Commune · 09203

CuracautínCuracautín

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Census population
18,536
186th of 346
Population density
11.2/km²
251st of 346
Average years of schooling
9.3 yrs
170th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.8%
224th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary1st of 345 · Chile 99.8%100.0%
Unemployment rate8th of 335 · Chile 8.8%17.3%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.8 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.8 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 · 268 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
60.4%
177th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
21.0%
140th of 335
Came from another region
18.0%
110th of 335
Net internal migration
-6,885
-38.3 per 100 residents
Curacautínthis commune · 24,738elsewhere in the region3,779 peopleanother region3,229 peopleabroad108 peopleanother region9,765 peopleelsewhere in the region4,128 peopleCuracautínthis commune · 17,961
Curacautínthis commune · 24,738elsewhere in th…3,779 peopleanother region3,229 peopleabroad108 peopleanother region9,765 peopleelsewhere in th…4,128 peopleCuracautínthis commune · 17,961

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520244Accommodation and food1Accommodation and food▲33Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▲12Agriculture and fishing3Agriculture and fishing▼16Manufacturing4Manufacturing▲29Construction5Construction▲47Administrative services6Administrative services▲11Transport7Transport▼68Professional services8Professional services12Health9Health▲310Water and waste10Water and waste14Finance and insurance11Finance and insurance▲313Real estate12Real estate▲111Information and communications13Information and communications▼25Other services14Other services▼9
2005202441Accommodation and food▲332Retail and wholesale▲123Agriculture and fishing▼164Manufacturing▲295Construction▲476Administrative services▲117Transport▼688Professional services129Health▲31010Water and waste1411Finance and insurance▲31312Real estate▲11113Information and communications▼2514Other services▼9

The ten branches that employ most of Curacautín

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.

01 k2 k3 k4 kprojection →3 k2029 · central2005201520242029
01 k2 k3 k4 kprojection →3 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.2% a year observed · 2.4% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

01.0 M2.0 M3.0 M4.0 Mprojection →3.3 M2029 · central2005201520242029
01.0 M2.0 M3.0 M4.0 Mprojection →3.3 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.5% a year observed · 3.9% projected

What Curacautín is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Curacautín employs more people in 62 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.

62
activities it is specialised in
2,852
formal workers
188/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de restaurantes y de …Cultivo de trigoExtracción de maderaVenta al por menor de artículos d…Elaboración de productos de panad…Acabado de productos textilesCría de caballos y otros equinosVenta al por mayor de otras mater…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Actividades de restaurantes y de …Cultivo de trigoAcabado de productos textilesVenta al por menor de juegos y ju…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Curacautín

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
Cría de otros animales n.c.p.Ganadería1248.9×
Acabado de productos textilesHilatura, tejedura y acabado de productos textiles1345.9×
Actividades de operadores turísticosActividades de agencias de viajes y operadores turísticos945.6×
Fabricación de productos primarios de aluminioFabricación de productos primarios de metales preciosos y otros metales no ferrosos1645.0×
Cría de caballos y otros equinosGanadería735.1×
Extracción de maderaExtracción de madera8232.3×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada6927.4×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes10726.4×
Otras actividades de alojamiento n.c.p.Otras actividades de alojamiento4924.3×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura3124.1×
Otras actividades de alojamiento para turistas n.c.p.Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas824.0×
Actividades de residenciales para turistasActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas524.0×

