Commune · 16203

CoelemuCoelemu

Compare Coelemu with another place
Census population
15,895
200th of 346
Population density
46.3/km²
136th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.1 yrs
211th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.0%
285th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 5 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.6 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.6 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 248 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
67.0%
103rd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
8.6%
306th of 335
Came from another region
23.9%
48th of 335
Net internal migration
-7,274
-43.3 per 100 residents
Coelemuthis commune · 23,991another region4,017 peopleelsewhere in the region1,447 peopleabroad67 peopleanother region9,944 peopleelsewhere in the region2,794 peopleCoelemuthis commune · 16,784
Coelemuthis commune · 23,991another region4,017 peopleelsewhere in th…1,447 peopleabroad67 peopleanother region9,944 peopleelsewhere in th…2,794 peopleCoelemuthis commune · 16,784

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520249Administrative services1Administrative services▲84Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▲212Professional services3Professional services▲91Agriculture and fishing4Agriculture and fishing▼310Health5Health▲57Construction6Construction▲16Transport7Transport▼13Manufacturing8Manufacturing▼58Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food▼12Education10Education▼85Other services11Other services▼611Real estate12Real estate▼1
2005202491Administrative services▲842Retail and wholesale▲2123Professional services▲914Agriculture and fishing▼3105Health▲576Construction▲167Transport▼138Manufacturing▼589Accommodation and food▼1210Education▼8511Other services▼61112Real estate▼1

The ten branches that employ most of Coelemu

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.

1 k2 k3 k4 k5 kprojection →5 k2029 · central2005201520242029
1 k2 k3 k4 k5 kprojection →5 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.3% a year observed · 0.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

050 M100 M150 Mprojection →6.6 M2029 · central2005201520242029
050 M100 M150 Mprojection →6.6 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.1% a year observed · 3.0% projected

What Coelemu is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Coelemu employs more people in 50 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.

50
activities it is specialised in
4,468
formal workers
184/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Actividades de la administración …Otras actividades de dotación de …Empresas de servicios de ingenier…Servicios de corta de madera a ca…Elaboración de productos de panad…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Cultivo de trigoCultivo de uva destinada a la pro…Otras actividades de apoyo al tra…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Empresas de servicios de ingenier…Transporte de carga por carreteraExtracción de maderaMantenimiento y reparación de veh…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Coelemu

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
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura13767.9×
Alquiler de equipos de transporte sin operario, excepto vehículos automotoresAlquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles5044.2×
Extracción de maderaExtracción de madera10225.7×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada8220.8×
Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales (excepto explotación de viveros forestales)Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales1618.5×
Fabricación de otros productos de madera, de artículos de corcho, paja y materiales trenzablesFabricación de productos de madera, corcho, paja y materiales trenzables2113.4×
Servicios funerariosOtras actividades de servicios personales109.7×
Venta al por menor de combustibles para vehículos automotores en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de combustibles para vehículos automotores en comercios especializados1297.9×
Generación de energía eléctrica en otras centrales n.c.p.Generación, transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica267.8×
Otros servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura n.c.p.Servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura1216.5×
Fabricación de maquinaria agropecuaria y forestalFabricación de maquinaria de uso especial46.2×
Empresas de servicios de ingeniería y actividades conexas de consultoría técnicaActividades de arquitectura e ingeniería y actividades conexas de consultoría técnica4315.9×

