Commune · 10102

CalbucoCalbuco

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Census population
36,474
111th of 346
Population density
62.2/km²
116th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.7 yrs
281st of 346
Foreign-born share
2.6%
178th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
People within 5 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.0%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF24.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF24.3 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 · 402 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
67.7%
98th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
19.3%
156th of 335
Came from another region
11.7%
258th of 335
Net internal migration
+604
+1.6 per 100 residents
Calbucothis commune · 36,542elsewhere in the region7,256 peopleanother region4,393 peopleabroad534 peopleelsewhere in the region5,526 peopleanother region5,519 peopleCalbucothis commune · 37,680
Calbucothis commune · 36,542elsewhere in th…7,256 peopleanother region4,393 peopleabroad534 peopleelsewhere in th…5,526 peopleanother region5,519 peopleCalbucothis commune · 37,680

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520244Retail and wholesale1Retail and wholesale▲37Construction2Construction▲53Public administration3Public administration1Agriculture and fishing4Agriculture and fishing▼32Manufacturing5Manufacturing▼39Administrative services6Administrative services▲36Transport7Transport▼111Education8Education▲38Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food▼113Water and waste10Water and waste▲310Professional services11Professional services▼15Other services12Other services▼712Information and communications14Information and communications▼2
2005202441Retail and wholesale▲372Construction▲533Public administration14Agriculture and fishing▼325Manufacturing▼396Administrative services▲367Transport▼1118Education▲389Accommodation and food▼11310Water and waste▲31011Professional services▼1512Other services▼71214Information and communications▼2

The ten branches that employ most of Calbuco

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.

1 k3 k5 k7 k9 kprojection →8 k2029 · central2005201520242029
1 k3 k5 k7 k9 kprojection →8 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.5% a year observed · 1.3% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 M20 Mprojection →15 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 M20 Mprojection →15 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval9.0% a year observed · -4.2% projected

What Calbuco is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Calbuco employs more people in 64 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.

64
activities it is specialised in
7,502
formal workers
68/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.53.7Actividades de la administración …Servicios relacionados con la acu…Venta al por menor de productos f…Pesca marítima industrial, except…Elaboración y conservación de otr…Venta al por menor de artículos d…Servicios de corta de madera a ca…Cría de otros animales n.c.p.Fabricación de partes, piezas y a…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.53.7Actividades de la administración …Fabricación de cuerdas, cordeles,…Servicios funerariosCultivo de papasHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Calbuco

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 otros animales n.c.p.Ganadería4163.5×
Producción de harina de pescadoElaboración y conservación de pescado, crustáceos y moluscos24461.5×
Transporte de pasajeros por vías de navegación interioresTransporte por vías de navegación interiores3350.2×
Pesca marítima artesanalPesca8348.9×
Elaboración de aceites y grasas de origen vegetal y animal (excepto elaboración de mantequilla)Elaboración de aceites y grasas de origen vegetal y animal10647.9×
Pesca marítima industrial, excepto de barcos factoríaPesca15832.9×
Actividades de atención en instituciones para personas con discapacidad mental y toxicómanos toxicómanosActividades de atención en instituciones para personas con discapacidad mental y toxicómanos5224.9×
Reproducción y cría de moluscos, crustáceos y gusanos marinosAcuicultura3423.8×
Servicios relacionados con la acuicultura marinaAcuicultura61823.3×
Reparación de buques, embarcaciones menores y estructuras flotantesReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo4521.0×
Construcción de buques, embarcaciones menores y estructuras flotantesConstrucción de buques y otras embarcaciones8420.4×
Fabricación de cuerdas, cordeles, bramantes y redesFabricación de otros productos textiles1016.0×

