Provincia de Iquique

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 30 km of a school in operation1st of 56 · Chile 100.0%100.0%

Average distance to any health facility55th of 56 · Chile 1.10.6

People within 5 km of any health facility2nd of 56 · Chile 97.0%99.3%

Average distance to a facility with an emergency service55th of 56 · Chile 2.31.0

People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service2nd of 56 · Chile 89.4%99.2%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 9,029 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

42.7%

47th of 54

Came from another commune of the same region

11.7%

39th of 54

Came from another region

27.1%

8th of 54

Net internal migration

+47,622

+12.6 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Iquique

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 construction16,59415.8%+16%02Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics15,45714.7%−11%03EducationState and social services12,70912.1%+186%04Administrative servicesAdvanced services10,2309.8%+279%05TransportTrade and logistics10,0959.6%+141%06HealthState and social services9,8679.4%+323%07ManufacturingIndustry and construction6,2195.9%+9%08Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics5,8825.6%+104%09MiningNatural resources4,5184.3%+126%10Public administrationState and social services3,7353.6%+325%

Dependent workers, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.6% a year observed · 0.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.2% a year observed · 2.6% projected

What Iquique is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Iquique employs more people in 121 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.

121

activities it is specialised in

104,893

formal workers

5/53

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in Iquique

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
Extracción de minerales para la fabricación de abonos y productos químicos n.c.p.	Explotación de minas y canteras n.c.p.	689	50.8×
Servicios relacionados con la pesca marítima	Pesca	144	15.2×
Alquiler de equipos de transporte sin operario, excepto vehículos automotores	Alquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles	352	13.3×
Actividades de centros de salud municipalizados (servicios de salud pública)	Actividades de médicos y odontólogos	5,385	11.9×
Explotación de otras minas y canteras n.c.p.	Explotación de minas y canteras n.c.p.	3,136	10.9×
Venta al por mayor de desechos metálicos (chatarra)	Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada	190	9.9×
Fabricación de cuerdas, cordeles, bramantes y redes	Fabricación de otros productos textiles	81	9.3×
Tratamiento y revestimiento de metales, maquinado	Fabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal; actividades de servicios de trabajo de metales	395	8.7×
Promoción y organización de competencias deportivas	Actividades deportivas	64	8.0×
Fabricación de fibras de vidrio	Fabricación de vidrio y productos de vidrio	42	7.7×
Servicios de transporte de trabajadores	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	1,539	6.9×
Otras actividades de transporte urbano y suburbano de pasajeros por vía terrestre n.c.p.	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	133	6.9×

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

76,948

hectares in holdings

0.1%

of them under a named use

99.9%

of the crop land is irrigated

PastureWoodlandhover 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 76,948 hectares of holdings in Iquique 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 99.9% above is a share of the 32 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

See all →

Population pyramid

IquiqueChile% of each territory's own population · 341,673 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Census population	341,673	369,806	18,480,432	14th of 56
Average age	34.0 yrs	34.0 yrs	38.1 yrs	54th of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	43.3	43.9	79.0	52nd of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	119.3/km²	8.7/km²	24.7/km²	10th of 56

See the other 13 indicators

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Households	111,950	121,511	6,596,527	16th of 56
Dwellings	121,945	143,253	7,642,716	19th of 56
People per household	3.05	3.04	2.80	5th of 56
Women	50.5%	50.4%	51.5%	42nd of 56
Men per 100 women	97.9	98.3	94.3	15th of 56
Under 15	21.6%	21.8%	17.7%	4th of 56
65 and over	9.3%	9.6%	14.0%	52nd of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	44.8	45.6	46.5	47th of 56
One-person households	20.7%	21.1%	21.8%	39th of 56
Households with children	41.2%	41.1%	33.2%	3rd of 56
Indigenous peoples	21.8%	24.3%	11.4%	23rd of 56
Female-headed households	47.9%	47.7%	49.9%	40th of 56
Land area	2,863 km²	42,323 km²	748,041 km²	45th of 56

Migration

See all →

When the migrant population arrived

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

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	22.9%	23.0%	8.7%	3rd of 56
Lives in the commune where they were born · Casen 2024 asks in which comuna each person's mother lived when they were born. It is lifetime migration, not last year's, and it measures origin, not moves: someone born here who left and came back counts as living where they were born.	42.7%	42.2%	50.5%	47th 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.	11.7%	12.0%	23.9%	39th of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	27.1%	26.6%	17.2%	8th of 54

