Commune · 08205

CuranilahueCuranilahue

Compare Curanilahue with another place
Census population
31,119
126th of 346
Population density
31.1/km²
169th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.2 yrs
191st of 346
Foreign-born share
0.9%
296th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Census unemployment1st of 345 · Chile 8.6%15.2%
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 second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.5 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.5 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 · 504 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
77.8%
25th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
16.2%
201st of 335
Came from another region
4.9%
328th of 335
Net internal migration
-14,961
-44.1 per 100 residents
Curanilahuethis commune · 48,517elsewhere in the region5,489 peopleanother region1,677 peopleabroad362 peopleelsewhere in the region12,393 peopleanother region9,734 peopleCuranilahuethis commune · 33,918
Curanilahuethis commune · 48,517elsewhere in th…5,489 peopleanother region1,677 peopleabroad362 peopleelsewhere in th…12,393 peopleanother region9,734 peopleCuranilahuethis commune · 33,918

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520243Public administration1Public administration▲24Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▲21Agriculture and fishing3Agriculture and fishing▼25Construction4Construction▲17Manufacturing5Manufacturing▲22Education6Education▼412Health7Health▲59Transport8Transport▲110Other services9Other services▲16Administrative services10Administrative services▼48Mining11Mining▼311Accommodation and food12Accommodation and food▼1
2005202431Public administration▲242Retail and wholesale▲213Agriculture and fishing▼254Construction▲175Manufacturing▲226Education▼4127Health▲598Transport▲1109Other services▲1610Administrative services▼4811Mining▼31112Accommodation and food▼1

The ten branches that employ most of Curanilahue

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.

3 k4 k5 k6 k7 kprojection →5 k2029 · central2005201520242029
3 k4 k5 k6 k7 kprojection →5 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval0.3% a year observed · -3.8% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

3.0 M4.0 M5.0 M6.0 Mprojection →4.5 M2029 · central2005201520242029
3.0 M4.0 M5.0 M6.0 Mprojection →4.5 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval0.7% a year observed · -1.8% projected

What Curanilahue is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Curanilahue employs more people in 52 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.

52
activities it is specialised in
5,873
formal workers
180/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Actividades de la administración …Servicios de corta de madera a ca…Venta al por menor en comercios d…Fabricación de otros productos el…Cultivo de cítricosRecogida de desechos no peligrososVenta al por mayor de otros enser…Fabricación de carrocerías para v…Venta al por mayor de productos d…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Fabricación de otros productos el…Cultivo de cítricosExtracción de maderaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Curanilahue

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 cítricosCultivo de plantas perennes3565.5×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura11744.1×
Otros servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura n.c.p.Servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura43117.6×
Preparación del terrenoDemolición y preparación del terreno3579.8×
Reparación de maquinaria agropecuaria y forestalReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo79.5×
Actividades combinadas de servicios administrativos de oficinaActividades administrativas y de apoyo de oficina197.6×
Venta al por menor de combustibles para vehículos automotores en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de combustibles para vehículos automotores en comercios especializados1537.1×
Actividades de la administración pública en generalAdministración del estado y aplicación de la política económica y social de la comunidad2,4746.5×
Servicios de forestación a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura325.5×
Suministro de comidas por encargo (servicios de banquetería)Suministro de comidas por encargo y otras actividades de servicio de comidas195.3×
Servicios prestados de forma independiente por otros profesionales de la saludOtras actividades de atención de la salud humana125.2×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadoresOtras actividades de alojamiento95.0×