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
25,818
hectares in holdings
85.2%
of them under a named use
3.4%
of the crop land is irrigated
2,371
holdings with land here
Woodland 41%Pasture 37%Not farmed 17%Annual crops 4.8%Native woodland32%Forest plantations9.3%Pasture37%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings15%Untilled landFoddercrops2.1%Pulsesandtubers1.9%
Woodland 41%Pasture 37%Not farmed 17%Native woodland32%Forest plantations9.3%Pasture37%Scrub, barren ground and buildings15%Unt…landFod…cro…Puls…and…Veget…
PastureOrchards and vineyardshover 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
CalbucoChile% of each territory's own population · 36,474 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
36,474
455,84218,480,432111th of 346
Average age
38.9 yrs
37.2 yrs38.1 yrs190th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
84.0
65.779.0203rd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
62.2/km²
30.9/km²24.7/km²116th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
13,410
166,4036,596,527107th of 346
Dwellings
15,942
200,0927,642,716117th of 346
People per household
2.72
2.742.80191st of 345
Women
49.6%
50.6%51.5%296th of 346
Men per 100 women
101.5
97.694.351st of 346
Under 15
17.6%
18.4%17.7%188th of 346
65 and over
14.8%
12.1%14.0%222nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
48.0
43.846.5248th of 346
One-person households
21.8%
21.8%21.8%186th of 345
Households with children
33.4%
34.3%33.2%162nd of 345
Indigenous peoples
32.1%
21.2%11.4%58th of 346
Female-headed households
47.1%
49.0%49.9%203rd of 345
Land area
586 km²
14,768 km²748,041 km²181st of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Calbuco48%Arrived since 202052%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Calbuco48%Arrived since 202052%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born share
2.6%
5.3%8.7%178th 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.
67.7%
57.6%50.5%98th 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.
19.3%
18.9%23.9%156th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
11.7%
19.3%17.2%258th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
956
24,2451,608,650125th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.0 yrs
32.4 yrs33.5 yrs193rd of 345
Women among foreign-born
48.7%
49.8%51.7%266th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
79.9%
81.4%83.1%225th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
47.9%
42.6%34.4%63rd 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.
3.1%
6.2%10.6%180th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.4 yrs
13.2 yrs12.9 yrs171st 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.
604
31,5760137th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
1.6
6.90.0146th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Calbuco16%Higher36%Secondary40%Primary only4.6%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Calbuco16%36%Secondary40%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.7 yrs
10.0 yrs10.4 yrs281st of 346
Reached higher education
15.7%
27.6%31.1%291st of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.9%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.
47.1%
56.9%55.6%279th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
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.
101.0%
100.4%99.8%192nd of 346
Literacy rate
94.8%
97.3%97.8%266th of 346
Reached secondary education
35.8%
35.3%36.7%232nd of 346
Primary education only
39.9%
28.6%24.1%45th of 346
Never attended school
4.03%
3.05%3.01%121st 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.
9.9 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs267th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.0 yrs
11.7 yrs12.1 yrs290th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
5.22%
2.70%2.18%79th of 345
Households lacking schooling
29.0%
22.3%15.1%97th 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.
391
5,483217,565117th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
18.7%
36.7%33.9%267th 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.
7.9%
6.4%3.1%83rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
65.8%
65.9%67.2%134th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
19.0%
22.4%19.7%155th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
15.2%
11.7%13.1%171st 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.
19.0%
19.6%13.0%134th 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.
56.0%
51.1%49.7%75th of 331

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.

391left secondary school in 2024
184enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
47.1%continued immediately
66%of those, to a university
19%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaKinesiologiaTecnico en EnfermeriaTecnico Universitario en Transporte Maritimo CosteroAdministracion PublicaEnfermeriaIngenieria en Informacion y Control de GestionIngenieria en Informatica
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaKinesiologiaTecnico en EnfermeriaTecnico Universitario en Transporte Maritimo CosteroAdministracion PublicaEnfermeriaIngenieria en Informacion y Control de GestionIngenieria en Informatica
CalbucoChile

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%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawServicesEducationInformation technologySocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciencesArts and humanities
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawServicesEducationInformation technologySocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciencesArts and humanities
CalbucoChile

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

0100200300400200620152024391184
0100200300400200620152024391184
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 Calbuco'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 Calbuco 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

