Commune · 06104

ColtaucoColtauco

Compare Coltauco with another place
Census population
21,373
167th of 346
Population density
96.0/km²
95th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.0 yrs
230th of 346
Foreign-born share
2.8%
173rd of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
Contractors as share of workers346th of 346 · Chile 29.0%7.0%
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 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.2 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.2 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 · 265 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
65.3%
121st of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
16.0%
206th of 335
Came from another region
16.6%
138th of 335
Net internal migration
+655
+3.0 per 100 residents
Coltaucothis commune · 20,974another region3,665 peopleelsewhere in the region3,539 peopleabroad445 peopleelsewhere in the region5,146 peopleanother region1,403 peopleColtaucothis commune · 22,074
Coltaucothis commune · 20,974another region3,665 peopleelsewhere in th…3,539 peopleabroad445 peopleelsewhere in th…5,146 peopleanother region1,403 peopleColtaucothis commune · 22,074

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing3Transport2Transport▲12Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼17Construction4Construction▲39Administrative services5Administrative services▲48Education6Education▲26Manufacturing7Manufacturing▼15Other services8Other services▼310Professional services9Professional services▲111Water and waste10Water and waste▲112Accommodation and food11Accommodation and food▲14Arts and entertainment12Arts and entertainment▼8
2005202411Agriculture and fishing32Transport▲123Retail and wholesale▼174Construction▲395Administrative services▲486Education▲267Manufacturing▼158Other services▼3109Professional services▲11110Water and waste▲11211Accommodation and food▲1412Arts and entertainment▼8

The ten branches that employ most of Coltauco

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.

11 k14 k16 k19 k21 kprojection →15 k2029 · central2005201520242029
11 k14 k16 k19 k21 kprojection →15 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval-0.3% a year observed · 1.5% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

2.0 M4.0 M6.0 M8.0 M10 Mprojection →8.5 M2029 · central2005201520242029
2.0 M4.0 M6.0 M8.0 M10 Mprojection →8.5 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.4% a year observed · -0.2% projected

What Coltauco is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Coltauco employs more people in 27 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.

27
activities it is specialised in
14,126
formal workers
280/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.43.7Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de …Actividades de la administración …Cultivo de uva para mesaFabricación de otros tipos de maq…Producción de aguas minerales y o…Transporte de carga por carreteraVenta al por menor de alimentos e…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.43.7Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de …Actividades de la administración …Limpieza general de edificiosProducción de aguas minerales y o…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Coltauco

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
Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de huesoCultivo de plantas perennes6,72028.3×
Explotación de frigoríficos para almacenamiento y depósitoAlmacenamiento y depósito50220.2×
Actividades poscosechaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha8320.1×
Venta al por mayor de materias primas agrícolasVenta al por mayor de materias primas agropecuarias y animales vivos58917.4×
Actividades de apoyo a la agriculturaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha3,1877.4×
Fabricación de maquinaria agropecuaria y forestalFabricación de maquinaria de uso especial94.4×
Fabricación de recipientes de maderaFabricación de productos de madera, corcho, paja y materiales trenzables94.0×
Cultivo de otras plantas perennesCultivo de plantas perennes1433.8×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura203.1×
Fabricación de otros tipos de maquinaria de uso generalFabricación de maquinaria de uso general132.4×
Otras actividades de transporte de pasajeros por vía terrestre n.c.p.Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre922.3×
Producción de aguas minerales y otras aguas embotelladasElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas72.3×