See the other 9 indicators

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	78,283	84,935	1,608,650	3rd of 56
Average age, foreign-born	31.8 yrs	31.7 yrs	33.5 yrs	43rd of 56
Women among foreign-born	53.3%	53.2%	51.7%	8th of 56
Foreign-born of working age	82.6%	82.3%	83.1%	16th of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	36.2%	36.2%	34.4%	31st 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.	27.4%	27.5%	10.6%	3rd of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born	11.5 yrs	11.4 yrs	12.9 yrs	50th 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.	47,622	43,092	0	7th of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	12.6	10.6	0.0	13th of 54

Education

See all →

How far schooling went

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

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	10.2 yrs	10.1 yrs	10.4 yrs	14th of 56
Reached higher education	27.0%	26.1%	31.1%	25th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17	98.6%	98.7%	98.6%	39th 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.	54.5%	54.0%	55.6%	31st of 56

See the other 17 indicators

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.	99.1%	99.0%	99.8%	48th of 56
Literacy rate	99.0%	98.9%	97.8%	4th of 56
Reached secondary education	41.9%	42.0%	36.7%	6th of 56
Primary education only	22.0%	22.7%	24.1%	47th of 56
Never attended school	3.08%	3.17%	3.01%	33rd 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	12.3 yrs	12.1 yrs	10th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	12.2 yrs	12.1 yrs	12.1 yrs	12th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	0.98%	1.08%	2.18%	53rd of 56
Households lacking schooling	15.1%	15.6%	15.1%	39th 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.	4,502	4,871	217,565	13th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	48.9%	50.9%	33.9%	6th of 56
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates.	7.3%	14.3%	3.1%	12th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	63.4%	63.7%	67.2%	37th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	19.0%	18.5%	19.7%	19th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	17.6%	17.9%	13.1%	26th 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.	22.3%	22.6%	13.0%	30th 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.	49.1%	49.5%	49.7%	41st 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.

4,502left secondary school in 2024

2,452enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

54.5%continued immediately

63%of those, to a university

22%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

IquiqueChile

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

IquiqueChile

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 Iquique'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

See all →

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 Iquique 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	8.7%	8.8%	10.6%	50th of 56
Public health insurance	85.8%	84.9%	82.6%	42nd 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.	82.1	78.0	82.5	22nd of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	96	91	100	30th of 52

See the other 21 indicators

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	29,828	32,671	1,950,388	20th of 56
Average age, people with a disability	50.4 yrs	50.7 yrs	56.4 yrs	54th of 56
Disability among 65+	33.1%	33.9%	43.0%	54th of 56
Difficulty walking	3.62%	3.66%	4.92%	49th of 56
Difficulty seeing	3.95%	4.03%	4.58%	48th of 56
Difficulty hearing	1.54%	1.60%	2.16%	52nd of 56
Difficulty concentrating	2.26%	2.25%	2.70%	42nd of 56
Private health insurance	7.9%	8.0%	13.2%	15th of 54
No health coverage	3.42%	3.55%	1.98%	11th of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	88.8%	88.9%	92.1%	47th of 54
Households lacking health access	7.3%	6.5%	6.0%	15th of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	28,054	28,847	1,523,716	15th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	457	477	36,698	22nd of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	1.63%	1.65%	2.41%	46th of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	5.2 days	5.2 days	6.1 days	50th of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	13.4	12.9	19.9	46th of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	107	102	100	15th of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	1,053	1,083	89,723	22nd of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	3.8%	3.8%	5.9%	48th of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	30.8	29.3	48.6	42nd 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.	77	73	100	34th 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

Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosMamaEncéfalo y sistema nerviosoBoca y faringePiel y melanomahover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

See all →

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	21.0%	20.8%	17.3%	18th of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	25.0 UF	24.8 UF	32.0 UF	18th of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	83.8%	84.7%	78.9%	42nd 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.	70.9	71.2	85.6	46th of 56

