Los Muermos — PuroChile

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 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%

Primary education only15th of 346 · Chile 24.1%43.8%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 259 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

61.1%

169th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

26.6%

84th of 335

Came from another region

12.2%

249th of 335

Net internal migration

-464

-2.6 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Los Muermos

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

01Agriculture and fishingNatural resources60025.2%+23%02Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics42017.6%+223%03EducationState and social services33013.9%+247%04Public administrationState and social services31313.1%+79%05Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics1747.3%+17,300%06ManufacturingIndustry and construction1747.3%+1,143%07ConstructionIndustry and construction1285.4%—08Administrative servicesAdvanced services692.9%+1,625%09TransportTrade and logistics642.7%+276%10Professional servicesAdvanced services321.3%+540%

Dependent workers, projected

Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.0% a year observed · 5.2% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.8% a year observed · 1.9% projected

What Los Muermos is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Los Muermos employs more people in 65 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.

65

activities it is specialised in

2,382

formal workers

195/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Each dot is one activity. Filled, Los Muermos is already specialised in it; hollow, it is not. Size is how many people work in it here.

Across: how much of what tends to sit beside that activity this place already does. Up: how few and how diversified the places that do it are. Two activities are counted as close when the places good at one tend also to be good at the other — that co-occurrence is the whole of it.

The corners are not labelled on purpose. Which one is worth being in depends on what a place wants and can afford, and neither is in the tax register. The dashed lines are this place's own medians; the axes are the same on every commune's page, so two of them can be laid side by side. The named ones are those whose name fits without covering another dot; the rest are a hover away.

Most over-represented in Los Muermos

Ranked by how many times the national share this place reaches. The division each activity belongs to is a page of its own.

Activity	Division	Workers here	Times the national share
Cultivo de papas	Cultivo de plantas no perennes	35	82.6×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción lechera	Ganadería	229	74.9×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductor	Ganadería	160	62.3×
Cría de otros animales n.c.p.	Ganadería	11	53.7×
Venta al por menor de tabaco y productos de tabaco en comercios especializados	Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados	5	39.9×
Actividades poscosecha	Actividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha	17	24.4×
Conservador de bienes raíces	Actividades jurídicas	10	17.6×
Elaboración de productos lácteos	Elaboración de productos lácteos	83	16.0×
Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales (explotación mixta)	Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales	78	14.1×
Venta al por menor de carbón, leña y otros combustibles de uso doméstico en comercios especializados	Venta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados	5	13.4×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrata	Servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura	12	11.2×
Reparación de maquinaria agropecuaria y forestal	Reparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo	3	10.0×

The register files a firm at its tax address, so an activity can be over-represented here because the work happens here or because the head office does. Both are real facts about a place and they are not the same fact, and nothing in the register tells them apart: the communes where large firms keep their registered office carry activities that are physically elsewhere in Chile.

Revealed comparative advantage (Balassa, 1965) and the space of activities (Hidalgo, Klinger, Barabási and Hausmann, 2007), computed on formal employment because that is what a Chilean commune has. Built from the 500-worker activities and the communes above 1,000 formal workers; the floors are on /datos with everything else.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021

73,690

hectares in holdings

90.5%

of them under a named use

1.2%

of the crop land is irrigated

1,407

holdings with land here

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.

The agricultural census measured 73,690 hectares of holdings in Los Muermos 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 1.2% above is a share of the 31,295 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 1,407 holdings with land here, 59 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

