Commune · 10204

Curaco de VélezCuraco de Vélez

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Census population
3,662
320th of 346
Population density
46.2/km²
138th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.0 yrs
230th of 346
Foreign-born share
0.9%
301st 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 5 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 97.0%100.0%
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 UF21.9 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.9 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 · 144 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
71.5%
61st of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
22.0%
126th of 335
Came from another region
3.9%
331st of 335
Net internal migration
-482
-11.7 per 100 residents
Curaco de Vélezthis commune · 4,511elsewhere in the region910 peopleanother region162 peopleabroad105 peopleelsewhere in the region851 peopleanother region703 peopleCuraco de Vélezthis commune · 4,134
Curaco de Vélezthis commune · 4,511elsewhere in th…910 peopleanother region162 peopleabroad105 peopleelsewhere in th…851 peopleanother region703 peopleCuraco de Vélezthis commune · 4,134

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Education2Education8Manufacturing3Manufacturing▲57Public administration4Public administration▲34Administrative services5Administrative services▼13Construction6Construction▼35Transport7Transport▼26Retail and wholesale8Retail and wholesale▼29Water and waste9Water and waste10Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Education83Manufacturing▲574Public administration▲345Administrative services▼136Construction▼357Transport▼268Retail and wholesale▼299Water and waste1010Accommodation and food

The ten branches that employ most of Curaco de Vélez

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

Dependent workers, projected

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

05001 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
05001 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.2% a year observed · 2.3% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0250 k500 k750 k1.0 Mprojection →729 k2029 · central2005201520242029
0250 k500 k750 k1.0 Mprojection →729 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.0% a year observed · 1.6% projected

What Curaco de Vélez is specialised in

2024 · SII

PuroChile does not compute this for Curaco de Vélez. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 958 formal workers here that division is a statement about a handful of people: one worker would move it further than a whole industry moves it in Santiago. The floor is 1,000 workers, and it is a floor rather than a caveat because a spectacular number nobody should read is worse than no number.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
3,294
hectares in holdings
89.8%
of them under a named use
0.1%
of the crop land is irrigated
479
holdings with land here
Pasture 65%Woodland 20%Not farmed 11%Pasture65%Native woodland19%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings10%Pulsesandtubers3.2%
Pasture 65%Woodland 20%Not farmed 11%Pasture65%Native woodland19%Scrub,barrenground and…10%Pul…andtub…
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
Curaco de VélezChile% of each territory's own population · 3,662 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
3,662
176,86518,480,432320th of 346
Average age
41.2 yrs
38.8 yrs38.1 yrs58th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
113.3
80.579.057th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
46.2/km²
19.1/km²24.7/km²138th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
1,423
68,0036,596,527321st of 346
Dwellings
1,915
85,9947,642,716323rd of 346
People per household
2.57
2.602.80277th of 345
Women
51.6%
50.8%51.5%82nd of 346
Men per 100 women
94.0
97.094.3265th of 346
Under 15
16.0%
17.2%17.7%290th of 346
65 and over
18.2%
13.9%14.0%71st of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.0
45.146.5141st of 346
One-person households
23.6%
23.6%21.8%127th of 345
Households with children
29.2%
32.0%33.2%283rd of 345
Indigenous peoples
29.2%
33.2%11.4%67th of 346
Female-headed households
51.2%
49.8%49.9%72nd of 345
Land area
79 km²
9,240 km²748,041 km²308th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Curaco de Vélez31%Arrived since 202069%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Curaco de Vélez31%Arrived since 20…69%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
0.9%
3.3%8.7%301st 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.
71.5%
65.2%50.5%61st 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.
22.0%
17.7%23.9%126th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
3.9%
14.2%17.2%331st of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
32
5,7541,608,650326th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
42.7 yrs
34.0 yrs33.5 yrs7th of 345
Women among foreign-born
56.3%
51.4%51.7%27th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
81.3%
83.0%83.1%170th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
31.3%
38.1%34.4%248th 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.
1.1%
3.9%10.6%301st of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.9 yrs
12.7 yrs12.9 yrs113th 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.
-482
-5,1190166th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-11.7
-2.80.0199th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Curaco de Vélez18%Higher34%Secondary41%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Curaco de Vélez18%34%Secondary41%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.0 yrs
9.3 yrs10.4 yrs230th of 346
Reached higher education
18.1%
19.6%31.1%234th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.1%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.
66.0%
47.8%55.6%27th 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.
99.0%
100.9%99.8%291st of 346
Literacy rate
96.2%
96.7%97.8%186th of 346
Reached secondary education
33.6%
36.8%36.7%286th of 346
Primary education only
40.7%
35.9%24.1%40th of 346
Never attended school
3.42%
3.09%3.01%199th 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.
10.2 yrs
10.6 yrs12.1 yrs227th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.1 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs279th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.80%
3.32%2.18%157th of 345
Households lacking schooling
47.0%
27.6%15.1%10th 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.
50
2,361217,565289th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
34.0%
48.5%33.9%196th 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%
2.5%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
90.9%
70.5%67.2%7th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
3.0%
14.5%19.7%320th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
6.1%
15.0%13.1%291st 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.
24.2%
41.2%13.0%109th 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.
72.7%
52.6%49.7%4th 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.

