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Provincia de LimaríProvincia de Limarí

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Census population
178,057
29th of 56
Population density
13.3/km²
37th of 56
Average years of schooling
9.2 yrs
45th of 56
Foreign-born share
3.8%
36th of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Arrived since 20201st of 56 · Chile 34.4%51.9%
Lives in the commune where they were born1st of 54 · Chile 50.5%73.6%
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%
Census unemployment2nd of 56 · Chile 8.6%11.3%
Sought care when ill53rd of 54 · Chile 92.1%82.4%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.0 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.0 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 · 2,368 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
73.6%
1st of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
11.6%
40th of 54
Came from another region
12.1%
52nd of 54
Net internal migration
-57,532
-30.7 per 100 residents
Limaríthis province · 240,248another region22,766 peopleelsewhere in the region4,134 peopleabroad4,954 peopleanother region60,084 peopleelsewhere in the region24,348 peopleLimaríthis province · 187,670
Limaríthis province · 240,248another region22,766 peopleelsewhere in th…4,134 peopleabroad4,954 peopleanother region60,084 peopleelsewhere in th…24,348 peopleLimaríthis province · 187,670

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing6Public administration2Public administration▲42Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼14Construction4Construction9Transport5Transport▲410Education6Education▲411Accommodation and food7Accommodation and food▲412Administrative services8Administrative services▲48Manufacturing9Manufacturing▼17Mining10Mining▼35Other services11Other services▼613Professional services12Professional services▲13Health13Health▼10
2005202411Agriculture and fishing62Public administration▲423Retail and wholesale▼144Construction95Transport▲4106Education▲4117Accommodation and food▲4128Administrative services▲489Manufacturing▼1710Mining▼3511Other services▼61312Professional services▲1313Health▼10

The ten branches that employ most of Limarí

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

Dependent workers, projected

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

30 k40 k50 k60 kprojection →51 k2029 · central2005201520242029
30 k40 k50 k60 kprojection →51 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval0.5% a year observed · 1.6% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

10 M20 M30 M40 M50 Mprojection →39 M2029 · central2005201520242029
10 M20 M30 M40 M50 Mprojection →39 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.2% a year observed · 4.1% projected

What Limarí is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Limarí employs more people in 70 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.

70
activities it is specialised in
46,568
formal workers
50/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.03.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Otras actividades de servicios pe…Otras actividades de limpieza de …Cultivo de uva destinada a la pro…Actividades poscosechaCría de aves de corral para la pr…Extracción de minerales de hierroPromoción y organización de compe…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.03.7Actividades poscosechaReparación de otros tipos de equi…Recuperación y reciclamiento de d…Cultivo de floresHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Limarí

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

ActivityDivisionWorkers hereTimes the national share
Cultivo de uva destinada a la producción de pisco y aguardienteCultivo de plantas perennes271111.2×
Cultivo de cítricosCultivo de plantas perennes17040.2×
Cultivo de uva para mesaCultivo de plantas perennes2,53225.6×
Destilación, rectificación y mezclas de bebidas alcohólicas; excepto piscoElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas7722.1×
Reparación de otros tipos de equipoReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo7519.8×
Promoción y organización de competencias deportivasActividades deportivas4412.4×
Actividades poscosechaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha16412.1×
Cultivo de frutas tropicales y subtropicales (incluye el cultivo de paltas)Cultivo de plantas perennes11710.0×
Elaboración de aceites y grasas de origen vegetal y animal (excepto elaboración de mantequilla)Elaboración de aceites y grasas de origen vegetal y animal1309.5×
Cultivo de porotosCultivo de plantas no perennes268.3×
Cultivo de hortalizas y melonesCultivo de plantas no perennes3047.6×
Actividades de apoyo a la agriculturaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha10,2357.2×