See the other 16 indicators

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	57.9%	57.7%	54.4%	14th of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	8.3%	8.2%	8.6%	35th of 56
Self-employed	38.1%	38.3%	33.8%	12th of 56
Extreme poverty	9.3%	9.0%	6.9%	15th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	22.7%	22.2%	17.7%	8th of 54
Unemployment rate	7.7%	7.5%	8.8%	40th of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 665,851	CLP 682,509	CLP 783,124	17th 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.	0.437	0.429	0.488	39th of 53
Registered firms	24,230	26,326	1,582,390	17th of 56
Annual sales	301,589,907 UF	320,488,008 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	9th 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.	104,913	112,008	9,699,164	14th of 56
Sales per firm	12,447 UF	12,174 UF	21,706 UF	10th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	2.9	2.8	3.9	12th of 56
Women among employees	37.9%	38.1%	40.6%	41st of 56
Independent contractors	37,572	41,914	3,958,269	14th of 56
Contractors as share of workers	26.4%	27.2%	29.0%	26th 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

See all →

House or flat

HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	10.2%	10.4%	5.7%	3rd of 56
Internet access	95.9%	95.4%	93.2%	4th 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.	1.0	1.3	2.3	55th 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.	1.0	1.6	1.6	51st of 56

See the other 35 indicators

Indicator	Value	Region	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	106,950	116,102	6,408,172	18th of 56
Critically overcrowded	1.38%	1.43%	0.57%	3rd of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings	4.32%	4.53%	1.13%	5th of 56
Public water network	90.3%	88.4%	92.3%	24th of 56
Electricity access	99.5%	99.3%	99.6%	26th of 56
Detached houses	66.3%	68.6%	78.7%	54th of 56
Apartments	27.2%	25.1%	19.9%	3rd of 56
Precarious wall materials	0.70%	0.72%	0.23%	5th of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings	7.7%	14.7%	11.9%	49th of 56
Quantitative housing deficit	16,538	18,126	491,904	5th of 56
Housing deficit as share of households	14.8%	14.9%	7.5%	3rd of 56
Renting households	36.2%	35.2%	26.2%	3rd of 56
Owner-occupiers	47.3%	47.7%	61.1%	53rd of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	0.2%	0.2%	24.4%	54th of 56
Commute by public transport	41.1%	40.0%	42.1%	9th of 56
Walks to work	12.6%	13.7%	10.2%	30th of 56
Households with a computer	52.3%	51.0%	54.9%	19th 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.	0.6	0.8	1.1	55th of 56
People within 5 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	99.3%	98.2%	97.0%	2nd 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.	99.8%	99.5%	99.9%	35th 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%	99.9%	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.	99.2%	97.8%	89.4%	2nd of 56
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	99.6%	98.9%	98.1%	10th 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%	99.5%	99.7%	25th of 56
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	1.4	3.1	5.9	55th 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.	98.2%	94.1%	80.3%	2nd of 56
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	99.3%	95.3%	90.0%	7th 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.	99.4%	96.8%	96.2%	14th of 56
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	0.4	0.5	0.6	53rd of 56
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.	99.4%	98.6%	99.0%	12th 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.	99.8%	99.6%	99.9%	37th 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.	98.9%	96.7%	91.6%	2nd of 56
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.	99.3%	97.4%	98.5%	16th 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.	99.4%	99.0%	99.8%	36th 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

80.5%

of the registered voted in the first round

80.1%

voted in the runoff

239,051

registered voters on the roll

8.2%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman38.7%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist61.3%58.3%

IquiqueChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez30.2%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman22.5%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.7%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist22.6%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.2%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.2%1.3%

IquiqueChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile30.4%30.6%

KCambio por Chile22.3%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido25.1%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente13.5%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas8.6%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%

HPopular—0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

IquiqueChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile32.3%

KCambio por Chile33.3%

JChile Grande y Unido14.2%

IPartido de la Gente14.7%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.5%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.0%

Iquiqueshare of the valid vote

Territories within

2

Commune	Census population	Foreign-born share	Average years of schooling	Income poverty
Iquique	199,587	20.4%	10.9 yrs	16.0%
Alto Hospicio	142,086	26.5%	9.1 yrs	28.0%
Iquique	341,673	22.9%	10.2 yrs	21.0%

Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of Iquique

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Iquique is specialised in

Most over-represented in Iquique

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

Senate · 16 November

Territories within