Commune · 11202

CisnesCisnes

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Census population
5,137
303rd of 346
Population density
0.3/km²
329th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.5 yrs
136th of 346
Foreign-born share
2.5%
184th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Sought care when ill1st of 332 · Chile 92.1%100.0%
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Average monthly pay336th of 342 · Chile 32.0 UF16.2 UF
Of those continuing, studies outside their region7th of 331 · Chile 13.0%86.8%
In-hospital case fatality325th of 331 · Chile 2.41%0.52%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF16.2 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF16.2 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 · 220 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
44.0%
269th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
9.9%
285th of 335
Came from another region
44.8%
11th of 335
Net internal migration
+2,276
+39.0 per 100 residents
Cisnesthis commune · 3,476another region2,610 peopleelsewhere in the region575 peopleabroad80 peopleanother region586 peopleelsewhere in the region323 peopleCisnesthis commune · 5,832
Cisnesthis commune · 3,476another region2,610 peopleelsewhere in th…575 peopleabroad80 peopleanother region586 peopleelsewhere in th…323 peopleCisnesthis commune · 5,832

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Accommodation and food2Accommodation and food6Transport3Transport▲33Retail and wholesale4Retail and wholesale▼17Manufacturing5Manufacturing▲25Public administration6Public administration▼110Professional services7Professional services▲34Construction8Construction▼411Electricity and gas9Electricity and gas▲29Administrative services10Administrative services▼18Other services11Other services▼3
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Accommodation and food63Transport▲334Retail and wholesale▼175Manufacturing▲256Public administration▼1107Professional services▲348Construction▼4119Electricity and gas▲2910Administrative services▼1811Other services▼3

The ten branches that employ most of Cisnes

Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.

Dependent workers, projected

Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.

05001 k2 k2 kprojection →2 k2029 · central2005201520242029
05001 k2 k2 kprojection →2 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.8% a year observed · 3.8% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0500 k1.0 M1.5 M2.0 Mprojection →1.6 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0500 k1.0 M1.5 M2.0 Mprojection →1.6 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval8.1% a year observed · 1.8% projected

What Cisnes is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Cisnes employs more people in 46 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.

46
activities it is specialised in
1,442
formal workers
114/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Servicios relacionados con la acu…Fabricación de gas; distribución …Transporte de pasajeros marítimo …Cría de ganado bovino para la pro…Otras actividades de alojamiento …Corretaje al por mayor de ganadoVenta al por mayor de desperdicio…Destilación, rectificación y mezc…Pesca marítima industrial, except…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Servicios relacionados con la acu…Cría de ganado bovino para la pro…Otras actividades de alojamiento …Venta al por mayor de desperdicio…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Cisnes

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
Transporte de pasajeros por vías de navegación interioresTransporte por vías de navegación interiores46364.1×
Reparación de buques, embarcaciones menores y estructuras flotantesReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo43104.5×
Pesca marítima artesanalPesca3298.1×
Servicios relacionados con la acuicultura marinaAcuicultura48294.5×
Transporte de pasajeros marítimo y de cabotajeTransporte marítimo y de cabotaje1870.2×
Venta al por mayor de desperdicios, desechos y otros productos n.c.p.Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada866.2×
Destilación, rectificación y mezclas de bebidas alcohólicas; excepto piscoElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas655.7×
Reparación de equipo eléctrico (excepto reparación de equipo y enseres domésticos)Reparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo6055.0×
Corretaje al por mayor de ganadoVenta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata1050.8×
Fabricación de gas; distribución de combustibles gaseosos por tubería, excepto regasificación de GNLFabricación de gas; distribución de combustibles gaseosos por tuberías1827.0×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadoresOtras actividades de alojamiento715.9×
Otras actividades de alojamiento n.c.p.Otras actividades de alojamiento1312.7×

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.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

