Commune · 09105

FreireFreire

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Census population
26,164
140th of 346
Population density
29.9/km²
172nd of 346
Average years of schooling
8.8 yrs
264th of 346
Foreign-born share
0.9%
300th 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 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 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 UF21.1 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.1 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 · 349 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
54.9%
216th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
31.5%
54th of 335
Came from another region
13.3%
223rd of 335
Net internal migration
+1,503
+5.9 per 100 residents
Freirethis commune · 23,738elsewhere in the region7,969 peopleanother region3,358 peopleabroad83 peopleelsewhere in the region5,699 peopleanother region4,125 peopleFreirethis commune · 25,324
Freirethis commune · 23,738elsewhere in th…7,969 peopleanother region3,358 peopleabroad83 peopleelsewhere in th…5,699 peopleanother region4,125 peopleFreirethis commune · 25,324

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Manufacturing2Manufacturing3Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale5Construction4Construction▲14Education5Education▼16Transport6Transport10Administrative services7Administrative services▲37Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▼112Professional services9Professional services▲39Water and waste10Water and waste▼111Mining11Mining8Other services12Other services▼4
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Manufacturing33Retail and wholesale54Construction▲145Education▼166Transport107Administrative services▲378Accommodation and food▼1129Professional services▲3910Water and waste▼11111Mining812Other services▼4

The ten branches that employ most of Freire

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.

2 k3 k4 k5 k6 kprojection →5 k2029 · central2005201520242029
2 k3 k4 k5 k6 kprojection →5 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.6% a year observed · 1.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

020 M40 M60 Mprojection →02029 · central2005201520242029
020 M40 M60 Mprojection →02029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.4% a year observed

What Freire is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Freire employs more people in 57 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.

57
activities it is specialised in
4,851
formal workers
262/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.13.7Actividades de la administración …Cultivos forrajeros en praderas m…Aserrado y acepilladura de maderaConstrucción de edificios para us…Cultivo de trigoTerminación y acabado de edificiosElaboración de productos lácteosServicios de extinción y prevenci…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.13.7Cultivo de trigoActividades de servicios relacion…Actividades postalesCría de cerdosHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Freire

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
Cultivos forrajeros en praderas mejoradas o sembradas; cultivos suplementarios forrajerosCultivo de plantas no perennes435231.0×
Fabricación de maquinaria agropecuaria y forestalFabricación de maquinaria de uso especial5375.1×
Aserrado y acepilladura de maderaAserrado y acepilladura de madera37839.2×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada15736.6×
Cría de otros animales n.c.p.Ganadería1331.1×
Elaboración de piensos preparados para animalesElaboración de piensos preparados para animales5123.6×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes15622.7×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductorGanadería11622.2×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción lecheraGanadería10617.0×
Servicios de extinción y prevención de incendios forestalesServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura1915.5×
Actividades postalesActividades postales514.9×
Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales (explotación mixta)Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales16214.4×

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
51,352
hectares in holdings
94.7%
of them under a named use
41.7%
of the crop land is irrigated
2,549
holdings with land here
Pasture 42%Annual crops 31%Woodland 15%Not farmed 8.8%Pasture42%Cereals21%Fodder crops4.4%Pulsesandtubers2.7%Industr…crops2.0%Vegetab…Native woodland10.0%Forest plantations5.5%Scrub,barrenground and…5.3%Untilledland3.5%Fruittrees2.7%
Pasture 42%Annual crops 31%Woodland 15%Not farmed 8.8%Pasture42%Cereals21%Foddercrops4.4%Pulses andtubersIndust…cropsNative woodland10.0%Forestplantati…5.5%Scrub,barrenground…5.3%Until…land3.5%Fru…tre…
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
FreireChile% of each territory's own population · 26,164 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
26,164
803,77718,480,432140th of 346
Average age
40.6 yrs
38.4 yrs38.1 yrs89th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
104.6
81.279.093rd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
29.9/km²
43.8/km²24.7/km²172nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
9,721
297,7676,596,527138th of 346
Dwellings
12,597
389,0477,642,716142nd of 346
People per household
2.69
2.702.80211th of 345
Women
50.2%
51.8%51.5%259th of 346
Men per 100 women
99.2
92.994.388th of 346
Under 15
16.7%
18.2%17.7%250th of 346
65 and over
17.5%
14.8%14.0%96th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.1
49.346.5134th of 346
One-person households
23.2%
22.9%21.8%144th of 345
Households with children
30.6%
33.1%33.2%248th of 345
Indigenous peoples
54.7%
36.5%11.4%23rd of 346
Female-headed households
42.4%
49.3%49.9%306th of 345
Land area
875 km²
18,354 km²748,041 km²148th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Freire27%Arrived since 202073%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Freire27%Arrived since…73%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%
2.4%8.7%300th 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.
54.9%
57.2%50.5%216th 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.
31.5%
21.3%23.9%54th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
13.3%
19.8%17.2%223rd of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
229
18,9301,608,650220th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
35.9 yrs
35.0 yrs33.5 yrs74th of 345
Women among foreign-born
49.3%
50.9%51.7%246th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
85.6%
82.3%83.1%24th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
26.6%
28.8%34.4%274th 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%
2.9%10.6%291st of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.1 yrs
13.5 yrs12.9 yrs211th 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.
1,503
-31,1780107th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
5.9
-3.80.0125th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Freire16%Higher36%Secondary39%Primary only4.6%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Freire16%36%Secondary39%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.8 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs264th of 346
Reached higher education
16.3%
26.3%31.1%280th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.5%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.
48.4%
50.9%55.6%264th 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.
100.0%
101.3%99.8%231st of 346
Literacy rate
95.0%
96.8%97.8%252nd of 346
Reached secondary education
36.1%
36.6%36.7%218th of 346
Primary education only
39.0%
28.7%24.1%57th of 346
Never attended school
3.99%
3.41%3.01%122nd 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.
10.0 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs257th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.0 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs290th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.96%
3.16%2.18%95th of 345
Households lacking schooling
33.0%
20.5%15.1%63rd 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.
128
10,404217,565213th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
57.0%
36.9%33.9%66th 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.
17.2%
5.0%3.1%59th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
64.5%
71.6%67.2%148th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
9.7%
15.2%19.7%281st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
25.8%
13.3%13.1%70th 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.
3.2%
10.1%13.0%248th 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.
58.1%
51.2%49.7%47th 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.

