Commune · 07303

LicanténLicantén

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Census population
6,892
289th of 346
Population density
25.4/km²
189th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.4 yrs
153rd of 346
Foreign-born share
2.2%
201st of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.9 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.9 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 180 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
69.1%
80th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
18.4%
169th of 335
Came from another region
12.5%
240th of 335
Net internal migration
-3,508
-50.1 per 100 residents
Licanténthis commune · 10,506elsewhere in the region1,286 peopleanother region873 peopleanother region3,237 peopleelsewhere in the region2,430 peopleLicanténthis commune · 6,998
Licanténthis commune · 10,506elsewhere in th…1,286 peopleanother region873 peopleanother region3,237 peopleelsewhere in th…2,430 peopleLicanténthis commune · 6,998

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Public administration1Public administration▲16Accommodation and food2Accommodation and food▲45Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲23Construction4Construction▼110Transport5Transport▲54Agriculture and fishing6Agriculture and fishing▼21Manufacturing7Manufacturing▼67Administrative services8Administrative services▼18Professional services9Professional services▼19Water and waste10Water and waste▼111Other services11Other services
2005202421Public administration▲162Accommodation and food▲453Retail and wholesale▲234Construction▼1105Transport▲546Agriculture and fishing▼217Manufacturing▼678Administrative services▼189Professional services▼1910Water and waste▼11111Other services

The ten branches that employ most of Licantén

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.

4009001 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
4009001 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.3% a year observed · 0.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0500 k1.0 M1.5 M2.0 Mprojection →1.5 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0500 k1.0 M1.5 M2.0 Mprojection →1.5 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.8% a year observed · -1.1% projected

What Licantén is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Licantén employs more people in 37 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.

37
activities it is specialised in
1,357
formal workers
233/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.03.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de restaurantes y de …Terminación y acabado de edificiosExtracción de maderaCultivo de trigoActividades de residenciales para…Fabricación de artículos de hormi…Venta al por mayor de productos d…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.03.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de restaurantes y de …Terminación y acabado de edificiosCultivo de productos agrícolas en…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Licantén

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
Actividades de residenciales para turistasActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas550.4×
Conservador de bienes raícesActividades jurídicas1134.1×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura1626.1×
Desratización, desinfección y exterminio de plagas no agrícolasActividades de limpieza1116.9×
Extracción de piedra, arena y arcillaExtracción de piedra, arena y arcilla1313.0×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadoresOtras actividades de alojamiento512.1×
Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales (excepto explotación de viveros forestales)Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales27.6×
Actividades de la administración pública en generalAdministración del estado y aplicación de la política económica y social de la comunidad6417.3×
Cultivo de otros frutos y nueces de árboles y arbustosCultivo de plantas perennes77.0×
Actividades de hotelesActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas616.4×
Extracción de maderaExtracción de madera75.8×
Venta al por mayor de productos del mar (pescados, mariscos y algas)Venta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco115.2×

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
17,051
hectares in holdings
79.7%
of them under a named use
56.7%
of the crop land is irrigated
271
holdings with land here
Woodland 56%Not farmed 23%Annual crops 12%Pasture 7.6%Forest plantations42%Nativewoodland13%Scrub, barren ground and buildings20%Unti…landCereals5.7%Pulses andtubers4.7%Fodder crops1.6%Pasture7.6%Fruit treesVines
Woodland 56%Not farmed 23%Annual … 12%Forest plantations42%Nativewoodland13%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings20%Cereals5.7%Pulsesandtubers4.7%Pasture7.6%Frui…Vin…
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
LicanténChile% of each territory's own population · 6,892 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
6,892
309,33918,480,432289th of 346
Average age
41.9 yrs
38.9 yrs38.1 yrs41st of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
117.8
83.379.048th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
25.4/km²
42.5/km²24.7/km²189th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
2,666
110,8956,596,527289th of 346
Dwellings
4,500
127,3777,642,716272nd of 346
People per household
2.59
2.792.80268th of 345
Women
51.1%
51.2%51.5%149th of 346
Men per 100 women
95.8
95.494.3198th of 346
Under 15
15.9%
17.9%17.7%294th of 346
65 and over
18.7%
14.9%14.0%52nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.9
48.846.5104th of 346
One-person households
24.9%
20.5%21.8%90th of 345
Households with children
28.7%
33.9%33.2%291st of 345
Indigenous peoples
16.0%
5.8%11.4%120th of 346
Female-headed households
47.6%
48.0%49.9%191st of 345
Land area
272 km²
7,286 km²748,041 km²254th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Licantén62%Arrived since 202038%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Licantén62%Arrived since 202038%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
2.2%
4.7%8.7%201st 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.
69.1%
65.2%50.5%80th 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.
18.4%
15.1%23.9%169th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
12.5%
15.4%17.2%240th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
152
14,4531,608,650259th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
31.7 yrs
32.4 yrs33.5 yrs260th of 345
Women among foreign-born
47.4%
48.6%51.7%295th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
74.3%
81.5%83.1%322nd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
61.8%
41.3%34.4%7th 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.
2.5%
5.7%10.6%209th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.1 yrs
12.7 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.
-3,508
-26,2030231st of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-50.1
-8.10.0299th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Licantén22%Higher36%Secondary34%Primary only5.1%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Licantén22%36%Secondary34%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.4 yrs
9.5 yrs10.4 yrs153rd of 346
Reached higher education
21.6%
23.0%31.1%159th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
90.0%
98.8%98.6%331st 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.
40.4%
51.6%55.6%312th 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.
104.8%
102.4%99.8%52nd of 346
Literacy rate
95.3%
96.0%97.8%238th of 346
Reached secondary education
36.0%
36.8%36.7%221st of 346
Primary education only
34.0%
31.3%24.1%135th of 346
Never attended school
3.27%
3.55%3.01%216th 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.
10.4 yrs
10.9 yrs12.1 yrs197th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.9 yrs
11.1 yrs12.1 yrs173rd of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.67%
3.96%2.18%106th of 345
Households lacking schooling
18.9%
27.7%15.1%218th 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.
89
4,011217,565248th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
18.0%
44.8%33.9%270th 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.
18.0%
4.6%3.1%56th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
80.6%
64.8%67.2%22nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
5.6%
12.3%19.7%313th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
13.9%
23.0%13.1%188th 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.
25.0%
16.7%13.0%107th 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.
52.8%
49.9%49.7%126th 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.

