Commune · 10401

ChaiténChaitén

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Census population
4,025
318th of 346
Population density
0.5/km²
324th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.1 yrs
211th of 346
Foreign-born share
2.7%
174th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Leaves from a rural school1st of 331 · Chile 3.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer3rd of 330 · Chile 5.9%15.5%
Of those continuing, women324th of 331 · Chile 49.7%36.0%
Sales per firm333rd of 342 · Chile 21,706 UF1,047 UF
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service12th of 345 · Chile 2.360.1
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.0 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.0 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 · 0 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
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Came from another commune of the same region
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Came from another region
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Net internal migration
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Chaiténthis commune · 2,483elsewhere in the region1,486 peopleanother region997 people
Chaiténthis commune · 2,483elsewhere in th…1,486 peopleanother region997 people

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520246Public administration1Public administration▲54Accommodation and food2Accommodation and food▲21Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼22Construction4Construction▼23Agriculture and fishing5Agriculture and fishing▼210Transport6Transport▲47Administrative services7Administrative services5Manufacturing8Manufacturing▼38Professional services9Professional services▼111Water and waste10Water and waste▲19Other services11Other services▼2
2005202461Public administration▲542Accommodation and food▲213Retail and wholesale▼224Construction▼235Agriculture and fishing▼2106Transport▲477Administrative services58Manufacturing▼389Professional services▼11110Water and waste▲1911Other services▼2

The ten branches that employ most of Chaitén

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 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
05001 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval9.0% a year observed · 5.0% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0250 k500 k750 k1.0 Mprojection →788 k2029 · central2005201520242029
0250 k500 k750 k1.0 Mprojection →788 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.5% a year observed · 5.7% projected

What Chaitén is specialised in

2024 · SII

PuroChile does not compute this for Chaitén. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 826 formal workers here that division is a statement about a handful of people: one worker would move it further than a whole industry moves it in Santiago. The floor is 1,000 workers, and it is a floor rather than a caveat because a spectacular number nobody should read is worse than no number.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
786,994
hectares in holdings
66.5%
of them under a named use
0.3%
of the crop land is irrigated
288
holdings with land here
Woodland 66%Not farmed 34%Native woodland66%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings34%
Woodland 66%Not farmed 34%Native woodland66%Scrub, barren ground and buildings34%
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
ChaiténChile% of each territory's own population · 4,025 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
4,025
18,47018,480,432318th of 346
Average age
40.1 yrs
39.4 yrs38.1 yrs118th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
91.1
82.779.0164th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
0.5/km²
1.2/km²24.7/km²324th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
1,676
7,5866,596,527315th of 346
Dwellings
2,562
10,8837,642,716316th of 346
People per household
2.40
2.432.80322nd of 345
Women
48.2%
48.7%51.5%330th of 346
Men per 100 women
107.5
105.594.317th of 346
Under 15
17.0%
17.6%17.7%232nd of 346
65 and over
15.5%
14.6%14.0%192nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
48.1
47.546.5244th of 346
One-person households
28.5%
28.2%21.8%40th of 345
Households with children
27.7%
29.8%33.2%306th of 345
Indigenous peoples
28.3%
28.9%11.4%73rd of 346
Female-headed households
44.0%
46.5%49.9%282nd of 345
Land area
8,274 km²
15,044 km²748,041 km²22nd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Chaitén40%Arrived since 202060%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Chaitén40%Arrived since 202060%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
2.7%
3.7%8.7%174th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
110
6771,608,650275th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
35.0 yrs
34.7 yrs33.5 yrs97th of 345
Women among foreign-born
54.5%
52.9%51.7%50th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
79.1%
77.8%83.1%247th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
40.0%
32.2%34.4%146th 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.
3.2%
4.2%10.6%176th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.0 yrs
12.2 yrs12.9 yrs92nd of 345

