Commune · 14105

MáfilMáfil

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Census population
8,074
274th of 346
Population density
14.0/km²
234th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.3 yrs
170th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.0%
287th 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 UF23.1 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.1 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 · 205 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
66.7%
108th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
15.4%
213th of 335
Came from another region
17.9%
111th of 335
Net internal migration
+1,308
+18.0 per 100 residents
Máfilthis commune · 5,954another region1,299 peopleelsewhere in the region1,121 peopleelsewhere in the region969 peopleanother region143 peopleMáfilthis commune · 7,262
Máfilthis commune · 5,954another region1,299 peopleelsewhere in th…1,121 peopleelsewhere in th…969 peopleanother region143 peopleMáfilthis commune · 7,262

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale7Manufacturing3Manufacturing▲46Transport4Transport▲23Education5Education▼24Other services6Other services▼25Health7Health▼29Finance and insurance8Finance and insurance▲18Professional services9Professional services▼1
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Retail and wholesale73Manufacturing▲464Transport▲235Education▼246Other services▼257Health▼298Finance and insurance▲189Professional services▼1

The ten branches that employ most of Máfil

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.

5001 k2 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
5001 k2 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.5% a year observed · 3.8% 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% interval5.2% a year observed · 0.3% projected

What Máfil is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Máfil 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
1,133
formal workers
273/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.13.7Actividades de la administración …Terminación y acabado de edificiosElaboración de productos lácteosCultivo de productos agrícolas en…Cultivo de trigoOtras actividades de transporte d…Actividades poscosechaEvaluación de riesgos y daños (in…Venta al por menor de artículos d…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.13.7Actividades de la administración …Terminación y acabado de edificiosCultivo de productos agrícolas en…Cultivo de trigoHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Máfil

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
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción lecheraGanadería9363.9×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductorGanadería6049.1×
Otras actividades de alojamiento n.c.p.Otras actividades de alojamiento2936.2×
Actividades de organizaciones y órganos extraterritorialesActividades de organizaciones y órganos extraterritoriales331.5×
Extracción de piedra, arena y arcillaExtracción de piedra, arena y arcilla2428.8×
Venta al por menor de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas en comercios especializados (botillerías)Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados2123.1×
Elaboración de productos lácteosElaboración de productos lácteos5522.3×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes2716.8×
Venta al por menor en comercios especializados de frutas y verduras (verdulerías)Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados1015.3×
Evaluación de riesgos y daños (incluye actividades de liquidadores de seguros)Actividades auxiliares de las actividades de seguros y fondos de pensiones114.8×
Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales (explotación mixta)Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales3212.2×
Venta al por mayor de materias primas agrícolasVenta al por mayor de materias primas agropecuarias y animales vivos2910.7×

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
48,766
hectares in holdings
92.4%
of them under a named use
8.9%
of the crop land is irrigated
448
holdings with land here
Woodland 58%Pasture 19%Annual crops 11%Not farmed 11%Forest plantations29%Native woodland29%Pasture19%Cereals5.8%Fodder crops4.4%Ind…cro…See…Scrub, barrenground andbuildings7.6%Untilled land3.2%
Woodland 58%Pasture 19%Annual… 11%Not far… 11%Forest plantations29%Native woodland29%Pasture19%Cereals5.8%Foddercrops4.4%Scrub,barrenground and…7.6%Untilled land
PastureOrchards and vineyardshover 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
MáfilChile% of each territory's own population · 8,074 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
8,074
299,79818,480,432274th of 346
Average age
39.3 yrs
38.7 yrs38.1 yrs169th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
91.5
87.479.0163rd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
14.0/km²
29.7/km²24.7/km²234th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
2,949
111,2786,596,527276th of 346
Dwellings
3,441
135,7747,642,716290th of 346
People per household
2.74
2.692.80182nd of 345
Women
51.1%
51.7%51.5%142nd of 346
Men per 100 women
95.6
93.594.3205th of 346
Under 15
17.8%
17.1%17.7%171st of 346
65 and over
16.3%
15.0%14.0%145th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
51.9
47.246.5142nd of 346
One-person households
22.0%
23.2%21.8%179th of 345
Households with children
32.6%
31.4%33.2%188th of 345
Indigenous peoples
17.8%
22.1%11.4%113th of 346
Female-headed households
48.7%
50.2%49.9%154th of 345
Land area
578 km²
10,079 km²748,041 km²184th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Máfil27%Arrived since 202073%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Máfil27%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
1.0%
2.2%8.7%287th 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.
66.7%
63.0%50.5%108th 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.
15.4%
11.0%23.9%213th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
17.9%
23.8%17.2%111th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
77
6,5531,608,650300th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.2 yrs
35.0 yrs33.5 yrs179th of 345
Women among foreign-born
48.1%
50.0%51.7%278th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
77.9%
83.0%83.1%274th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
27.3%
27.5%34.4%273rd 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%
2.7%10.6%294th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.1 yrs
13.8 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.
1,308
-53,6710114th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
18.0
-17.10.074th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Máfil21%Higher39%Secondary32%Primary only4.8%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Máfil21%39%Secondary32%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.3 yrs
10.1 yrs10.4 yrs170th of 346
Reached higher education
20.6%
28.4%31.1%176th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.2%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.
61.2%
56.8%55.6%63rd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.
100.9%
100.5%99.8%203rd of 346
Literacy rate
96.4%
97.2%97.8%177th of 346
Reached secondary education
39.0%
36.9%36.7%106th of 346
Primary education only
32.1%
26.7%24.1%165th of 346
Never attended school
3.58%
2.96%3.01%174th 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.
10.7 yrs
11.7 yrs12.1 yrs181st of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.8 yrs
11.8 yrs12.1 yrs178th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.56%
2.80%2.18%171st of 345
Households lacking schooling
28.0%
18.4%15.1%108th 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.
103
3,803217,565231st of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
63.1%
33.6%33.9%53rd 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.
0.0%
7.0%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
44.4%
69.3%67.2%311th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
15.9%
12.9%19.7%203rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
39.7%
17.9%13.1%15th 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.
4.8%
16.2%13.0%239th 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.
57.1%
51.9%49.7%59th 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.

