Commune · 09102

CarahueCarahue

Compare Carahue with another place
Census population
24,957
148th of 346
Population density
18.7/km²
213th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.4 yrs
316th of 346
Foreign-born share
0.5%
325th 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 UF26.6 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.6 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 · 325 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
75.1%
38th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
13.4%
237th of 335
Came from another region
10.8%
279th of 335
Net internal migration
-14,671
-57.5 per 100 residents
Carahuethis commune · 40,026elsewhere in the region3,429 peopleanother region2,766 peopleabroad173 peopleanother region11,862 peopleelsewhere in the region9,004 peopleCarahuethis commune · 25,528
Carahuethis commune · 40,026elsewhere in th…3,429 peopleanother region2,766 peopleabroad173 peopleanother region11,862 peopleelsewhere in th…9,004 peopleCarahuethis commune · 25,528

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Public administration1Public administration3Education2Education▲14Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲12Agriculture and fishing4Agriculture and fishing▼27Transport5Transport▲25Manufacturing6Manufacturing▼16Accommodation and food7Accommodation and food▼18Information and communications8Information and communications9Professional services9Professional services11Administrative services10Administrative services▲110Other services11Other services▼1
2005202411Public administration32Education▲143Retail and wholesale▲124Agriculture and fishing▼275Transport▲256Manufacturing▼167Accommodation and food▼188Information and communications99Professional services1110Administrative services▲11011Other services▼1

The ten branches that employ most of Carahue

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.

02 k4 k6 k8 kprojection →6 k2029 · central2005201520242029
02 k4 k6 k8 kprojection →6 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval11.3% a year observed · 5.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

01.0 M2.0 M3.0 Mprojection →2.7 M2029 · central2005201520242029
01.0 M2.0 M3.0 Mprojection →2.7 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.9% a year observed · 4.6% projected

What Carahue is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Carahue employs more people in 35 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.

35
activities it is specialised in
4,263
formal workers
217/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.03.7Actividades de la administración …Venta al por menor de otros produ…Otras actividades de tecnología d…Cultivo de trigoMolienda de trigo: producción de …Venta al por menor de flores, pla…Elaboración de productos de panad…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Otras instalaciones para obras de…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 …Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Venta al por menor de otros produ…Otras actividades de tecnología d…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Carahue

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
Cultivos forrajeros en praderas mejoradas o sembradas; cultivos suplementarios forrajerosCultivo de plantas no perennes5935.7×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada5514.6×
Actividades de la administración pública en generalAdministración del estado y aplicación de la política económica y social de la comunidad2,83810.3×
Servicio notarialActividades jurídicas124.9×
Molienda de trigo: producción de harina, sémola y gránulosElaboración de productos de molinería, almidones y productos derivados del almidón84.6×
Enseñanza primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional privadaEnseñanza preescolar, primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional5033.8×
Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en puestos de venta y mercados (incluye ferias)Venta al por menor en puestos de venta y mercados23.8×
Venta al por menor en comercios especializados de frutas y verduras (verdulerías)Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados93.7×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura73.6×
Otras actividades de tecnología de la información y de servicios informáticosActividades de programación informática, consultoría informática y actividades conexas183.5×
Programación y transmisiones de televisiónProgramación y transmisiones de televisión63.3×
Servicios funerariosOtras actividades de servicios personales33.0×