Calbuco93%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Calbuco93%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.4%
9.6%10.6%206th of 346
Public health insurance
93.1%
87.3%82.6%165th of 335
Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents · Not age-adjusted. It mixes how much illness there is with how much hospital there is nearby.
69.0
83.382.5174th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
104
98100114th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
4,156
43,7091,950,388116th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
58.7 yrs
55.0 yrs56.4 yrs136th of 346
Disability among 65+
46.6%
40.2%43.0%146th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.48%
4.12%4.92%200th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.74%
4.41%4.58%227th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.48%
2.04%2.16%181st of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.44%
2.28%2.70%258th of 346
Private health insurance
2.6%
8.2%13.2%195th of 335
No health coverage
1.37%
1.99%1.98%173rd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
87.5%
86.6%92.1%271st of 332
Households lacking health access
8.5%
7.6%6.0%67th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
2,517
37,9711,523,716120th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
82
80036,698112th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.26%
2.11%2.41%116th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.8 days
6.5 days6.1 days66th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
22.5
17.519.9108th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
83
103100175th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
164
2,80389,723110th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.5%
7.4%5.9%102nd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
45.0
61.548.6116th of 330
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
133100115th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 26%Digestive and urinary tract 19%Pregnancy, birt… 15%Injuries, bones… 15%Tumours, blood a… 14%Mind, nerves … 6.1%Infections an… 6.0%Respiratorysystem14%Circulatorysystem11%Digestive system13%Genitour…system6.6%Pregnancy andchildbirth15%Injuries andpoisoning9.1%Musculoskel…3.8%Skin1.7%Cancers and tumours7.5%Endocrine andmetabolic4.5%Bloodandimmu…Mentalandbehavio…Nervoussystem2.7%Infec…andparas…2.0%Conta…withhealt…1.9%Ill-de…sympto…1.8%
Heart and lungs 26%Digestive and ur… 19%Pregnancy, birth and n… 15%Injuries, bones and sk… 15%Tumours, blood and… 14%Min… 6.1%Inf… 6.0%Respiratorysystem14%Circulato…system11%Digestivesystem13%Genit…system6.6%Pregnancy andchildbirth15%Injuries andpoisoning9.1%Musculos…3.8%SkinCancersandtumours7.5%EndocrineandmetabolicMental andbehaviour…Nervous…Infect…and…Contactwith…
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 digestivos52%Sangre ysistemalinfático15%Sitiosreservados15%Genitalesmasculinos7.3%Sitios maldefinidos6.7%Víasrespir…4.3%
Órganos digestivos52%Sangre ysistemalinfático15%Sitiosreservados15%Genitalesmasculinos7.3%Sitiosmaldefinidos6.7%Víasrespir…4.3%
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoSitios reservadosGenitales masculinosSitios mal definidosVías respiratoriashover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
18.8%
15.7%17.3%198th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
24.3 UF
26.3 UF32.0 UF122nd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
102.6%
84.8%78.9%148th of 342
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.
59.7
96.885.6288th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
51.2%
56.5%54.4%168th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
8.1%
7.6%8.6%195th of 345
Self-employed
41.1%
36.6%33.8%71st of 345
Extreme poverty
6.2%
5.8%6.9%225th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
25.2%
16.4%17.7%60th of 335
Unemployment rate
4.6%
8.3%8.8%295th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 585,784
CLP 693,135CLP 783,124124th of 335
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.
0.434
0.4470.488166th of 321
Registered firms
2,179
44,1101,582,390134th of 346
Annual sales
19,051,721 UF
741,811,673 UF34,347,683,688 UF102nd of 342
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.
7,502
215,2089,699,164141st of 346
Sales per firm
8,743 UF
16,817 UF21,706 UF64th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.6
3.13.9114th of 346
Women among employees
35.6%
37.3%40.6%258th of 345
Independent contractors
2,687
66,2063,958,269133rd of 346
Contractors as share of workers
26.4%
23.5%29.0%192nd of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 28%Trade and logistics 24%Industry and construction 24%State and social ser… 17%Adv… 4.4%Oth… 2.9%Agriculture and fishing28%Retail andwholesale13%Transport7.7%Accommodation andfoodManufacturing16%Construct…6.5%Water…Elec…Education7.9%Health5.3%Public administrationAdminist…servicesProfes…servic…Dom…workOtherserv…Arts…
Natural resources 28%Trade and logisti… 24%Industry and constru… 24%State and social ser… 17%Advance… 4.4%Agriculture andfishing28%Retail and wholesale13%Transport7.7%Accom…andfood3.6%Manufacturi…16%Constr…6.5%Wat…Education7.9%Health5.3%PublicadministrationAdminis…Dom…work
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Skilled occupations 63%Managers and profession… 19%Elementary occupations 18%Craft and trades20%Service and sales19%Plant andmachineoperators11%Skilledagricultural10%Cleric…support4.4%Technicians9.0%Profession…8.1%ManagersElementaryoccupations18%
Skilled occupations 63%Managers and profess… 19%Elementary occupati… 18%Craft andtrades20%Service andsales19%Plant and machineoperators11%Skilledagricultural10%Cleri…suppo…4.4%Technicia…9.0%Profession…8.1%Elementaryoccupations18%
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

