General Lagos — PuroChile

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.

Dependency ratio1st of 346 · Chile 46.588.8

Indigenous peoples1st of 346 · Chile 11.4%93.3%

Women's schooling as share of men's346th of 346 · Chile 99.8%74.4%

Reached higher education346th of 346 · Chile 31.1%4.6%

Primary education only1st of 346 · Chile 24.1%49.5%

Never attended school1st of 346 · Chile 3.01%15.45%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 18 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

72.2%

57th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

22.2%

123rd of 335

Came from another region

5.6%

326th of 335

Net internal migration

-922

-155.2 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of General Lagos

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

BranchWorkersShare of total2005–2024Change

01Public administrationState and social services40100.0%+100%02Agriculture and fishingNatural resources00.0%—03Water and wasteIndustry and construction00.0%—04Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics00.0%—05Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics00.0%—06ConstructionIndustry and construction00.0%—07Other servicesOther services00.0%—

What General Lagos is specialised in

2024 · SII

PuroChile does not compute this for General Lagos. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 40 formal workers here that division is a statement about a handful of people: one worker would move it further than a whole industry moves it in Santiago. The floor is 1,000 workers, and it is a floor rather than a caveat because a spectacular number nobody should read is worse than no number.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021

29,727

hectares in holdings

2.7%

of them under a named use

100.0%

of the crop land is irrigated

45

holdings with land here

Not farmedPastureWoodlandAnnual cropshover a tile for its countFive 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.

The agricultural census measured 29,727 hectares of holdings in General Lagos in the 2020/2021 agricultural year, and this is how it divided them.

Fourteen of the fifteen tiles are categories the census publishes. The fifteenth is not: it is the censused surface less the other fourteen, and what it holds is scrub, barren ground, roads and buildings. Across Chile it is half of everything, because most of the censused surface is Patagonian scrub and northern desert inside very large holdings.

Irrigation is asked of eleven of the uses and not of forest, native woodland, natural pasture or untilled ground — so the 100.0% above is a share of the 1 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 45 holdings with land here, 3 are self-consumption plots — under two hectares and with nothing sold in the year. These counts are the census's own for this territory and they are not added to anything: a holding with land in two comunas is counted in both.

VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal 2021, INE

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

General LagosChile% of each territory's own population · 508 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	508	2,055	18,480,432	337th of 346
Average age	40.6 yrs	38.7 yrs	38.1 yrs	91st of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	94.3	99.7	79.0	143rd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	0.2/km²	0.3/km²	24.7/km²	332nd of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	226	845	6,596,527	338th of 346
Dwellings	624	2,477	7,642,716	335th of 346
People per household	2.25	2.43	2.80	332nd of 345
Women	48.6%	46.1%	51.5%	325th of 346
Men per 100 women	105.7	116.8	94.3	22nd of 346
Under 15	24.2%	18.2%	17.7%	7th of 346
65 and over	22.8%	18.1%	14.0%	9th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	88.8	56.9	46.5	1st of 346
One-person households	41.6%	44.7%	21.8%	8th of 345
Households with children	27.9%	23.7%	33.2%	304th of 345
Indigenous peoples	93.3%	82.2%	11.4%	1st of 346
Female-headed households	38.9%	44.5%	49.9%	333rd of 345
Land area	2,259 km²	8,148 km²	748,041 km²	65th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	26.2%	24.1%	8.7%	11th 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.	72.2%	43.9%	50.5%	57th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region · Of those who live here, the ones born in another comuna of this same region. It is the short move: within the metropolitan area, the valley or the neighbouring province.	22.2%	15.3%	23.9%	123rd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	5.6%	17.6%	17.2%	326th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	133	495	1,608,650	266th of 346
Average age, foreign-born	30.9 yrs	35.7 yrs	33.5 yrs	293rd of 345
Women among foreign-born	52.6%	51.1%	51.7%	112th of 345
Foreign-born of working age	66.9%	75.6%	83.1%	342nd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	37.6%	29.3%	34.4%	172nd 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.	33.1%	28.5%	10.6%	8th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	8.4 yrs	9.3 yrs	12.9 yrs	344th 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.	-922	-1,760	0	175th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	-155.2	-62.3	0.0	333rd of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	5.8 yrs	8.3 yrs	10.4 yrs	346th of 346
Reached higher education	4.6%	14.7%	31.1%	346th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	100.0%	100.0%	98.6%	1st of 333

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
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.	74.4%	87.9%	99.8%	346th of 346
Literacy rate	87.0%	93.9%	97.8%	345th of 346
Reached secondary education	24.4%	36.9%	36.7%	339th of 346
Primary education only	49.5%	35.6%	24.1%	1st of 346
Never attended school	15.45%	7.70%	3.01%	1st 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.	7.8 yrs	10.1 yrs	12.1 yrs	346th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	5.8 yrs	8.8 yrs	12.1 yrs	346th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	12.99%	6.06%	2.18%	2nd of 345
Households lacking schooling	40.0%	12.0%	15.1%	25th of 335

Health

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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 General Lagos 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