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
85,267
hectares in holdings
93.4%
of them under a named use
27.0%
of the crop land is irrigated
177
holdings with land here
Woodland 88%Not far… 12%Forest plantations65%Native woodland22%Scrub,barrenground and…6.6%Untilledland5.1%
Woodland 88%Forest plantations65%Nativewoodland22%Scrub, barren ground and…Untilled land
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
CuranilahueChile% of each territory's own population · 31,119 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
31,119
166,23118,480,432126th of 346
Average age
38.7 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs209th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
79.9
75.779.0226th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
31.1/km²
30.4/km²24.7/km²169th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
11,095
59,4676,596,527127th of 346
Dwellings
13,203
70,3117,642,716138th of 346
People per household
2.80
2.802.80131st of 345
Women
51.4%
51.4%51.5%106th of 346
Men per 100 women
94.6
94.494.3241st of 346
Under 15
18.8%
19.1%17.7%92nd of 346
65 and over
15.1%
14.5%14.0%214th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
51.3
50.646.5164th of 346
One-person households
19.1%
20.5%21.8%277th of 345
Households with children
36.1%
36.3%33.2%68th of 345
Indigenous peoples
12.8%
26.9%11.4%139th of 346
Female-headed households
45.7%
47.9%49.9%246th of 345
Land area
1,002 km²
5,476 km²748,041 km²134th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Curanilahue49%Arrived since 202051%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Curanilahue49%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
0.9%
0.9%8.7%296th 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.
77.8%
72.6%50.5%25th 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.
16.2%
18.1%23.9%201st of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
4.9%
8.1%17.2%328th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
281
1,5371,608,650204th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
30.7 yrs
31.8 yrs33.5 yrs306th of 345
Women among foreign-born
49.8%
50.7%51.7%221st of 345
Foreign-born of working age
78.6%
80.4%83.1%260th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
49.5%
44.5%34.4%51st 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%
1.1%10.6%302nd of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.7 yrs
12.2 yrs12.9 yrs131st 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.
-14,961
-38,4790302nd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-44.1
-21.60.0291st of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Curanilahue21%Higher38%Secondary32%Primary only4.7%5.2%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Curanilahue21%38%Secondary32%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.2 yrs
9.0 yrs10.4 yrs191st of 346
Reached higher education
20.9%
20.1%31.1%168th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.4%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.
64.7%
59.3%55.6%32nd 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.
100.9%
102.3%99.8%202nd of 346
Literacy rate
95.2%
95.1%97.8%243rd of 346
Reached secondary education
37.5%
35.4%36.7%157th of 346
Primary education only
31.7%
34.7%24.1%174th of 346
Never attended school
4.73%
4.65%3.01%62nd 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.
10.6 yrs
10.3 yrs12.1 yrs182nd of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.7 yrs
10.6 yrs12.1 yrs206th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.83%
4.86%2.18%101st of 345
Households lacking schooling
27.6%
29.1%15.1%114th 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.
397
2,234217,565114th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
23.9%
30.8%33.9%241st 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%
6.6%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
63.8%
66.6%67.2%154th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
32.7%
21.4%19.7%33rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
3.5%
11.9%13.1%315th 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.
2.7%
7.6%13.0%254th 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.
49.8%
50.6%49.7%197th 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.

397left secondary school in 2024
257enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
64.7%continued immediately
64%of those, to a university
3%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%Tecnico en Maquinaria y Vehiculos PesadosTecnico Universitario en EnfermeriaTecnico Universitario en Educacion de ParvulosPsicologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialKinesiologiaTecnico en Electricidad y Automatizacion IndustrialTecnico en Prevencion de Riesgos LaboralesMedicina VeterinariaTecnico en Administracion
0.0%5.0%10.0%Tecnico en Maquinaria y Vehiculos PesadosTecnico Universitario en EnfermeriaTecnico Universitario en Educacion de ParvulosPsicologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialKinesiologiaTecnico en Electricidad y Automatizacion IndustrialTecnico en Prevencion de Riesgos LaboralesMedicina VeterinariaTecnico en Administracion
CuranilahueChile

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 industryHealth and welfareEducationBusiness and lawServicesSocial sciencesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareEducationBusiness and lawServicesSocial sciencesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
CuranilahueChile

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

0200400600200620152024397257
0200400600200620152024397257
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 Curanilahue'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 Curanilahue 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

