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Provincia de MelipillaProvincia de Melipilla

Compare Melipilla with another place
Census population
205,718
26th of 56
Population density
50.5/km²
15th of 56
Average years of schooling
9.6 yrs
34th of 56
Foreign-born share
7.3%
13th of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute1st of 56 · Chile 19.7%33.7%
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 56 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 56 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 56 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 56 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 56 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.3 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 · 1,282 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
62.8%
21st of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
21.4%
11th of 54
Came from another region
12.0%
53rd of 54
Net internal migration
+17,977
+8.0 per 100 residents
Melipillathis province · 197,606elsewhere in the region41,510 peopleanother region26,919 peopleabroad8,340 peopleelsewhere in the region34,996 peopleanother region15,456 peopleMelipillathis province · 223,923
Melipillathis province · 197,606elsewhere in th…41,510 peopleanother region26,919 peopleabroad8,340 peopleelsewhere in th…34,996 peopleanother region15,456 peopleMelipillathis province · 223,923

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing4Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▲22Manufacturing3Manufacturing▼15Construction4Construction▲111Other services5Other services▲63Education6Education▼38Health7Health▲16Transport8Transport▼210Administrative services9Administrative services▲17Public administration10Public administration▼39Accommodation and food11Accommodation and food▼212Mining12Mining
2005202411Agriculture and fishing42Retail and wholesale▲223Manufacturing▼154Construction▲1115Other services▲636Education▼387Health▲168Transport▼2109Administrative services▲1710Public administration▼3911Accommodation and food▼21212Mining

The ten branches that employ most of Melipilla

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.

20 k40 k60 k80 k100 kprojection →87 k2029 · central2005201520242029
20 k40 k60 k80 k100 kprojection →87 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.8% a year observed · 4.4% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

050 M100 M150 M200 Mprojection →163 M2029 · central2005201520242029
050 M100 M150 M200 Mprojection →163 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.0% a year observed · 2.1% projected

What Melipilla is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Melipilla employs more people in 98 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.

98
activities it is specialised in
70,248
formal workers
49/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de …Cría de aves de corral para la pr…Venta al por mayor de carne y pro…Extracción de oro y plataVenta al por menor de alimentos e…Elaboración de aceites y grasas d…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Generación de energía eléctrica e…Venta al por mayor de productos q…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Extracción de oro y plataCultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Venta al por mayor de productos q…Alquiler de otros efectos persona…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Melipilla

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
Cría de aves de corral para la producción de carneGanadería1,67257.3×
Extracción de oro y plataExtracción de minerales metalíferos no ferrosos, excepto cobre98956.4×
Explotación de mataderos de aves y de otros tipos de animales n.c.p.Elaboración y conservación de carne2,41144.4×
Cultivo de semillas de hortalizasCultivo de plantas no perennes72536.8×
Cultivo de cítricosCultivo de plantas perennes19630.7×
Cultivo de papasCultivo de plantas no perennes23318.7×
Cultivo de frutas tropicales y subtropicales (incluye el cultivo de paltas)Cultivo de plantas perennes30417.2×
Venta al por mayor de carne y productos cárnicosVenta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco1,16317.1×
Cría de cerdosGanadería37313.8×
Elaboración de aceites y grasas de origen vegetal y animal (excepto elaboración de mantequilla)Elaboración de aceites y grasas de origen vegetal y animal25112.1×
Fundaciones y corporaciones; asociaciones que promueven actividades culturales o recreativasActividades de otras asociaciones3,58911.8×
Actividades de atención en instituciones para personas de edad y personas con discapacidad físicaActividades de atención en instituciones para personas de edad y personas con discapacidad6069.9×