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
142,585
hectares in holdings
70.4%
of them under a named use
1.5%
of the crop land is irrigated
304
holdings with land here
Woodland 59%Not farmed 30%Annual crops 6.4%Pasture 4.7%Native woodland55%For…pla…Scrub, barren ground and buildings30%Cereals4.7%Foddercrops1.1%Indust…cropsPasture4.7%
Woodland 59%Not farmed 30%Annual… 6.4%Pastu… 4.7%Native woodland55%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings30%Cereals4.7%Pasture4.7%
PastureOrchards and vineyardshover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MenWomen001122334455%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
MenWomen00224466%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
CuracautínChile% of each territory's own population · 18,536 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
18,536
206,64618,480,432186th of 346
Average age
41.2 yrs
39.4 yrs38.1 yrs58th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
110.4
89.979.070th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
11.2/km²
15.4/km²24.7/km²251st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
7,102
75,5936,596,527178th of 346
Dwellings
9,923
92,1817,642,716171st of 346
People per household
2.61
2.732.80257th of 345
Women
51.7%
51.8%51.5%66th of 346
Men per 100 women
93.2
92.994.3281st of 346
Under 15
17.2%
18.5%17.7%220th of 346
65 and over
19.0%
16.6%14.0%44th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
56.6
54.046.544th of 346
One-person households
23.3%
21.8%21.8%140th of 345
Households with children
30.8%
34.1%33.2%240th of 345
Indigenous peoples
15.1%
26.1%11.4%127th of 346
Female-headed households
48.6%
50.9%49.9%155th of 345
Land area
1,658 km²
13,432 km²748,041 km²86th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Curacautín16%Arrived since 202084%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Curacautín16%84%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
1.8%
1.0%8.7%224th 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.
60.4%
72.8%50.5%177th 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.
21.0%
12.8%23.9%140th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
18.0%
13.8%17.2%110th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
337
2,1471,608,650192nd of 346
Average age, foreign-born
37.5 yrs
34.3 yrs33.5 yrs46th of 345
Women among foreign-born
50.7%
51.4%51.7%181st of 345
Foreign-born of working age
82.8%
82.1%83.1%102nd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
15.7%
29.4%34.4%333rd of 345
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna.
2.4%
1.3%10.6%215th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.6 yrs
13.1 yrs12.9 yrs147th 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.
-6,885
-88,1470264th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-38.3
-41.00.0272nd of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Curacautín20%Higher38%Secondary33%Primary only5.2%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Curacautín20%38%Secondary33%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.3 yrs
9.0 yrs10.4 yrs170th of 346
Reached higher education
20.1%
18.7%31.1%187th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.3%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.
44.1%
47.3%55.6%294th 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.
101.9%
102.5%99.8%159th of 346
Literacy rate
96.1%
94.8%97.8%197th of 346
Reached secondary education
38.4%
37.2%36.7%126th of 346
Primary education only
33.0%
34.4%24.1%152nd of 346
Never attended school
3.42%
4.35%3.01%197th 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.
10.5 yrs
10.3 yrs12.1 yrs187th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.7 yrs
10.5 yrs12.1 yrs191st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.85%
5.20%2.18%151st of 345
Households lacking schooling
18.0%
27.2%15.1%226th 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.
220
2,825217,565165th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
43.2%
46.8%33.9%127th of 331
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates.
0.0%
2.8%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
60.8%
66.0%67.2%187th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
19.6%
16.8%19.7%148th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
19.6%
17.3%13.1%130th 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.
7.2%
34.6%13.0%210th 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%
55.1%49.7%35th 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.

220left secondary school in 2024
97enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
44.1%continued immediately
61%of those, to a university
7%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialObstetricia y PuericulturaTecnico en FarmaciaAgronomiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizMedicina VeterinariaQuimica y FarmaciaTecnico en Enfermeria
0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialObstetricia y PuericulturaTecnico en FarmaciaAgronomiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizMedicina VeterinariaQuimica y FarmaciaTecnico en Enfermeria
CuracautínChile

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%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawAgriculture and veterinaryEducationInformation technologyServicesArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawAgriculture and veterinaryEducationInformation technologyServicesArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesNatural sciences
CuracautínChile

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

010020030020062015202422097
010020030020062015202422097
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 Curacautín'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 Curacautín 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

