11%Electricity13%Noheating3.7%
Wood and biomass 60%Fossil fuels 23%Electricity 13%Firewood52%Pellets7.7%Gas12%Paraffin11%Electricity13%Nohea…
ElectricityNo heatingOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
89.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.4%
voted in the runoff
292,435
registered voters on the roll
6.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman32.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist67.8%58.3%
DiguillínChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez21.5%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman20.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.6%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist29.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%
DiguillínChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile26.3%30.6%
KCambio por Chile22.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido27.9%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente8.3%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.9%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista5.2%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.5%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile2.4%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.6%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
DiguillínChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

9
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Chillán190,3823.6%10.6 yrs19.7%
Bulnes23,8631.1%9.2 yrs26.0%
Chillán Viejo32,6882.4%9.9 yrs23.7%
El Carmen13,1860.8%8.6 yrs30.2%
Pemuco8,9300.4%8.7 yrs24.7%
Pinto12,5021.7%9.2 yrs35.4%
Quillón19,1652.2%9.1 yrs20.6%
San Ignacio17,4050.7%8.6 yrs50.4%
Yungay18,6800.9%9.3 yrs24.6%
Diguillín336,8012.7%10.0 yrs23.2%