89left secondary school in 2024
36enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
40.4%continued immediately
81%of those, to a university
25%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%Ingenieria Comercial
0.0%5.0%10.0%Ingenieria Comercial
LicanténChile

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%Business and lawHealth and welfareEngineering and industryEducationServicesSocial sciencesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technology
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Business and lawHealth and welfareEngineering and industryEducationServicesSocial sciencesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technology
LicanténChile

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

0501001502006201520248936
0501001502006201520248936
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 Licantén'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 Licantén 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

Licantén94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Licantén94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.8%
11.9%10.6%191st of 346
Public health insurance
93.9%
91.7%82.6%133rd 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.
50.9
71.182.5265th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
52
109100290th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
811
36,8481,950,388294th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.7 yrs
57.3 yrs56.4 yrs72nd of 346
Disability among 65+
51.3%
44.4%43.0%56th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.18%
5.95%4.92%150th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.66%
5.14%4.58%236th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.44%
2.36%2.16%193rd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.60%
2.89%2.70%225th of 346
Private health insurance
3.3%
4.6%13.2%162nd of 335
No health coverage
0.00%
2.17%1.98%279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
86.5%
92.2%92.1%280th of 332
Households lacking health access
1.4%
3.6%6.0%298th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
351
22,0091,523,716282nd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
9
69536,698287th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.56%
3.16%2.41%205th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.1 days
6.8 days6.1 days106th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
13.1
22.519.9274th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
58
85100268th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
27
1,34889,723272nd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
7.7%
6.1%5.9%50th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
39.2
43.648.6177th 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.
68
86100215th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 23%Injuries, bones and skin 21%Tumours, blood … 17%Pregnancy, bi… 8.5%Mind,… 4.6%Digestive system14%Genitourin…system9.1%Circulatorysystem13%Respiratorysystem10%Injuries and poisoning16%Musculos…4.0%SkinCancers andtumours9.7%Endocrine andmetabolic5.4%Blo…andimm…Pregnancy andchildbirth8.5%Mental andbehavioural3.7%Infec…and…Conta…with…
Digestive and urinar… 23%Heart and lungs 23%Injuries, bone… 21%Tumours, … 17%Pregnan… 8.5%Digestivesystem14%Genitou…system9.1%Circulatorysystem13%Respirat…system10%Injuries andpoisoning16%Musculoskelet…SkinCancers andtumours9.7%Endocrineandmetabolic5.4%Pregnancyandchildbirth8.5%Mentalandbehavi…Inf…Con…
Pregnancy, birth and newbornshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

