Provincia de El Loa

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.

Renting households1st of 56 · Chile 26.2%38.3%

Dependency ratio55th of 56 · Chile 46.542.7

Women among foreign-born2nd of 56 · Chile 51.7%55.0%

Women's schooling as share of men's55th of 56 · Chile 99.8%97.6%

Average length of stay51st of 52 · Chile 6.1 days4.9 days

Disability prevalence54th of 56 · Chile 10.6%7.4%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 3,224 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

54.7%

39th of 54

Came from another commune of the same region

4.8%

52nd of 54

Came from another region

19.0%

23rd of 54

Net internal migration

-28,914

-13.9 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of El Loa

Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.

BranchWorkersShare of total2005–2024Change

01ConstructionIndustry and construction5,76012.0%−33%02Professional servicesAdvanced services5,35111.1%+566%03ManufacturingIndustry and construction5,22310.9%−3%04HealthState and social services4,85710.1%+963%05Administrative servicesAdvanced services4,80910.0%+202%06TransportTrade and logistics4,7229.8%+272%07Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics4,2708.9%+86%08Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics4,1518.6%−16%09EducationState and social services2,0654.3%−27%10MiningNatural resources1,9364.0%−26%

Dependent workers, projected

Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.0% a year observed · 0.8% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.9% a year observed · -4.7% projected

What El Loa is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, El Loa employs more people in 105 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.

105

activities it is specialised in

48,113

formal workers

9/53

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in El Loa

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

Activity	Division	Workers here	Times the national share
Industrias básicas de hierro y acero	Industrias básicas de hierro y acero	772	22.1×
Recuperación y reciclamiento de desperdicios y desechos metálicos	Recuperación de materiales	284	18.7×
Actividades de centros de salud municipalizados (servicios de salud pública)	Actividades de médicos y odontólogos	3,846	18.5×
Actividades de operadores turísticos	Actividades de agencias de viajes y operadores turísticos	61	18.3×
Actividades de sindicatos	Actividades de sindicatos	58	16.5×
Alquiler de maquinaria y equipo agropecuario, forestal, de construcción e ing. civil, sin operarios	Alquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles	1,147	14.5×
Actividades de residenciales para turistas	Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas	50	14.2×
Venta al por menor de recuerdos, artesanías y artículos religiosos en comercios especializados	Venta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados	87	13.5×
Servicios de transporte de pasajeros en taxis libres y radiotaxis	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	77	13.4×
Servicios de transporte a turistas	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	91	10.3×
Otros servicios de ensayos y análisis técnicos (excepto actividades de plantas de revisión técnica)	Ensayos y análisis técnicos	351	10.0×
Otras actividades de servicio de bebidas n.c.p.	Actividades de servicio de bebidas	25	9.7×

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

493,170

hectares in holdings

16.2%

of them under a named use

91.3%

of the crop land is irrigated

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.

The agricultural census measured 493,170 hectares of holdings in El Loa in the 2020/2021 agricultural year, and this is how it divided them.

Fourteen of the fifteen tiles are categories the census publishes. The fifteenth is not: it is the censused surface less the other fourteen, and what it holds is scrub, barren ground, roads and buildings. Across Chile it is half of everything, because most of the censused surface is Patagonian scrub and northern desert inside very large holdings.

Irrigation is asked of eleven of the uses and not of forest, native woodland, natural pasture or untilled ground — so the 91.3% above is a share of the 1,034 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

The census counts holdings by comuna and by region only, and one holding can have land in several comunas — so there is no count for this level and PuroChile does not make one by adding.

VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal 2021, INE

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

El LoaChile% of each territory's own population · 176,433 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Census population	176,433	635,416	18,480,432	31st of 56
Average age	34.6 yrs	35.1 yrs	38.1 yrs	52nd of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	43.1	49.3	79.0	53rd of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	4.2/km²	5.0/km²	24.7/km²	43rd of 56

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Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Households	60,042	213,747	6,596,527	31st of 56
Dwellings	66,344	231,829	7,642,716	32nd of 56
People per household	2.94	2.97	2.80	10th of 56
Women	50.6%	50.6%	51.5%	41st of 56
Men per 100 women	97.6	97.7	94.3	16th of 56
Under 15	20.9%	19.7%	17.7%	6th of 56
65 and over	9.0%	9.7%	14.0%	53rd of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	42.7	41.6	46.5	55th of 56
One-person households	22.8%	21.0%	21.8%	26th of 56
Households with children	39.8%	38.4%	33.2%	6th of 56
Indigenous peoples	29.3%	14.4%	11.4%	11th of 56
Female-headed households	44.5%	46.6%	49.9%	53rd of 56
Land area	42,071 km²	126,131 km²	748,041 km²	4th of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	21.6%	19.5%	8.7%	4th 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.	54.7%	57.9%	50.5%	39th 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.	4.8%	7.5%	23.9%	52nd of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	19.0%	17.3%	17.2%	23rd of 54

