Commune · 07301

CuricóCuricó

Compare Curicó with another place
Census population
159,968
33rd of 346
Population density
119.9/km²
84th of 346
Average years of schooling
10.0 yrs
83rd of 346
Foreign-born share
6.6%
71st of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 30 km of a school in operation305th of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Annual sales41st of 342 · Chile 34,347,683,688 UF94,115,887 UF
Average monthly pay301st of 342 · Chile 32.0 UF19.1 UF
Contractors as share of workers301st of 346 · Chile 29.0%18.3%
People within 30 km of any health facility298th of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Irrecoverable dwellings297th of 345 · Chile 1.13%0.58%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.1 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.1 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 · 2,209 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
63.8%
133rd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
14.9%
218th of 335
Came from another region
15.4%
160th of 335
Net internal migration
-9,592
-5.6 per 100 residents
Curicóthis commune · 170,946another region26,418 peopleelsewhere in the region25,561 peopleabroad10,095 peopleanother region49,767 peopleelsewhere in the region11,804 peopleCuricóthis commune · 171,449
Curicóthis commune · 170,946another region26,418 peopleelsewhere in th…25,561 peopleabroad10,095 peopleanother region49,767 peopleelsewhere in th…11,804 peopleCuricóthis commune · 171,449

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing5Administrative services2Administrative services▲32Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼13Construction4Construction▼18Public administration5Public administration▲37Transport6Transport▲14Manufacturing7Manufacturing▼36Education8Education▼210Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food▲19Professional services10Professional services▼112Health11Health▲111Other services12Other services▼1
2005202411Agriculture and fishing52Administrative services▲323Retail and wholesale▼134Construction▼185Public administration▲376Transport▲147Manufacturing▼368Education▼2109Accommodation and food▲1910Professional services▼11211Health▲11112Other services▼1

The ten branches that employ most of Curicó

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.

30 k55 k80 k105 k130 kprojection →107 k2029 · central2005201520242029
30 k55 k80 k105 k130 kprojection →107 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.3% a year observed · 2.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

10 M35 M60 M85 M110 Mprojection →92 M2029 · central2005201520242029
10 M35 M60 M85 M110 Mprojection →92 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.3% a year observed · -0.4% projected

What Curicó is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Curicó employs more people in 90 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.

90
activities it is specialised in
92,573
formal workers
115/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Otras actividades de dotación de …Otras actividades de servicios de…Transporte de carga por carreteraSuministro industrial de comidas …Otros servicios de almacenamiento…Actividades de envasado y empaque…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Extracción de piedra, arena y arc…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Servicios de seguridad privada pr…Cultivo de floresServicio notarialVenta al por mayor de desperdicio…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Curicó

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 porotosCultivo de plantas no perennes25240.3×
ApiculturaGanadería8710.3×
Fabricación de recipientes de maderaFabricación de productos de madera, corcho, paja y materiales trenzables14710.0×
Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de huesoCultivo de plantas perennes15,1949.8×
Venta al por mayor de desperdicios, desechos y otros productos n.c.p.Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada719.2×
Cultivo de floresCultivo de plantas no perennes1189.0×
Reparación de equipo de comunicaciones (incluye la reparación teléfonos celulares)Reparación de computadores y equipo de comunicaciones437.5×
Cultivo de uva destinada a la producción de vinoCultivo de plantas perennes8557.2×
Actividades de apoyo a la agriculturaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha17,5606.2×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada4765.8×
Fabricación de plaguicidas y otros productos químicos de uso agropecuarioFabricación de otros productos químicos595.5×
Actividades de envasado y empaquetadoActividades de servicios de apoyo a las empresas n.c.p.9375.2×

