Commune · 10203

ChonchiChonchi

Compare Chonchi with another place
Census population
16,078
198th of 346
Population density
11.8/km²
248th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.1 yrs
211th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.6%
234th 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 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Of those continuing, women327th of 331 · Chile 49.7%32.4%
Continues to higher education326th of 331 · Chile 55.6%34.1%
Contractors as share of workers333rd of 346 · Chile 29.0%14.4%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.0 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.0 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 · 186 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
69.9%
75th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
17.6%
181st of 335
Came from another region
11.8%
256th of 335
Net internal migration
-210
-1.3 per 100 residents
Chonchithis commune · 16,380elsewhere in the region2,866 peopleanother region1,923 peopleabroad112 peopleelsewhere in the region2,738 peopleanother region2,261 peopleChonchithis commune · 16,282
Chonchithis commune · 16,380elsewhere in th…2,866 peopleanother region1,923 peopleabroad112 peopleelsewhere in th…2,738 peopleanother region2,261 peopleChonchithis commune · 16,282

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing▲16Education2Education▲44Manufacturing3Manufacturing▲17Retail and wholesale4Retail and wholesale▲38Transport5Transport▲310Construction6Construction▲49Public administration7Public administration▲211Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▲35Administrative services9Administrative services▼413Professional services10Professional services▲314Water and waste11Water and waste▲315Arts and entertainment12Arts and entertainment▲31Other services13Other services▼123Finance and insurance15Finance and insurance▼1212Information and communications16Information and communications▼4
2005202421Agriculture and fishing▲162Education▲443Manufacturing▲174Retail and wholesale▲385Transport▲3106Construction▲497Public administration▲2118Accommodation and food▲359Administrative services▼41310Professional services▲31411Water and waste▲31512Arts and entertainment▲3113Other services▼12315Finance and insurance▼121216Information and communications▼4

The ten branches that employ most of Chonchi

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.

4 k6 k8 k10 kprojection →8 k2029 · central2005201520242029
4 k6 k8 k10 kprojection →8 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval-0.5% a year observed · -1.6% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

010 M20 M30 Mprojection →23 M2029 · central2005201520242029
010 M20 M30 Mprojection →23 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.1% a year observed · -0.1% projected

What Chonchi is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Chonchi employs more people in 36 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.

36
activities it is specialised in
8,144
formal workers
123/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Servicios relacionados con la acu…Elaboración y conservación de cru…Fabricación de productos de plást…Venta al por menor de artículos d…Cría de ganado bovino para la pro…Transmisiones de radioCultivo de papasActividades de la administración …Cultivo de trigoHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Servicios relacionados con la acu…Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Fabricación de productos de plást…Cría de ganado bovino para la pro…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Chonchi

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
Elaboración y conservación de crustáceos, moluscos y otros productos acuáticos, en plantas en tierraElaboración y conservación de pescado, crustáceos y moluscos629378.2×
Cultivo y crianza de peces marinosAcuicultura3,653162.0×
Reproducción y cría de moluscos, crustáceos y gusanos marinosAcuicultura8454.1×
Servicios relacionados con la acuicultura marinaAcuicultura94132.7×
Servicios relacionados con la pesca marítimaPesca1621.7×
Transporte de carga marítimo y de cabotajeTransporte marítimo y de cabotaje12712.0×
Destilación, rectificación y mezclas de bebidas alcohólicas; excepto piscoElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas46.6×
Acabado de productos textilesHilatura, tejedura y acabado de productos textiles56.2×
Reparación de buques, embarcaciones menores y estructuras flotantesReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo146.0×
Forja, prensado, estampado y laminado de metales; pulvimetalurgiaFabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal; actividades de servicios de trabajo de metales74.6×
Reparación de otros tipos de equipoReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo34.5×
Transporte de pasajeros marítimo y de cabotajeTransporte marítimo y de cabotaje64.1×