Curacautín97%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Curacautín97%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
14.3%
14.0%10.6%74th of 346
Public health insurance
96.8%
94.7%82.6%50th 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.
106.5
99.982.525th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
108
131100101st of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,650
28,9781,950,388167th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.1 yrs
58.8 yrs56.4 yrs92nd of 346
Disability among 65+
49.7%
46.7%43.0%87th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.62%
6.72%4.92%115th of 346
Difficulty seeing
7.03%
6.86%4.58%57th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.47%
3.23%2.16%44th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.09%
3.18%2.70%109th of 346
Private health insurance
0.0%
2.4%13.2%311th of 335
No health coverage
0.71%
0.09%1.98%234th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
90.8%
90.9%92.1%224th of 332
Households lacking health access
6.0%
3.6%6.0%142nd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,974
20,6531,523,716139th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
52
62936,698152nd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.63%
3.05%2.41%193rd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.8 days
6.6 days6.1 days246th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
28.1
30.419.945th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
121
11710032nd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
76
1,04989,723170th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
3.9%
5.1%5.9%293rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
41.0
50.848.6155th 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.
72
96100193rd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 26%Digestive and urinary tract 23%Injuries, bones and skin 19%Tumours, blood and m… 11%Pregnancy, birth and… 11%Mind, … 6.1%Infect… 5.3%Respiratory system18%Circulato…system8.5%Genitourinarysystem11%Digestivesystem11%Injuries and poisoning13%Musculosk…3.2%Skin2.2%Cancersandtumours5.3%EndocrineandmetabolicBlood andimmunityPregnancy andchildbirth10%NervoussystemMentalandbehaviou…Ill-d…sympt…2.1%Cont…withheal…Infectious…
Heart and lungs 26%Digestive and urin… 23%Injuries, bo… 19%Tumours, blood … 11%Pregnancy, birt… 11%Min… 6.1%Inf… 5.3%Respiratorysystem18%Circul…system8.5%Genitour…system11%Digestivesystem11%Injuries andpoisoning13%Musculos…3.2%Skin2.2%Cancersandtumours5.3%Endocrineand…Blood and…Pregnancy andchildbirth10%NervoussystemMentaland…Ill-de…sympto…Contact…
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 reservados30%Órganos digestivos28%Mama21%Genitalesfemeninos13%Víasurinarias7.9%
Sitios reservados30%Órganosdigestivos28%Mama21%Genitalesfemeninos13%Víasurinari…7.9%
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosMamaGenitales femeninosVías urinariashover 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.
29.0%
31.7%17.3%55th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
19.8 UF
23.0 UF32.0 UF284th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
120.4%
110.5%78.9%24th 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.
103.6
74.485.663rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
45.7%
43.9%54.4%257th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
10.9%
11.2%8.6%64th of 345
Self-employed
39.7%
32.1%33.8%93rd of 345
Extreme poverty
10.6%
15.5%6.9%89th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
9.9%
14.1%17.7%291st of 335
Unemployment rate
17.3%
12.2%8.8%8th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 466,309
CLP 456,768CLP 783,124254th of 335
Gini coefficient · 0 is a perfectly equal split and 1 a perfectly unequal one. On household per-capita income (ypchtotcor). A survey estimate: in comunas with a small sample the interval is wide.
0.461
0.4800.48894th of 321
Registered firms
1,920
15,3821,582,390148th of 346
Annual sales
2,756,402 UF
40,427,136 UF34,347,683,688 UF242nd 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.
2,852
50,2679,699,164239th of 346
Sales per firm
1,436 UF
2,628 UF21,706 UF312th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.0
2.13.9322nd of 346
Women among employees
47.9%
44.4%40.6%64th of 345
Independent contractors
1,958
16,0623,958,269157th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
40.7%
24.2%29.0%45th of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 26%Trade and logistics 26%Industry and construction 21%Natural res… 13%Other servi… 7.5%Advanced se… 6.3%Education11%Publicadministration8.5%Health6.3%Retail andwholesale15%Accommodationand food6.4%Transport4.6%Construction11%Manufacturing8.1%Electricit…Water…Agricultureand fishing11%MiningDomesticwork3.9%Otherservic…Arts andenterta…Admin…servi…2.7%Professi…servicesInf…
State and social ser… 26%Trade and logistics 26%Industry and con… 21%Natural… 13%Other s… 7.5%Advance… 6.3%Education11%Publicadministration8.5%Health6.3%Retail andwholesale15%Accommod…and food6.4%Transport4.6%Construction11%Manufacturing8.1%Agricultureand fishing11%MiningDomes…work3.9%Otherservi…Arts…Admin…servi…2.7%Profes…
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 61%Managers and professionals 23%Elementary occupations 15%Service and sales23%Craft and trades18%Plant andmachineoperators9.3%Skilledagricultural7.1%Clericalsupport4.4%Professionals12%Technicians8.0%Manage…2.8%Elementary occupations15%
Skilled occupations 61%Managers and professionals 23%Elementary occ… 15%Service andsales23%Craft andtrades18%Plant andmachineoperators9.3%Skilledagricult…7.1%Cleri…suppo…4.4%Professiona…12%Technicians8.0%ManagersElementaryoccupations15%
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