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
39,002
hectares in holdings
94.2%
of them under a named use
98.0%
of the crop land is irrigated
935
holdings with land here
Woodland 48%Orchards and vineyards 28%Not farmed 16%Annual crops 4.9%Pasture 3.0%Native woodland44%Forest plantationsFruit trees23%Vines5.5%Untilled land9.9%Scrub,barrenground and…5.8%Vegetables1.7%FoddercropsCerea…1.1%Nur…Pasture
Woodland 48%Orchards and vineyards 28%Not farmed 16%Annual… 4.9%Native woodland44%For…pla…Fruit trees23%VinesUntilledland9.9%Scrub,barrenground…5.8%Veg…Cerea…Pastu…3.0%
Pasturehover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MenWomen001122334455%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
MenWomen00224466%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
CuricóChile% of each territory's own population · 159,968 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
159,968
309,33918,480,43233rd of 346
Average age
38.0 yrs
38.9 yrs38.1 yrs254th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
74.0
83.379.0253rd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
119.9/km²
42.5/km²24.7/km²84th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
57,321
110,8956,596,52731st of 346
Dwellings
62,225
127,3777,642,71632nd of 346
People per household
2.79
2.792.80139th of 345
Women
51.8%
51.2%51.5%62nd of 346
Men per 100 women
93.1
95.494.3285th of 346
Under 15
18.5%
17.9%17.7%118th of 346
65 and over
13.7%
14.9%14.0%263rd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
47.4
48.846.5265th of 346
One-person households
20.6%
20.5%21.8%224th of 345
Households with children
34.7%
33.9%33.2%116th of 345
Indigenous peoples
5.4%
5.8%11.4%240th of 346
Female-headed households
49.9%
48.0%49.9%114th of 345
Land area
1,334 km²
7,286 km²748,041 km²107th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Curicó39%Arrived since 202061%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Curicó39%Arrived since 202061%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
6.6%
4.7%8.7%71st 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.
63.8%
65.2%50.5%133rd 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.
14.9%
15.1%23.9%218th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
15.4%
15.4%17.2%160th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
10,601
14,4531,608,65045th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
32.8 yrs
32.4 yrs33.5 yrs204th of 345
Women among foreign-born
49.1%
48.6%51.7%256th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
81.6%
81.5%83.1%152nd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
38.6%
41.3%34.4%161st 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.
8.0%
5.7%10.6%71st of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.0 yrs
12.7 yrs12.9 yrs92nd 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.
-9,592
-26,2030283rd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-5.6
-8.10.0177th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Curicó28%Higher37%Secondary27%Primary only5.6%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Curicó28%Higher37%Secondary27%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.0 yrs
9.5 yrs10.4 yrs83rd of 346
Reached higher education
27.8%
23.0%31.1%80th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.9%
98.8%98.6%227th 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.
50.2%
51.6%55.6%234th 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%
102.4%99.8%220th of 346
Literacy rate
97.4%
96.0%97.8%122nd of 346
Reached secondary education
36.6%
36.8%36.7%193rd of 346
Primary education only
27.0%
31.3%24.1%237th of 346
Never attended school
2.97%
3.55%3.01%249th 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.
11.7 yrs
10.9 yrs12.1 yrs82nd of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.8 yrs
11.1 yrs12.1 yrs84th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
2.61%
3.96%2.18%221st of 345
Households lacking schooling
23.3%
27.7%15.1%171st 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.
2,619
4,011217,56522nd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
41.8%
44.8%33.9%142nd 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.
3.1%
4.6%3.1%99th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
69.4%
64.8%67.2%100th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
10.7%
12.3%19.7%271st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
19.9%
23.0%13.1%126th 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.
20.8%
16.7%13.0%122nd 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.
50.0%
49.9%49.7%196th 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.

2,619left secondary school in 2024
1,315enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
50.2%continued immediately
69%of those, to a university
21%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizTecnico en EnfermeriaIngenieria Civil en ComputacionEnfermeriaObstetricia y PuericulturaIngenieria Civil Electrica
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizTecnico en EnfermeriaIngenieria Civil en ComputacionEnfermeriaObstetricia y PuericulturaIngenieria Civil Electrica
CuricóChile

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 welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
CuricóChile

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

01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,6191,315
01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,6191,315
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 Curicó'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 Curicó 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