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Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	38,023	124,006	1,608,650	6th of 56
Average age, foreign-born	31.8 yrs	31.9 yrs	33.5 yrs	42nd of 56
Women among foreign-born	55.0%	53.6%	51.7%	2nd of 56
Foreign-born of working age	83.0%	83.7%	83.1%	13th of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	33.7%	34.9%	34.4%	38th 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.	25.5%	23.1%	10.6%	4th of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born	11.7 yrs	11.7 yrs	12.9 yrs	48th 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.	-28,914	-43,855	0	42nd of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	-13.9	-6.1	0.0	40th of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	10.3 yrs	10.5 yrs	10.4 yrs	12th of 56
Reached higher education	27.8%	29.8%	31.1%	17th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17	98.5%	97.8%	98.6%	41st 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.	59.7%	59.5%	55.6%	15th of 56

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Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
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.	97.6%	98.4%	99.8%	55th of 56
Literacy rate	98.9%	99.0%	97.8%	5th of 56
Reached secondary education	41.9%	41.0%	36.7%	5th of 56
Primary education only	21.7%	21.0%	24.1%	48th of 56
Never attended school	3.83%	3.20%	3.01%	15th 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.	12.5 yrs	12.6 yrs	12.1 yrs	8th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	12.2 yrs	12.4 yrs	12.1 yrs	14th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	1.10%	0.99%	2.18%	52nd of 56
Households lacking schooling	15.5%	13.0%	15.1%	37th 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.	2,533	8,407	217,565	27th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	45.2%	41.3%	33.9%	11th of 56
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates.	0.8%	0.2%	3.1%	36th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	51.2%	58.9%	67.2%	53rd of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	31.4%	22.4%	19.7%	3rd of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	17.3%	18.7%	13.1%	28th 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.	34.5%	19.9%	13.0%	20th 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.	49.0%	49.8%	49.7%	42nd 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.

2,533left secondary school in 2024

1,511enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

59.7%continued immediately

51%of those, to a university

35%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

El LoaChile

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

El LoaChile

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

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 El Loa'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.

Health

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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 El Loa 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

FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	7.4%	7.8%	10.6%	54th of 56
Public health insurance	76.5%	78.4%	82.6%	52nd 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.	100.3	87.8	82.5	6th of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	123	123	100	7th of 52

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Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	12,981	49,876	1,950,388	34th of 56
Average age, people with a disability	51.2 yrs	51.5 yrs	56.4 yrs	52nd of 56
Disability among 65+	34.5%	35.2%	43.0%	53rd of 56
Difficulty walking	2.99%	3.17%	4.92%	53rd of 56
Difficulty seeing	3.31%	3.55%	4.58%	54th of 56
Difficulty hearing	1.55%	1.59%	2.16%	51st of 56
Difficulty concentrating	1.72%	1.92%	2.70%	52nd of 56
Private health insurance	16.6%	16.2%	13.2%	3rd of 54
No health coverage	4.55%	3.27%	1.98%	3rd of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	87.7%	92.3%	92.1%	49th of 54
Households lacking health access	7.3%	4.8%	6.0%	13th of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	17,702	55,769	1,523,716	24th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	303	1,135	36,698	33rd of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	1.71%	2.04%	2.41%	45th of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	4.9 days	5.5 days	6.1 days	51st of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	17.2	17.9	19.9	37th of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	131	113	100	3rd of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	819	2,993	89,723	29th of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	4.6%	5.4%	5.9%	41st of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	46.4	47.1	48.6	18th 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.	114	114	100	8th of 54

What people are hospitalised for

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 digestivosSitios reservadosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaVías urinariasPiel y melanomahover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	17.4%	16.4%	17.3%	38th of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	34.1 UF	35.1 UF	32.0 UF	3rd of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	71.2%	77.2%	78.9%	51st 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.	65.3	69.7	85.6	51st of 56

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Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	58.6%	57.7%	54.4%	13th of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	7.8%	8.0%	8.6%	38th of 56
Self-employed	32.8%	34.7%	33.8%	40th of 56
Extreme poverty	8.7%	7.1%	6.9%	20th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	22.1%	17.3%	17.7%	10th of 54
Unemployment rate	9.0%	7.8%	8.8%	25th of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 801,571	CLP 806,072	CLP 783,124	9th 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.	0.468	0.444	0.488	17th of 53
Registered firms	11,520	44,288	1,582,390	33rd of 56
Annual sales	115,690,121 UF	594,510,665 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	22nd 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.	48,131	230,608	9,699,164	31st of 56
Sales per firm	10,043 UF	13,424 UF	21,706 UF	13th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	2.7	3.4	3.9	16th of 56
Women among employees	36.6%	32.8%	40.6%	46th of 56
Independent contractors	17,180	76,944	3,958,269	30th of 56
Contractors as share of workers	26.3%	25.0%	29.0%	29th of 56