128left secondary school in 2024
62enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
48.4%continued immediately
65%of those, to a university
3%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%Bachiller en Ciencias y HumanidadesTecnico en EnfermeriaAgronomiaArquitecturaIngenieria ComercialTecnico en Odontologia
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%Bachiller en Ciencias y HumanidadesTecnico en EnfermeriaAgronomiaArquitecturaIngenieria ComercialTecnico en Odontologia
FreireChile

Each bar is that programme's share of everyone who continued, here and in the country — not a headcount, so a commune of a few hundred can be read beside a country of 121,050. Programme names as the register writes them: in capitals and without accents, and unmerged, since SIES publishes 1,481 distinct names in a single year and two spellings of one degree stay two rows. Only the capitals are undone here.

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareAgriculture and veterinaryEngineering and industryEducationBusiness and lawNatural sciencesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesInformation technologyServices
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareAgriculture and veterinaryEngineering and industryEducationBusiness and lawNatural sciencesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesInformation technologyServices
FreireChile

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

05010015020020062015202412862
05010015020020062015202412862
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 Freire'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 Freire 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

Freire96%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Freire96%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.0%
12.2%10.6%125th of 346
Public health insurance
95.9%
91.4%82.6%72nd 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.
67.7
77.682.5182nd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
107
93100103rd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
3,397
98,0291,950,388140th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.8 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs70th of 346
Disability among 65+
50.0%
44.9%43.0%79th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.81%
5.65%4.92%97th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.12%
5.70%4.58%197th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.11%
2.78%2.16%84th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.94%
3.02%2.70%152nd of 346
Private health insurance
2.2%
5.3%13.2%220th of 335
No health coverage
0.29%
1.11%1.98%269th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
93.0%
92.0%92.1%179th of 332
Households lacking health access
7.2%
5.0%6.0%97th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,770
62,4061,523,716148th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
68
1,57136,698123rd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.84%
2.52%2.41%59th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.5 days
7.2 days6.1 days76th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
26.0
19.519.971st of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
78
93100192nd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
121
3,84589,723130th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.8%
6.2%5.9%77th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
46.2
47.848.6102nd 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.
83
96100131st of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 25%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones… 15%Pregnancy, birt… 15%Tumours, blood a… 13%Mind, nerves … 7.9%Infections an… 4.0%Digestive system17%Genitour…system8.1%Circulatorysystem12%Respiratorysystem8.9%Injuries andpoisoning9.9%Musculoskel…3.1%Skin2.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth13%Peri…Cancers andtumours9.5%Endocrine andmetabolicMental andbehavioural5.7%Nerv…syst…Infecti…and…Conta…with…
Digestive and urinary … 25%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones and sk… 15%Pregnancy, birth and n… 15%Tumours, blood an… 13%Mind, n… 7.9%Digestivesystem17%Genito…system8.1%Circulato…system12%Respira…system8.9%Injuries andpoisoning9.9%Musculo…3.1%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth13%Cancers andtumours9.5%Endoc…andmetab…3.3%Mentalandbehaviou…5.7%Ner…sys…Infect…and…Contac…Ill-de…
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 digestivos36%Sangre y sistemalinfático17%Sitiosreservados16%Mama14%Genitalesfemeninos7.4%Genitalesmasculin…5.0%Vías urinarias
Órganos digestivos36%Sangre ysistemalinfático17%Sitiosreservados16%Mama14%Genitalesfemeninos7.4%Genital…masculi…5.0%Víasurinar…4.1%
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoSitios reservadosMamaGenitales femeninosGenitales masculinoshover 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.
31.1%
30.0%17.3%40th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.1 UF
22.9 UF32.0 UF233rd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
115.1%
101.1%78.9%48th 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.
56.8
77.785.6302nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
42.9%
48.4%54.4%299th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
12.3%
10.2%8.6%21st of 345
Self-employed
36.5%
35.8%33.8%138th of 345
Extreme poverty
12.7%
13.8%6.9%50th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
22.6%
18.6%17.7%92nd of 335
Unemployment rate
16.3%
11.3%8.8%16th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 445,316
CLP 533,802CLP 783,124278th 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.
0.515
0.4950.48819th of 321
Registered firms
1,485
62,4281,582,390184th of 346
Annual sales
6,006,150 UF
267,044,738 UF34,347,683,688 UF178th 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.
4,851
254,9539,699,164180th of 346
Sales per firm
4,045 UF
4,278 UF21,706 UF157th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.1
2.73.9158th of 346
Women among employees
34.7%
41.9%40.6%274th of 345
Independent contractors
1,904
104,1373,958,269160th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
28.2%
29.0%29.0%152nd of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 25%Trade and logistics 24%Industry and construction 21%State and social se… 19%Other … 5.5%Advanc… 5.4%Agriculture and fishing24%Retail andwholesale15%Transport5.4%Accommodati…and food3.1%Construction11%Manufacturing8.4%Water and…Electr…Education8.4%Health6.0%Publicadminist…4.6%Domestic work3.4%Other…Administ…servicesProfessio…services
Natural resources 25%Trade and logistics 24%Industry and co… 21%State and so… 19%Agriculture andfishing24%Retail andwholesale15%Transp…5.4%Accomm…andfoodConstruction11%Manufacturing8.4%Education8.4%Health6.0%Publicadmin…4.6%DomesticworkOther…Admini…servic…Profess…
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 62%Managers and professiona… 19%Elementary occupations 19%Service and sales18%Craft and trades17%Skilledagricultural13%Plant andmachineoperators10%Cleric…support4.4%Profession…8.7%Technicians8.2%ManagersElementaryoccupations19%
Skilled occupations 62%Managers and profess… 19%Elementary occupati… 19%Service and sales18%Craft and trades17%Skilled agricultural13%Plant andmachineoperators10%Cleri…suppo…4.4%Professi…8.7%Technicians8.2%Elementaryoccupations19%
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

