Commune · 10103

CochamóCochamó

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Census population
4,199
316th of 346
Population density
1.1/km²
311th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.8 yrs
264th of 346
Foreign-born share
2.6%
176th 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 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%
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer2nd of 330 · Chile 5.9%16.9%
Overcrowded dwellings337th of 345 · Chile 5.7%2.8%
In-hospital case fatality9th of 331 · Chile 2.41%5.93%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

020406020052015202432.0 UF28.0 UF
020406020052015202432.0 UF28.0 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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Cochamóthis commune · 2,731elsewhere in the region2,138 peopleanother region593 people
Cochamóthis commune · 2,731elsewhere in th…2,138 peopleanother region593 people

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Public administration1Public administration3Accommodation and food2Accommodation and food▲12Agriculture and fishing3Agriculture and fishing▼16Retail and wholesale4Retail and wholesale▲28Water and waste5Water and waste▲35Transport6Transport▼17Construction7Construction4Electricity and gas8Electricity and gas▼4
2005202411Public administration32Accommodation and food▲123Agriculture and fishing▼164Retail and wholesale▲285Water and waste▲356Transport▼177Construction48Electricity and gas▼4

The ten branches that employ most of Cochamó

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.

0200400600800projection →6082029 · central2005201520242029
0200400600800projection →6082029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval8.2% a year observed · -0.1% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

02.0 M4.0 M6.0 M8.0 Mprojection →02029 · central2005201520242029
02.0 M4.0 M6.0 M8.0 Mprojection →02029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval-7.2% a year observed

What Cochamó is specialised in

2024 · SII

PuroChile does not compute this for Cochamó. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 611 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
72,651
hectares in holdings
93.2%
of them under a named use
5.9%
of the crop land is irrigated
358
holdings with land here
Woodland 88%Not fa… 6.9%Pasture 5.0%Native woodland87%Scrub,barrenground and…6.8%Pasture5.0%
Woodland 88%Native woodland87%Scrub, barren ground and…Pasture
Pasturehover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MenWomen001122334455%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
MenWomen00224466%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
CochamóChile% of each territory's own population · 4,199 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
4,199
455,84218,480,432316th of 346
Average age
43.3 yrs
37.2 yrs38.1 yrs19th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
141.1
65.779.019th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
1.1/km²
30.9/km²24.7/km²311th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
1,887
166,4036,596,527308th of 346
Dwellings
3,063
200,0927,642,716305th of 346
People per household
2.23
2.742.80333rd of 345
Women
47.3%
50.6%51.5%333rd of 346
Men per 100 women
111.4
97.694.314th of 346
Under 15
14.0%
18.4%17.7%331st of 346
65 and over
19.7%
12.1%14.0%34th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
50.8
43.846.5174th of 346
One-person households
33.8%
21.8%21.8%18th of 345
Households with children
22.5%
34.3%33.2%334th of 345
Indigenous peoples
18.2%
21.2%11.4%112th of 346
Female-headed households
42.0%
49.0%49.9%308th of 345
Land area
3,929 km²
14,768 km²748,041 km²47th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Cochamó36%Arrived since 202064%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Cochamó36%Arrived since 202064%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
2.6%
5.3%8.7%176th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
111
24,2451,608,650274th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
40.1 yrs
32.4 yrs33.5 yrs19th of 345
Women among foreign-born
49.5%
49.8%51.7%232nd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
80.2%
81.4%83.1%213th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
36.0%
42.6%34.4%191st 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%
6.2%10.6%177th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.5 yrs
13.2 yrs12.9 yrs153rd of 345