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
86,873
hectares in holdings
98.0%
of them under a named use
0.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
945
holdings with land here
Woodland 87%Pasture 9.7%Native woodland87%Pasture9.7%Scrub,barrenground…2.0%
Woodland 87%Native woodland87%PastureScrub,barren…
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
ChonchiChile% of each territory's own population · 16,078 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
16,078
176,86518,480,432198th of 346
Average age
39.1 yrs
38.8 yrs38.1 yrs179th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
80.1
80.579.0225th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
11.8/km²
19.1/km²24.7/km²248th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
6,355
68,0036,596,527194th of 346
Dwellings
8,288
85,9947,642,716184th of 346
People per household
2.53
2.602.80299th of 345
Women
50.9%
50.8%51.5%177th of 346
Men per 100 women
96.5
97.094.3170th of 346
Under 15
16.9%
17.2%17.7%239th of 346
65 and over
13.5%
13.9%14.0%265th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
43.8
45.146.5313th of 346
One-person households
24.7%
23.6%21.8%93rd of 345
Households with children
30.9%
32.0%33.2%238th of 345
Indigenous peoples
36.7%
33.2%11.4%44th of 346
Female-headed households
47.9%
49.8%49.9%178th of 345
Land area
1,366 km²
9,240 km²748,041 km²104th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Chonchi18%Arrived since 202082%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Chonchi18%82%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
1.6%
3.3%8.7%234th 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.
69.9%
65.2%50.5%75th 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.
17.6%
17.7%23.9%181st of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
11.8%
14.2%17.2%256th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
260
5,7541,608,650209th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
38.1 yrs
34.0 yrs33.5 yrs40th of 345
Women among foreign-born
50.4%
51.4%51.7%196th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
84.6%
83.0%83.1%39th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
17.7%
38.1%34.4%331st 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.
2.0%
3.9%10.6%234th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.1 yrs
12.7 yrs12.9 yrs74th 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.
-210
-5,1190159th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-1.3
-2.80.0158th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Chonchi19%Higher34%Secondary39%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Chonchi19%34%Secondary39%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
9.3 yrs10.4 yrs211th of 346
Reached higher education
19.0%
19.6%31.1%219th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.1%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.
34.1%
47.8%55.6%326th 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.
100.0%
100.9%99.8%231st of 346
Literacy rate
96.5%
96.7%97.8%170th of 346
Reached secondary education
34.4%
36.8%36.7%269th of 346
Primary education only
39.2%
35.9%24.1%55th of 346
Never attended school
3.19%
3.09%3.01%224th 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.
10.4 yrs
10.6 yrs12.1 yrs197th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.4 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs237th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.51%
3.32%2.18%174th of 345
Households lacking schooling
23.5%
27.6%15.1%166th 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.
208
2,361217,565170th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
88.5%
48.5%33.9%19th 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%
2.5%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
52.1%
70.5%67.2%268th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
14.1%
14.5%19.7%231st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
33.8%
15.0%13.1%30th 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.
19.7%
41.2%13.0%130th 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.
32.4%
52.6%49.7%327th 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.

208left secondary school in 2024
71enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
34.1%continued immediately
52%of those, to a university
20%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%Mecanica de Equipo PesadoPsicologiaElectricidad y Eficiencia EnergeticaIngeniero en Marina MercanteTecnico de Nivel Superior en EnfermeriaTecnico Universitario en Administracion de EmpresasIngenieria Civil IndustrialMaquinaria PesadaTecnico en Electricidad y ElectronicaTecnico Universitario en Informatica
0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%Mecanica de Equipo PesadoPsicologiaElectricidad y Eficiencia EnergeticaIngeniero en Marina MercanteTecnico de Nivel Superior en EnfermeriaTecnico Universitario en Administracion de EmpresasIngenieria Civil IndustrialMaquinaria PesadaTecnico en Electricidad y ElectronicaTecnico Universitario en Informatica
ChonchiChile

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 lawHealth and welfareServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesEducation
0.0%20.0%40.0%60.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesEducation
ChonchiChile

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

010020030040020062015202420871
010020030040020062015202420871
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 Chonchi'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 Chonchi 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