Employment by industry

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

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

HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	9.6%	7.6%	5.7%	4th of 56
Internet access	95.8%	96.5%	93.2%	7th 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	1.5	2.3	49th of 56
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	1.1	1.1	1.6	46th of 56

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Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	56,312	202,065	6,408,172	32nd of 56
Critically overcrowded	1.30%	0.94%	0.57%	4th of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings	2.21%	2.66%	1.13%	12th of 56
Public water network	93.8%	95.9%	92.3%	14th of 56
Electricity access	99.5%	99.5%	99.6%	24th of 56
Detached houses	91.6%	78.3%	78.7%	35th of 56
Apartments	5.3%	19.2%	19.9%	25th of 56
Precarious wall materials	0.56%	0.53%	0.23%	8th of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings	9.7%	8.2%	11.9%	42nd of 56
Quantitative housing deficit	8,814	27,028	491,904	12th of 56
Housing deficit as share of households	14.7%	12.6%	7.5%	4th of 56
Renting households	38.3%	34.6%	26.2%	1st of 56
Owner-occupiers	46.6%	48.6%	61.1%	54th of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	2.4%	0.7%	24.4%	47th of 56
Commute by public transport	33.6%	40.8%	42.1%	19th of 56
Walks to work	10.3%	10.7%	10.2%	44th of 56
Households with a computer	55.3%	57.7%	54.9%	12th 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.	0.8	0.9	1.1	53rd 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.	98.5%	98.5%	97.0%	12th 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.	99.5%	99.4%	99.9%	42nd 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.	99.8%	99.7%	100.0%	45th 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.	97.4%	97.3%	89.4%	4th 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.	98.5%	98.9%	98.1%	19th 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.	99.1%	99.4%	99.7%	38th 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.	6.2	5.5	5.9	34th 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.	93.2%	94.1%	80.3%	9th 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.	94.1%	95.1%	90.0%	19th 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.	94.5%	95.3%	96.2%	29th of 56
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	0.7	0.7	0.6	42nd of 56
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.	98.5%	98.8%	99.0%	26th of 56
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.	99.4%	99.4%	99.9%	43rd 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%	99.7%	100.0%	47th 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.	98.2%	98.3%	91.6%	5th 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.	98.9%	99.1%	98.5%	18th 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.	99.3%	99.3%	99.8%	38th of 56

How people commute

Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

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 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

80.7%

of the registered voted in the first round

79.8%

voted in the runoff

143,781

registered voters on the roll

10.8%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman36.8%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist63.2%58.3%

El LoaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez38.8%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman19.4%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.1%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist19.0%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet6.1%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%

El LoaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile17.6%30.6%

KCambio por Chile18.9%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido17.9%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente24.4%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas12.5%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.0%2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios4.1%0.6%

HPopular1.6%0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

El LoaChileshare of the valid vote

Congress is compared by list, not by candidate: the candidates change at every district line, and the list — the pact — is the same across the country.

Región de Antofagasta renewed its senators in 2021, not in 2025, so El Loa has no Senate result in this election.

5 deputies, by list

C. Unidad por Chile3
K. Cambio por Chile1
I. Partido de la Gente1

Elected in district 3, some of which also cover other places.

Every name

District 3 · also covers other communes

Sebastian Patricio Videla Castillo Independiente Liberal de Chile · list C · 74,910 votes
Fabian Ossandon Briceño Partido de la Gente · list I · 33,381 votes
Jaime Araya Guerrero Independiente Por la Democracia · list C · 13,687 votes
Carlo Arqueros Pizarro Partido Republicano de Chile · list K · 12,528 votes
Marcela Hernando Perez Partido Radical de Chile · list C · 11,973 votes

Territories within

3

Commune	Census population	Foreign-born share	Average years of schooling	Income poverty
Calama	166,334	21.2%	10.3 yrs	17.2%
Ollagüe	256	24.2%	9.5 yrs	—
San Pedro de Atacama	9,843	27.8%	9.8 yrs	20.6%
El Loa	176,433	21.6%	10.3 yrs	17.4%

Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of El Loa

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What El Loa is specialised in

Most over-represented in El Loa

The land and who works it

Population and territory

Population pyramid

Migration

When the migrant population arrived

Education

How far schooling went

The class of 2024

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

By field of study

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

Health

Which health system

What people are hospitalised for

By tumour site

Economy and poverty

Employment by industry

Employment by occupation

Housing and services

House or flat

How people commute

Housing tenure

Home heating fuel

How it voted in 2025

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

Territories within