FonasaIsapre% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Against its peers	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	16.9%		13.9%	10.6%	10th of 346
Public health insurance	95.0%		89.2%	82.6%	96th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	86	285	1,950,388	332nd of 346
Average age, people with a disability	66.6 yrs	63.9 yrs	56.4 yrs	1st of 346
Disability among 65+	62.8%	60.0%	43.0%	1st of 346
Difficulty walking	9.84%	7.40%	4.92%	4th of 346
Difficulty seeing	7.09%	5.79%	4.58%	51st of 346
Difficulty hearing	5.31%	4.23%	2.16%	1st of 346
Difficulty concentrating	5.31%	3.80%	2.70%	2nd of 346
Private health insurance	5.0%	0.3%	13.2%	117th of 335
No health coverage	0.00%	10.51%	1.98%	279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	100.0%	97.2%	92.1%	1st of 332
Households lacking health access	0.0%	7.5%	6.0%	310th of 335

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Against its peers	Province	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	30.0%		37.7%	17.3%	46th of 335
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.	35.4		84.7	85.6	344th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	57.7%	58.8%	54.4%	62nd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	4.7%	5.1%	8.6%	313th of 345
Self-employed	59.9%	43.7%	33.8%	3rd of 345
Extreme poverty	10.0%	8.8%	6.9%	101st of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	47.4%	27.0%	17.7%	2nd of 335
Unemployment rate	7.7%	6.8%	8.8%	220th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 666,725	CLP 631,676	CLP 783,124	64th of 335
Registered firms	18	174	1,582,390	345th of 346
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.	40	208	9,699,164	345th of 346
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	1.8	0.9	3.9	224th of 346
Women among employees	32.5%	38.5%	40.6%	302nd of 345
Independent contractors	51	380	3,958,269	344th of 346
Contractors as share of workers	56.0%	64.6%	29.0%	7th of 346

Employment by industry

Other serviceshover 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

Elementary occupationshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itCIUO-08 (ISCO) skill levels.

Housing and services

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House or flat

HouseOther dwelling type% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	26.7%	17.5%	5.7%	1st of 345
Internet access	56.6%	70.8%	93.2%	344th 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.	53.4	21.3	2.3	14th 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.	53.3	21.2	1.6	9th of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	217	800	6,408,172	338th of 346
Critically overcrowded	9.22%	4.00%	0.57%	1st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	64.06%	37.38%	1.13%	1st of 345
Public water network	24.1%	55.9%	92.3%	343rd of 345
Electricity access	93.1%	93.8%	99.6%	340th of 345
Detached houses	77.4%	88.1%	78.7%	315th of 345
Apartments	0.0%	0.0%	19.9%	281st of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.00%	0.87%	0.23%	324th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	64.0%	62.6%	11.9%	12th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	164	410	491,904	273rd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	72.6%	48.5%	7.5%	1st of 345
Renting households	7.5%	22.1%	26.2%	333rd of 345
Owner-occupiers	51.3%	39.2%	61.1%	312th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	56.6%	28.4%	24.4%	172nd of 345
Commute by public transport	6.6%	14.5%	42.1%	327th of 345
Walks to work	61.0%	50.7%	10.2%	3rd of 345
Households with a computer	6.2%	20.1%	54.9%	345th 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.	21.2	9.5	1.1	6th 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.	23.8%	61.4%	97.0%	342nd 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.	36.5%	74.6%	99.9%	342nd 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.	68.8%	86.5%	100.0%	341st 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.	0.0%	51.0%	89.4%	329th 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.	0.0%	54.3%	98.1%	330th 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.	2.6%	60.4%	99.7%	331st 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.	115.5	93.2	5.9	9th of 345
People within 5 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	0.0%	0.0%	80.3%	194th of 345
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	0.0%	0.0%	90.0%	249th of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	0.0%	0.0%	96.2%	306th 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.	4.8	3.4	0.6	12th 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.	60.9%	74.5%	99.0%	338th 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%	97.4%	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%	98.5%	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.	0.0%	50.1%	91.6%	335th 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.	0.0%	54.3%	98.5%	336th 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.	2.6%	60.4%	99.8%	337th of 345

How people commute

Private vehiclePublic transportOther meanshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

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

No heatingFossil fuelsElectricityOther 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

47.4%

of the registered voted in the first round

42.8%

voted in the runoff

1,338

registered voters on the roll

8.4%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman14.3%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist85.7%58.3%

General LagosChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez48.9%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman7.6%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.5%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen9.6%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist28.7%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet4.2%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.0%1.3%

General LagosChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile37.6%30.6%

KCambio por Chile22.6%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido10.4%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente12.2%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.2%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista8.8%2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios2.3%0.6%

HPopular1.9%0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

General LagosChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile21.2%

KCambio por Chile5.1%

JChile Grande y Unido51.1%

IPartido de la Gente12.4%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas1.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista4.4%

HPopular3.9%

General Lagosshare of the valid vote

Inside the commune

Census districts

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Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of General Lagos

What General Lagos is specialised in

The land and who works it

Population and territory

Population pyramid

Migration

When the migrant population arrived

Education

How far schooling went

Health

Which health system

Economy and poverty

Employment by industry

Employment by occupation

Housing and services

House or flat

How people commute

Housing tenure

Home heating fuel

How it voted in 2025

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

Senate · 16 November

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