Education

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How far schooling went

Chaitén21%Higher32%Secondary38%Primary only4.7%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Chaitén21%32%Secondary38%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.1 yrs
9.0 yrs10.4 yrs211th of 346
Reached higher education
21.0%
19.8%31.1%167th of 346
Continues to higher education · Of young secondary-school graduates, those enrolled in first-year undergraduate studies the following March. By the comuna of the school where they finished secondary school, which is the approximation to origin that Mineduc publishes.
53.2%
65.3%55.6%186th 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.
102.9%
105.1%99.8%111th of 346
Literacy rate
95.9%
95.9%97.8%210th of 346
Reached secondary education
32.3%
34.1%36.7%309th of 346
Primary education only
38.2%
37.3%24.1%66th of 346
Never attended school
4.72%
3.98%3.01%63rd 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.
10.3 yrs
10.2 yrs12.1 yrs213th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.6 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs207th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.04%
4.13%2.18%139th of 345
Secondary school leavers · Secondary education for children and young people, by the comuna of the school where they took it. Adults are counted apart.
47
213217,565292nd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
0.0%
23.0%33.9%301st of 331
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates.
100.0%
89.7%3.1%1st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
52.0%
64.0%67.2%269th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
24.0%
18.7%19.7%99th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
24.0%
17.3%13.1%79th 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.
16.0%
28.8%13.0%145th 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.
36.0%
48.9%49.7%324th 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.

47left secondary school in 2024
25enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
53.2%continued immediately
52%of those, to a university
16%of those, outside their region

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareServicesEducationBusiness and lawInformation technology
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareServicesEducationBusiness and lawInformation technology
ChaiténChile

The ten broad fields of ISCED-F 2013, as SIES classifies each programme, as a share of everyone who continued, here and in the country. The list of individual programmes is withheld here: fewer than 30 of this territory's leavers continued, and a ranking built on that few names people.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

0501001502006201520244725
0501001502006201520244725
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 Chaitén'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 Chaitén 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.

IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.5%
9.5%10.6%243rd of 346
Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents · Not age-adjusted. It mixes how much illness there is with how much hospital there is nearby.
35.3
44.382.5301st of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
56
58100277th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
424
1,7491,950,388319th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
57.8 yrs
57.4 yrs56.4 yrs185th of 346
Disability among 65+
47.4%
43.9%43.0%130th of 346
Difficulty walking
4.50%
3.93%4.92%268th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.42%
4.24%4.58%262nd of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.34%
2.14%2.16%216th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.14%
1.97%2.70%293rd of 346
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
142
8191,523,716308th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
5
2336,698306th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.52%
2.81%2.41%93rd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.4 days
8.6 days6.1 days83rd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
12.4
12.519.9282nd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
42
53100300th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
22
8589,723279th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
15.5%
10.4%5.9%3rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
54.7
46.048.653rd 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.
103
9010064th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Tumours, blood and metaboli… 21%Digestive and urinary tract 20%Injuries, bones a… 20%Heart and lungs 19%Pregnancy, … 7.7%Infection… 7.0%Cancers andtumours17%Endoc…andmetab…2.8%Bloodandimmun…1.4%Digestive system15%Genito…system5.6%Injuries andpoisoning18%MusculoskeletalCirculatorysystem15%Respiratory systemPregnancy andchildbirth7.7%Conta…withhealt…3.5%Ill-d…sympt…2.1%Infect…and…NervoussystemMentalandbehav…
Tumours, blood and m… 21%Digestive and urina… 20%Injuries, b… 20%Heart and … 19%Pregnancy… 7.7%Infection… 7.0%Mind, ner… 4.2%Cancers andtumours17%End…andmet…Blo…andimm…Digestivesystem15%Genit…system5.6%Injuries andpoisoning18%Circulatorysystem15%Respiratory…Pregnancy andchildbirth7.7%Conta…withhealt…Ill-de…Nervous…Ment…
Pregnancy, birth and newbornshover 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 digestivos73%Sitiosreservados27%
Órganos digestivos73%Sitios reservados27%
Órganos digestivosSitios reservadoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
22.0 UF
24.8 UF32.0 UF197th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
94.2%
101.2%78.9%209th 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.
141.6
125.285.625th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
53.5%
55.6%54.4%121st of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
4.1%
5.1%8.6%320th of 345
Self-employed
42.8%
47.8%33.8%57th of 345
Registered firms
570
2,3131,582,390282nd of 346
Annual sales
596,737 UF
2,627,692 UF34,347,683,688 UF315th 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.
826
2,8669,699,164306th of 346
Sales per firm
1,047 UF
1,136 UF21,706 UF333rd of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.0
0.93.9329th of 346
Women among employees
51.2%
50.8%40.6%33rd of 345
Independent contractors
510
2,3663,958,269304th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
38.2%
45.2%29.0%53rd of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 31%Trade and logistics 23%Natural resources 20%Industry and con… 16%Advan… 5.3%Other… 4.4%Publicadministration14%Education10.0%Health7.8%Retail andwholesale10%Accommoda…and food7.1%Transport6.0%Agriculture and fishing19%Construction8.5%Manufactur…5.2%WaterandwasteElect…andgasAdmin…servi…2.2%Prof…serv…Inform…Finan…Domest…work2.4%Artsandente…
State and social services 31%Trade and logis… 23%Natural resources 20%Industry an… 16%Publicadministration14%Education10.0%Health7.8%Retail andwholesale10%Accommod…and food7.1%Transpo…6.0%Agriculture andfishing19%Construction8.5%Manufactur…5.2%Waterand…Elec…and…Admini…Profes…Dome…workArtsandent…
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%Managers and professionals 25%Elementary occupations 15%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades15%Skilledagricultural10%Plant andmachineoperators7.0%Clericalsupport6.0%Professionals12%Technicians9.2%Manage…3.6%Elementary occupations15%
Skilled occupations 59%Managers and professionals 25%Elementary oc… 15%Service andsales21%Craft and trades15%Skilledagricultural10%Plant andmachineoperators7.0%Clericalsupport6.0%Professiona…12%Technicians9.2%ManagersElementaryoccupations15%
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