103left secondary school in 2024
63enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
61.2%continued immediately
44%of those, to a university
5%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%Tecnico en EnfermeriaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizIngenieria en Administracion de EmpresasDerechoEnfermeriaTecnico Agricola
0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%Tecnico en EnfermeriaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizIngenieria en Administracion de EmpresasDerechoEnfermeriaTecnico Agricola
MáfilChile

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%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawAgriculture and veterinaryEducationInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesNatural sciences
0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawAgriculture and veterinaryEducationInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesNatural sciences
MáfilChile

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

05010015020062015202410363
05010015020062015202410363
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 Máfil'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 Máfil 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

Máfil95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Máfil95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.4%
11.4%10.6%157th of 346
Public health insurance
94.6%
89.8%82.6%111th 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.
56.1
93.782.5242nd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
87
104100179th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,004
34,2151,950,388279th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.0 yrs
57.5 yrs56.4 yrs96th of 346
Disability among 65+
48.4%
44.3%43.0%104th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.02%
5.36%4.92%165th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.60%
5.01%4.58%152nd of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.87%
2.42%2.16%111th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.54%
2.81%2.70%232nd of 346
Private health insurance
3.1%
7.0%13.2%169th of 335
No health coverage
0.00%
1.05%1.98%279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
82.9%
90.9%92.1%303rd of 332
Households lacking health access
5.0%
6.3%6.0%184th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
453
28,0771,523,716266th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
16
65436,698256th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.53%
2.33%2.41%91st of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.7 days
6.1 days6.1 days70th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
19.8
21.819.9159th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
66
112100238th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
44
2,00889,723232nd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
9.7%
7.2%5.9%15th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
54.5
67.048.654th 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.
104
13310063rd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 21%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones an… 17%Tumours, blood … 15%Pregnancy, birth… 13%Mind, nerves and … 7.3%Infections and ot… 7.1%Digestivesystem13%Genitour…system7.5%Circulatorysystem9.9%Respiratorysystem9.9%Injuries andpoisoning13%MusculoskeletalSkin1.1%Cancers andtumours11%Endocrine andmetabolicPregnancy andchildbirth12%Mental andbehavioural5.7%Ner…sys…Contactwithhealth…Infec…andparas…
Digestive and urinar… 21%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones and sk… 17%Tumours, blood and met… 15%Pregnancy, birth a… 13%Mind… 7.3%Inf… 7.1%Digestivesystem13%Genitou…system7.5%Circulato…system9.9%Respirato…system9.9%Injuries andpoisoning13%Muscu…2.9%SkinCancers andtumours11%Endoc…andmetab…3.8%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Mental andbehaviour…5.7%Contactwith healt…Infec…andparas…
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 digestivos41%Sitios reservados41%Huesos18%
Órganos digestivos41%Sitios reservados41%Huesos18%
Órganos digestivosSitios reservadosHuesoshover 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.
26.4%
23.4%17.3%83rd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
23.1 UF
25.8 UF32.0 UF154th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
119.4%
97.1%78.9%26th 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.
73.7
83.385.6197th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
48.5%
50.8%54.4%216th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
10.5%
9.3%8.6%81st of 345
Self-employed
33.9%
34.6%33.8%196th of 345
Extreme poverty
9.2%
9.3%6.9%129th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
15.2%
14.7%17.7%216th of 335
Unemployment rate
14.3%
10.1%8.8%36th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 490,163
CLP 620,972CLP 783,124221st 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.
0.475
0.4930.48864th of 321
Registered firms
595
24,9731,582,390279th of 346
Annual sales
1,490,319 UF
95,843,692 UF34,347,683,688 UF274th 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.
1,133
83,6829,699,164290th of 346
Sales per firm
2,505 UF
3,838 UF21,706 UF239th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.4
2.33.9288th of 346
Women among employees
43.6%
43.8%40.6%120th of 345
Independent contractors
768
46,3903,958,269266th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
40.4%
35.7%29.0%46th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 25%State and social services 25%Industry and construction 20%Trade and logistics 19%Advan… 5.5%Other… 4.3%Agriculture and fishing24%Education10%Publicadministration7.8%Health6.9%Manufacturing9.9%Construction8.9%Ele…Retail and wholesale12%Transport4.8%Accommod…and food3.2%Administra…servicesProfes…servic…1.8%Inf…and…Domes…work2.2%Otherserv…Arts…
Natural resources 25%State and social ser… 25%Industry and co… 20%Trade and log… 19%Agriculture andfishing24%Education10%Publicadministration7.8%Health6.9%Manufacturing9.9%Construction8.9%Retail andwholesale12%Transport4.8%Accom…andfoodAdminist…Prof…serv…Dom…workOth…ser…Art…
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 65%Managers and professio… 22%Elementary occupatio… 13%Service and sales18%Craft andtrades15%Skilledagricultural14%Plant andmachineoperators13%Cleric…support5.7%Professionals9.7%Technicians8.8%Manag…3.2%Elementaryoccupations13%
Skilled occupations 65%Managers and professionals 22%Elementary o… 13%Service and sales18%Craft and trades15%Skilled agricultural14%Plant andmachineoperators13%Cleri…suppo…5.7%Profession…9.7%Technicia…8.8%Man…Elementaryoccupations13%
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