Calbuco97%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Calbuco97%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.2%
4.8%5.7%179th of 345
Internet access
85.5%
92.7%93.2%238th 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.
5.9
3.72.389th 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.
4.2
2.61.6134th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
13,345
164,3786,408,172107th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.29%
0.30%0.57%215th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
2.19%
1.38%1.13%66th of 345
Public water network
79.2%
84.6%92.3%211th of 345
Electricity access
98.9%
99.4%99.6%245th of 345
Detached houses
97.4%
93.4%78.7%201st of 345
Apartments
0.5%
5.5%19.9%148th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.36%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
13.3%
12.9%11.9%195th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
600
8,338491,904124th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.5%
5.0%7.5%243rd of 345
Renting households
12.4%
22.7%26.2%232nd of 345
Owner-occupiers
77.2%
66.2%61.1%20th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
86.2%
67.0%24.4%87th of 345
Commute by public transport
25.0%
31.7%42.1%180th of 345
Walks to work
17.9%
11.1%10.2%140th of 345
Households with a computer
37.7%
51.4%54.9%252nd 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.
1.8
1.41.1162nd 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.
96.9%
93.8%97.0%120th 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.
100.0%
99.9%99.9%1st 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.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st 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.
54.2%
79.3%89.4%259th 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.
92.0%
94.1%98.1%250th 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.
100.0%
99.3%99.7%1st 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.
7.3
6.95.9190th 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.
53.8%
74.3%80.3%152nd 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.
83.7%
84.4%90.0%166th 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.
100.0%
90.9%96.2%1st 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.
1.1
0.80.6167th 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.
100.0%
98.4%99.0%1st 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.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st 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.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st 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.
66.8%
83.7%91.6%227th 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%
97.3%98.5%228th 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.
100.0%
99.8%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 32%Public transport 25%Other means 25%On foot or by bicycle 18%Car32%Public transport25%Other20%BoatWalking18%
Private vehicle 32%Public transport 25%Other means 25%On foot or by b… 18%Car32%Public transport25%Other20%BoatWalking18%
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 77%Rented 12%Provided r… 8.0%Owned outright75%Rented, nocontract8.0%Rented, withcontract4.5%Provided byfamily7.3%Other arrangement
Owned 77%Rented 12%Provided r… 8.0%Owned outright75%Rented, nocontractRented,withcontractProvided byfamily
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

Wood and biomass 91%Firewood86%Pell…Gas2.9%Paraffin2.2%Electri…2.4%Noheating
Wood and biomass 91%Firewood86%ParaffinElectricityNo…
ElectricityNo heatingOther 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
83.0%
of the registered voted in the first round
82.8%
voted in the runoff
33,733
registered voters on the roll
7.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman29.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist70.9%58.3%
CalbucoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez24.9%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman18.3%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.7%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist31.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.5%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.9%1.3%
CalbucoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile27.3%30.6%
KCambio por Chile23.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido28.4%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente13.7%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas7.5%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
CalbucoChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Calbuco across the 28 figures PuroChile publishes for the 345 communes with complete data, grouped into seven dimensions of equal weight. This is not proximity: nothing in the computation knows where any commune is.

ScalePopulation structureMigrationEducationHealthEconomyHousing and services

The figure beside each name is the distance between the two communes: 0 would be identical, and 1.48 is what separates any two communes in the country. Each bar is one of the seven dimensions, and reaches the end when the two differ on it by twice what two communes picked at random do. Location is not part of the computation: 52% of these pairings cross into another region.

Inside the commune

Census districts
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