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
91,090
hectares in holdings
87.8%
of them under a named use
8.0%
of the crop land is irrigated
2,458
holdings with land here
Woodland 54%Not farmed 21%Pasture 17%Annual cr… 7.7%Forest plantations38%Nativewoodland16%Scrub, barren groundand buildings12%Untilled land8.5%Pasture17%Cereals4.1%Pulsesandtubers1.7%Fodder…Ind…cro…
Woodland 54%Not farmed 21%Pasture 17%Forest plantations38%Nativewoodland16%Scrub,barrenground and…12%Untilledland8.5%Pasture17%Cerea…4.1%Pulses…Indu…
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
CarahueChile% of each territory's own population · 24,957 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
24,957
803,77718,480,432148th of 346
Average age
39.9 yrs
38.4 yrs38.1 yrs132nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
97.3
81.279.0127th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
18.7/km²
43.8/km²24.7/km²213th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
9,090
297,7676,596,527145th of 346
Dwellings
11,657
389,0477,642,716149th of 346
People per household
2.75
2.702.80175th of 345
Women
51.1%
51.8%51.5%146th of 346
Men per 100 women
95.8
92.994.3201st of 346
Under 15
18.3%
18.2%17.7%134th of 346
65 and over
17.8%
14.8%14.0%85th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
56.6
49.346.543rd of 346
One-person households
22.8%
22.9%21.8%158th of 345
Households with children
33.7%
33.1%33.2%155th of 345
Indigenous peoples
43.2%
36.5%11.4%35th of 346
Female-headed households
48.9%
49.3%49.9%144th of 345
Land area
1,335 km²
18,354 km²748,041 km²106th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Carahue22%Arrived since 202078%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Carahue22%78%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
0.5%
2.4%8.7%325th 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.
75.1%
57.2%50.5%38th 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.
13.4%
21.3%23.9%237th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
10.8%
19.8%17.2%279th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
136
18,9301,608,650264th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
35.9 yrs
35.0 yrs33.5 yrs74th of 345
Women among foreign-born
55.1%
50.9%51.7%39th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
84.6%
82.3%83.1%44th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
22.1%
28.8%34.4%309th 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.
0.7%
2.9%10.6%325th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.6 yrs
13.5 yrs12.9 yrs147th 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.
-14,671
-31,1780299th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-57.5
-3.80.0304th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Carahue14%Higher36%Secondary40%Primary only5.0%4.9%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Carahue36%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
8.4 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs316th of 346
Reached higher education
14.3%
26.3%31.1%315th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.5%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.
52.8%
50.9%55.6%193rd 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.
104.3%
101.3%99.8%59th of 346
Literacy rate
94.0%
96.8%97.8%298th of 346
Reached secondary education
36.1%
36.6%36.7%216th of 346
Primary education only
39.7%
28.7%24.1%48th of 346
Never attended school
5.01%
3.41%3.01%41st 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.
9.4 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs314th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
9.8 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs307th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
5.94%
3.16%2.18%49th of 345
Households lacking schooling
31.0%
20.5%15.1%79th 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.
392
10,404217,565116th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
30.9%
36.9%33.9%207th 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%
5.0%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
69.6%
71.6%67.2%98th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
13.5%
15.2%19.7%236th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
16.9%
13.3%13.1%149th 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.
5.3%
10.1%13.0%232nd 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.
52.2%
51.2%49.7%135th 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.

392left secondary school in 2024
207enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
52.8%continued immediately
70%of those, to a university
5%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoBachiller en Ciencias y HumanidadesIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizNutricion y DieteticaPsicologiaIngenieria en ConstruccionKinesiologiaMedicina VeterinariaArquitecturaTecnico en Enfermeria
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoBachiller en Ciencias y HumanidadesIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizNutricion y DieteticaPsicologiaIngenieria en ConstruccionKinesiologiaMedicina VeterinariaArquitecturaTecnico en Enfermeria
CarahueChile

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

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryEducationServicesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesInformation technology
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryEducationServicesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesInformation technology
CarahueChile

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

0100200300400200620152024392207
0100200300400200620152024392207
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 Carahue'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 Carahue 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