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
8,356
hectares in holdings
87.0%
of them under a named use
99.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
419
holdings with land here
Orchards and vineyards 34%Woodland 30%Not farmed 20%Annual crops 15%Fruit trees33%Native woodland29%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings13%Untilledland6.9%Cereals9.8%Foddercrops2.5%Veget…1.4%SeedcropsPul…and…
Orchards and vineyards 34%Woodland 30%Not farmed 20%Annual crops 15%Fruit trees33%Native woodland29%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings13%Untilledland6.9%Cereals9.8%FoddercropsVegetab…
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
ColtaucoChile% of each territory's own population · 21,373 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
21,373
693,30818,480,432167th of 346
Average age
39.2 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs175th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
89.1
78.579.0173rd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
96.0/km²
92.4/km²24.7/km²95th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
7,549
243,2256,596,527168th of 346
Dwellings
8,586
270,9457,642,716178th of 346
People per household
2.83
2.852.80107th of 345
Women
50.2%
51.0%51.5%264th of 346
Men per 100 women
99.4
95.994.383rd of 346
Under 15
18.1%
18.3%17.7%147th of 346
65 and over
16.1%
14.4%14.0%159th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.0
48.546.5139th of 346
One-person households
20.6%
19.6%21.8%227th of 345
Households with children
34.1%
35.2%33.2%132nd of 345
Indigenous peoples
4.3%
5.5%11.4%290th of 346
Female-headed households
45.8%
48.2%49.9%241st of 345
Land area
223 km²
7,501 km²748,041 km²267th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Coltauco49%Arrived since 202051%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Coltauco49%Arrived since 202051%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
2.8%
5.4%8.7%173rd 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.
65.3%
58.8%50.5%121st 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.
16.0%
17.4%23.9%206th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
16.6%
18.9%17.2%138th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
591
37,5241,608,650154th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
30.9 yrs
32.1 yrs33.5 yrs297th of 345
Women among foreign-born
46.7%
50.6%51.7%309th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
82.9%
81.5%83.1%95th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
48.6%
42.2%34.4%59th 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.
3.5%
6.5%10.6%171st of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
11.2 yrs
12.8 yrs12.9 yrs309th 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.
655
14,7210134th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
3.0
2.00.0140th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Coltauco17%Higher38%Secondary36%Primary only4.7%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Coltauco17%38%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
9.0 yrs
9.9 yrs10.4 yrs230th of 346
Reached higher education
17.1%
26.9%31.1%258th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.6%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.
56.0%
52.0%55.6%142nd 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%
100.9%99.8%73rd of 346
Literacy rate
95.7%
97.2%97.8%218th of 346
Reached secondary education
38.4%
37.3%36.7%127th of 346
Primary education only
35.6%
27.5%24.1%111th of 346
Never attended school
4.21%
3.34%3.01%107th 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
11.5 yrs12.1 yrs240th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.5 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs222nd of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.27%
2.83%2.18%129th of 345
Households lacking schooling
24.8%
19.7%15.1%146th 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.
243
8,325217,565162nd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
44.9%
35.1%33.9%115th 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.
23.5%
3.9%3.1%45th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
56.6%
61.9%67.2%226th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
19.1%
20.9%19.7%153rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
24.3%
17.2%13.1%78th 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.
28.7%
38.2%13.0%92nd 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.
48.5%
48.6%49.7%231st 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.

243left secondary school in 2024
136enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
56.0%continued immediately
57%of those, to a university
29%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria AgricolaContabilidad y AuditoriaIngenieria ComercialGastronomiaAgronomiaIngenieria Civil Con EspecialidadTecnico AgricolaTecnico en EnfermeriaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizAdministracion Publica
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria AgricolaContabilidad y AuditoriaIngenieria ComercialGastronomiaAgronomiaIngenieria Civil Con EspecialidadTecnico AgricolaTecnico en EnfermeriaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizAdministracion Publica
ColtaucoChile

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%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawAgriculture and veterinaryHealth and welfareServicesEducationInformation technologyArts and humanities
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawAgriculture and veterinaryHealth and welfareServicesEducationInformation technologyArts and humanities
ColtaucoChile

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

0100200300200620152024243136
0100200300200620152024243136
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 Coltauco'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 Coltauco 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