By tumour site

Sitios reservados52%Órganos digestivos48%
Sitios reservados52%Órganos digestivos48%
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivoshover 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.
24.8%
19.4%17.3%98th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
20.9 UF
18.9 UF32.0 UF247th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
115.3%
94.5%78.9%43rd 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.
118.3
101.185.642nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
51.7%
52.4%54.4%156th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
6.8%
8.9%8.6%263rd of 345
Self-employed
41.6%
30.3%33.8%67th of 345
Extreme poverty
5.7%
7.4%6.9%236th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
11.4%
11.9%17.7%277th of 335
Unemployment rate
14.5%
8.1%8.8%34th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 610,322
CLP 528,684CLP 783,124108th 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.
0.466
0.4240.48881st of 321
Registered firms
815
31,2651,582,390253rd of 346
Annual sales
1,589,023 UF
208,679,717 UF34,347,683,688 UF270th 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.
1,357
207,8679,699,164283rd of 346
Sales per firm
1,950 UF
6,675 UF21,706 UF275th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.2
2.73.9306th of 346
Women among employees
50.6%
40.5%40.6%37th of 345
Independent contractors
723
35,7123,958,269270th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
34.8%
14.7%29.0%79th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 25%State and social services 24%Natural resources 20%Industry and constr… 19%Advan… 5.5%Other… 5.1%Retail andwholesale13%Accommodationand food8.7%Transport4.2%Education9.5%Health7.8%Publicadministration7.1%Agriculture and fishing19%Construction10%Manufacturing7.7%Administrat…servicesProfes…servic…Finan…Inf…Domest…work2.4%Otherserv…
Trade and logistics 25%State and social se… 24%Natural resour… 20%Industry and … 19%Retail andwholesale13%Accommoda…and food8.7%Transport4.2%Education9.5%Health7.8%Publicadmin…7.1%Agriculture andfishing19%Construction10%Manufacturing7.7%Administr…servicesProf…serv…Domest…workOther…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Skilled occupations 59%Managers and professionals 24%Elementary occupations 17%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades14%Skilledagricultural13%Plant and machineoperators8.1%Clerical supportProfessiona…11%Technicians8.9%Managers3.5%Elementary occupations17%
Skilled occupations 59%Managers and professiona… 24%Elementary occu… 17%Service andsales20%Craft and trades14%Skilled agricultural13%Plant andmachineoperators8.1%Clericalsupport3.7%Profession…11%Technicians8.9%ManagersElementaryoccupations17%
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

Licantén98%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Licantén98%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.3%
5.6%5.7%162nd of 345
Internet access
84.5%
90.8%93.2%263rd 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.
3.1
2.92.3208th 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.
5.2
2.81.687th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
2,615
108,5276,408,172289th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.15%
0.33%0.57%319th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
2.22%
0.86%1.13%65th of 345
Public water network
78.4%
92.4%92.3%219th of 345
Electricity access
99.2%
99.6%99.6%207th of 345
Detached houses
98.1%
96.8%78.7%181st of 345
Apartments
0.0%
2.5%19.9%219th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.00%
0.14%0.23%324th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
40.6%
11.9%11.9%36th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
177
6,215491,904262nd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
6.6%
5.6%7.5%97th of 345
Renting households
17.0%
17.6%26.2%145th of 345
Owner-occupiers
65.2%
69.0%61.1%238th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
64.8%
48.0%24.4%148th of 345
Commute by public transport
12.6%
23.3%42.1%311th of 345
Walks to work
17.9%
9.0%10.2%139th of 345
Households with a computer
42.2%
49.2%54.9%178th of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.6
1.31.1194th 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.
90.5%
97.1%97.0%226th 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.
72.5%
81.8%89.4%186th of 345
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
98.5%98.1%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
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.
51.2
10.45.941st 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%
46.9%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%
79.3%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%
92.0%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.
1.8
0.80.660th 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.
92.9%
99.4%99.0%289th 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.
63.1%
81.0%91.6%243rd 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.
91.2%
96.9%98.5%274th 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 48%On foot or by bicycle 31%Public transport 13%Other mea… 8.8%Car46%Walking18%Bicycle13%Public transport13%Other8.4%
Private vehicle 48%On foot or by bicycle 31%Public transpo… 13%Other means 8.8%Car46%Walking18%Bicycle13%Public transport13%Other8.4%
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 65%Rented 17%Provided rent-free 9.5%Other 8.4%Owned outright64%Rented, nocontract9.9%Rented,withcontract7.1%Provided by family7.8%Pro…byemp…Other arrangement8.4%
Owned 65%Rented 17%Provid… 9.5%Other 8.4%Owned outright64%Rented, nocontract9.9%Rented,withcontract7.1%Provided byfamily7.8%Otherarrangem…8.4%
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 66%Fossil fuels 17%No heating 8.9%Electricity 6.7%Firewood65%Gas15%Par…No heating8.9%Electricity6.7%
Wood and biomass 66%Fossil fuels 17%No he… 8.9%Ele… 6.7%Firewood65%Gas15%No heating8.9%Electric…6.7%
No heatingElectricityOther 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
89.5%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.2%
voted in the runoff
6,956
registered voters on the roll
6.3%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman39.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist60.8%58.3%
LicanténChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez20.0%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman25.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen10.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist30.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.8%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
LicanténChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile28.5%30.6%
KCambio por Chile13.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido46.9%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente7.6%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.0%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%
LicanténChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile30.2%
KCambio por Chile25.0%
JChile Grande y Unido18.4%
IPartido de la Gente7.7%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.6%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.2%
Independents outside a pact14.1%
Licanténshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Licantén 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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