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
21,969
hectares in holdings
90.6%
of them under a named use
35.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
426
holdings with land here
Woodland 75%Not farmed 17%Past… 3.5%Orchards… 2.5%Annual c… 1.9%Forest plantations67%Nativewoodland8.7%Scrub, barren groundand buildings9.4%Untilled land7.4%Pasture3.5%Vines2.2%Pulses…
Woodland 75%Not farmed 17%Forest plantations67%Nati…wood…Scrub, barrenground andbuildingsUntilled land7.4%Pastu…3.5%VinesPul…and…
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
CoelemuChile% of each territory's own population · 15,895 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
15,895
56,73418,480,432200th of 346
Average age
41.0 yrs
42.4 yrs38.1 yrs66th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
109.6
128.679.073rd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
46.3/km²
20.6/km²24.7/km²136th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
5,638
21,8896,596,527203rd of 346
Dwellings
7,087
28,8367,642,716211th of 346
People per household
2.82
2.592.80117th of 345
Women
51.2%
51.0%51.5%133rd of 346
Men per 100 women
95.4
96.294.3214th of 346
Under 15
17.0%
15.7%17.7%235th of 346
65 and over
18.6%
20.2%14.0%57th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
55.2
56.246.560th of 346
One-person households
20.4%
25.5%21.8%233rd of 345
Households with children
32.1%
28.3%33.2%208th of 345
Indigenous peoples
3.9%
3.9%11.4%306th of 346
Female-headed households
47.4%
46.2%49.9%197th of 345
Land area
343 km²
2,756 km²748,041 km²235th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Coelemu52%Arrived since 202048%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Coelemu52%Arrived since 202048%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
1.0%
0.7%8.7%285th 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.
67.0%
69.2%50.5%103rd 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.
8.6%
14.2%23.9%306th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
23.9%
15.9%17.2%48th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
154
4241,608,650256th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
31.1 yrs
34.6 yrs33.5 yrs284th of 345
Women among foreign-born
47.4%
47.4%51.7%292nd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
81.8%
84.9%83.1%139th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
51.9%
43.4%34.4%30th 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.
1.2%
1.0%10.6%280th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.2 yrs
12.8 yrs12.9 yrs191st 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.
-7,274
-25,7960267th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-43.3
-45.80.0288th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Coelemu21%Higher35%Secondary36%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Coelemu21%35%Secondary36%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
8.8 yrs10.4 yrs211th of 346
Reached higher education
20.5%
18.8%31.1%177th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
97.2%
99.3%98.6%283rd 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.
56.8%
57.0%55.6%128th 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.
104.0%
105.7%99.8%73rd of 346
Literacy rate
94.6%
93.2%97.8%280th of 346
Reached secondary education
35.3%
33.2%36.7%251st of 346
Primary education only
35.8%
39.5%24.1%107th of 346
Never attended school
4.33%
4.24%3.01%90th 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.
10.1 yrs
9.7 yrs12.1 yrs240th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.5 yrs
10.2 yrs12.1 yrs222nd of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
5.43%
6.81%2.18%66th of 345
Households lacking schooling
33.8%
34.8%15.1%58th 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.
206
679217,565171st of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
18.9%
32.7%33.9%265th 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.
13.1%
12.4%3.1%75th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
75.2%
64.3%67.2%52nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
17.9%
18.1%19.7%176th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
6.8%
17.6%13.1%283rd 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.
97.4%
62.8%13.0%2nd 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.
59.8%
52.2%49.7%34th 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.

206left secondary school in 2024
117enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
56.8%continued immediately
75%of those, to a university
97%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria CivilIngenieria Civil IndustrialKinesiologiaEnfermeriaDerechoFonoaudiologiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en SonidoLicenciatura en DerechoPsicologia
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria CivilIngenieria Civil IndustrialKinesiologiaEnfermeriaDerechoFonoaudiologiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en SonidoLicenciatura en DerechoPsicologia
CoelemuChile

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%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationSocial sciencesServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationSocial sciencesServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
CoelemuChile

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

0100200300200620152024206117
0100200300200620152024206117
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 Coelemu'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 Coelemu 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