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
237,489
hectares in holdings
83.4%
of them under a named use
94.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
Woodland 39%Not farmed 23%Pasture 16%Orchards and vineya… 13%Annual crops 9.4%Native woodland38%Scrub, barren groundand buildings17%Untilledland6.3%Pasture16%Fruit trees12%Fodder crops3.1%Cereals2.8%Vegetab…2.0%Pulses…Seed…
Woodland 39%Not farmed 23%Pasture 16%Orchards a… 13%Annu… 9.4%Native woodland38%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings17%Untilled land6.3%Pasture16%Fruit trees12%Foddercrops3.1%Cere…Vegeta…2.0%Puls…See…
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
MelipillaChile% of each territory's own population · 205,718 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
205,718
7,400,74118,480,43226th of 56
Average age
37.9 yrs
37.7 yrs38.1 yrs36th of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
75.6
76.279.036th of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
50.5/km²
480.6/km²24.7/km²15th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
70,448
2,599,6216,596,52726th of 56
Dwellings
81,023
2,764,7497,642,71629th of 56
People per household
2.92
2.852.8013th of 56
Women
50.9%
51.6%51.5%33rd of 56
Men per 100 women
96.6
93.894.324th of 56
Under 15
19.2%
17.3%17.7%15th of 56
65 and over
14.5%
13.2%14.0%30th of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
50.9
43.846.516th of 56
One-person households
18.9%
21.6%21.8%51st of 56
Households with children
36.7%
32.7%33.2%13th of 56
Indigenous peoples
6.1%
7.4%11.4%41st of 56
Female-headed households
47.9%
50.7%49.9%39th of 56
Land area
4,072 km²
15,399 km²748,041 km²40th of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Melipilla46%Arrived since 202054%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Melipilla46%Arrived since 202054%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
7.3%
13.0%8.7%13th 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.
62.8%
38.4%50.5%21st 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.
21.4%
34.6%23.9%11th of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
12.0%
14.9%17.2%53rd of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
15,063
964,8351,608,65018th of 56
Average age, foreign-born
31.0 yrs
34.2 yrs33.5 yrs53rd of 56
Women among foreign-born
48.7%
51.7%51.7%51st of 56
Foreign-born of working age
82.3%
84.0%83.1%20th of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
46.5%
32.1%34.4%7th 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.
9.1%
15.7%10.6%13th of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
11.4 yrs
13.2 yrs12.9 yrs51st 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.
17,977
384,025011th of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
8.0
4.60.014th of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Melipilla23%Higher39%Secondary29%Primary only5.2%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Melipilla23%39%Secondary29%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.6 yrs
10.9 yrs10.4 yrs34th of 56
Reached higher education
23.1%
35.9%31.1%37th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
97.9%
98.2%98.6%48th 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.
53.2%
54.8%55.6%36th 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.
102.6%
98.7%99.8%16th of 56
Literacy rate
97.0%
98.5%97.8%32nd of 56
Reached secondary education
38.8%
35.7%36.7%16th of 56
Primary education only
28.9%
20.6%24.1%23rd of 56
Never attended school
4.02%
2.75%3.01%11th of 56
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
11.1 yrs
12.8 yrs12.1 yrs35th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.4 yrs
12.6 yrs12.1 yrs34th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
2.95%
1.44%2.18%25th of 56
Households lacking schooling
22.4%
11.6%15.1%17th 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.
2,331
80,419217,56529th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
33.1%
31.7%33.9%30th of 56
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates.
6.8%
1.6%3.1%15th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
60.3%
68.9%67.2%46th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
33.7%
23.5%19.7%1st of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
6.0%
7.7%13.1%51st 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.
4.7%
1.6%13.0%47th 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.
48.7%
48.9%49.7%45th 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.

2,331left secondary school in 2024
1,240enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
53.2%continued immediately
60%of those, to a university
5%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria en InformaticaPsicologiaDerechoIngenieria ComercialMedicina VeterinariaEnfermeriaIngenieria en ConstruccionKinesiologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y Autotronica
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria en InformaticaPsicologiaDerechoIngenieria ComercialMedicina VeterinariaEnfermeriaIngenieria en ConstruccionKinesiologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y Autotronica
MelipillaChile

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

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryEducationServicesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryEducationServicesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
MelipillaChile

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

01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,3311,240
01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,3311,240
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 Melipilla'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 Melipilla 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

