Natales — PuroChile

Where it stands out

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

Average monthly pay339th of 342 · Chile 32.0 UF15.3 UF

Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer327th of 330 · Chile 5.9%2.1%

Multidimensional poverty321st of 335 · Chile 17.7%3.3%

Never attended school331st of 346 · Chile 3.01%2.10%

People within 30 km of a school in operation323rd of 345 · Chile 100.0%99.4%

Electricity access24th of 345 · Chile 99.6%99.9%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 877 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

49.7%

254th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

11.6%

263rd of 335

Came from another region

29.2%

27th of 335

Net internal migration

+5,487

+22.2 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Natales

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

01Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics3,10531.3%+317%02Agriculture and fishingNatural resources1,81218.3%+140%03Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics1,46014.7%+88%04TransportTrade and logistics8148.2%+272%05Administrative servicesAdvanced services7477.5%+398%06ManufacturingIndustry and construction5865.9%+224%07ConstructionIndustry and construction3583.6%+144%08HealthState and social services2382.4%+11,800%09Other servicesOther services1771.8%−59%10Public administrationState and social services1601.6%−22%

Dependent workers, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.2% a year observed · 4.8% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval11.7% a year observed · 2.9% projected

What Natales is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Natales employs more people in 73 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.

73

activities it is specialised in

9,917

formal workers

78/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in Natales

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
Elaboración y conservación de crustáceos, moluscos y otros productos acuáticos, en plantas en tierra	Elaboración y conservación de pescado, crustáceos y moluscos	167	82.5×
Transporte de pasajeros marítimo y de cabotaje	Transporte marítimo y de cabotaje	134	75.9×
Pesca marítima artesanal	Pesca	132	58.8×
Servicios de transporte a turistas	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	104	57.2×
Cría de ovejas (ovinos)	Ganadería	62	47.7×
Transporte de pasajeros por vías de navegación interiores	Transporte por vías de navegación interiores	36	41.4×
Servicios relacionados con la acuicultura marina	Acuicultura	1,218	34.7×
Servicios relacionados con la pesca marítima	Pesca	29	32.3×
Otras actividades de alojamiento para turistas n.c.p.	Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas	37	31.9×
Actividades de agencias de viajes	Actividades de agencias de viajes y operadores turísticos	183	29.6×
Actividades de hoteles	Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas	1,931	27.6×
Venta al por menor de recuerdos, artesanías y artículos religiosos en comercios especializados	Venta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados	33	24.8×

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

6,024,668

hectares in holdings

71.9%

of them under a named use

16.6%

of the crop land is irrigated

178

holdings with land here

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.

The agricultural census measured 6,024,668 hectares of holdings in Natales 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 16.6% above is a share of the 984 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 178 holdings with land here, 18 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

NatalesChile% of each territory's own population · 24,152 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	24,152	24,355	18,480,432	152nd of 346
Average age	38.4 yrs	38.4 yrs	38.1 yrs	227th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	84.1	84.2	79.0	202nd of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	0.5/km²	0.5/km²	24.7/km²	323rd of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	9,490	9,590	6,596,527	140th of 346
Dwellings	11,223	11,527	7,642,716	152nd of 346
People per household	2.54	2.54	2.80	289th of 345
Women	50.0%	50.0%	51.5%	274th of 346
Men per 100 women	99.8	100.1	94.3	73rd of 346
Under 15	17.1%	17.0%	17.7%	227th of 346
65 and over	14.4%	14.3%	14.0%	239th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	45.8	45.7	46.5	292nd of 346
One-person households	25.0%	25.2%	21.8%	86th of 345
Households with children	30.8%	30.7%	33.2%	240th of 345
Indigenous peoples	28.0%	27.9%	11.4%	79th of 346
Female-headed households	52.5%	52.2%	49.9%	35th of 345
Land area	47,023 km²	53,540 km²	748,041 km²	1st 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	9.7%	9.7%	8.7%	48th 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.	49.7%	49.0%	50.5%	254th 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.	11.6%	12.5%	23.9%	263rd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	29.2%	29.1%	17.2%	27th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	2,338	2,355	1,608,650	90th of 346
Average age, foreign-born	32.7 yrs	32.7 yrs	33.5 yrs	208th of 345
Women among foreign-born	51.9%	52.0%	51.7%	136th of 345
Foreign-born of working age	83.1%	83.1%	83.1%	86th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	33.9%	34.0%	34.4%	216th 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.	11.7%	11.7%	10.6%	48th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	12.5 yrs	12.5 yrs	12.9 yrs	153rd 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.	5,487	6,351	0	64th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	22.2	24.6	0.0	64th 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	10.1 yrs	10.1 yrs	10.4 yrs	72nd of 346
Reached higher education	27.9%	28.0%	31.1%	77th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	99.3%	99.4%	98.6%	205th 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.	52.5%	52.5%	55.6%	199th 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.	102.6%	102.7%	99.8%	134th of 346
Literacy rate	98.2%	98.2%	97.8%	65th of 346
Reached secondary education	38.5%	38.5%	36.7%	125th of 346
Primary education only	26.1%	26.1%	24.1%	252nd of 346
Never attended school	2.10%	2.11%	3.01%	331st 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.	11.6 yrs	11.6 yrs	12.1 yrs	89th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	11.9 yrs	11.9 yrs	12.1 yrs	77th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	1.75%	1.76%	2.18%	281st of 345
Households lacking schooling	13.2%	13.5%	15.1%	277th 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.	316	316	217,565	133rd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	25.0%	25.0%	33.9%	238th 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%	0.0%	3.1%	114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	76.5%	76.5%	67.2%	43rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	11.4%	11.4%	19.7%	260th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	12.0%	12.0%	13.1%	216th 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.	41.0%	41.0%	13.0%	64th 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.	53.6%	53.6%	49.7%	108th 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.