Coelemu93%Fonasa4.7%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Coelemu93%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
15.2%
17.5%10.6%44th of 346
Public health insurance
92.9%
94.4%82.6%167th 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.
85.6
67.582.573rd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
127
10010047th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,409
9,9101,950,388178th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.8 yrs
61.4 yrs56.4 yrs70th of 346
Disability among 65+
51.2%
51.0%43.0%61st of 346
Difficulty walking
8.02%
9.56%4.92%25th of 346
Difficulty seeing
6.74%
7.83%4.58%69th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.18%
3.72%2.16%78th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.10%
3.87%2.70%108th of 346
Private health insurance
4.7%
2.4%13.2%125th of 335
No health coverage
2.01%
2.18%1.98%135th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
93.0%
90.2%92.1%180th of 332
Households lacking health access
6.2%
6.1%6.0%135th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,360
3,8291,523,716172nd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
51
15736,698156th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.75%
4.10%2.41%68th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.5 days
7.8 days6.1 days168th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
32.1
27.719.924th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
98
7510095th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
62
22189,723201st of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
4.6%
5.8%5.9%263rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
39.0
39.048.6180th 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.
69
65100205th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 26%Digestive and urinary tract 21%Injuries, bones an… 17%Tumours, b… 12%Mind, nerv… 9.9%Infections and o… 6.7%Pregnancy, birth… 6.5%Respiratorysystem15%Circulatorysystem11%Genitourinarysystem11%Digestivesystem10%Injuries andpoisoning13%Musculoske…2.6%Skin2.2%Cancers andtumours5.9%Endocrineandmetabolic4.4%Bloodandimmu…Mental andbehavioural6.9%NervoussystemEye1.0%Ill-definedsymptoms3.8%Inf…andpar…Cont…withheal…Pregnancy andchildbirth
Heart and lungs 26%Digestive and ur… 21%Injuries, … 17%Tumours, blood … 12%Mind, nerves a… 9.9%Infe… 6.7%Preg… 6.5%Respiratorysystem15%Circulat…system11%Genitourinarysystem11%Digestive system10%Injuries andpoisoning13%Musculo…2.6%Skin2.2%Cancersandtumours5.9%EndocrineandmetabolicBlood and…Mental andbehavioural6.9%Nervo…systemEyeIll-de…sympto…3.8%Infe…and…Cont…with…Pregnancyandchildbirth6.0%
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 reservados37%Órganos digestivos21%Genitalesmasculinos15%Genitalesfemeninos11%Víasurinarias8.1%Encéfalo ysistemanervioso8.1%
Sitios reservados37%Órganosdigestivos21%Genitalesmasculinos15%Genitalesfemeninos11%Vías urinarias8.1%Encéfalo ysistema nervioso8.1%
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosGenitales masculinosGenitales femeninosVías urinariasEncéfalo y sistema nerviosohover 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.
23.3%
26.4%17.3%119th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.6 UF
21.9 UF32.0 UF211th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
105.2%
115.0%78.9%125th 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.
83.0
71.385.6144th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
44.8%
44.1%54.4%269th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.1%
6.9%8.6%141st of 345
Self-employed
28.5%
34.1%33.8%303rd of 345
Extreme poverty
11.8%
11.7%6.9%65th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
18.1%
21.6%17.7%161st of 335
Unemployment rate
9.5%
8.1%8.8%146th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 657,194
CLP 507,910CLP 783,12475th 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.
0.522
0.4800.48816th of 321
Registered firms
1,320
4,0461,582,390200th of 346
Annual sales
5,709,577 UF
14,584,104 UF34,347,683,688 UF184th of 342
Employees reported · People reported at some point in the tax year, not average employment: the national total exceeds the employed because someone who worked two months counts the same as someone who worked twelve.
4,468
12,6769,699,164192nd of 346
Sales per firm
4,325 UF
3,605 UF21,706 UF141st of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.5
2.33.9115th of 346
Women among employees
37.3%
39.3%40.6%236th of 345
Independent contractors
1,219
3,7533,958,269206th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
21.4%
22.8%29.0%264th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 25%State and social services 24%Natural resources 21%Industry and construc… 20%Othe… 5.1%Adva… 4.4%Retail andwholesale16%Transport6.4%Accommodationand foodEducation11%Health7.2%Publicadministration5.5%Agriculture and fishing20%Manufacturing10%Construction7.4%Elect…andgas1.8%Water…Domesticwork2.9%OtherservicesAdmin…servi…2.0%Pro…ser…Infor…
Trade and logistics 25%State and social se… 24%Natural resourc… 21%Industry and c… 20%Retail andwholesale16%Transpo…6.4%Accommo…and foodEducation11%Health7.2%Publ…admi…Agriculture andfishing20%Manufacturing10%Construction7.4%Ele…andgasWat…DomesticworkOtherservi…Administ…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 59%Managers and professionals 24%Elementary occupations 17%Service and sales19%Plant andmachineoperators15%Craft and trades14%Skilledagricultural6.5%Clerical support4.5%Professiona…13%Technicians8.4%Managers2.7%Elementary occupations17%
Skilled occupations 59%Managers and professiona… 24%Elementary occu… 17%Service andsales19%Plant and machineoperators15%Craft and trades14%Skilledagricul…6.5%Clericalsupport4.5%Professiona…13%Technicians8.4%ManagersElementaryoccupations17%
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