Coltauco92%Fonasa5.4%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Coltauco92%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.6%
11.5%10.6%102nd of 346
Public health insurance
91.5%
86.4%82.6%187th 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.
59.9
73.682.5219th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
72
101100236th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,906
79,4081,950,388157th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
58.2 yrs
56.3 yrs56.4 yrs158th of 346
Disability among 65+
46.4%
42.6%43.0%150th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.88%
5.49%4.92%91st of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.78%
4.90%4.58%133rd of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.93%
2.33%2.16%99th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.23%
2.82%2.70%88th of 346
Private health insurance
5.3%
10.2%13.2%111th of 335
No health coverage
2.50%
1.75%1.98%99th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
80.5%
94.1%92.1%311th of 332
Households lacking health access
3.4%
6.1%6.0%234th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,281
51,0161,523,716179th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
34
1,40336,698196th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.65%
2.75%2.41%188th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.8 days
5.7 days6.1 days241st of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
15.9
20.219.9229th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
71
89100218th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
49
2,47489,723217th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
3.8%
4.8%5.9%296th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
22.9
35.748.6283rd 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.
44
72100280th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 23%Digestive and urinary tract 22%Injuries, bones and skin 21%Pregnancy, birth and newbo… 13%Tumours, blood and metabol… 12%Inf… 5.2%Min… 3.7%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem11%Digestive system15%Genitour…system7.6%Injuries and poisoning14%Musculoskel…6.0%Pregnancy and childbirth12%Cancers andtumours6.9%Endocrineandmetabolic4.8%Contactwith…Infe…andpara…Ill…sym…NervoussystemMentaland…
Heart and lungs 23%Digestive and urina… 22%Injuries, bo… 21%Pregnancy, birth … 13%Tumours, blood an… 12%Circulato…system11%Respirato…system11%Digestivesystem15%Genito…system7.6%Injuries andpoisoning14%Musculoskeletal6.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%CancersandtumoursEndocrineandmetabolicContactwithhealth…Infecti…and…Ill-de…NervoussystemMent…and…
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 reservados27%Órganos digestivos24%Sangre y sistemalinfático14%Genitalesfemeninos12%Vías urinarias12%Mama10%
Sitios reservados27%Órganosdigestivos24%Sangre ysistemalinfático14%Genitales femeninos12%Vías urinarias12%Mama10%
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales femeninosVías urinariasMamahover 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.
20.2%
17.5%17.3%167th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
18.2 UF
23.7 UF32.0 UF322nd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
93.2%
87.1%78.9%222nd 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.
71.7
76.185.6215th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
48.8%
52.7%54.4%211th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.8%
8.6%8.6%213th of 345
Self-employed
30.6%
30.2%33.8%271st of 345
Extreme poverty
11.4%
6.8%6.9%71st of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
17.6%
17.4%17.7%169th of 335
Unemployment rate
6.7%
9.4%8.8%254th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 536,259
CLP 647,045CLP 783,124167th 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.
0.400
0.4560.488253rd of 321
Registered firms
1,533
52,7451,582,390178th of 346
Annual sales
8,586,411 UF
674,035,977 UF34,347,683,688 UF148th 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.
14,126
318,7739,699,16497th of 346
Sales per firm
5,601 UF
12,779 UF21,706 UF108th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
3.8
3.33.940th of 346
Women among employees
43.1%
40.6%40.6%128th of 345
Independent contractors
1,060
63,3093,958,269230th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
7.0%
16.6%29.0%346th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 34%Trade and logistics 21%Industry and construction 21%State and soci… 14%Other … 5.1%Advanc… 4.7%Agriculture and fishing31%Retail and wholesale12%Transport6.2%Accommodation and…Manufacturing13%Construct…6.6%Water…Ele…Education6.8%Health4.4%Publicadmini…3.2%Domes…work2.7%Otherservi…1.5%Artsand…Administr…servicesProfessio…
Natural resources 34%Trade and log… 21%Industry and const… 21%State and… 14%Oth… 5.1%Adv… 4.7%Agriculture andfishing31%Retail andwholesale12%Transport6.2%Acco…andfoodManufactur…13%Constr…6.6%Wate…Education6.8%Health4.4%Publicadmin…3.2%Dome…workOth…ser…Arts…Adm…ser…Profe…servi…
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 53%Elementary occupations 28%Managers and professionals 19%Craft and trades16%Plant andmachineoperators12%Service andsales12%Skilledagricultural8.2%Clerical support4.2%Elementary occupations28%Professiona…8.4%Technicians7.7%Man…
Skilled occupations 53%Elementary occupations 28%Managers and p… 19%Craft andtrades16%Plant and machineoperators12%Service and sales12%Skilledagricultu…8.2%Clericalsupport4.2%Elementary occupations28%Professionals8.4%Technicians7.7%Man…
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