Carahue98%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Carahue98%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
16.0%
12.2%10.6%22nd of 346
Public health insurance
98.0%
91.4%82.6%16th 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.
76.9
77.682.5124th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
109
9310095th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
4,004
98,0291,950,388120th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.1 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs92nd of 346
Disability among 65+
48.8%
44.9%43.0%96th of 346
Difficulty walking
7.79%
5.65%4.92%33rd of 346
Difficulty seeing
8.25%
5.70%4.58%16th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.69%
2.78%2.16%24th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.77%
3.02%2.70%25th of 346
Private health insurance
1.2%
5.3%13.2%262nd of 335
No health coverage
0.78%
1.11%1.98%228th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
85.7%
92.0%92.1%286th of 332
Households lacking health access
7.7%
5.0%6.0%86th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,919
62,4061,523,716142nd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
68
1,57136,698123rd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.54%
2.52%2.41%88th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
8.2 days
7.2 days6.1 days44th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
27.2
19.519.958th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
89
93100134th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
116
3,84589,723135th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.0%
6.2%5.9%131st of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
46.5
47.848.698th 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.
85
96100126th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 23%Digestive and urinary tract 23%Injuries, bones and… 18%Tumours, … 12%Pregnancy, birt… 12%Mind, nerves … 6.6%Infections an… 4.7%Circulatorysystem12%Respiratorysystem11%Digestive system15%Genitourin…system8.7%Injuries andpoisoning13%Musculoskeletal3.7%Skin1.7%Cancers andtumours8.0%EndocrineandmetabolicPregnancy andchildbirth10%Mental andbehavioural4.6%Nerv…syst…Infect…and…Conta…with…
Heart and lungs 23%Digestive and urinar… 23%Injuries, b… 18%Tumours, blood a… 12%Pregnancy, birth… 12%Circulato…system12%Respirato…system11%Digestivesystem15%Genitou…system8.7%Injuries andpoisoning13%Musculosk…3.7%SkinCancers andtumours8.0%Endoc…andmetab…3.6%Pregnancy andchildbirth10%Mentalandbehaviou…Nervous…Cont…with…
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 digestivos35%Sangre y sistema linfático21%Genitales masculinos16%Sitiosreservados11%Mama6.0%Tiroides yendocrinas6.0%Víasurinarias4.3%
Órganos digestivos35%Sangre ysistemalinfático21%Genitalesmasculinos16%Sitiosreservados11%Mama6.0%Tiroidesyendocri…6.0%Vías urinarias
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales masculinosSitios reservadosMamaTiroides y endocrinashover 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.
49.1%
30.0%17.3%5th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
26.6 UF
22.9 UF32.0 UF77th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
106.2%
101.1%78.9%118th 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.
60.6
77.785.6282nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
38.3%
48.4%54.4%335th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
10.6%
10.2%8.6%70th of 345
Self-employed
39.3%
35.8%33.8%97th of 345
Extreme poverty
23.2%
13.8%6.9%8th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
25.8%
18.6%17.7%56th of 335
Unemployment rate
13.3%
11.3%8.8%47th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 358,775
CLP 533,802CLP 783,124327th 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.
0.432
0.4950.488171st of 321
Registered firms
1,513
62,4281,582,390182nd of 346
Annual sales
2,148,497 UF
267,044,738 UF34,347,683,688 UF260th 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.
4,263
254,9539,699,164198th of 346
Sales per firm
1,420 UF
4,278 UF21,706 UF313th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.3
2.73.9133rd of 346
Women among employees
58.4%
41.9%40.6%7th of 345
Independent contractors
954
104,1373,958,269246th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
18.3%
29.0%29.0%302nd of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 26%State and social services 25%Natural resources 19%Industry and const… 19%Other… 5.6%Advan… 4.7%Retail andwholesale16%Transport6.6%Accommodationand food4.1%Education12%Health7.5%Publicadministration5.5%Agriculture and fishing18%Construction11%Manufacturing6.0%Waterandwaste1.4%Elect…and…Domesticwork3.7%Other…Admin…servi…2.3%Pro…ser…Infor…
Trade and logistics 26%State and social se… 25%Natural resour… 19%Industry and … 19%Retail andwholesale16%Transport6.6%Accommod…and food4.1%Education12%Health7.5%Publicadministra…5.5%Agriculture andfishing18%Construction11%Manufacturi…6.0%Wat…andwas…Elec…DomesticworkOther…Adm…ser…Prof…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 59%Elementary occupations 21%Managers and professionals 20%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades15%Plant andmachineoperators10%Skilledagricultural9.4%Cleri…suppo…3.6%Elementary occupations21%Professiona…11%Technicians7.9%
Skilled occupations 59%Elementary occupatio… 21%Managers and profes… 20%Service andsales21%Craft and trades15%Plant and machineoperators10%Skilledagricult…9.4%ClericalsupportElementaryoccupations21%Profession…11%Technici…7.9%
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

