Commune · 04202

CanelaCanela

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Census population
9,639
258th of 346
Population density
4.4/km²
294th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.2 yrs
332nd of 346
Foreign-born share
0.9%
295th 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 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.9 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.9 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 · 171 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
84.4%
6th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
4.8%
327th of 335
Came from another region
10.5%
285th of 335
Net internal migration
-6,014
-63.3 per 100 residents
Canelathis commune · 15,490another region998 peopleelsewhere in the region456 peopleabroad26 peopleanother region4,375 peopleelsewhere in the region3,093 peopleCanelathis commune · 9,502
Canelathis commune · 15,490another region998 peopleelsewhere in th…456 peopleabroad26 peopleanother region4,375 peopleelsewhere in th…3,093 peopleCanelathis commune · 9,502

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
2005202410Accommodation and food1Accommodation and food▲92Construction2Construction1Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼24Mining4Mining3Transport5Transport▼29Water and waste6Water and waste▲35Agriculture and fishing7Agriculture and fishing▼26Manufacturing8Manufacturing▼28Education9Education▼17Other services10Other services▼3
20052024101Accommodation and food▲922Construction13Retail and wholesale▼244Mining35Transport▼296Water and waste▲357Agriculture and fishing▼268Manufacturing▼289Education▼1710Other services▼3

The ten branches that employ most of Canela

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.

05001 k2 k2 kprojection →2 k2029 · central2005201520242029
05001 k2 k2 kprojection →2 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval8.0% a year observed · 2.1% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0500 k1.0 M1.5 Mprojection →1.2 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0500 k1.0 M1.5 Mprojection →1.2 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval8.8% a year observed · 1.7% projected

What Canela is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Canela employs more people in 32 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.

32
activities it is specialised in
1,456
formal workers
163/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.03.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de restaurantes y de …Venta al por menor de computadore…Cultivo de floresCultivo de productos agrícolas en…Elaboración de productos de panad…Cultivo de trigoCultivo de papasVenta al por menor de combustible…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.03.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de restaurantes y de …Terminación y acabado de edificiosVenta al por menor de computadore…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Canela

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.Ganadería863.8×
Alquiler de equipos de transporte sin operario, excepto vehículos automotoresAlquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles1951.5×
Extracción de oro y plataExtracción de minerales metalíferos no ferrosos, excepto cobre1644.0×
Extracción de piedra, arena y arcillaExtracción de piedra, arena y arcilla2826.2×
Otras actividades de transporte urbano y suburbano de pasajeros por vía terrestre n.c.p.Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre518.7×
Fabricación de cemento, cal y yesoFabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.814.7×
Actividades de la administración pública en generalAdministración del estado y aplicación de la política económica y social de la comunidad8108.6×
Venta al por menor de gas licuado en bombonas (cilindros) en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados67.7×
Venta al por menor en comercios especializados de huevos, confites y productos alimenticios n.c.p.Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados156.3×
Captación, tratamiento y distribución de aguaCaptación, tratamiento y distribución de agua185.3×
Cultivo de floresCultivo de plantas no perennes14.9×
Actividades de restaurantes y de servicio móvil de comidasActividades de restaurantes y de servicio móvil de comidas1864.8×

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
100,409
hectares in holdings
29.7%
of them under a named use
76.2%
of the crop land is irrigated
1,150
holdings with land here
Not farmed 74%Pasture 16%Woodland 9.1%Scrub, barren ground and buildings70%Pasture16%Forestplantations6.7%Nativewoodl…2.5%
Not farmed 74%Pasture 16%Woodland 9.1%Scrub, barren ground and buildings70%Pasture16%Forestplantations6.7%Nat…woo…
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
CanelaChile% of each territory's own population · 9,639 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
9,639
92,35018,480,432258th of 346
Average age
44.1 yrs
40.0 yrs38.1 yrs10th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
155.3
94.579.011th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
4.4/km²
9.1/km²24.7/km²294th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
3,778
33,9006,596,527255th of 346
Dwellings
5,779
46,3357,642,716235th of 346
People per household
2.55
2.722.80284th of 345
Women
49.5%
50.8%51.5%305th of 346
Men per 100 women
102.1
97.094.342nd of 346
Under 15
15.1%
18.2%17.7%318th of 346
65 and over
23.4%
17.2%14.0%8th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
62.7
54.646.511th of 346
One-person households
26.2%
23.9%21.8%61st of 345
Households with children
26.2%
33.0%33.2%316th of 345
Indigenous peoples
6.9%
9.5%11.4%196th of 346
Female-headed households
45.0%
48.4%49.9%259th of 345
Land area
2,196 km²
10,128 km²748,041 km²68th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Canela50%Arrived since 202050%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Canela50%Arrived since 202050%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
0.9%
4.0%8.7%295th 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.
84.4%
72.3%50.5%6th 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.
4.8%
7.7%23.9%327th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
10.5%
16.6%17.2%285th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
88
3,7291,608,650294th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.6 yrs
31.2 yrs33.5 yrs159th of 345
Women among foreign-born
56.8%
54.3%51.7%22nd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
76.1%
78.9%83.1%307th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
50.0%
48.9%34.4%41st 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.
1.1%
4.9%10.6%293rd of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.5 yrs
12.4 yrs12.9 yrs153rd 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.
-6,014
-25,1530262nd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-63.3
-26.00.0307th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Canela13%Higher32%Secondary45%Primary only6.9%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Canela32%Secondary45%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.2 yrs
9.2 yrs10.4 yrs332nd of 346
Reached higher education
13.3%
19.9%31.1%327th 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.
66.7%
60.2%55.6%22nd 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.
98.9%
101.7%99.8%293rd of 346
Literacy rate
93.3%
96.3%97.8%322nd of 346
Reached secondary education
31.7%
37.7%36.7%315th of 346
Primary education only
44.9%
33.4%24.1%12th of 346
Never attended school
6.88%
3.98%3.01%8th 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.
9.1 yrs
10.5 yrs12.1 yrs330th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
9.0 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs340th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
6.68%
3.72%2.18%25th of 345
Households lacking schooling
25.8%
25.6%15.1%134th 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.
93
1,192217,565246th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
50.5%
25.3%33.9%92nd 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.
48.4%
50.3%67.2%299th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
12.9%
15.9%19.7%245th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
38.7%
33.8%13.1%18th 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.
19.4%
57.9%13.0%132nd 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.
53.2%
50.1%49.7%119th 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.