Education

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How far schooling went

Cochamó17%Higher34%Secondary41%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Cochamó17%34%Secondary41%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.8 yrs
10.0 yrs10.4 yrs264th of 346
Reached higher education
17.1%
27.6%31.1%260th 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.
57.6%
56.9%55.6%121st 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.
105.2%
100.4%99.8%39th of 346
Literacy rate
95.9%
97.3%97.8%208th of 346
Reached secondary education
34.1%
35.3%36.7%277th of 346
Primary education only
41.0%
28.6%24.1%36th of 346
Never attended school
4.32%
3.05%3.01%93rd of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
9.6 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs294th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.1 yrs
11.7 yrs12.1 yrs279th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.07%
2.70%2.18%137th 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.
33
5,483217,565309th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
9.1%
36.7%33.9%293rd 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%
6.4%3.1%1st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
73.7%
65.9%67.2%61st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
10.5%
22.4%19.7%272nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
15.8%
11.7%13.1%165th of 331
Of those continuing, studies outside their region · Compares the region of the school they graduated from with the region of the campus where they enrol. A campus is not necessarily where the student lives.
5.3%
19.6%13.0%233rd 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.
57.9%
51.1%49.7%48th 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.

33left secondary school in 2024
19enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
57.6%continued immediately
74%of those, to a university
5%of those, outside their region

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareBusiness and lawEngineering and industryAgriculture and veterinaryEducationSocial sciencesInformation technology
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareBusiness and lawEngineering and industryAgriculture and veterinaryEducationSocial sciencesInformation technology
CochamóChile

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

0102030402006201520243319
0102030402006201520243319
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 Cochamó'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 Cochamó 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
11.1%
9.6%10.6%221st 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.
28.1
83.382.5311th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
62
98100267th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
464
43,7091,950,388315th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
61.1 yrs
55.0 yrs56.4 yrs58th of 346
Disability among 65+
49.6%
40.2%43.0%89th of 346
Difficulty walking
4.62%
4.12%4.92%257th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.93%
4.41%4.58%116th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.43%
2.04%2.16%194th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.69%
2.28%2.70%202nd of 346
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
118
37,9711,523,716312th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
7
80036,698295th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
5.93%
2.11%2.41%9th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
9.7 days
6.5 days6.1 days17th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
16.7
17.519.9212th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
31
103100312th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
20
2,80389,723284th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
16.9%
7.4%5.9%2nd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
47.6
61.548.695th 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.
79
133100158th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 28%Injuries, bones and skin 20%Tumours, blood and metabolism 19%Digestive and urinary… 14%Infections and other… 7.6%Pregn… 6.8%Mind,… 4.2%Circulatorysystem17%Respiratorysystem11%Injuries and poisoning17%Muscu…3.4%Cancers and tumours18%Digestivesystem9.3%Genit…system4.2%Infectiousand parasitic4.2%Ill-de…sympto…2.5%Pregnancyandchildbirth6.8%Nervoussystem3.4%
Heart and lungs 28%Injuries, bones… 20%Tumours, bloo… 19%Digest… 14%Infections … 7.6%Pre… 6.8%Circulatorysystem17%Respirat…system11%Injuries andpoisoning17%Cancers andtumours18%Digestivesystem9.3%Genitourina…systemInfecti…andparasit…Ill-de…sympto…Pregnancyandchildbir…6.8%Nervo…system3.4%Mental…
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 digestivos60%Sitios reservados40%
Órganos digestivos60%Sitios reservados40%
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.
28.0 UF
26.3 UF32.0 UF58th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
91.8%
84.8%78.9%233rd 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.
113.1
96.885.646th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
41.1%
56.5%54.4%318th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
2.9%
7.6%8.6%330th of 345
Self-employed
44.3%
36.6%33.8%39th of 345
Registered firms
475
44,1101,582,390299th of 346
Annual sales
604,953 UF
741,811,673 UF34,347,683,688 UF314th 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.
611
215,2089,699,164319th of 346
Sales per firm
1,274 UF
16,817 UF21,706 UF321st of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
0.9
3.13.9331st of 346
Women among employees
50.9%
37.3%40.6%36th of 345
Independent contractors
542
66,2063,958,269300th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
47.0%
23.5%29.0%25th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 27%State and social services 25%Trade and logistics 21%Industry and con… 16%Other s… 6.2%Advance… 4.7%Agriculture and fishing27%Education10%Publicadministration10%Health4.8%Accommodati…and food9.7%Retail andwholesale6.4%Transport5.1%Construction9.5%Manufactur…3.8%Elect…and…Water…Arts andentertainment4.0%Domestic…Oth…ser…Admin…servi…2.5%Profes…servic…1.7%
Natural resources 27%State and social s… 25%Trade and logist… 21%Industry a… 16%Oth… 6.2%Adv… 4.7%Agriculture andfishing27%Education10%Publicadminist…10%HealthAccommodat…and food9.7%Retailandwholes…6.4%TransportConstruction9.5%Manufac…3.8%Elect…and…Water…Arts andentertain…Domesti…Admi…serv…Pro…ser…
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 60%Managers and professionals 22%Elementary occupations 18%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades16%Skilled agricultural13%Plant and machineoperators6.6%Clerical support4.3%Professionals9.8%Technicians8.5%Mana…Elementary occupations18%
Skilled occupations 60%Managers and profession… 22%Elementary occup… 18%Service andsales21%Craft and trades16%Skilled agricultural13%Plantandmachine…6.6%Clericalsupport4.3%Professio…9.8%Technicians8.5%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