50left secondary school in 2024
33enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
66.0%continued immediately
91%of those, to a university
24%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%10.0%20.0%Terapia OcupacionalEnfermeriaPsicologiaTecnico de Nivel Superior en Enfermeria
0.0%10.0%20.0%Terapia OcupacionalEnfermeriaPsicologiaTecnico de Nivel Superior en Enfermeria
Curaco de VélezChile

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%60.0%Health and welfareEducationSocial sciencesBusiness and lawEngineering and industryNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%20.0%40.0%60.0%Health and welfareEducationSocial sciencesBusiness and lawEngineering and industryNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
Curaco de VélezChile

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

02550751002006201520245033
02550751002006201520245033
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 Curaco de Vélez'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 Curaco de Vélez 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

Curaco de Vélez85%Fonasa9.7%No coverChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Curaco de Vélez85%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.5%
11.5%10.6%156th of 346
Public health insurance
85.0%
90.4%82.6%279th 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.
44.2
76.482.5279th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
41
96100305th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
456
20,3731,950,388317th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
64.6 yrs
57.5 yrs56.4 yrs6th of 346
Disability among 65+
58.1%
43.5%43.0%10th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.36%
5.28%4.92%134th of 346
Difficulty seeing
6.03%
5.51%4.58%112th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.80%
2.42%2.16%16th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.24%
2.49%2.70%282nd of 346
Private health insurance
2.2%
3.4%13.2%224th of 335
No health coverage
9.70%
4.18%1.98%5th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
91.2%
95.7%92.1%218th of 332
Households lacking health access
7.9%
7.1%6.0%78th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
162
13,5041,523,716302nd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
4
34736,698311th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.47%
2.57%2.41%217th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.0 days
5.8 days6.1 days224th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
10.9
19.619.9292nd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
51
92100278th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
2
84489,723323rd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
1.2%
6.3%5.9%329th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
5.5
47.748.6326th 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.
10
96100326th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 29%Injuries, bones and skin 20%Digestive and urinary tract 19%Infections and other reasons 9.9%Mind, nerves and senses 9.9%Tumours, bl… 6.2%Pregnancy, … 6.2%Circulatory system16%Respiratory system13%Injuries and poisoning17%SkinMusc…Digestive system12%Genitourin…system6.8%Ill-definedsymptoms4.3%Infectiousandparasitic3.7%Contactwithhealth…1.9%Mental andbehavioural6.2%Nervoussystem2.5%Eye0.6%Ear0.6%Endocrine andmetabolic4.3%Cancers and tumoursPregnancy andchildbirth6.2%
Heart and lungs 29%Injuries, bone… 20%Digestive an… 19%Infections a… 9.9%Mind, nerves… 9.9%Tumo… 6.2%Preg… 6.2%Circulatorysystem16%Respiratorysystem13%Injuries andpoisoning17%Musc…Digestivesystem12%GenitourinarysystemIll-de…sympto…4.3%Infec…andparas…3.7%Mental andbehavioural6.2%Nervo…systemEndoc…andmetab…4.3%Pregnancyandchildbirth6.2%
Pregnancy, birth and newbornshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
18.1%
19.4%17.3%212th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.9 UF
20.6 UF32.0 UF200th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
127.3%
98.2%78.9%9th 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.
70.2
87.985.6221st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
47.4%
54.2%54.4%232nd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
5.6%
7.7%8.6%296th of 345
Self-employed
39.0%
37.6%33.8%99th of 345
Extreme poverty
10.2%
7.7%6.9%100th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
8.6%
17.8%17.7%299th of 335
Unemployment rate
11.1%
10.0%8.8%90th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 463,688
CLP 543,039CLP 783,124261st 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.
0.481
0.4550.48856th of 321
Registered firms
257
15,5461,582,390321st of 346
Annual sales
674,603 UF
95,172,956 UF34,347,683,688 UF309th 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.
958
59,3239,699,164298th of 346
Sales per firm
2,625 UF
6,122 UF21,706 UF230th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.9
2.63.990th of 346
Women among employees
39.4%
44.0%40.6%204th of 345
Independent contractors
527
19,5483,958,269301st of 346
Contractors as share of workers
35.5%
24.8%29.0%74th of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 30%Natural resources 25%Industry and construction 22%Trade and logistics 16%Education13%Publicadministration9.0%Health7.5%Agriculture and fishing24%Manufacturing14%Construct…6.7%Water…Elect…Retail and wholesale8.0%Transport6.1%Accom…andfood2.1%Administ…servicesProf…serv…Inf…Dome…workArtsand…
State and social servi… 30%Natural resources 25%Industry and constr… 22%Trade and l… 16%Education13%Publicadministration9.0%Health7.5%Agriculture andfishing24%Manufacturi…14%Constr…6.7%Wat…Ele…Retail andwholesale8.0%Transport6.1%Acc…andfoodAdmin…servi…Domest…workArts…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Skilled occupations 59%Managers and professionals 27%Elementary occupations 13%Craft and trades20%Service andsales15%Skilledagricultural11%Plant andmachineoperators8.6%Cleric…support4.5%Professionals12%Technicians12%Mana…Elementary occupations13%
Skilled occupations 59%Managers and professionals 27%Elementary… 13%Craft andtrades20%Service and sales15%Skilledagricultural11%Plant andmachineoperators8.6%Clericalsupport4.5%Professiona…12%Technicians12%Elementaryoccupations13%
Elementary occupationshover 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