Coelemu100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Coelemu100%HouseChile79%House20%
House% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.2%
4.2%5.7%169th of 345
Internet access
85.6%
80.7%93.2%237th of 345
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
4.2
4.02.3151st 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.
2.6
3.41.6208th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
5,555
21,6356,408,172204th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.25%
0.25%0.57%251st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.90%
1.28%1.13%228th of 345
Public water network
69.6%
64.3%92.3%272nd of 345
Electricity access
99.4%
99.1%99.6%167th of 345
Detached houses
99.5%
99.1%78.7%39th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
0.2%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.30%
0.21%0.23%100th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
16.7%
22.2%11.9%143rd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
260
892491,904221st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.6%
4.1%7.5%229th of 345
Renting households
15.7%
11.8%26.2%159th of 345
Owner-occupiers
64.4%
72.3%61.1%248th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
87.3%
81.3%24.4%77th of 345
Commute by public transport
19.6%
19.4%42.1%250th of 345
Walks to work
24.2%
24.0%10.2%70th of 345
Households with a computer
40.7%
35.3%54.9%200th of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.5
2.21.1212th 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.
96.9%
86.4%97.0%117th of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
67.1%
65.7%89.4%211th 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.
96.4%
97.3%98.1%200th of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
24.6
32.75.9107th of 345
People within 5 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
0.0%
0.0%80.3%194th of 345
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
0.1%
0.0%90.0%248th 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.
99.1%
38.2%96.2%194th 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.
0.9
1.20.6225th 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.
100.0%
98.4%99.0%1st of 345
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
82.4%
71.6%91.6%154th 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.
95.5%
97.3%98.5%233rd of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 38%On foot or by bicycle 29%Public transport 20%Other means 13%Car38%Walking24%Bicyc…4.3%Public transport20%Other13%
Private vehicle 38%On foot or by b… 29%Public transport 20%Other means 13%Car38%Walking24%BicyclePublic transport20%Other13%
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 64%Rented 16%Provided rent-free 13%Other 7.0%Owned outright63%Rented,withcontract8.4%Rented, nocontract7.3%Provided by family12%Other arrangement7.0%
Owned 64%Rented 16%Provided ren… 13%Owned outright63%Rented,withcontract8.4%Rented,nocontract7.3%Provided byfamily12%Otherarrange…7.0%
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 89%Foss… 6.8%Elec… 2.1%No … 1.9%Firewood87%Gas5.3%Paraffin1.4%Electricity2.1%Noheating1.9%
Wood and biomass 89%Firewood87%GasParaf…Electric…No…
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
91.1%
of the registered voted in the first round
90.9%
voted in the runoff
15,073
registered voters on the roll
5.7%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman28.6%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist71.4%58.3%
CoelemuChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez25.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman17.9%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen11.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist35.7%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet6.8%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.7%1.3%
CoelemuChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile20.9%30.6%
KCambio por Chile16.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido42.4%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente6.9%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.2%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.2%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde4.2%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile2.2%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.2%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
CoelemuChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Coelemu 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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