Carahue99%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Carahue99%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.2%
5.3%5.7%170th of 345
Internet access
77.3%
88.1%93.2%327th 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.
4.7
3.52.3128th 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
2.91.6132nd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
9,030
294,5656,408,172142nd of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.35%
0.38%0.57%140th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.13%
1.00%1.13%167th of 345
Public water network
74.6%
80.7%92.3%252nd of 345
Electricity access
96.9%
98.6%99.6%327th of 345
Detached houses
98.7%
91.1%78.7%139th of 345
Apartments
0.5%
8.2%19.9%148th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.30%0.23%205th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
18.7%
19.6%11.9%128th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
359
12,914491,904182nd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.9%
4.3%7.5%284th of 345
Renting households
10.2%
18.7%26.2%289th of 345
Owner-occupiers
74.3%
68.3%61.1%51st of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
88.5%
68.1%24.4%64th of 345
Commute by public transport
36.7%
35.3%42.1%67th of 345
Walks to work
23.6%
13.5%10.2%75th of 345
Households with a computer
32.1%
46.7%54.9%309th 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
1.71.1171st 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.
92.2%
92.6%97.0%205th 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%
100.0%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.
62.2%
75.6%89.4%231st 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.
94.5%
96.8%98.1%228th 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%
100.0%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.
24.2
10.55.9108th 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%
50.5%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.
6.4%
72.5%90.0%226th 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.
71.1%
90.7%96.2%247th 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.
1.0
0.90.6195th 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.
99.4%
98.7%99.0%132nd 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.
68.0%
78.2%91.6%220th 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.
92.5%
98.3%98.5%257th 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%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Public transport 37%Private vehicle 35%On foot or by bi… 25%Other means 3.6%Public transport37%Car34%Walking24%
Public transport 37%Private vehicle 35%On foot or by bicycle 25%Public transport37%Car34%Walking24%Other
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 74%Provided rent… 10%Rented 10%Other 5.1%Owned outright73%Provided byfamily9.1%Rented, nocontract5.3%Rented, withcontract4.9%Other arrangement5.1%
Owned 74%Provided rent-… 10%Rented 10%Owned outright73%Provided byfamily9.1%Rented,nocontract5.3%Rented,withcontract4.9%Otherarrange…5.1%
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%Firewood88%Gas3.9%Paraffin1.2%Noheating2.2%Electric…2.0%
Wood and biomass 91%Firewood88%GasParaff…No heatingElectricity
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
82.1%
of the registered voted in the first round
82.1%
voted in the runoff
24,023
registered voters on the roll
5.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman30.4%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist69.6%58.3%
CarahueChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez20.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman20.0%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen11.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist37.1%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.0%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.6%1.3%
CarahueChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile25.3%30.6%
KCambio por Chile13.5%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido25.5%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente11.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas11.7%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde4.2%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile8.8%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
CarahueChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile26.5%
KCambio por Chile12.6%
JChile Grande y Unido50.7%
IPartido de la Gente5.5%
APartido Ecologista Verde2.1%
Independents outside a pact2.6%
Carahueshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Carahue 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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