Los MuermosChile% of each territory's own population · 17,162 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	17,162	455,842	18,480,432	193rd of 346
Average age	41.0 yrs	37.2 yrs	38.1 yrs	66th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	106.9	65.7	79.0	84th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	14.0/km²	30.9/km²	24.7/km²	233rd of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	6,657	166,403	6,596,527	187th of 346
Dwellings	8,697	200,092	7,642,716	177th of 346
People per household	2.58	2.74	2.80	273rd of 345
Women	49.8%	50.6%	51.5%	291st of 346
Men per 100 women	100.9	97.6	94.3	56th of 346
Under 15	16.8%	18.4%	17.7%	247th of 346
65 and over	18.0%	12.1%	14.0%	79th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	53.4	43.8	46.5	94th of 346
One-person households	23.9%	21.8%	21.8%	118th of 345
Households with children	29.8%	34.3%	33.2%	269th of 345
Indigenous peoples	15.7%	21.2%	11.4%	123rd of 346
Female-headed households	42.0%	49.0%	49.9%	307th of 345
Land area	1,222 km²	14,768 km²	748,041 km²	121st 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	2.1%	5.3%	8.7%	205th 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.	61.1%	57.6%	50.5%	169th 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.	26.6%	18.9%	23.9%	84th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	12.2%	19.3%	17.2%	249th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	365	24,245	1,608,650	187th of 346
Average age, foreign-born	29.6 yrs	32.4 yrs	33.5 yrs	328th of 345
Women among foreign-born	47.1%	49.8%	51.7%	301st of 345
Foreign-born of working age	79.5%	81.4%	83.1%	238th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	57.0%	42.6%	34.4%	15th 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.	2.6%	6.2%	10.6%	205th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	11.7 yrs	13.2 yrs	12.9 yrs	270th 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.	-464	31,576	0	165th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	-2.6	6.9	0.0	164th 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	8.5 yrs	10.0 yrs	10.4 yrs	310th of 346
Reached higher education	14.8%	27.6%	31.1%	308th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	100.0%	98.9%	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.	58.0%	56.9%	55.6%	113th of 331

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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.	103.2%	100.4%	99.8%	94th of 346
Literacy rate	95.4%	97.3%	97.8%	233rd of 346
Reached secondary education	33.3%	35.3%	36.7%	292nd of 346
Primary education only	43.8%	28.6%	24.1%	15th of 346
Never attended school	4.28%	3.05%	3.01%	99th 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.	9.4 yrs	11.6 yrs	12.1 yrs	314th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	9.7 yrs	11.7 yrs	12.1 yrs	324th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	4.58%	2.70%	2.18%	114th of 345
Households lacking schooling	37.9%	22.3%	15.1%	32nd 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.	293	5,483	217,565	143rd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	25.6%	36.7%	33.9%	234th 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.	23.9%	6.4%	3.1%	43rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	65.3%	65.9%	67.2%	137th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	20.0%	22.4%	19.7%	143rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	14.7%	11.7%	13.1%	178th 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.	15.3%	19.6%	13.0%	150th 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.	60.0%	51.1%	49.7%	31st 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.

293left secondary school in 2024

170enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

58.0%continued immediately

65%of those, to a university

15%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

Los MuermosChile

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

Los MuermosChile

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

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 Los Muermos'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.

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 Los Muermos 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

FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	11.1%	9.6%	10.6%	216th of 346
Public health insurance	89.4%	87.3%	82.6%	224th 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.	71.3	83.3	82.5	157th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	63	98	100	261st of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	1,904	43,709	1,950,388	211th of 346
Average age, people with a disability	61.9 yrs	55.0 yrs	56.4 yrs	33rd of 346
Disability among 65+	52.2%	40.2%	43.0%	44th of 346
Difficulty walking	5.49%	4.12%	4.92%	199th of 346
Difficulty seeing	4.77%	4.41%	4.58%	225th of 346
Difficulty hearing	2.70%	2.04%	2.16%	141st of 346
Difficulty concentrating	2.22%	2.28%	2.70%	285th of 346
Private health insurance	2.2%	8.2%	13.2%	223rd of 335
No health coverage	4.37%	1.99%	1.98%	35th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	92.7%	86.6%	92.1%	185th of 332
Households lacking health access	12.9%	7.6%	6.0%	17th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	1,224	37,971	1,523,716	184th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	28	800	36,698	209th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	2.29%	2.11%	2.41%	241st of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	7.1 days	6.5 days	6.1 days	103rd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	16.3	17.5	19.9	220th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	81	103	100	178th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	98	2,803	89,723	144th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	8.0%	7.4%	5.9%	39th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	57.1	61.5	48.6	38th 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.	102	133	100	68th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

