Cabo de Hornos
Compare Cabo de Hornos with another placeWhere it stands out
Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.Where the people here are from
Casen 2024 · 39 surveyedFormal employment, 2005–2024
2005–2024 · Source SIIThe ten branches that employ most of Cabo de Hornos
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.
What Cabo de Hornos is specialised in
2024 · SIIPuroChile does not compute this for Cabo de Hornos. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 706 formal workers here that division is a statement about a handful of people: one worker would move it further than a whole industry moves it in Santiago. The floor is 1,000 workers, and it is a floor rather than a caveat because a spectacular number nobody should read is worse than no number.
The land and who works it
Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021Population and territory
See all →Population pyramid
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Census population | 1,750 | 1,810 | 18,480,432 | 327th of 346 | |
Average age | 31.9 yrs | 32.2 yrs | 38.1 yrs | 345th of 346 | |
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15. | 21.5 | 21.5 | 79.0 | 344th of 345 | |
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography. | 0.1/km² | 0.1/km² | 24.7/km² | 336th of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Households | 617 | 617 | 6,596,527 | 328th of 346 | |
Dwellings | 780 | 784 | 7,642,716 | 332nd of 346 | |
People per household | 2.84 | 2.93 | 2.80 | 103rd of 345 | |
Women | 49.7% | 48.2% | 51.5% | 293rd of 346 | |
Men per 100 women | 101.4 | 107.3 | 94.3 | 54th of 346 | |
Under 15 | 25.5% | 24.7% | 17.7% | 1st of 346 | |
65 and over | 5.5% | 5.3% | 14.0% | 344th of 346 | |
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age. | 45.0 | 42.9 | 46.5 | 301st of 346 | |
One-person households | 18.2% | 18.2% | 21.8% | 298th of 345 | |
Households with children | 48.9% | 48.9% | 33.2% | 4th of 345 | |
Indigenous peoples | 20.5% | 20.1% | 11.4% | 106th of 346 | |
Female-headed households | 38.7% | 38.7% | 49.9% | 334th of 345 | |
Land area | 15,165 km² | 15,169 km² | 748,041 km² | 11th of 346 |
Migration
See all →When the migrant population arrived
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign-born share | 2.4% | 2.3% | 8.7% | 190th of 346 | |
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. | 2.6% | 2.6% | 50.5% | 335th of 335 | |
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. | 23.0% | 23.2% | 23.9% | 118th of 335 | |
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region. | 74.4% | 74.2% | 17.2% | 1st of 335 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign-born population | 42 | 42 | 1,608,650 | 315th of 346 | |
Average age, foreign-born | 38.6 yrs | 38.6 yrs | 33.5 yrs | 33rd of 345 | |
Women among foreign-born | 57.1% | 57.1% | 51.7% | 17th of 345 | |
Foreign-born of working age | 85.7% | 85.7% | 83.1% | 23rd of 345 | |
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later. | 19.0% | 19.0% | 34.4% | 322nd of 345 | |
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna. | 3.0% | 2.8% | 10.6% | 188th of 346 | |
Average schooling, foreign-born | 14.2 yrs | 14.2 yrs | 12.9 yrs | 15th of 345 | |
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. | 1,840 | 1,989 | 0 | 99th of 335 | |
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory. | 93.7 | 94.0 | 0.0 | 1st of 335 |
Education
See all →How far schooling went
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Average years of schooling | 10.7 yrs | 10.9 yrs | 10.4 yrs | 37th of 346 | |
Reached higher education | 41.5% | 43.1% | 31.1% | 15th of 346 | |
School attendance, ages 6-17 | 100.0% | 100.0% | 98.6% | 1st of 333 | |
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. | 51.7% | 51.7% | 55.6% | 213th of 331 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | 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. | 100.7% | 99.9% | 99.8% | 230th of 346 | |
Literacy rate | 99.5% | 99.5% | 97.8% | 8th of 346 | |
Reached secondary education | 26.9% | 26.3% | 36.7% | 336th of 346 | |
Primary education only | 20.9% | 20.2% | 24.1% | 311th of 346 | |
Never attended school | 1.09% | 1.06% | 3.01% | 345th of 346 | |
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. | 13.6 yrs | 13.7 yrs | 12.1 yrs | 11th of 346 | |
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men. | 13.7 yrs | 13.7 yrs | 12.1 yrs | 12th of 346 | |
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write. | 0.54% | 0.51% | 2.18% | 339th of 345 | |
Households lacking schooling | 6.2% | 6.3% | 15.1% | 326th of 335 | |
Secondary school leavers · Secondary education for children and young people, by the comuna of the school where they took it. Adults are counted apart. | 29 | 29 | 217,565 | 313th of 331 | |
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 33.9% | 301st of 331 | |
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.1% | 114th of 331 | |
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 93.3% | 93.3% | 67.2% | 4th of 331 | |
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 6.7% | 6.7% | 19.7% | 306th of 331 | |
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 13.1% | 323rd of 331 | |
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. | 86.7% | 86.7% | 13.0% | 8th of 331 | |
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. | 60.0% | 60.0% | 49.7% | 31st of 331 |
The class of 2024
Mineduc (SIES), by the comuna they went to school inApproximation: 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.
By field of study
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. The list of individual programmes is withheld here: fewer than 30 of this territory's leavers continued, and a ranking built on that few names people.
Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024
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 Cabo de Hornos'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 Cabo de Hornos 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.
This region's own series says it stopped reporting in 2019, 2024 and 2025: 21,838 discharges in 2019 against a median of 14,183 in its other years, 54%; 7,768 discharges in 2024 against a median of 14,958 in its other years, -48%; 9,770 discharges in 2025 against a median of 14,958 in its other years, -35%. The rule withholds any year that departs more than 25% from that median, and no other region crosses it in any year. A register that loses records is not a place whose health changed, so those years are not published here. The counts are still in the published data, and /datos carries the check.