Curacautín100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Curacautín100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.2%
5.8%5.7%168th of 345
Internet access
85.9%
84.3%93.2%235th 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.
4.1
4.02.3159th 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.
4.1
4.01.6141st of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
7,073
74,8356,408,172176th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.17%
0.29%0.57%311th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.30%
1.30%1.13%337th of 345
Public water network
77.5%
78.7%92.3%227th of 345
Electricity access
99.3%
98.3%99.6%206th of 345
Detached houses
99.7%
98.2%78.7%10th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
0.8%19.9%278th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.00%
0.29%0.23%324th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
24.1%
12.9%11.9%91st of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
215
3,658491,904245th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.0%
4.8%7.5%331st of 345
Renting households
13.2%
14.2%26.2%213th of 345
Owner-occupiers
71.7%
72.0%61.1%100th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
94.8%
88.0%24.4%15th of 345
Commute by public transport
19.3%
22.7%42.1%257th of 345
Walks to work
28.2%
21.3%10.2%46th of 345
Households with a computer
40.3%
37.5%54.9%208th 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.
1.7
1.71.1181st 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.
93.5%
90.7%97.0%183rd of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
99.8%
99.9%99.9%255th 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.
73.7%
74.3%89.4%175th 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.
92.2%
93.3%98.1%248th 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%
99.7%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.
45.7
18.55.946th 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%
43.2%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%
50.9%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.
0.1%
78.0%96.2%305th 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.
1.2
1.20.6154th 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.
95.8%
95.2%99.0%249th of 345
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
99.8%
99.9%99.9%278th 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.
73.7%
73.4%91.6%190th 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.
91.9%
93.0%98.5%263rd 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%
98.9%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 44%On foot or by bicycle 32%Public transport 19%Car44%Walking28%Bic…Public transport19%Other4.4%
Private vehicle 44%On foot or by b… 32%Public transport 19%Car44%Walking28%BicyclePublic transport19%Other4.4%
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 72%Rented 13%Provided rent-fr… 11%Other 4.5%Owned outright69%Rented, withcontract7.8%Rented, no contract5.4%Provided byfamily8.0%Prov…byempl…Other arrangement
Owned 72%Rented 13%Provided rent… 11%Owned outright69%Rented,withcontract7.8%Rented,nocontract5.4%Provided byfamily8.0%Pro…byemp…Otherarran…4.5%
Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

Wood and biomass 96%Firewood95%
Wood and biomass 96%Firewood95%
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
71.3%
of the registered voted in the first round
71.0%
voted in the runoff
20,945
registered voters on the roll
5.3%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman26.5%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist73.5%58.3%
CuracautínChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez17.1%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman17.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen18.2%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist37.3%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.4%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.7%1.3%
CuracautínChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile13.6%30.6%
KCambio por Chile12.6%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido64.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente4.7%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas1.4%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde1.9%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile1.6%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
CuracautínChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile23.4%
KCambio por Chile36.2%
JChile Grande y Unido24.7%
IPartido de la Gente8.9%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.7%
Independents outside a pact3.2%
Curacautínshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Curacautín 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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