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
486,950
hectares in holdings
41.5%
of them under a named use
98.0%
of the crop land is irrigated
Not farmed 62%Pasture 29%Orchards and v… 4.3%Woodland 3.8%Scrub, barren ground and buildings58%Pasture29%Fruit trees3.4%Vin…Native woodland3.4%
Not farmed 62%Pasture 29%Orc… 4.3%Scrub, barren ground and buildings58%Pasture29%FruittreesNativewoodla…
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
LimaríChile% of each territory's own population · 178,057 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
178,057
832,86418,480,43229th of 56
Average age
39.2 yrs
38.0 yrs38.1 yrs19th of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
87.4
77.679.019th of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
13.3/km²
20.5/km²24.7/km²37th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
64,932
292,5676,596,52730th of 56
Dwellings
80,575
372,7857,642,71630th of 56
People per household
2.74
2.852.8030th of 56
Women
51.4%
51.4%51.5%19th of 56
Men per 100 women
94.4
94.494.338th of 56
Under 15
18.3%
18.5%17.7%30th of 56
65 and over
16.0%
14.4%14.0%15th of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.2
49.146.513th of 56
One-person households
24.5%
21.5%21.8%15th of 56
Households with children
33.4%
34.9%33.2%31st of 56
Indigenous peoples
15.3%
11.1%11.4%27th of 56
Female-headed households
49.7%
49.0%49.9%25th of 56
Land area
13,353 km²
40,579 km²748,041 km²20th of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Limarí52%Arrived since 202048%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Limarí52%Arrived since 202048%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
3.8%
5.4%8.7%36th 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.
73.6%
60.8%50.5%1st 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.
11.6%
11.8%23.9%40th of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
12.1%
22.4%17.2%52nd of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
6,728
44,5781,608,65028th of 56
Average age, foreign-born
31.2 yrs
32.1 yrs33.5 yrs51st of 56
Women among foreign-born
50.1%
51.7%51.7%41st of 56
Foreign-born of working age
82.6%
81.4%83.1%14th of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
51.9%
43.5%34.4%1st 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.
4.8%
6.5%10.6%34th of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.0 yrs
12.7 yrs12.9 yrs44th 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.
-57,532
34,192052nd of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-30.7
3.90.048th of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Limarí19%Higher39%Secondary33%Primary only4.8%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Limarí19%39%Secondary33%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.2 yrs
10.1 yrs10.4 yrs45th of 56
Reached higher education
19.0%
27.8%31.1%51st of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.4%
98.8%98.6%18th 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.
59.3%
58.9%55.6%16th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.
101.6%
100.5%99.8%23rd of 56
Literacy rate
96.7%
97.9%97.8%39th of 56
Reached secondary education
39.1%
38.3%36.7%12th of 56
Primary education only
33.5%
25.9%24.1%11th of 56
Never attended school
3.71%
3.02%3.01%20th 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.
10.6 yrs
11.8 yrs12.1 yrs46th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.7 yrs
11.9 yrs12.1 yrs46th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.31%
2.14%2.18%19th of 56
Households lacking schooling
22.3%
14.8%15.1%18th 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.
2,157
10,037217,56531st of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
40.3%
30.6%33.9%20th 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.
4.8%
2.3%3.1%21st of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
54.8%
58.7%67.2%51st of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
16.5%
17.5%19.7%31st of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
28.8%
23.8%13.1%7th 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.
25.7%
21.2%13.0%26th 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.
52.0%
49.2%49.7%14th 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.

2,157left secondary school in 2024
1,280enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
59.3%continued immediately
55%of those, to a university
26%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoTecnico en EnfermeriaKinesiologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialNutricion y DieteticaPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialEnfermeriaTecnico de Nivel Superior en Mantenimiento IndustrialArquitectura
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoTecnico en EnfermeriaKinesiologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialNutricion y DieteticaPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialEnfermeriaTecnico de Nivel Superior en Mantenimiento IndustrialArquitectura
LimaríChile

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 industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanities
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanities
LimaríChile

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

01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,1571,280
01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,1571,280
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 Limarí'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 Limarí 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

