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Provincia de ElquiProvincia de Elqui

Compare Elqui with another place
Census population
562,457
7th of 56
Population density
32.9/km²
21st of 56
Average years of schooling
10.5 yrs
8th of 56
Foreign-born share
6.1%
16th of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 56 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Of those continuing, women51st of 56 · Chile 49.7%48.2%
Households lacking schooling48th of 54 · Chile 15.1%12.0%
Reached higher education8th of 56 · Chile 31.1%31.8%
Overcrowded dwellings49th of 56 · Chile 5.7%4.4%
Detached houses49th of 56 · Chile 78.7%85.7%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.9 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.9 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 · 6,680 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
56.7%
36th of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
12.7%
36th of 54
Came from another region
25.7%
10th of 54
Net internal migration
+105,698
+17.7 per 100 residents
Elquithis province · 460,973another region153,016 peopleelsewhere in the region30,709 peopleabroad29,524 peopleanother region73,008 peopleelsewhere in the region5,019 peopleElquithis province · 596,195
Elquithis province · 460,973another region153,016 peopleelsewhere in th…30,709 peopleabroad29,524 peopleanother region73,008 peopleelsewhere in th…5,019 peopleElquithis province · 596,195

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520243Construction1Construction▲210Health2Health▲82Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼16Education4Education▲25Administrative services5Administrative services1Agriculture and fishing6Agriculture and fishing▼54Manufacturing7Manufacturing▼39Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▲115Public administration9Public administration▲68Mining10Mining▼211Transport11Transport12Professional services12Professional services7Other services13Other services▼6
2005202431Construction▲2102Health▲823Retail and wholesale▼164Education▲255Administrative services16Agriculture and fishing▼547Manufacturing▼398Accommodation and food▲1159Public administration▲6810Mining▼21111Transport1212Professional services713Other services▼6

The ten branches that employ most of Elqui

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.

70 k120 k170 k220 kprojection →177 k2029 · central2005201520242029
70 k120 k170 k220 kprojection →177 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.6% a year observed · 2.5% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0100 M200 M300 M400 Mprojection →274 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0100 M200 M300 M400 Mprojection →274 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.0% a year observed · 3.8% projected

What Elqui is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Elqui employs more people in 144 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.

144
activities it is specialised in
156,929
formal workers
18/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%65%-2.5-0.63.7Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Venta al por menor de productos f…Actividades de hotelesFondos y sociedades de inversión …Consejo de administración de edif…Enseñanza superior en institutos …Fabricación de colchones, fabrica…Otras actividades de asistencia s…Servicio notarialHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%65%-2.5-0.63.7Fondos y sociedades de inversión …Enseñanza superior en institutos …Fabricación de explosivos y produ…Cultivo de frutas tropicales y su…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Elqui

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
Elaboración de pisco (industrias pisqueras)Elaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas99156.9×
Extracción de minerales de hierroExtracción de minerales de hierro2,10745.7×
Cultivo de papasCultivo de plantas no perennes83630.0×
Cultivo de uva destinada a la producción de pisco y aguardienteCultivo de plantas perennes12014.6×
Elaboración y conservación de crustáceos, moluscos y otros productos acuáticos, en plantas en tierraElaboración y conservación de pescado, crustáceos y moluscos43713.6×
Actividades de centros de salud municipalizados (servicios de salud pública)Actividades de médicos y odontólogos8,28412.2×
Actividades de organizaciones y órganos extraterritorialesActividades de organizaciones y órganos extraterritoriales1118.4×
Actividades de discotecas y cabaret (night club), con predominio del servicio de bebidasActividades de servicio de bebidas4228.3×
Extracción de otros minerales metalíferos no ferrosos n.c.p. (excepto zinc, plomo y manganeso)Extracción de minerales metalíferos no ferrosos, excepto cobre7477.7×
Explotación de terminales terrestres de pasajerosActividades de apoyo al transporte1466.0×
Investigaciones y desarrollo experimental en el campo de las ciencias naturales y la ingeniería y la ingenieríaInvestigaciones y desarrollo experimental en el campo de las ciencias naturales y la ingeniería4065.9×
Otras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas n.c.p.Otras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas8545.6×