Melipilla93%Fonasa5.4%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Melipilla93%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.3%
9.4%10.6%34th of 56
Public health insurance
92.7%
75.9%82.6%14th 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.
73.1
84.782.533rd of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
83
10110040th of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
21,220
694,4691,950,38829th of 56
Average age, people with a disability
56.9 yrs
55.7 yrs56.4 yrs29th of 56
Disability among 65+
44.6%
41.9%43.0%26th of 56
Difficulty walking
4.73%
4.30%4.92%32nd of 56
Difficulty seeing
4.54%
3.93%4.58%36th of 56
Difficulty hearing
2.19%
1.87%2.16%33rd of 56
Difficulty concentrating
2.57%
2.53%2.70%30th of 56
Private health insurance
5.4%
20.6%13.2%27th of 54
No health coverage
1.28%
1.83%1.98%38th of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
95.4%
91.9%92.1%14th of 54
Households lacking health access
7.0%
6.0%6.0%19th of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
15,044
626,5951,523,71626th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
347
14,17536,69830th of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.31%
2.26%2.41%36th of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.0 days
6.1 days6.1 days30th of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
16.9
19.219.938th of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
88
10410032nd of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
902
36,31289,72325th of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.0%
5.8%5.9%17th of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
43.8
49.148.624th 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.
89
10410023rd of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Pregnancy, birth and newborns 19%Injuries, bones a… 18%Heart and lungs 17%Tumours, blood and meta… 15%Mind, ner… 4.5%Infection… 4.4%Digestive system15%Genitour…system8.2%Pregnancy andchildbirth16%Peri…cond…Cong…malf…Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskeletal5.7%Respiratorysystem8.6%Circulatory system8.3%Cancers andtumours9.6%Endocri…andmetabol…4.6%Mentalandbehav…NervoussystemInfec…andparas…Cont…withheal…
Digestive and urinary … 23%Pregnancy, birth … 19%Injuries, bones and skin 18%Heart and lungs 17%Tumours, blood… 15%Digestivesystem15%Genitou…system8.2%Pregnancy andchildbirth16%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculosk…5.7%Respiratorysystem8.6%Circulatorysystem8.3%Cancers andtumours9.6%Endoc…andmetab…4.6%Men…andbeh…Ner…sys…Inf…andpar…Con…wit…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

By tumour site

Órganos digestivos27%Sangre y sistema linfático22%Genitalesmasculinos8.1%Vías urinarias8.0%Genitalesfemeninos6.7%Mama5.8%Tiroides yendocrinas5.8%Víasrespirat…5.0%Sitiosreservad…4.5%Sitios maldefinidos3.9%Encéfalo ysistema…
Órganos digestivos27%Sangre y sistemalinfático22%Genitalesmasculinos8.1%Víasurinarias8.0%Genitalesfemeninos6.7%Mama5.8%Tiroides yendocrinas5.8%Víasrespirat…5.0%Sitiosreserv…4.5%Sitios maldefinidosEncéfalo ysistema…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales masculinosVías urinariasGenitales femeninosMamahover 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.
19.5%
13.3%17.3%23rd of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
23.3 UF
36.4 UF32.0 UF26th of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
90.3%
74.2%78.9%31st 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.
82.0
93.485.629th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
52.8%
58.6%54.4%29th of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
8.5%
7.9%8.6%32nd of 56
Self-employed
35.5%
33.3%33.8%25th of 56
Extreme poverty
7.5%
5.0%6.9%25th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
24.2%
19.7%17.7%5th of 54
Unemployment rate
11.5%
8.4%8.8%7th of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 638,375
CLP 980,298CLP 783,12422nd 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.
0.498
0.4890.4884th of 53
Registered firms
16,863
690,9041,582,39025th of 56
Annual sales
147,179,218 UF
27,202,331,144 UF34,347,683,688 UF18th 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.
70,287
5,785,7549,699,16422nd of 56
Sales per firm
8,728 UF
39,372 UF21,706 UF15th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.5
5.53.924th of 56
Women among employees
39.0%
41.3%40.6%35th of 56
Independent contractors
19,684
2,639,1103,958,26927th of 56
Contractors as share of workers
21.9%
31.3%29.0%48th of 56