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
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
CisnesChile% of each territory's own population · 5,137 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
5,137
29,90518,480,432303rd of 346
Average age
37.8 yrs
37.1 yrs38.1 yrs261st of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
64.1
61.779.0297th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
0.3/km²
0.7/km²24.7/km²329th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
2,180
11,8436,596,527298th of 346
Dwellings
3,437
15,3077,642,716291st of 346
People per household
2.36
2.532.80326th of 345
Women
49.4%
49.9%51.5%308th of 346
Men per 100 women
102.3
100.394.339th of 346
Under 15
18.5%
19.0%17.7%119th of 346
65 and over
11.8%
11.8%14.0%307th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
43.5
44.546.5318th of 346
One-person households
30.2%
26.6%21.8%34th of 345
Households with children
30.6%
33.0%33.2%247th of 345
Indigenous peoples
34.9%
36.0%11.4%49th of 346
Female-headed households
51.1%
52.8%49.9%77th of 345
Land area
14,836 km²
44,705 km²748,041 km²12th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Cisnes19%Arrived since 202081%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Cisnes19%81%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
2.5%
3.1%8.7%184th 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.
44.0%
58.6%50.5%269th 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.
9.9%
10.1%23.9%285th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
44.8%
28.0%17.2%11th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
129
9211,608,650269th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
38.1 yrs
34.7 yrs33.5 yrs40th of 345
Women among foreign-born
47.3%
49.1%51.7%298th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
79.8%
84.4%83.1%229th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
18.6%
32.0%34.4%325th 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.
2.9%
3.8%10.6%190th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.3 yrs
12.3 yrs12.9 yrs180th 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.
2,276
6,090096th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
39.0
18.70.025th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Cisnes23%Higher35%Secondary34%Primary only5.3%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Cisnes23%35%Secondary34%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.5 yrs
9.6 yrs10.4 yrs136th of 346
Reached higher education
22.8%
23.5%31.1%140th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.6%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.
69.1%
61.0%55.6%14th 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.
104.7%
103.2%99.8%55th of 346
Literacy rate
96.9%
96.9%97.8%145th of 346
Reached secondary education
35.0%
36.2%36.7%257th of 346
Primary education only
34.1%
31.8%24.1%134th of 346
Never attended school
2.87%
2.94%3.01%270th 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.
10.7 yrs
11.0 yrs12.1 yrs172nd of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.2 yrs
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs139th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.10%
3.04%2.18%198th of 345
Households lacking schooling
27.7%
25.7%15.1%113th 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.
55
385217,565285th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
14.5%
21.0%33.9%280th 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.
27.3%
7.5%3.1%40th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
84.2%
69.4%67.2%14th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
5.3%
12.3%19.7%316th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
10.5%
18.3%13.1%230th 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.
86.8%
68.5%13.0%7th 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.
55.3%
46.4%49.7%86th 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.

55left secondary school in 2024
38enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
69.1%continued immediately
84%of those, to a university
87%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%Ingenieria ComercialEnfermeria
0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%Ingenieria ComercialEnfermeria
CisnesChile

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%Health and welfareBusiness and lawEngineering and industryEducationSocial sciencesNatural sciencesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryServices
0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareBusiness and lawEngineering and industryEducationSocial sciencesNatural sciencesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryServices
CisnesChile

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

0204060802006201520245538
0204060802006201520245538
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 Cisnes'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 Cisnes 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

Cisnes97%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Cisnes97%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
8.6%
10.1%10.6%309th of 346
Public health insurance
97.3%
93.9%82.6%31st 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.
75.3
104.482.5131st of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
22
80100321st of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
442
3,0111,950,388318th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
54.7 yrs
54.0 yrs56.4 yrs294th of 346
Disability among 65+
41.2%
38.7%43.0%284th of 346
Difficulty walking
3.39%
4.04%4.92%316th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.40%
5.20%4.58%263rd of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.10%
2.13%2.16%263rd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
1.89%
1.96%2.70%319th of 346
Private health insurance
0.0%
2.6%13.2%311th of 335
No health coverage
0.00%
1.32%1.98%279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
100.0%
97.3%92.1%1st of 332
Households lacking health access
1.0%
5.2%6.0%306th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
387
3,1211,523,716274th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
2
4236,698316th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
0.52%
1.35%2.41%325th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.4 days
5.5 days6.1 days189th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
3.9
14.019.9321st of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
93
130100114th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
29
11689,723264th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
7.5%
3.7%5.9%56th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
56.5
38.848.642nd 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.
120
8410030th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 21%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, bones and… 18%Tumours, blood … 16%Mind, nerves… 11%Pregnancy, … 10%Digestivesystem14%Genitour…system7.0%Circulatorysystem9.8%Respiratorysystem9.0%Injuries andpoisoning13%Musculoskeletal4.9%Cancers andtumours8.8%Endocrine andmetabolic5.7%Mental andbehavioural7.2%NervoussystemEar1.3%Pregnancyandchildbirth9.0%Ill-def…symptoms2.6%Contactwith…Infectio…and…
Digestive and urinary… 21%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, bones and skin 18%Tumours, blood and meta… 16%Mind, nerves and … 11%Pregnan… 10%Digestivesystem14%Genito…system7.0%Circulato…system9.8%Respirat…system9.0%Injuries andpoisoning13%Muscul…4.9%Cancers andtumours8.8%Endocrineandmetabolic5.7%Mental andbehavioural7.2%NervoussystemEarPregnancyandchildbirth9.0%Ill-d…sympt…Contactwith…Infect…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