Limarí95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Limarí95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.2%
10.4%10.6%14th of 56
Public health insurance
94.5%
88.7%82.6%4th 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.
53.4
63.382.547th of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
88
8510035th of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
21,672
86,6461,950,38828th of 56
Average age, people with a disability
58.0 yrs
56.2 yrs56.4 yrs13th of 56
Disability among 65+
45.8%
43.6%43.0%17th of 56
Difficulty walking
5.64%
4.65%4.92%20th of 56
Difficulty seeing
5.55%
4.50%4.58%13th of 56
Difficulty hearing
2.74%
2.13%2.16%13th of 56
Difficulty concentrating
2.93%
2.67%2.70%14th of 56
Private health insurance
1.1%
6.2%13.2%52nd of 54
No health coverage
2.90%
3.13%1.98%14th of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
82.4%
88.7%92.1%53rd of 54
Households lacking health access
13.4%
7.7%6.0%2nd of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
9,512
52,6901,523,71634th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
358
1,43636,69828th of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.76%
2.73%2.41%3rd of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.1 days
6.4 days6.1 days10th of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
20.1
17.219.923rd of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
63
7710047th of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
499
3,03989,72334th of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.2%
5.8%5.9%30th of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
28.0
36.548.646th 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.
54
7510047th of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 26%Pregnancy, birth and newborns 20%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones and skin 14%Tumours, blood and metabol… 12%Digestive system17%Genitouri…system9.3%Pregnancy andchildbirth16%Perina…condit…2.7%Congen…malfor…Circulatorysystem10%Respiratorysystem9.3%Injuries andpoisoning9.6%Musculos…3.3%SkinCancers andtumours6.8%Endocrineandmetabolic3.8%Infecti…andparasit…Con…withhea…Ill…sym…NervoussystemMentaland…
Digestive and urinary tr… 26%Pregnancy, birth… 20%Heart and lu… 20%Injuries, bones and… 14%Tumours, blood and … 12%Digestivesystem17%Genitour…system9.3%Pregnancy andchildbirth16%Perinatal…Conge…Circulatorysystem10%Respiratorysystem9.3%Injuries andpoisoning9.6%Muscu…3.3%SkinCancers andtumours6.8%Endoc…andmetab…Infec…andparas…Contact…Ill-d…NervoussystemMent…and…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

By tumour site

Órganos digestivos27%Genitales masculinos12%Genitales femeninos10%Vías urinarias8.6%Sangre ysistemalinfático8.0%Mama7.8%Tiroides yendocrinas7.0%Sitios maldefinidos5.4%Sitios reservados4.2%Víasrespiratorias4.0%Encéfaloy sistemanervioso2.8%Piel ymelanoma2.2%
Órganos digestivos27%Genitalesmasculinos12%Genitalesfemeninos10%Víasurinarias8.6%Sangre ysistemalinfático8.0%Mama7.8%Tiroides yendocrinas7.0%Sitiosmaldefinid…5.4%Sitiosreservados4.2%VíasrespiratoriasEncéfa…ysistem…Piel ymelano…
Órganos digestivosGenitales masculinosGenitales femeninosVías urinariasSangre y sistema linfáticoMamahover 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.
26.2%
20.7%17.3%8th of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.0 UF
25.4 UF32.0 UF44th of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
108.4%
89.3%78.9%6th 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.
68.5
72.885.649th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
47.8%
51.0%54.4%47th of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
11.3%
10.0%8.6%2nd of 56
Self-employed
33.2%
35.1%33.8%37th of 56
Extreme poverty
9.9%
9.1%6.9%10th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
20.0%
17.0%17.7%14th of 54
Unemployment rate
12.6%
9.5%8.8%4th of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 464,225
CLP 628,365CLP 783,12451st 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.
0.420
0.4440.48849th of 53
Registered firms
12,200
60,6611,582,39032nd of 56
Annual sales
31,959,602 UF
278,962,355 UF34,347,683,688 UF37th 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.
46,601
225,5119,699,16433rd of 56
Sales per firm
2,620 UF
4,599 UF21,706 UF46th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.3
2.43.932nd of 56
Women among employees
45.7%
40.9%40.6%7th of 56
Independent contractors
14,415
81,4293,958,26932nd of 56
Contractors as share of workers
23.6%
26.5%29.0%41st of 56

Employment by industry

Natural resources 30%Trade and logistics 24%State and social services 22%Industry and … 14%Advanced… 6.0%Other se… 4.6%Agriculture andfishing18%Mining12%Retail andwholesale14%Transport5.2%Accommodationand food4.6%Education9.6%Health6.9%Publicadministration5.2%Construction7.4%Manufactur…4.3%WaterandwasteElec…and…Admin…servi…2.9%Profe…servi…Fin…Domest…work2.1%Otherservic…
Natural resources 30%Trade and logisti… 24%State and social s… 22%Industry… 14%Adv… 6.0%Oth… 4.6%Agricultureand fishing18%Mining12%Retail andwholesale14%Transport5.2%Accommod…and food4.6%Education9.6%Health6.9%Publ…admi…Constructi…7.4%Manufac…4.3%Wat…and…Ele…Admi…serv…Prof…serv…Dom…workOtherservi…
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 56%Managers and professionals 23%Elementary occupations 21%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades12%Plant andmachineoperators12%Skilledagricultural7.5%Clerical support4.8%Professiona…11%Technicians8.9%ManagersElementary occupations21%
Skilled occupations 56%Managers and profess… 23%Elementary occupati… 21%Service andsales20%Craft and trades12%Plant and machineoperators12%Skilledagricult…7.5%Clericalsupport4.8%Profession…11%Technicia…8.9%ManagersElementaryoccupations21%
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