Curicó89%Fonasa7.1%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Curicó89%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.2%
11.9%10.6%213th of 346
Public health insurance
88.9%
91.7%82.6%228th 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.
76.2
71.182.5128th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
106
109100108th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
17,941
36,8481,950,38824th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
56.0 yrs
57.3 yrs56.4 yrs265th of 346
Disability among 65+
41.9%
44.4%43.0%269th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.42%
5.95%4.92%208th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.87%
5.14%4.58%220th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.19%
2.36%2.16%244th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.80%
2.89%2.70%182nd of 346
Private health insurance
7.1%
4.6%13.2%86th of 335
No health coverage
2.45%
2.17%1.98%102nd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
92.5%
92.2%92.1%190th of 332
Households lacking health access
3.8%
3.6%6.0%224th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
12,183
22,0091,523,71639th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
327
69536,69830th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.68%
3.16%2.41%184th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.7 days
6.8 days6.1 days154th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
20.4
22.519.9146th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
93
85100117th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
764
1,34889,72337th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.3%
6.1%5.9%115th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
47.8
43.648.694th 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.
98
8610079th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 25%Pregnancy, birth and newborns 18%Injuries, bones … 17%Heart and lungs 17%Tumours, blood and meta… 15%Mind, ne… 5.5%Infectio… 2.6%Digestivesystem15%Genitourin…system10.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth16%Per…con…Con…mal…Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskelet…5.4%SkinCirculatorysystem9.1%Respiratory system8.0%Cancers andtumours8.6%Endocrineandmetabolic5.6%Mentalandbehav…2.7%Nervoussystem2.1%EarContact…
Digestive and urinary tr… 25%Pregnancy, birt… 18%Injuries… 17%Heart and lungs 17%Tumours, blood and meta… 15%Digestivesystem15%Genitour…system10.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth16%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoske…5.4%Circulatorysystem9.1%Respiratorysystem8.0%Cancers andtumours8.6%Endocrineandmetabolic5.6%Mentalandbehav…2.7%Nervo…system2.1%Conta…with…
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 digestivos30%Mama10%Sangre y sistemalinfático10%Genitalesmasculinos9.9%Vías urinarias9.4%Genitalesfemeninos7.7%Tiroides yendocrinas5.6%Víasrespirat…4.2%Sitiosmaldefinidos3.3%Piel ymelanoma2.4%Encéf…ysiste…2.4%Boca yfarin…2.1%Huesos1.4%Tejidosblandos1.4%
Órganos digestivos30%Mama10%Sangre ysistemalinfático10%Genitalesmasculinos9.9%Víasurinarias9.4%Genitalesfemeninos7.7%Tiroidesyendocrin…5.6%Víasrespir…4.2%Sitiosmaldefini…3.3%Piel ymelano…Encéfalo ysistema…Boca yfarin…2.1%Hue…Tejidos…
Órganos digestivosMamaSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales masculinosVías urinariasGenitales femeninoshover 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.
19.2%
19.4%17.3%188th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
19.1 UF
18.9 UF32.0 UF301st of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
95.1%
94.5%78.9%201st 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
101.185.662nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
54.2%
52.4%54.4%104th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
8.8%
8.9%8.6%162nd of 345
Self-employed
30.1%
30.3%33.8%279th of 345
Extreme poverty
7.3%
7.4%6.9%183rd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
12.6%
11.9%17.7%257th of 335
Unemployment rate
9.0%
8.1%8.8%167th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 564,474
CLP 528,684CLP 783,124140th 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.
0.448
0.4240.488125th of 321
Registered firms
16,577
31,2651,582,39024th of 346
Annual sales
94,115,887 UF
208,679,717 UF34,347,683,688 UF41st 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.
92,594
207,8679,699,16419th of 346
Sales per firm
5,677 UF
6,675 UF21,706 UF105th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.6
2.73.9112th of 346
Women among employees
39.3%
40.5%40.6%207th of 345
Independent contractors
20,738
35,7123,958,26937th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
18.3%
14.7%29.0%301st of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 29%State and social services 22%Natural resources 18%Industry and c… 17%Advanced s… 9.1%Other serv… 5.6%Retail andwholesale19%Transport5.7%Accommodat…and food4.1%Education9.8%Health8.2%Public administrationAgriculture and fishing17%Manufacturing8.4%Construction7.0%Profes…servic…3.2%Admin…servi…2.9%Inform…andcommun…Finan…andinsur…Domes…work2.4%Otherservices
Trade and logistics 29%State and social… 22%Natural reso… 18%Industry an… 17%Advance… 9.1%Other s… 5.6%Retail andwholesale19%Transpo…5.7%Accommo…and food4.1%Education9.8%Health8.2%Publicadmin…3.7%Agricultureand fishing17%Manufacturing8.4%Constructi…7.0%Profess…servicesAdminist…servicesInf…and…Fin…and…Domes…workOtherserv…
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 50%Managers and professionals 31%Elementary occupations 19%Service and sales20%Craft and trades13%Plant and machineoperators7.9%Clericalsupport6.0%Skilledagricultu…3.8%Professionals17%Technicians9.9%Managers4.3%Elementary occupations19%
Skilled occupations 50%Managers and professionals 31%Elementary oc… 19%Service andsales20%Craft andtrades13%Plant and machineoperators7.9%Clericalsupport6.0%Skill…agric…3.8%Professiona…17%Technicians9.9%ManagersElementaryoccupations19%
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