By tumour site

Sitios reservados66%Órganos digestivos34%
Sitios reservados66%Órganos digestivos34%
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivoshover 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.
20.6%
15.1%17.3%164th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
16.2 UF
14.7 UF32.0 UF336th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
86.0%
90.4%78.9%281st 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.
178.9
125.285.613th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
65.6%
61.0%54.4%21st of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
3.6%
5.4%8.6%324th of 345
Self-employed
42.7%
36.5%33.8%58th of 345
Extreme poverty
6.7%
4.6%6.9%204th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
12.2%
13.3%17.7%266th of 335
Unemployment rate
12.0%
7.6%8.8%74th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 628,940
CLP 652,616CLP 783,12498th 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.
0.461
0.4400.48893rd of 321
Registered firms
919
3,7451,582,390243rd of 346
Annual sales
1,507,467 UF
9,043,815 UF34,347,683,688 UF273rd of 342
Employees reported · People reported at some point in the tax year, not average employment: the national total exceeds the employed because someone who worked two months counts the same as someone who worked twelve.
1,442
8,2749,699,164277th of 346
Sales per firm
1,640 UF
2,415 UF21,706 UF297th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
0.9
1.33.9332nd of 346
Women among employees
26.4%
31.0%40.6%333rd of 345
Independent contractors
1,212
5,2543,958,269208th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
45.7%
38.8%29.0%27th of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 28%Trade and logistics 26%Natural resources 19%Industry and con… 17%Advan… 5.2%Other… 4.8%Publicadministrat…11%Education11%Health6.5%Retail andwholesale11%Accommodation andfood8.9%Transport6.5%Agriculture and fishing18%Construction8.0%Manufacturi…6.8%Elec…andgasWaterandwasteProfe…servi…2.1%Admin…servi…2.0%Domes…work2.1%Artsandente…
State and social ser… 28%Trade and logistics 26%Natural resour… 19%Industry and … 17%Adv… 5.2%Oth… 4.8%Publicadministr…11%Education11%HealthRetail andwholesale11%Accommo…and food8.9%TransportAgriculture andfishing18%Construction8.0%Manufactur…6.8%Ele…andgasWat…Profess…Adminis…Dom…workArtsand…Other…
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 27%Elementary occupations 14%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades15%Skilledagricultural9.8%Plant andmachineoperators7.0%Clericalsupport6.4%Technicians12%Profession…12%Elementary occupations14%
Skilled occupations 59%Managers and professionals 27%Elementary … 14%Service andsales20%Craft and trades15%Skilledagricultural9.8%Plant andmachineoperators7.0%Clericalsupport6.4%Technicians12%Professionals12%Elementaryoccupations14%
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

Cisnes97%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Cisnes97%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.4%
4.5%5.7%279th of 345
Internet access
90.0%
90.0%93.2%155th 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.
30.3
16.42.317th 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.
10.1
3.41.627th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
2,171
11,7686,408,172298th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.41%
0.24%0.57%94th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
2.76%
1.19%1.13%53rd of 345
Public water network
84.8%
90.6%92.3%169th of 345
Electricity access
98.8%
99.4%99.6%265th of 345
Detached houses
97.3%
98.8%78.7%202nd of 345
Apartments
0.0%
0.2%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.60%
0.27%0.23%31st of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
26.2%
15.2%11.9%78th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
109
453491,904304th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
5.0%
3.8%7.5%200th of 345
Renting households
23.3%
24.2%26.2%68th of 345
Owner-occupiers
62.8%
63.6%61.1%261st of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
88.4%
79.1%24.4%66th of 345
Commute by public transport
5.2%
15.3%42.1%331st of 345
Walks to work
39.3%
24.1%10.2%17th of 345
Households with a computer
45.0%
47.6%54.9%141st 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.
3.2
2.01.140th 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.
82.6%
91.0%97.0%279th 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.
90.0%
96.4%99.9%332nd 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.
99.0%
99.8%100.0%321st 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.
49.0%
67.7%89.4%277th 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.
49.0%
75.2%98.1%326th 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.
51.4%
77.3%99.7%329th 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.
100.4
27.35.913th 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%
63.3%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%
67.0%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%
68.8%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.
3.3
1.60.621st 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.
81.2%
91.6%99.0%323rd 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.
88.6%
97.2%99.9%336th 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%
99.9%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.
71.9%
85.9%91.6%204th 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.
76.8%
94.4%98.5%312th 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.
80.7%
96.6%99.8%327th of 345

How people commute

On foot or by bicycle 43%Private vehicle 41%Other means 11%Public… 5.2%Walking39%BicycleCar41%Boat7.5%Other3.4%Publictransport5.2%
On foot or by bicycle 43%Private vehicle 41%Other means 11%Public t… 5.2%Walking39%Car41%BoatOtherPublic transport
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 63%Rented 23%Provided rent-fr… 11%Owned outright59%Rented, no contract13%Rented, with contract9.9%Providedby family6.0%Providedbyemployer4.8%Otherarra…
Owned 63%Rented 23%Provided ren… 11%Owned outright59%Rented, nocontract13%Rented,withcontract9.9%Providedby family6.0%Provi…byemplo…4.8%
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 96%Firewood88%Pellets7.3%GasPar…Ele…
Wood and biomass 96%Firewood88%
ElectricityOther sourceNo heatinghover 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
77.2%
of the registered voted in the first round
77.1%
voted in the runoff
4,838
registered voters on the roll
6.3%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman34.6%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist65.4%58.3%
CisnesChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez15.3%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman24.3%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen25.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist25.0%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.2%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.7%1.3%
CisnesChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile21.1%30.6%
KCambio por Chile16.6%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido35.1%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente4.7%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas22.5%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%
CisnesChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile28.8%
KCambio por Chile34.7%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas36.6%
Cisnesshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Cisnes 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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