Chonchi93%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Chonchi93%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.1%
11.5%10.6%217th of 346
Public health insurance
92.6%
90.4%82.6%174th 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.
52.7
76.482.5254th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
78
96100216th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,781
20,3731,950,388220th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
58.0 yrs
57.5 yrs56.4 yrs169th of 346
Disability among 65+
44.0%
43.5%43.0%222nd of 346
Difficulty walking
5.39%
5.28%4.92%211th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.04%
5.51%4.58%205th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.53%
2.42%2.16%176th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.17%
2.49%2.70%290th of 346
Private health insurance
3.4%
3.4%13.2%159th of 335
No health coverage
3.09%
4.18%1.98%75th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
94.8%
95.7%92.1%137th of 332
Households lacking health access
12.8%
7.1%6.0%19th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
848
13,5041,523,716217th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
25
34736,698219th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.95%
2.57%2.41%151st of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.3 days
5.8 days6.1 days193rd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
15.5
19.619.9232nd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
64
92100249th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
52
84489,723214th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.1%
6.3%5.9%126th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
32.3
47.748.6233rd 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.
65
96100223rd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 24%Injuries, bones and skin 17%Heart and lungs 17%Pregnancy, birth… 16%Tumours, blood … 12%Mind, nerves and … 7.3%Infections and ot… 6.5%Digestive system18%Genito…system5.7%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculosk…4.7%Skin2.4%Circulatory system9.9%Respiratory system7.2%Pregnancy andchildbirth15%Cancers andtumours8.8%Endocrine andmetabolicBloodand…Mental andbehavioural4.7%Nervoussystem2.4%Infectio…andparasiticContactwithhealth…1.9%Ill-d…sympt…1.8%
Digestive and urinary tr… 24%Injuries, bones… 17%Heart and lungs 17%Pregnancy, birth and ne… 16%Tumours, blood a… 12%Min… 7.3%Digestive system18%Genito…system5.7%Injuriesandpoisoning10%Muscul…4.7%Skin2.4%Circulatorysystem9.9%Respirat…system7.2%Pregnancy and childbirth15%Cancers andtumours8.8%Endoc…andmetab…Blood…Mental andbehaviour…4.7%Nervous…Infectiousand…Con…withhea…Ill…sym…
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 digestivos44%Sitios reservados44%Genitales masculinos12%
Órganos digestivos44%Sitios reservados44%Genitales masculinos
Órganos digestivosSitios reservadosGenitales masculinoshover 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.
15.6%
19.4%17.3%261st of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
18.0 UF
20.6 UF32.0 UF324th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
80.1%
98.2%78.9%305th 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.
77.3
87.985.6170th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
55.3%
54.2%54.4%86th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
5.8%
7.7%8.6%289th of 345
Self-employed
35.7%
37.6%33.8%156th of 345
Extreme poverty
5.4%
7.7%6.9%243rd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
22.6%
17.8%17.7%91st of 335
Unemployment rate
15.3%
10.0%8.8%26th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 577,009
CLP 543,039CLP 783,124130th 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.
0.458
0.4550.488101st of 321
Registered firms
1,243
15,5461,582,390208th of 346
Annual sales
22,657,524 UF
95,172,956 UF34,347,683,688 UF93rd 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.
8,144
59,3239,699,164135th of 346
Sales per firm
18,228 UF
6,122 UF21,706 UF26th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
4.5
2.63.926th of 346
Women among employees
37.4%
44.0%40.6%235th of 345
Independent contractors
1,366
19,5483,958,269197th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
14.4%
24.8%29.0%333rd of 346