Máfil100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Máfil100%HouseChile79%House20%
House% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
3.9%
4.6%5.7%306th of 345
Internet access
88.6%
91.2%93.2%181st 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.
3.7
3.12.3181st 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.
3.5
2.71.6162nd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
2,925
109,3066,408,172276th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.21%
0.33%0.57%290th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.68%
1.13%1.13%275th of 345
Public water network
64.1%
81.6%92.3%292nd of 345
Electricity access
98.9%
99.3%99.6%251st of 345
Detached houses
99.6%
94.4%78.7%25th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
4.7%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.30%
0.33%0.23%100th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
12.9%
14.7%11.9%205th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
102
5,530491,904308th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.5%
5.0%7.5%319th of 345
Renting households
13.1%
21.9%26.2%218th of 345
Owner-occupiers
67.7%
63.5%61.1%194th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
91.4%
72.4%24.4%41st of 345
Commute by public transport
22.2%
32.2%42.1%213th of 345
Walks to work
19.1%
14.8%10.2%122nd of 345
Households with a computer
44.3%
51.4%54.9%150th 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.
2.4
1.51.184th 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.
80.5%
91.2%97.0%294th 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.
72.7%
80.2%89.4%184th 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.
97.0%
97.7%98.1%188th 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.
3.7
6.05.9245th 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.
73.0%
69.4%80.3%118th 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.
97.0%
84.9%90.0%113th 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%
97.1%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.
1.3
0.90.6131st 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.
98.2%
98.1%99.0%187th 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%
99.9%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.
75.2%
80.9%91.6%185th 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.
97.0%
97.4%98.5%205th 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 44%On foot or by bicycle 22%Public transport 22%Other me… 12%Car43%Walking19%Bicyc…3.3%Public transport22%Other12%
Private vehicle 44%On foot or… 22%Public transport 22%Other means 12%Car43%Walking19%BicyclePublic transport22%Other12%
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 68%Provided rent-free 15%Rented 13%Other 4.1%Owned outright65%Provided byfamily8.1%Providedbyemployer7.1%Rented,withcontract6.7%Rented, nocontract6.4%
Owned 68%Provided rent-free 15%Rented 13%Owned outright65%Providedby family8.1%Providedbyemployer7.1%Rented,withcontract6.7%Rented,nocontract6.4%Otherarra…
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%Gas2.6%Paraf…1.1%Elect…2.0%Noheati…1.2%
Wood and biomass 93%Firewood91%No…
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
85.5%
of the registered voted in the first round
85.2%
voted in the runoff
7,697
registered voters on the roll
7.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman30.5%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist69.5%58.3%
MáfilChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez25.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman18.6%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen16.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist29.5%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.0%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.9%1.3%
MáfilChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile25.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile17.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido26.7%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente12.7%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.7%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 pact14.1%0.7%
MáfilChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Máfil 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

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