Chaitén98%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Chaitén98%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
3.3%
4.0%5.7%328th of 345
Internet access
89.0%
87.3%93.2%173rd 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.
60.1
32.82.312th 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.
10.4
7.11.625th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
1,664
7,5446,408,172315th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.24%
0.29%0.57%262nd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.68%
3.66%1.13%94th of 345
Public water network
59.1%
67.0%92.3%310th of 345
Electricity access
98.5%
98.1%99.6%282nd of 345
Detached houses
98.3%
96.4%78.7%161st of 345
Apartments
0.0%
0.0%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.20%0.23%243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
29.4%
25.2%11.9%63rd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
64
428491,904326th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.8%
5.6%7.5%301st of 345
Renting households
18.7%
17.5%26.2%118th of 345
Owner-occupiers
61.3%
69.9%61.1%274th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
94.2%
94.0%24.4%19th of 345
Commute by public transport
9.1%
11.8%42.1%326th of 345
Walks to work
28.5%
29.7%10.2%43rd of 345
Households with a computer
38.6%
40.1%54.9%243rd 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.
3.7
3.11.126th 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.
77.3%
79.8%97.0%307th 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.
96.5%
98.2%99.9%319th 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.
99.5%
99.8%100.0%316th 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.
0.0%
20.6%89.4%329th 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.
0.0%
23.6%98.1%330th 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.
0.0%
32.5%99.7%333rd 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.
75.8
80.15.923rd 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%
0.0%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.
0.0%
0.0%90.0%249th 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.
0.0%
7.5%96.2%306th 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.
3.1
2.20.624th 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.
78.9%
88.9%99.0%327th 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.
97.6%
99.2%99.9%315th 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.
53.7%
59.4%91.6%282nd 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.
77.9%
82.3%98.5%309th 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.
87.0%
96.9%99.8%322nd of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 46%On foot or by bicycle 32%Other means 13%Public tra… 9.1%Car46%Walking28%Bic…Boat8.8%Other3.9%Publictransport9.1%
Private vehicle 46%On foot or by b… 32%Other means 13%Public transpo… 9.1%Car46%Walking28%BicycleBoat8.8%Other3.9%Public transport9.1%
Private vehiclePublic transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 61%Rented 19%Provided r… 11%Other 8.9%Owned outright61%Rented, withcontract11%Rented, nocontract8.2%Provided byfamily6.9%Provided byemployer4.2%Otherarrangeme…8.9%
Owned 61%Rented 19%Provide… 11%Oth… 8.9%Owned outright61%Rented,withcontract11%Rented,nocontract8.2%Provided byfamily6.9%Provided byemployerOtherarrangem…8.9%
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 95%Firewood94%Ele…Par…Gas
Wood and biomass 95%Firewood94%
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
70.6%
of the registered voted in the first round
69.8%
voted in the runoff
4,792
registered voters on the roll
5.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman32.5%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist67.5%58.3%
ChaiténChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez13.8%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman24.0%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.7%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen25.2%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist26.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.3%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.1%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%
ChaiténChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile24.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile20.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido26.8%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente22.9%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.5%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%
ChaiténChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Chaitén 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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