Which health system
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Disability prevalence | 4.5% | 4.4% | 10.6% | 341st of 346 | |
Public health insurance | 74.3% | 74.5% | 82.6% | 319th of 335 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
People with a disability | 79 | 80 | 1,950,388 | 334th of 346 | |
Average age, people with a disability | 48.1 yrs | 47.9 yrs | 56.4 yrs | 341st of 346 | |
Disability among 65+ | 25.3% | 25.0% | 43.0% | 342nd of 346 | |
Difficulty walking | 1.60% | 1.55% | 4.92% | 343rd of 346 | |
Difficulty seeing | 1.43% | 1.38% | 4.58% | 344th of 346 | |
Difficulty hearing | 0.80% | 0.77% | 2.16% | 343rd of 346 | |
Difficulty concentrating | 0.97% | 0.99% | 2.70% | 343rd of 346 | |
Private health insurance | 0.0% | 0.0% | 13.2% | 311th of 335 | |
No health coverage | 0.00% | 0.00% | 1.98% | 279th of 335 | |
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months. | 100.0% | 100.0% | 92.1% | 1st of 332 | |
Households lacking health access | 6.2% | 6.2% | 6.0% | 134th of 335 |
Economy and poverty
See all →| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 17.3% | 332nd of 335 | |
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. | 136.6 | 133.1 | 85.6 | 29th of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over. | 75.1% | 71.8% | 54.4% | 7th of 345 | |
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently. | 3.2% | 3.2% | 8.6% | 327th of 345 | |
Self-employed | 22.9% | 22.9% | 33.8% | 340th of 345 | |
Extreme poverty | 0.0% | 0.0% | 6.9% | 326th of 335 | |
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 17.7% | 328th of 335 | |
Unemployment rate | 0.0% | 0.0% | 8.8% | 325th of 335 | |
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income. | CLP 1,200,719 | CLP 1,200,488 | CLP 783,124 | 12th of 335 | |
Registered firms | 239 | 241 | 1,582,390 | 324th of 346 | |
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. | 706 | 706 | 9,699,164 | 313th of 346 | |
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions. | 1.6 | 1.6 | 3.9 | 259th of 346 | |
Women among employees | 34.6% | 34.6% | 40.6% | 279th of 345 | |
Independent contractors | 605 | 606 | 3,958,269 | 288th of 346 | |
Contractors as share of workers | 46.1% | 46.2% | 29.0% | 26th of 346 |
Employment by industry
Employment by occupation
Housing and services
See all →House or flat
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Overcrowded dwellings | 6.1% | 6.1% | 5.7% | 82nd of 345 | |
Internet access | 96.9% | 96.9% | 93.2% | 13th of 345 | |
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. | 3.1 | 3.1 | 2.3 | 209th of 345 | |
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 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 174th of 345 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Occupied dwellings with residents | 611 | 611 | 6,408,172 | 327th of 346 | |
Critically overcrowded | 0.49% | 0.49% | 0.57% | 69th of 345 | |
Irrecoverable dwellings | 0.98% | 0.98% | 1.13% | 200th of 345 | |
Public water network | 94.6% | 94.6% | 92.3% | 78th of 345 | |
Electricity access | 99.8% | 99.8% | 99.6% | 48th of 345 | |
Detached houses | 99.0% | 99.0% | 78.7% | 121st of 345 | |
Apartments | 0.0% | 0.0% | 19.9% | 281st of 345 | |
Precarious wall materials | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.23% | 324th of 345 | |
Unoccupied private dwellings | 20.1% | 20.1% | 11.9% | 121st of 345 | |
Quantitative housing deficit | 32 | 32 | 491,904 | 333rd of 345 | |
Housing deficit as share of households | 5.2% | 5.2% | 7.5% | 179th of 345 | |
Renting households | 32.6% | 32.6% | 26.2% | 21st of 345 | |
Owner-occupiers | 29.0% | 29.0% | 61.1% | 336th of 345 | |
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south. | 54.3% | 54.3% | 24.4% | 175th of 345 | |
Commute by public transport | 0.6% | 0.6% | 42.1% | 344th of 345 | |
Walks to work | 45.9% | 45.9% | 10.2% | 12th of 345 | |
Households with a computer | 76.3% | 76.3% | 54.9% | 7th of 345 | |
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. | 3.1 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 44th of 345 | |
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. | 95.8% | 95.8% | 97.0% | 151st of 345 | |
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. | 95.8% | 95.8% | 99.9% | 323rd of 345 | |
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. | 97.6% | 97.6% | 100.0% | 329th of 345 | |
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. | 95.8% | 95.8% | 89.4% | 74th of 345 | |
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. | 95.8% | 95.8% | 98.1% | 213th of 345 | |
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. | 97.6% | 97.6% | 99.7% | 299th of 345 | |
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. | 3.3 | 3.3 | 5.9 | 255th of 345 | |
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. | 95.8% | 95.8% | 80.3% | 59th of 345 | |
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. | 95.8% | 95.8% | 90.0% | 127th of 345 | |
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. | 97.6% | 97.6% | 96.2% | 211th of 345 | |
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. | 2.8 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 28th of 345 | |
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. | 95.8% | 95.8% | 99.0% | 248th of 345 | |
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. | 96.5% | 96.5% | 99.9% | 324th of 345 | |
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. | 98.3% | 98.3% | 100.0% | 326th of 345 | |
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. | 95.8% | 95.8% | 91.6% | 84th of 345 | |
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. | 95.8% | 95.8% | 98.5% | 230th of 345 | |
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. | 97.6% | 97.6% | 99.8% | 306th of 345 |