Freire100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Freire100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.3%
5.3%5.7%166th of 345
Internet access
77.8%
88.1%93.2%325th 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.
8.0
3.52.353rd 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.
5.6
2.91.676th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
9,637
294,5656,408,172135th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.35%
0.38%0.57%142nd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.53%
1.00%1.13%111th of 345
Public water network
55.1%
80.7%92.3%320th of 345
Electricity access
97.1%
98.6%99.6%325th of 345
Detached houses
99.2%
91.1%78.7%89th of 345
Apartments
0.1%
8.2%19.9%207th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.80%
0.30%0.23%21st of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
17.6%
19.6%11.9%136th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
428
12,914491,904158th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.4%
4.3%7.5%250th of 345
Renting households
8.2%
18.7%26.2%325th of 345
Owner-occupiers
73.6%
68.3%61.1%64th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
91.5%
68.1%24.4%40th of 345
Commute by public transport
34.2%
35.3%42.1%81st of 345
Walks to work
13.2%
13.5%10.2%190th of 345
Households with a computer
32.1%
46.7%54.9%308th 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.
2.6
1.71.169th 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.
84.1%
92.6%97.0%274th of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
32.2%
75.6%89.4%317th 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.
86.3%
96.8%98.1%285th of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
11.6
10.55.9164th 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.
24.6%
50.5%80.3%167th 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.
71.2%
72.5%90.0%187th 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%
90.7%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.
1.5
0.90.688th 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.
97.7%
98.7%99.0%199th 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.
40.8%
78.2%91.6%311th of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
98.3%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 40%Public transport 34%On foot or by bicycle 20%Car38%Public transport34%Walking13%Bicycle6.9%Other5.7%
Private vehicle 40%Public transport 34%On foot or by bicycle 20%Oth… 5.9%Car38%Public transport34%Walking13%Bicycle6.9%Other5.7%
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 74%Provided rent-… 14%Rented 8.2%Other 4.4%Owned outright72%Provided byfamily10.0%Provided byemployerRented,nocontract4.6%Rented,withcontra…3.6%Other arrangement
Owned 74%Provided rent-free 14%Rented 8.2%Owned outright72%Provided byfamily10.0%Provi…byemplo…3.8%Rented,nocontra…4.6%Rente…withcontr…3.6%Otherarran…4.4%
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%Firewood91%Gas2.4%Paraf…1.3%Elect…1.9%Noheati…1.4%
Wood and biomass 93%Firewood91%
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
86.9%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.9%
voted in the runoff
23,680
registered voters on the roll
6.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman30.6%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist69.4%58.3%
FreireChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez21.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman18.5%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.5%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.3%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist33.5%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.0%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.9%1.3%
FreireChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile26.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile30.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido16.5%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente11.6%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.7%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.4%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile5.9%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
FreireChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile33.9%
KCambio por Chile24.7%
JChile Grande y Unido21.3%
IPartido de la Gente9.2%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.2%
Independents outside a pact7.7%
Freireshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Freire 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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