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
861,620
hectares in holdings
11.9%
of them under a named use
97.2%
of the crop land is irrigated
Not farmed 89%Past… 6.2%Wood… 3.0%Scrub, barren ground and buildings88%Pasture6.2%Forestplantati…2.6%FruittreesVege…
Not farmed 89%Scrub, barren ground and buildings88%PastureForest…
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
ElquiChile% of each territory's own population · 562,457 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
562,457
832,86418,480,4327th of 56
Average age
37.3 yrs
38.0 yrs38.1 yrs37th of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
71.8
77.679.037th of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
32.9/km²
20.5/km²24.7/km²21st of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
193,735
292,5676,596,5277th of 56
Dwellings
245,875
372,7857,642,7166th of 56
People per household
2.90
2.852.8014th of 56
Women
51.6%
51.4%51.5%14th of 56
Men per 100 women
94.0
94.494.343rd of 56
Under 15
18.7%
18.5%17.7%22nd of 56
65 and over
13.4%
14.4%14.0%37th of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
47.3
49.146.535th of 56
One-person households
20.1%
21.5%21.8%47th of 56
Households with children
35.8%
34.9%33.2%17th of 56
Indigenous peoples
10.1%
11.1%11.4%28th of 56
Female-headed households
48.9%
49.0%49.9%31st of 56
Land area
17,098 km²
40,579 km²748,041 km²13th of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Elqui41%Arrived since 202059%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Elqui41%Arrived since 202059%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
6.1%
5.4%8.7%16th 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.
56.7%
60.8%50.5%36th 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.
12.7%
11.8%23.9%36th of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
25.7%
22.4%17.2%10th of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
34,121
44,5781,608,65010th of 56
Average age, foreign-born
32.3 yrs
32.1 yrs33.5 yrs38th of 56
Women among foreign-born
51.8%
51.7%51.7%20th of 56
Foreign-born of working age
81.5%
81.4%83.1%31st of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
41.2%
43.5%34.4%19th 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.
7.3%
6.5%10.6%16th of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.8 yrs
12.7 yrs12.9 yrs16th 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.
105,698
34,19204th of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
17.7
3.90.010th of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Elqui32%Higher38%Secondary22%Primary only5.1%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Elqui32%Higher38%Secondary22%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.5 yrs
10.1 yrs10.4 yrs8th of 56
Reached higher education
31.8%
27.8%31.1%8th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.7%
98.8%98.6%37th 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.
58.5%
58.9%55.6%20th 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.
100.0%
100.5%99.8%40th of 56
Literacy rate
98.5%
97.9%97.8%14th of 56
Reached secondary education
38.1%
38.3%36.7%22nd of 56
Primary education only
22.3%
25.9%24.1%44th of 56
Never attended school
2.65%
3.02%3.01%46th 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.
12.4 yrs
11.8 yrs12.1 yrs9th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.4 yrs
11.9 yrs12.1 yrs9th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.50%
2.14%2.18%42nd of 56
Households lacking schooling
12.0%
14.8%15.1%48th of 54
Secondary school leavers · Secondary education for children and young people, by the comuna of the school where they took it. Adults are counted apart.
6,688
10,037217,5657th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
28.3%
30.6%33.9%41st 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.
1.9%
2.3%3.1%33rd of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
61.5%
58.7%67.2%42nd of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
18.2%
17.5%19.7%24th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
20.4%
23.8%13.1%12th 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.
13.0%
21.2%13.0%40th 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.
48.2%
49.2%49.7%51st of 56

The class of 2024

Mineduc (SIES), by the comuna they went to school in

Approximation: the comuna is the one this cohort was enrolled in for secondary school, which is what Mineduc publishes — not a home address, which it does not.

6,688left secondary school in 2024
3,911enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
58.5%continued immediately
61%of those, to a university
13%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil en Computacion E InformaticaTecnico en EnfermeriaKinesiologiaEnfermeriaGastronomiaIngenieria Civil en Minas
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil en Computacion E InformaticaTecnico en EnfermeriaKinesiologiaEnfermeriaGastronomiaIngenieria Civil en Minas
ElquiChile

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

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareEducationInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareEducationInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinary
ElquiChile

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

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

02,0004,0006,0008,0002006201520246,6883,911
02,0004,0006,0008,0002006201520246,6883,911
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 Elqui'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 Elqui 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