Cochamó97%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Cochamó97%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
2.8%
4.8%5.7%337th of 345
Internet access
82.8%
92.7%93.2%287th 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.
17.9
3.72.320th 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.
11.8
2.61.623rd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
1,881
164,3786,408,172307th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.37%
0.30%0.57%124th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
3.19%
1.38%1.13%45th of 345
Public water network
36.9%
84.6%92.3%336th of 345
Electricity access
96.3%
99.4%99.6%331st of 345
Detached houses
96.9%
93.4%78.7%210th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
5.5%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.36%0.23%205th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
37.6%
12.9%11.9%42nd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
75
8,338491,904321st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.0%
5.0%7.5%283rd of 345
Renting households
11.6%
22.7%26.2%257th of 345
Owner-occupiers
74.3%
66.2%61.1%50th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
94.5%
67.0%24.4%16th of 345
Commute by public transport
10.8%
31.7%42.1%322nd of 345
Walks to work
31.5%
11.1%10.2%30th of 345
Households with a computer
31.8%
51.4%54.9%311th 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.
4.3
1.41.119th 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.
61.1%
93.8%97.0%333rd 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.
95.6%
99.9%99.9%324th 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.
23.3%
79.3%89.4%325th 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.
43.1%
94.1%98.1%328th 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.
83.1%
99.3%99.7%323rd 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.
60.3
6.95.933rd 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%
74.3%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%
84.4%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%
90.9%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.
3.8
0.80.617th 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.
76.1%
98.4%99.0%331st 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.
97.3%
100.0%99.9%318th 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%
83.7%91.6%294th 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.
73.1%
97.3%98.5%317th 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.
83.1%
99.8%99.8%325th of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 36%On foot or by bicycle 33%Other means 19%Public transport 11%Car36%Walking31%Boat12%Other7.4%Public transport11%
Private vehicle 36%On foot or by bicy… 33%Other means 19%Public trans… 11%Car36%Walking31%Boat12%Other7.4%Publictransport11%
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 74%Provided rent… 12%Rented 12%Owned outright74%Provided byfamily8.1%Provided byemployerRented, nocontract8.6%Rented, with contract
Owned 74%Provided rent-free 12%Rented 12%Owned outright74%Provided byfamily8.1%Provi…byemplo…3.8%Rented, nocontract8.6%Rent…withcont…
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 97%Firewood94%
Wood and biomass 97%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
78.9%
of the registered voted in the first round
78.2%
voted in the runoff
4,654
registered voters on the roll
6.0%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman24.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist75.8%58.3%
CochamóChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez15.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman16.9%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.5%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen20.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist34.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.9%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.5%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.2%1.3%
CochamóChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile21.2%30.6%
KCambio por Chile28.5%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido28.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente11.4%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas10.5%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%
CochamóChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Cochamó 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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