Coltauco100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Coltauco100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.7%
5.1%5.7%127th of 345
Internet access
85.4%
92.2%93.2%242nd 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.
3.9
2.52.3168th 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.
3.6
2.01.6161st of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
7,406
237,8036,408,172169th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.30%
0.32%0.57%212th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.93%
0.85%1.13%214th of 345
Public water network
92.9%
96.4%92.3%96th of 345
Electricity access
99.4%
99.7%99.6%167th of 345
Detached houses
99.4%
90.0%78.7%58th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
9.2%19.9%219th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.17%0.23%243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
10.6%
8.5%11.9%229th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
402
14,281491,904167th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
5.3%
5.9%7.5%174th of 345
Renting households
12.3%
21.5%26.2%237th of 345
Owner-occupiers
70.4%
65.5%61.1%134th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
65.4%
29.2%24.4%146th of 345
Commute by public transport
18.0%
25.0%42.1%272nd of 345
Walks to work
5.8%
8.3%10.2%332nd of 345
Households with a computer
41.2%
51.4%54.9%196th 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.
1.6
1.31.1195th 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.
98.9%
98.1%97.0%85th 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.
58.7%
85.3%89.4%243rd 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.
100.0%
98.8%98.1%1st 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.
9.7
4.35.9175th 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.
6.7%
65.9%80.3%175th 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.
100.0%
97.9%90.0%1st 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.
100.0%
100.0%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.0
0.70.6198th 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%
99.8%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.
63.1%
88.9%91.6%245th 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.
100.0%
98.9%98.5%1st 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 50%Public transport 18%On foot or by b… 18%Other means 15%Car48%Public transport18%Bicycle12%Walking5.8%Other15%
Private vehicle 50%Public trans… 18%On foot or … 18%Other me… 15%Car48%Publictransport18%Bicycle12%Walking5.8%Other15%
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 70%Provided rent-free 14%Rented 12%Owned outright68%Provided byfamily12%Provided by employerRented, nocontract6.6%Rented,withcontract5.7%Other arrangement
Owned 70%Provided rent-free 14%Rented 12%Owned outright68%Provided byfamily12%Pro…byemp…Rented,nocontract6.6%Rented,withcontract5.7%Oth…arr…
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 67%Fossil fuels 18%Electricity 9.9%No h… 4.5%Firewood65%Gas12%Paraffin6.5%Electricity9.9%Noheating4.5%
Wood and biomass 67%Fossil fuels 18%Electri… 9.9%Firewood65%Gas12%Paraffin6.5%Electricity9.9%Noheati…4.5%
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
92.9%
of the registered voted in the first round
92.8%
voted in the runoff
17,851
registered voters on the roll
7.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman36.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist63.9%58.3%
ColtaucoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez24.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman21.9%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist27.3%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.8%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%
ColtaucoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile33.9%30.6%
KCambio por Chile17.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido27.7%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.3%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile3.2%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular2.8%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
ColtaucoChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Coltauco 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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