Elqui87%Fonasa7.6%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Elqui87%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
9.7%
10.4%10.6%43rd of 56
Public health insurance
87.0%
88.7%82.6%37th 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.
64.9
63.382.542nd of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
84
8510037th of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
54,473
86,6461,950,3887th of 56
Average age, people with a disability
54.7 yrs
56.2 yrs56.4 yrs39th of 56
Disability among 65+
41.3%
43.6%43.0%40th of 56
Difficulty walking
4.22%
4.65%4.92%41st of 56
Difficulty seeing
4.11%
4.50%4.58%47th of 56
Difficulty hearing
1.85%
2.13%2.16%47th of 56
Difficulty concentrating
2.59%
2.67%2.70%29th of 56
Private health insurance
7.6%
6.2%13.2%17th of 54
No health coverage
3.22%
3.13%1.98%12th of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
92.7%
88.7%92.1%28th of 54
Households lacking health access
5.5%
7.7%6.0%36th of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
36,520
52,6901,523,71610th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
900
1,43636,6988th of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.46%
2.73%2.41%30th of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.4 days
6.4 days6.1 days23rd of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
16.0
17.219.941st of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
80
7710040th of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
2,264
3,03989,7238th of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.2%
5.8%5.9%12th of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
40.3
36.548.631st 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.
85
7510030th of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 20%Pregnancy, birth a… 18%Injuries, bones… 16%Tumours, blood and me… 14%Infections… 5.1%Mind, nerv… 4.0%Digestive system14%Genitouri…system8.5%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem9.2%Pregnancy andchildbirth15%Perinatal…Congen…Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculoskele…4.6%SkinCancers andtumours8.8%Endocri…andmetabol…4.2%Infec…andparas…1.9%Cont…withheal…Ill-…symp…NervoussystemMentalandbehavi…
Digestive and urinary… 23%Heart and lungs 20%Pregnancy… 18%Injuries, bones and s… 16%Tumours, blood and me… 14%Digestivesystem14%Genitou…system8.5%Circulato…system11%Respirat…system9.2%Pregnancyandchildbirth15%Perinatal…Cong…Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculo…4.6%Cancers andtumours8.8%Endocri…andmetabol…Infect…and…Contactwith…Ill-de…sympto…NervoussystemMent…andbeha…
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 digestivos25%Sangre y sistemalinfático13%Genitales femeninos10%Mama10%Tiroides yendocrinas8.1%Genitalesmasculinos7.4%Víasurinarias7.0%Sitios maldefinidos5.5%Víasrespiratorias3.8%Piel y melanoma3.5%Tejid…bland…1.9%Boca yfaringe1.8%Encéfa…ysistem…Hues…
Órganos digestivos25%Sangre ysistemalinfático13%Genitalesfemeninos10%Mama10%Tiroides yendocrinas8.1%Genitalesmasculinos7.4%Víasurinarias7.0%Sitiosmaldefinid…5.5%Víasrespirato…3.8%Piel ymelanomaTejidos…Bocayfari…Enc…ysis…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales femeninosMamaTiroides y endocrinasGenitales 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.
19.8%
20.7%17.3%22nd of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
26.9 UF
25.4 UF32.0 UF11th of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
85.9%
89.3%78.9%38th 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.
71.0
72.885.645th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
52.2%
51.0%54.4%32nd of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.8%
10.0%8.6%13th of 56
Self-employed
35.4%
35.1%33.8%26th of 56
Extreme poverty
9.1%
9.1%6.9%17th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
16.4%
17.0%17.7%31st of 54
Unemployment rate
8.9%
9.5%8.8%27th of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 648,217
CLP 628,365CLP 783,12420th 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.
0.448
0.4440.48829th of 53
Registered firms
39,946
60,6611,582,3907th of 56
Annual sales
227,907,842 UF
278,962,355 UF34,347,683,688 UF13th 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.
157,023
225,5119,699,16411th of 56
Sales per firm
5,705 UF
4,599 UF21,706 UF27th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.5
2.43.923rd of 56
Women among employees
39.5%
40.9%40.6%31st of 56
Independent contractors
56,085
81,4293,958,2698th of 56
Contractors as share of workers
26.3%
26.5%29.0%28th of 56

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 29%State and social services 22%Natural resources 17%Industry and … 16%Advanced se… 9.9%Other servi… 6.1%Retail andwholesale17%Transport5.8%Accommodati…and food5.7%Education9.8%Health7.9%PublicadministrationMining12%Agricult…andfishing4.8%Construction9.0%Manufactur…5.6%Ele…andgasWat…andwas…Adminis…services3.4%Profes…servic…3.3%Inform…andcommun…Fina…andinsu…Realesta…Otherservic…3.0%DomesticworkArts and…
Trade and logistics 29%State and social… 22%Natural res… 17%Industry a… 16%Advanced … 9.9%Other ser… 6.1%Retail andwholesale17%Transport5.8%Accommod…and food5.7%Education9.8%Health7.9%Publicadmin…4.1%Mining12%Agriculture andfishingConstruction9.0%Manufactur…5.6%Administra…servicesProfession…servicesInf…and…Fina…Real…Otherservic…Dom…work
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 54%Managers and professionals 33%Elementary occupations 13%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades15%Plant and machineoperators10%Clericalsupport5.2%Skill…agric…2.5%Professionals18%Technicians11%Managers4.2%Elementary occupations13%
Skilled occupations 54%Managers and professionals 33%Elementa… 13%Service andsales21%Craft andtrades15%Plant andmachineoperators10%Clericalsupport5.2%Skil…agri…Professionals18%Technicians11%ManagersElementaryoccupations13%
Elementary occupationsArmed forceshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itCIUO-08 (ISCO) skill levels.