Curicó95%House4.9%Chile79%House20%Flat
Curicó95%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.2%
5.6%5.7%178th of 345
Internet access
93.4%
90.8%93.2%83rd 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
2.92.3285th 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.
1.5
2.81.6262nd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
55,895
108,5276,408,17231st of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.35%
0.33%0.57%145th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.58%
0.86%1.13%297th of 345
Public water network
95.9%
92.4%92.3%68th of 345
Electricity access
99.8%
99.6%99.6%55th of 345
Detached houses
94.6%
96.8%78.7%239th of 345
Apartments
4.9%
2.5%19.9%93rd of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.14%0.23%243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
7.7%
11.9%11.9%277th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
3,223
6,215491,90451st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
5.6%
5.6%7.5%157th of 345
Renting households
22.0%
17.6%26.2%83rd of 345
Owner-occupiers
67.4%
69.0%61.1%199th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
32.9%
48.0%24.4%215th of 345
Commute by public transport
26.4%
23.3%42.1%158th of 345
Walks to work
7.5%
9.0%10.2%294th of 345
Households with a computer
55.2%
49.2%54.9%57th 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.
0.8
1.31.1296th 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.
99.7%
97.1%97.0%62nd of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%235th 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%298th 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.
96.2%
81.8%89.4%68th 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.
99.6%
98.5%98.1%123rd of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%244th 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.
2.3
10.45.9274th 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.
90.1%
46.9%80.3%79th 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.
96.9%
79.3%90.0%116th of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
99.9%
92.0%96.2%157th 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.
0.5
0.80.6287th 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.
99.9%
99.4%99.0%95th 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%255th 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%305th 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.
92.2%
81.0%91.6%106th 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.
98.9%
96.9%98.5%165th of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%245th of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 45%Public transport 26%On foot or by bicycle 18%Other me… 10%Car43%Public transport26%Bicycle11%Walking7.5%Other10%
Private vehicle 45%Public trans… 26%On foot or by bicycle 18%Other means 10%Car43%Publictransport26%Bicycle11%Walking7.5%Other10%
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 67%Rented 22%Provided re… 8.0%Owned outright50%Owned, still paying17%Rented, withcontract15%Rented, no contract6.9%Provided byfamily6.6%Otherarra…
Owned 67%Rented 22%Provided … 8.0%Owned outright50%Owned,stillpaying17%Rented, withcontract15%Rented,nocontract6.9%Provided byfamily6.6%
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 37%Fossil fuels 35%Electricity 22%No heating 5.3%Firewood33%Pellets3.8%CoalGas19%Paraffin16%Electricity22%No heating5.3%
Wood and biomass 37%Fossil fuels 35%Electricity 22%Firewood33%PelletsGas19%Paraffin16%Electricity22%Noheating5.3%
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
90.4%
of the registered voted in the first round
90.3%
voted in the runoff
128,583
registered voters on the roll
7.2%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman39.0%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist61.0%58.3%
CuricóChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez19.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman24.6%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist27.3%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet11.4%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.3%1.3%
CuricóChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile48.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile22.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido14.6%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.0%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.5%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%
CuricóChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile23.4%
KCambio por Chile29.4%
JChile Grande y Unido26.5%
IPartido de la Gente10.4%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.4%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.2%
Independents outside a pact4.7%
Curicóshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Curicó 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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