Curanilahue95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Curanilahue95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.2%
13.7%10.6%170th of 346
Public health insurance
95.5%
94.6%82.6%80th of 335
Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents · Not age-adjusted. It mixes how much illness there is with how much hospital there is nearby.
85.5
93.882.574th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
95
105100149th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
3,796
22,8111,950,388126th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
57.3 yrs
56.5 yrs56.4 yrs204th of 346
Disability among 65+
44.3%
42.1%43.0%209th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.87%
6.85%4.92%93rd of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.71%
6.47%4.58%231st of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.24%
2.91%2.16%232nd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.74%
3.03%2.70%191st of 346
Private health insurance
0.9%
1.8%13.2%281st of 335
No health coverage
1.31%
1.35%1.98%182nd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
91.3%
95.0%92.1%216th of 332
Households lacking health access
6.7%
6.1%6.0%110th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
2,661
15,6001,523,716113th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
61
35836,698135th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.29%
2.29%2.41%240th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.9 days
6.4 days6.1 days123rd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
19.6
21.519.9165th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
102
11310073rd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
143
72989,723119th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.4%
4.7%5.9%183rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
46.0
43.948.6107th 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.
90
88100108th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 25%Heart and lungs 20%Pregnancy, birth … 17%Injuries, bon… 14%Tumours, blood and… 13%Mind, nerve… 5.4%Infections … 4.9%Digestive system15%Genitourin…system9.5%Circulatorysystem10%Respiratorysystem10%Pregnancy andchildbirth15%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculoskel…2.9%SkinCancers andtumours7.7%Endocrineandmetabolic5.4%Mentalandbehaviou…NervoussystemEyeInfec…andparas…Ill-…symp…Con…withhea…
Digestive and urinary t… 25%Heart and lungs 20%Pregnancy… 17%Injuries, bones and … 14%Tumours, blood and m… 13%Digestivesystem15%Genitour…system9.5%Circulat…system10%Respirat…system10%Pregnancyandchildbirth15%Injuries andpoisoning10%Muscu…2.9%SkinCancers andtumours7.7%EndocrineandmetabolicMentaland…Nerv…syst…Inf…andpar…
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

Órganos digestivos40%Mama16%Sitiosreservados14%Genitales femeninos8.4%Tiroides y endocrinas7.7%Sitios maldefinidos7.7%Sangre y sistemalinfático6.3%
Órganos digestivos40%Mama16%Sitiosreservados14%Genitalesfemeninos8.4%Tiroides yendocrinas7.7%Sitios maldefinidos7.7%Sangre ysistemalinfático
Órganos digestivosMamaSitios reservadosGenitales femeninosTiroides y endocrinasSitios mal definidoshover 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.
18.4%
25.6%17.3%205th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
19.5 UF
25.1 UF32.0 UF291st of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
86.7%
84.6%78.9%276th 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.
58.8
63.185.6292nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
45.7%
45.2%54.4%256th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
15.2%
11.7%8.6%1st of 345
Self-employed
26.4%
36.0%33.8%320th of 345
Extreme poverty
6.6%
9.5%6.9%209th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
18.8%
22.4%17.7%149th of 335
Unemployment rate
10.7%
12.6%8.8%104th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 549,725
CLP 504,984CLP 783,124155th 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.
0.408
0.4560.488235th of 321
Registered firms
1,830
10,4821,582,390152nd of 346
Annual sales
4,898,411 UF
155,593,136 UF34,347,683,688 UF197th 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.
5,885
41,3159,699,164161st of 346
Sales per firm
2,677 UF
14,844 UF21,706 UF228th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.4
3.03.9120th of 346
Women among employees
52.3%
45.7%40.6%27th of 345
Independent contractors
1,825
12,7273,958,269163rd of 346
Contractors as share of workers
23.7%
23.6%29.0%233rd of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 35%Trade and logistics 20%Industry and construction 20%Natural resou… 14%Advance… 5.5%Other s… 5.4%Health12%Public administration12%Education12%Retail and wholesale12%Transport5.0%Accommodation andfoodManufacturing11%Constructi…7.0%Water an…Elect…Agricultureand fishing11%MiningAdminis…services3.5%Prof…serv…Info…Fin…Otherservic…3.4%Dome…workArts…
State and social services 35%Trade and lo… 20%Industry and con… 20%Natural r… 14%Adva… 5.5%Othe… 5.4%Health12%Publicadministration12%Education12%Retail andwholesale12%Transport5.0%Accom…andfood2.9%Manufactu…11%Constru…7.0%Wate…Agricultureand fishing11%MiningAdmin…servi…3.5%Pro…Inf…Otherservi…3.4%Dom…workArt…
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%Managers and professionals 24%Elementary occupations 23%Service andsales17%Plant andmachineoperators14%Craft and trades12%Clericalsupport5.1%Skilledagricultural4.2%Professionals12%Technicians10%Elementary occupations23%
Skilled occupations 53%Managers and professi… 24%Elementary occupati… 23%Service andsales17%Plant andmachineoperators14%Craft and trades12%Clericalsupport5.1%Skilledagricul…4.2%Profession…12%Technicia…10%Elementaryoccupations23%
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