Employment by industry

Industry and construction 28%Trade and logistics 22%Natural resources 21%State and social serv… 20%Adva… 5.1%Othe… 4.2%Manufacturing18%Constructi…8.2%Electr…and gasWaterand…Retail andwholesale12%Transport5.9%Accommodationand foodAgriculture and fishing20%Education8.6%Health6.2%Publicadminist…5.1%Administr…servicesProfe…servi…1.6%Inf…Fin…DomesticworkOtherservi…Artsand…
Industry and constructi… 28%Trade and logist… 22%Natural resourc… 21%State and soci… 20%Manufacturing18%Constru…8.2%Elec…Wat…Retail andwholesale12%Transport5.9%Accomm…andfood4.1%Agriculture andfishing20%Education8.6%Health6.2%Publicadmini…5.1%Adminis…Prof…serv…Domestic…Oth…
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 58%Managers and professionals 24%Elementary occupations 18%Craft and trades19%Service andsales17%Plant andmachineoperators9.1%Skilledagricultural8.4%Clericalsupport4.8%Professiona…12%Technicians8.7%Managers3.0%Elementary occupations18%
Skilled occupations 58%Managers and profession… 24%Elementary occup… 18%Craft andtrades19%Service andsales17%Plant andmachineoperatorsSkilledagricultu…8.4%Cleri…suppo…4.8%Profession…12%Technicians8.7%ManagersElementaryoccupations18%
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

Chonchi99%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Chonchi99%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.8%
4.4%5.7%227th of 345
Internet access
87.3%
87.3%93.2%206th 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.
7.1
4.72.367th 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.
6.9
4.41.657th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
6,308
67,5066,408,172191st of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.29%
0.20%0.57%226th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.57%
1.49%1.13%105th of 345
Public water network
70.5%
73.0%92.3%270th of 345
Electricity access
98.7%
99.3%99.6%270th of 345
Detached houses
98.7%
98.4%78.7%133rd of 345
Apartments
0.1%
0.4%19.9%192nd of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.40%
0.30%0.23%76th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
19.4%
16.2%11.9%124th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
235
2,776491,904237th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.7%
4.1%7.5%306th of 345
Renting households
17.1%
20.1%26.2%142nd of 345
Owner-occupiers
71.9%
70.3%61.1%93rd of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
87.2%
82.3%24.4%78th of 345
Commute by public transport
23.3%
28.4%42.1%203rd of 345
Walks to work
20.7%
19.1%10.2%100th of 345
Households with a computer
37.4%
40.0%54.9%254th 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.
2.0
1.61.1133rd 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.
91.7%
94.1%97.0%211th 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.
99.9%
99.9%99.9%250th 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.
47.0%
68.6%89.4%282nd 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.
86.7%
92.0%98.1%282nd 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.
99.8%
99.5%99.7%260th 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.
18.6
11.25.9128th 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%
49.0%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.
19.3%
66.6%90.0%217th 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.
88.3%
90.2%96.2%236th 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.
1.5
1.10.697th 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.
93.7%
96.7%99.0%281st 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.
99.9%
100.0%99.9%271st 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.
49.2%
70.4%91.6%293rd 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.
86.7%
91.7%98.5%289th 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.
99.9%
99.9%99.8%252nd of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 45%Public transport 23%On foot or by bicycle 21%Other m… 10%Car45%Public transport23%Walking21%Other10.0%
Private vehicle 45%Public tran… 23%On foot or by bicycle 21%Other means 10%Car45%Publictransport23%Walking21%Other10.0%
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 72%Rented 17%Provided rent-… 8.8%Owned outright69%Rented, nocontract11%Rented, withcontract6.3%Provided byfamily7.4%
Owned 72%Rented 17%Provided… 8.8%Owned outright69%Rented, nocontract11%Rented,withcontract6.3%Provided byfamily7.4%
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 92%Firewood87%Pell…Paraff…2.4%Gas2.0%Electr…2.8%Noheating
Wood and biomass 92%Firewood87%Gas
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
84.4%
of the registered voted in the first round
84.3%
voted in the runoff
14,251
registered voters on the roll
7.9%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman39.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist60.8%58.3%
ChonchiChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez29.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman24.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen10.2%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist24.7%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.6%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%
ChonchiChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile15.8%30.6%
KCambio por Chile9.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido22.9%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente42.8%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas9.3%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%
ChonchiChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Chonchi 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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