93left secondary school in 2024
62enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
66.7%continued immediately
48%of those, to a university
19%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%10.0%20.0%Maquinaria PesadaIngenieria Civil Industrial
0.0%10.0%20.0%Maquinaria PesadaIngenieria Civil Industrial
CanelaChile

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

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%60.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationHealth and welfareNatural sciencesInformation technologyArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryServices
0.0%20.0%40.0%60.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationHealth and welfareNatural sciencesInformation technologyArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryServices
CanelaChile

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

0501001502006201520249362
0501001502006201520249362
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 Canela'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 Canela 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

Canela94%Fonasa4.9%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Canela94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.9%
11.4%10.6%134th of 346
Public health insurance
94.3%
93.8%82.6%120th 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.
34.1
72.182.5305th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
41
80100303rd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,244
10,5011,950,388261st of 346
Average age, people with a disability
66.2 yrs
59.9 yrs56.4 yrs2nd of 346
Disability among 65+
62.5%
50.6%43.0%2nd of 346
Difficulty walking
6.97%
5.40%4.92%83rd of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.94%
4.84%4.58%211th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.35%
2.60%2.16%61st of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.97%
2.64%2.70%146th of 346
Private health insurance
0.8%
3.3%13.2%285th of 335
No health coverage
4.89%
2.21%1.98%24th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
93.7%
83.3%92.1%161st of 332
Households lacking health access
6.7%
12.1%6.0%109th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
329
6,6581,523,716286th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
13
17836,698268th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.95%
2.67%2.41%53rd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
8.4 days
5.7 days6.1 days38th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
13.5
19.319.9269th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
36
84100308th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
25
27689,723274th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
7.6%
4.1%5.9%54th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
25.9
29.948.6273rd 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.
41
55100289th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 26%Heart and lungs 23%Injuries, bones and skin 20%Tumours, bl… 14%Mind, nerves an… 7.3%Infecti… 6.7%Digestive system17%Genitouri…system8.5%Respiratorysystem13%Circulatorysystem10%Injuries and poisoning14%Musculos…5.5%Cancers andtumours10%EndocrineandmetabolicBlo…andimm…Nervoussystem4.6%Mentalandbehav…Infectiousand parasiticIll-de…sympto…2.1%Conta…withhealt…1.5%Conge…malfo…1.8%Pregn…andchild…
Digestive and urinary… 26%Heart and lungs 23%Injuries, bone… 20%Tumour… 14%Mind, ner… 7.3%Inf… 6.7%Digestivesystem17%Genito…system8.5%Respiratorysystem13%Circulat…system10%Injuries andpoisoning14%MusculoskeletalCancers andtumours10%Endocrineand…Nervoussystem4.6%Mentalandbehav…Infectiousand…Ill-d…sympt…Con…withhea…Con…mal…Pre…and…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

By tumour site

Sitios reservados48%Órganos digestivos28%Sangre y sistema linfático24%
Sitios reservados48%Órganos digestivos28%Sangre y sistemalinfático24%
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticohover 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.
27.4%
20.6%17.3%72nd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.9 UF
23.6 UF32.0 UF201st of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
100.8%
94.7%78.9%163rd 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.
71.8
92.285.6214th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
40.0%
50.3%54.4%326th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
10.6%
9.5%8.6%71st of 345
Self-employed
37.1%
36.4%33.8%129th of 345
Extreme poverty
15.3%
9.3%6.9%33rd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
1.7%
11.6%17.7%324th of 335
Unemployment rate
6.9%
8.9%8.8%247th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 501,998
CLP 523,094CLP 783,124200th 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.
0.431
0.4420.488176th of 321
Registered firms
692
8,5151,582,390269th of 346
Annual sales
1,110,040 UF
19,094,911 UF34,347,683,688 UF288th 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.
1,456
21,8879,699,164275th of 346
Sales per firm
1,604 UF
2,243 UF21,706 UF302nd of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.6
1.73.9267th of 346
Women among employees
51.7%
40.4%40.6%29th of 345
Independent contractors
713
10,9293,958,269275th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
32.9%
33.3%29.0%97th of 346