Limarí95%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Limarí95%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.9%
4.5%5.7%36th of 56
Internet access
87.5%
92.1%93.2%42nd of 56
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
5.7
3.62.310th 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.
5.9
3.11.68th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
63,377
285,1476,408,17230th of 56
Critically overcrowded
0.31%
0.31%0.57%37th of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
2.68%
1.60%1.13%11th of 56
Public water network
88.0%
90.0%92.3%28th of 56
Electricity access
98.9%
99.3%99.6%47th of 56
Detached houses
94.7%
89.2%78.7%25th of 56
Apartments
4.1%
9.8%19.9%31st of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.27%
0.23%0.23%26th of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
17.5%
19.8%11.9%22nd of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
4,965
19,423491,90424th of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
7.6%
6.6%7.5%12th of 56
Renting households
16.6%
21.2%26.2%42nd of 56
Owner-occupiers
67.2%
66.1%61.1%23rd of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
8.5%
8.1%24.4%41st of 56
Commute by public transport
38.5%
37.4%42.1%11th of 56
Walks to work
18.0%
13.4%10.2%19th of 56
Households with a computer
37.7%
50.7%54.9%51st 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.
1.6
1.31.121st 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.
91.6%
95.0%97.0%37th 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.
99.7%
99.8%99.9%37th of 56
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 56
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
69.6%
82.5%89.4%41st 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.
86.4%
93.5%98.1%49th 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.
98.3%
99.2%99.7%43rd 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.
15.5
7.15.913th 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.
50.7%
75.1%80.3%38th 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.
59.2%
82.4%90.0%44th 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.
77.5%
91.4%96.2%44th 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.
0.8
0.70.638th 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.
99.1%
98.5%99.0%15th 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.
99.9%
99.9%99.9%30th 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.
64.7%
83.6%91.6%50th 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.
85.0%
93.5%98.5%50th 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.
97.1%
99.0%99.8%46th of 56

How people commute

Public transport 38%Private vehicle 29%On foot or by bicycle 20%Other means 12%Public transport38%Car28%Walking18%Other12%
Public transport 38%Private vehicle 29%On foot or by bicycle 20%Other means 12%Public transport38%Car28%Walking18%Other12%
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 67%Rented 17%Provided rent-free 13%Owned outright60%Owned, still payingRented, with contract8.5%Rented, no contract8.1%Provided byfamily11%Other arrangement
Owned 67%Rented 17%Provided rent-… 13%Owned outright60%Own…sti…pay…Rented,withcontract8.5%Rented, nocontract8.1%Provided byfamily11%Oth…arr…
Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

No heating 58%Fossil fuels 20%Electricity 12%Wood and biomass 9.8%No heating58%Gas18%Electricity12%Firewood8.5%
No heating 58%Fossil fuels 20%Electri… 12%Wood… 9.8%No heating58%Gas18%Electricity12%Firewood8.5%
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
86.4%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.1%
voted in the runoff
152,757
registered voters on the roll
9.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman42.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist57.9%58.3%
LimaríChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez33.1%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman24.0%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist20.1%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
LimaríChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile28.4%30.6%
KCambio por Chile20.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido20.7%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente18.0%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.8%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista4.5%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile2.7%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
LimaríChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

5
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Ovalle118,6964.9%9.6 yrs24.3%
Combarbalá12,9541.3%8.7 yrs31.1%
Monte Patria29,9971.5%8.4 yrs28.2%
Punitaqui12,0762.0%8.6 yrs29.3%
Río Hurtado4,3340.9%8.4 yrs29.4%
Limarí178,0573.8%9.2 yrs26.2%