Curaco de Vélez99%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Curaco de Vélez99%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.1%
4.4%5.7%297th of 345
Internet access
79.2%
87.3%93.2%315th 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.
2.8
4.72.3224th 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.
2.9
4.41.6187th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
1,418
67,5066,408,172321st of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.00%
0.20%0.57%337th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.78%
1.49%1.13%257th of 345
Public water network
63.2%
73.0%92.3%297th of 345
Electricity access
99.7%
99.3%99.6%79th of 345
Detached houses
99.2%
98.4%78.7%101st of 345
Apartments
0.0%
0.4%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.30%0.23%298th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
21.8%
16.2%11.9%104th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
36
2,776491,904332nd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
2.5%
4.1%7.5%338th of 345
Renting households
10.4%
20.1%26.2%285th of 345
Owner-occupiers
79.8%
70.3%61.1%9th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
89.0%
82.3%24.4%61st of 345
Commute by public transport
30.2%
28.4%42.1%119th of 345
Walks to work
13.6%
19.1%10.2%185th of 345
Households with a computer
39.3%
40.0%54.9%231st 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.
1.9
1.61.1140th 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.
100.0%
94.1%97.0%1st 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%
99.9%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.
84.2%
68.6%89.4%124th 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%
92.0%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%
99.5%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.
15.8
11.25.9139th 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%
49.0%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.
52.1%
66.6%90.0%207th 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%
90.2%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
1.10.6197th 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%
96.7%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.
87.7%
70.4%91.6%127th 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%
91.7%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%
99.9%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 43%Public transport 30%On foot or by bi… 14%Other means 13%Car43%Public transport30%Walking14%Other12%
Private vehicle 43%Public transport 30%On foot or by bicycle 14%Other means 13%Car43%Public transport30%Walking14%Other12%
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 80%Rented 10%Provided… 8.2%Owned outright79%Rented, nocontract6.0%Rented, withcontract4.4%Provided byfamily7.5%
Owned 80%Rented 10%Provided rent… 8.2%Owned outright79%Rented, nocontractRented,with…Provided byfamily
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 93%Firewood89%Pel…Gas2.0%Paraff…1.6%Electr…2.9%Noheat…
Wood and biomass 93%Firewood89%
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
82.6%
of the registered voted in the first round
83.1%
voted in the runoff
3,750
registered voters on the roll
6.9%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman33.3%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist66.7%58.3%
Curaco de VélezChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez25.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman22.4%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.6%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist28.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.9%1.3%
Curaco de VélezChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile25.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile11.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido14.8%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente42.9%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.6%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
Curaco de VélezChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Curaco de Vélez 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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