Housing and services

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House or flat

Elqui86%House13%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Elqui86%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.4%
4.5%5.7%49th of 56
Internet access
94.6%
92.1%93.2%14th 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.
2.4
3.62.341st 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.
1.6
3.11.642nd of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
188,578
285,1476,408,1727th of 56
Critically overcrowded
0.32%
0.31%0.57%35th of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.21%
1.60%1.13%31st of 56
Public water network
91.9%
90.0%92.3%21st of 56
Electricity access
99.5%
99.3%99.6%23rd of 56
Detached houses
85.7%
89.2%78.7%49th of 56
Apartments
13.3%
9.8%19.9%8th of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.22%
0.23%0.23%30th of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
19.9%
19.8%11.9%20th of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
12,383
19,423491,90410th of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
6.4%
6.6%7.5%21st of 56
Renting households
23.7%
21.2%26.2%16th of 56
Owner-occupiers
65.1%
66.1%61.1%32nd of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
5.8%
8.1%24.4%42nd of 56
Commute by public transport
38.9%
37.4%42.1%10th of 56
Walks to work
10.8%
13.4%10.2%39th of 56
Households with a computer
56.5%
50.7%54.9%10th 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.
1.1
1.31.144th 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.
96.9%
95.0%97.0%20th 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%
99.8%99.9%29th 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%37th 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.
90.2%
82.5%89.4%22nd 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.
97.5%
93.5%98.1%26th 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.
99.8%
99.2%99.7%26th 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.
4.0
7.15.940th 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.
85.3%
75.1%80.3%16th 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.
91.3%
82.4%90.0%21st 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.
96.2%
91.4%96.2%25th 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.
0.6
0.70.649th 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.
98.8%
98.5%99.0%22nd 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%
99.9%99.9%25th 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.
92.8%
83.6%91.6%22nd 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.
98.6%
93.5%98.5%22nd 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.
99.8%
99.0%99.8%28th of 56

How people commute

Public transport 39%Private vehicle 39%On foot or by bicycle 13%Other means 9.1%Public transport39%Car37%Walking11%Bic…Other9.1%
Public transport 39%Private vehicle 39%On foot or by bicycle 13%Other means 9.1%Public transport39%Car37%Walking11%Bicy…Other9.1%
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 65%Rented 24%Provided rent… 8.6%Owned outright47%Owned, still paying18%Rented, withcontract18%Rented, no contract6.2%Provided byfamily7.7%Otherarra…
Owned 65%Rented 24%Provided… 8.6%Owned outright47%Owned,stillpaying18%Rented, withcontract18%Rented,nocontra…6.2%Provided byfamily7.7%
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 49%Fossil fuels 27%Electricity 18%Wood and… 6.2%No heating49%Gas24%Paraf…2.8%Electricity18%Firewood5.8%
No heating 49%Fossil fuels 27%Electricity 18%Wood and biomass 6.2%No heating49%Gas24%Electricity18%
No heatingElectricityOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
86.6%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.2%
voted in the runoff
442,026
registered voters on the roll
8.7%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman46.6%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist53.4%58.3%
ElquiChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez24.3%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman28.1%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist18.6%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet11.4%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.3%1.3%
ElquiChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile38.9%30.6%
KCambio por Chile16.4%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido16.9%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente11.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.6%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.1%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile9.1%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
ElquiChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

6
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
La Serena250,1416.2%10.9 yrs18.8%
Coquimbo263,7196.4%10.4 yrs19.6%
Andacollo11,5661.2%9.3 yrs19.2%
La Higuera4,3352.5%8.3 yrs31.3%
Paihuano4,6492.6%9.8 yrs17.6%
Vicuña28,0474.4%9.5 yrs29.0%
Elqui562,4576.1%10.5 yrs19.8%