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 digestivosSitios reservadosSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales femeninosSitios mal definidosGenitales masculinoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	24.5%	15.7%	17.3%	107th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	21.0 UF	26.3 UF	32.0 UF	241st of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	112.7%	84.8%	78.9%	70th 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.	101.0	96.8	85.6	67th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	48.1%	56.5%	54.4%	222nd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	4.9%	7.6%	8.6%	311th of 345
Self-employed	49.8%	36.6%	33.8%	17th of 345
Extreme poverty	11.2%	5.8%	6.9%	75th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	29.4%	16.4%	17.7%	31st of 335
Unemployment rate	7.6%	8.3%	8.8%	224th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 479,200	CLP 693,135	CLP 783,124	237th 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.	0.382	0.447	0.488	288th of 321
Registered firms	1,733	44,110	1,582,390	161st of 346
Annual sales	4,715,880 UF	741,811,673 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	204th 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.	2,382	215,208	9,699,164	249th of 346
Sales per firm	2,721 UF	16,817 UF	21,706 UF	222nd of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	1.0	3.1	3.9	319th of 346
Women among employees	41.9%	37.3%	40.6%	152nd of 345
Independent contractors	1,420	66,206	3,958,269	191st of 346
Contractors as share of workers	37.3%	23.5%	29.0%	59th of 346

Employment by industry

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

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

HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	4.5%	4.8%	5.7%	262nd of 345
Internet access	84.9%	92.7%	93.2%	252nd 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.	7.5	3.7	2.3	62nd 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.	7.0	2.6	1.6	55th of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	6,627	164,378	6,408,172	183rd of 346
Critically overcrowded	0.18%	0.30%	0.57%	306th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	1.80%	1.38%	1.13%	85th of 345
Public water network	55.1%	84.6%	92.3%	319th of 345
Electricity access	98.9%	99.4%	99.6%	251st of 345
Detached houses	98.2%	93.4%	78.7%	175th of 345
Apartments	0.2%	5.5%	19.9%	176th of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.20%	0.36%	0.23%	205th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	18.1%	12.9%	11.9%	132nd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	261	8,338	491,904	219th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	3.9%	5.0%	7.5%	288th of 345
Renting households	12.3%	22.7%	26.2%	239th of 345
Owner-occupiers	71.8%	66.2%	61.1%	95th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	91.8%	67.0%	24.4%	37th of 345
Commute by public transport	24.3%	31.7%	42.1%	195th of 345
Walks to work	17.5%	11.1%	10.2%	143rd of 345
Households with a computer	34.6%	51.4%	54.9%	284th 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.	2.8	1.4	1.1	62nd 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.	77.1%	93.8%	97.0%	308th 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%	99.9%	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.	52.7%	79.3%	89.4%	266th 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.	82.0%	94.1%	98.1%	296th 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.	98.9%	99.3%	99.7%	286th 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.	40.8	6.9	5.9	57th 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%	74.3%	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%	84.4%	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.	5.1%	90.9%	96.2%	292nd 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.	1.7	0.8	0.6	75th 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.	94.5%	98.4%	99.0%	271st 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.	54.3%	83.7%	91.6%	278th 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.	85.2%	97.3%	98.5%	296th 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.	99.2%	99.8%	99.8%	284th of 345

How people commute

Public transporthover 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

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

89.2%

of the registered voted in the first round

89.0%

voted in the runoff

16,980

registered voters on the roll

6.9%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman22.0%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist78.0%58.3%

Los MuermosChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez19.2%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman14.1%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.9%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen23.6%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist33.7%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.5%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.6%1.3%

Los MuermosChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile23.9%30.6%

KCambio por Chile25.2%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido32.1%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente12.4%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.5%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%

HPopular—0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

Los MuermosChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Los Muermos 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.

Pencahue0.55Maule · 9,181 peopleAlike in Health; apart in Education.Fresia0.60Los Lagos · 12,320 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Migration.Maullín0.62Los Lagos · 15,063 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Economy.Licantén0.70Maule · 6,892 peopleAlike in Health; apart in Education.

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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Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of Los Muermos

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Los Muermos is specialised in

Most over-represented in Los Muermos

The land and who works it

Population and territory

Population pyramid

Migration

When the migrant population arrived

Education

How far schooling went

The class of 2024

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

By field of study

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

Health

Which health system

What people are hospitalised for

By tumour site

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

Sister communes

Inside the commune