Curanilahue98%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Curanilahue98%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.8%
4.9%5.7%234th of 345
Internet access
90.2%
87.5%93.2%151st 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.
1.6
3.52.3283rd 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.
2.0
3.31.6241st of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
10,989
58,8566,408,172126th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.24%
0.25%0.57%267th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.53%
1.14%1.13%109th of 345
Public water network
92.1%
78.8%92.3%108th of 345
Electricity access
99.1%
98.8%99.6%229th of 345
Detached houses
98.3%
98.9%78.7%168th of 345
Apartments
0.6%
0.2%19.9%144th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.30%
0.22%0.23%100th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
14.0%
14.6%11.9%183rd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
480
2,352491,904143rd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.3%
4.0%7.5%258th of 345
Renting households
9.0%
11.3%26.2%308th of 345
Owner-occupiers
74.5%
75.6%61.1%49th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
88.4%
88.2%24.4%67th of 345
Commute by public transport
26.9%
25.6%42.1%154th of 345
Walks to work
32.8%
26.3%10.2%28th of 345
Households with a computer
41.2%
40.2%54.9%193rd 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.
1.0
1.41.1278th of 345
People within 5 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
96.3%
95.1%97.0%134th 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.
99.7%
99.9%99.9%274th 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.
93.5%
76.9%89.4%85th 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.
99.3%
97.5%98.1%140th 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.
1.8
9.75.9287th 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.
93.0%
57.2%80.3%72nd 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.
99.3%
75.0%90.0%87th 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%
92.5%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.
0.7
0.90.6258th 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.
98.2%
98.8%99.0%189th 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.
92.9%
78.7%91.6%103rd 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.
99.3%
95.1%98.5%152nd 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%
99.7%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

On foot or by bicycle 35%Public transport 27%Private vehicle 25%Other means 13%Walking33%Public transport27%Car25%Other13%
On foot or by bicycle 35%Public transport 27%Private vehicle 25%Other means 13%Walking33%Public transport27%Car25%Other13%
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 75%Provided ren… 9.6%Rented 9.0%Other 6.8%Owned outright70%Provided byfamily9.3%Rented,nocontract5.2%Rente…withcontr…3.8%Otherarrangement6.8%
Owned 75%Provided ren… 9.6%Rented 9.0%Other 6.8%Owned outright70%Provided byfamily9.3%Rented,nocontract5.2%Rente…withcontr…3.8%Otherarrangement6.8%
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 91%Firewood88%Gas3.9%Paraffin1.2%Electri…2.3%Noheating
Wood and biomass 91%Firewood88%Paraff…ElectricityNo…
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
88.1%
of the registered voted in the first round
87.9%
voted in the runoff
29,521
registered voters on the roll
8.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman34.7%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist65.3%58.3%
CuranilahueChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez31.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman21.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen10.8%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist28.7%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet5.9%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.7%1.3%
CuranilahueChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile22.6%30.6%
KCambio por Chile14.6%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido36.6%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente14.3%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.0%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.6%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde4.1%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%
CuranilahueChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Curanilahue 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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