Employment by industry

Industry and construction 25%Natural resources 23%Trade and logistics 21%State and social servi… 21%Other… 6.0%Advan… 4.2%Construction16%Manufactur…5.6%WaterandwasteEle…andgasMining15%Agricultu…andfishing8.1%Retail andwholesale12%Transport6.1%Accommodation andfoodEducation8.4%Publicadministra…8.2%HealthDomesticwork3.5%OtherservicesAdmin…servi…2.4%Prof…serv…
Industry and construc… 25%Natural resources 23%Trade and logi… 21%State and soci… 21%Construction16%Manufac…5.6%WaterandwasteMining15%Agricu…andfishing8.1%Retail andwholesale12%Transport6.1%Accom…andfood3.5%Education8.4%Publicadministr…8.2%Health4.4%DomesticworkOtherservi…Admi…serv…
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 66%Managers and profess… 17%Elementary occupatio… 17%Craft and trades21%Service and sales19%Plant and machine operators16%Skilledagricultural6.0%Clerical support3.3%Profession…7.9%Technicia…7.3%Elementaryoccupations17%
Skilled occupations 66%Managers and profess… 17%Elementary occupati… 17%Craft andtrades21%Service and sales19%Plant and machineoperators16%Skill…agric…6.0%Cleri…suppo…3.3%Professi…7.9%Technicians7.3%Elementary occupations17%
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

Canela99%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Canela99%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
3.8%
4.7%5.7%314th of 345
Internet access
77.8%
86.5%93.2%324th 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.
12.0
7.02.325th 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.
12.1
7.41.622nd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
3,748
33,1926,408,172253rd of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.11%
0.28%0.57%331st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
4.43%
1.76%1.13%32nd of 345
Public water network
58.1%
83.2%92.3%313th of 345
Electricity access
98.7%
99.0%99.6%275th of 345
Detached houses
99.1%
98.6%78.7%111th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
0.7%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.19%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
27.8%
23.0%11.9%69th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
246
2,075491,904231st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
6.5%
6.1%7.5%104th of 345
Renting households
7.9%
15.5%26.2%327th of 345
Owner-occupiers
80.2%
70.2%61.1%6th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
24.1%
20.2%24.4%236th of 345
Commute by public transport
25.9%
25.4%42.1%163rd of 345
Walks to work
24.0%
21.8%10.2%73rd of 345
Households with a computer
28.1%
42.3%54.9%330th 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
1.81.143rd 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.
78.5%
90.1%97.0%301st 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%
99.7%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.
27.0%
59.6%89.4%320th 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.
59.3%
82.9%98.1%322nd 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%
97.4%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.
35.3
10.05.966th 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.
0.0%
58.7%80.3%194th 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.
1.0%
72.4%90.0%244th 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.
16.7%
88.2%96.2%281st 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.
1.9
1.10.654th 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.
89.8%
96.2%99.0%307th 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%
99.8%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.
39.1%
63.3%91.6%315th 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.
60.0%
78.7%98.5%326th 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%
97.4%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 39%On foot or by bicycle 26%Public transport 26%Othe… 8.8%Car38%Walking24%Public transport26%Other8.4%
Private vehicle 39%On foot or by … 26%Public transport 26%Other… 8.8%Car38%Walking24%Public transport26%Other8.4%
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 80%Provide… 8.6%Rented 7.9%Other 3.3%Owned outright80%Provided byfamily7.4%Rented, nocontract5.3%Rented, withcontractOtherarrangement
Owned 80%Provided rent-f… 8.6%Rented 7.9%Owned outright80%Provided byfamilyRented, nocontractRente…withcontr…Otherarran…3.3%
Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

No heating 52%Wood and biomass 28%Fossil fuels 11%Electricity 8.9%No heating52%Firewood24%Coal3.9%Gas10%Electricity8.9%
No heating 52%Wood and biomass 28%Fossil fuels 11%Electricity 8.9%No heating52%Firewood24%CoalGas10%Electricity8.9%
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
85.2%
of the registered voted in the first round
85.1%
voted in the runoff
9,461
registered voters on the roll
7.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman53.0%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist47.0%58.3%
CanelaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez27.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman34.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen9.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist20.5%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet6.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.9%1.3%
CanelaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile44.2%30.6%
KCambio por Chile13.5%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido11.8%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente18.4%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.2%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista4.3%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile2.8%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
CanelaChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Canela 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

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