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 28%Natural resources 22%State and social services 18%Industry and co… 18%Advanced s… 9.0%Other serv… 5.8%Retail andwholesale17%Transport7.0%Accommodationand food3.9%Agriculture and fishing20%Education7.7%Health6.6%Publicadmin…3.8%Manufacturing8.7%Construction7.4%Ele…andgasWat…andwas…Adminis…services3.3%Profes…servic…2.6%Inform…and…Finan…andinsur…Domest…work2.8%Otherservic…2.2%
Trade and logistics 28%Natural resources 22%State and s… 18%Industry an… 18%Advance… 9.0%Other s… 5.8%Retail andwholesale17%Transport7.0%Accommoda…and foodAgriculture andfishing20%Education7.7%Health6.6%Publicadmin…3.8%Manufacturing8.7%Construction7.4%Adminis…servicesProfessi…servicesInf…and…Fin…and…Domest…work2.8%Otherservic…
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 25%Elementary occupations 19%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades13%Plant andmachineoperators9.1%Skilledagricultural8.6%Clericalsupport5.1%Professiona…12%Technicians9.2%Managers3.4%Elementary occupations19%
Skilled occupations 56%Managers and profession… 25%Elementary occup… 19%Service andsales20%Craft and trades13%Plant and machineoperators9.1%Skilledagricultu…8.6%Clericalsupport5.1%Profession…12%Technicians9.2%ManagersElementaryoccupations19%
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

Melipilla94%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Melipilla94%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.8%
6.5%5.7%15th of 56
Internet access
91.4%
95.7%93.2%28th 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.
4.9
1.32.313th 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.
3.2
0.61.623rd of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
68,780
2,499,5306,408,17226th of 56
Critically overcrowded
0.39%
0.79%0.57%19th of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.10%
0.62%1.13%36th of 56
Public water network
86.9%
97.9%92.3%30th of 56
Electricity access
99.7%
99.9%99.6%13th of 56
Detached houses
94.4%
64.8%78.7%29th of 56
Apartments
4.5%
33.3%19.9%30th of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.19%
0.12%0.23%42nd of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
10.3%
5.2%11.9%40th of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
4,590
238,934491,90427th of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
6.5%
9.2%7.5%19th of 56
Renting households
18.6%
33.1%26.2%36th of 56
Owner-occupiers
67.8%
56.1%61.1%20th of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
20.2%
2.4%24.4%32nd of 56
Commute by public transport
29.2%
51.3%42.1%25th of 56
Walks to work
11.0%
8.1%10.2%38th of 56
Households with a computer
47.0%
61.2%54.9%32nd 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.
2.2
0.71.110th 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.
85.7%
99.3%97.0%50th 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.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st 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.
58.5%
96.5%89.4%51st 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.
97.8%
99.9%98.1%21st 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.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st 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.
11.5
1.65.918th 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.
40.8%
95.0%80.3%47th 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.
63.7%
98.9%90.0%43rd 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.
95.5%
99.9%96.2%28th 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.
1.3
0.40.614th 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.
96.3%
99.8%99.0%37th of 56
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 56
People within 30 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 56
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
72.6%
98.7%91.6%45th 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.
99.4%
99.9%98.5%14th 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.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 56

How people commute

Private vehicle 40%Public transport 29%On foot or by bicycle 18%Other means 14%Car38%Public transport29%Walking11%Bicycle6.5%Other13%
Private vehicle 40%Public transport 29%On foot or by bicycle 18%Other means 14%Car38%Public transport29%Walking11%Bicycle6.5%Other13%
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 68%Rented 19%Provided rent… 11%Owned outright61%Owned, still payingRented, withcontract10%Rented, no contract8.4%Provided byfamily8.6%Provided by employerOth…arr…
Owned 68%Rented 19%Provided r… 11%Owned outright61%Owne…stillpayi…Rented, withcontract10%Rented, nocontract8.4%Provided byfamily8.6%
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

Fossil fuels 40%Wood and biomass 21%No heating 21%Electricity 17%Gas31%Paraffin9.1%Firewood20%No heating21%Electricity17%
Fossil fuels 40%Wood and bi… 21%No heating 21%Electricity 17%Gas31%Paraf…9.1%Firewood20%No heating21%Electricity17%
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
91.1%
of the registered voted in the first round
90.9%
voted in the runoff
165,969
registered voters on the roll
6.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman39.4%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist60.6%58.3%
MelipillaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez19.5%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman25.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.6%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist26.3%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet11.5%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%
MelipillaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile29.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile20.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido24.6%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente12.3%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas8.8%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.7%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.5%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
MelipillaChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

5
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Melipilla136,3258.1%9.6 yrs20.2%
Alhué7,76811.8%9.2 yrs21.5%
Curacaví35,1654.2%10.0 yrs25.4%
María Pinto15,3522.3%9.3 yrs11.4%
San Pedro11,10811.3%8.6 yrs7.9%
Melipilla205,7187.3%9.6 yrs19.5%