316left secondary school in 2024

166enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

52.5%continued immediately

77%of those, to a university

41%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

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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

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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 Natales'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 Natales 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.

This region's own series says it stopped reporting in 2019, 2024 and 2025: 21,838 discharges in 2019 against a median of 14,183 in its other years, 54%; 7,768 discharges in 2024 against a median of 14,958 in its other years, -48%; 9,770 discharges in 2025 against a median of 14,958 in its other years, -35%. The rule withholds any year that departs more than 25% from that median, and no other region crosses it in any year. A register that loses records is not a place whose health changed, so those years are not published here. The counts are still in the published data, and /datos carries the check.

Which health system

FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Against its peers	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	9.9%		9.9%	10.6%	271st of 346
Public health insurance	90.4%		90.2%	82.6%	205th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	2,393	2,412	1,950,388	182nd of 346
Average age, people with a disability	56.8 yrs	56.8 yrs	56.4 yrs	233rd of 346
Disability among 65+	45.9%	45.9%	43.0%	161st of 346
Difficulty walking	4.36%	4.34%	4.92%	276th of 346
Difficulty seeing	4.60%	4.61%	4.58%	244th of 346
Difficulty hearing	2.07%	2.07%	2.16%	269th of 346
Difficulty concentrating	2.02%	2.00%	2.70%	307th of 346
Private health insurance	7.3%	7.6%	13.2%	84th of 335
No health coverage	1.25%	1.20%	1.98%	188th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	98.7%	98.7%	92.1%	53rd of 332
Households lacking health access	5.8%	5.6%	6.0%	148th of 335
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	38	39	89,723	243rd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	2.1%	2.1%	5.9%	327th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	15.7	16.0	48.6	305th 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.	32	33	100	302nd of 330

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.	13.3%	13.1%	17.3%	283rd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	15.3 UF	15.5 UF	32.0 UF	339th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	79.8%	81.2%	78.9%	306th 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.	137.3	137.8	85.6	28th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	63.1%	63.3%	54.4%	26th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	5.3%	5.3%	8.6%	303rd of 345
Self-employed	31.2%	31.1%	33.8%	255th of 345
Extreme poverty	3.3%	3.3%	6.9%	298th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	3.3%	3.8%	17.7%	321st of 335
Unemployment rate	6.5%	6.3%	8.8%	261st of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 860,109	CLP 873,299	CLP 783,124	32nd 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.	0.447	0.443	0.488	128th of 321
Registered firms	3,316	3,357	1,582,390	108th of 346
Annual sales	20,138,107 UF	20,314,726 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	99th 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.	9,917	10,189	9,699,164	120th of 346
Sales per firm	6,073 UF	6,051 UF	21,706 UF	99th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	1.7	1.7	3.9	252nd of 346
Women among employees	42.9%	42.9%	40.6%	131st of 345
Independent contractors	4,943	5,043	3,958,269	86th of 346
Contractors as share of workers	33.3%	33.1%	29.0%	90th 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

HouseFlat% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	4.8%	4.7%	5.7%	237th of 345
Internet access	93.9%	93.9%	93.2%	71st 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.	3.0	3.6	2.3	214th 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.	2.3	2.8	1.6	225th of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	9,352	9,450	6,408,172	140th of 346
Critically overcrowded	0.35%	0.35%	0.57%	141st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	0.62%	0.67%	1.13%	287th of 345
Public water network	93.6%	93.0%	92.3%	86th of 345
Electricity access	99.9%	99.9%	99.6%	24th of 345
Detached houses	99.4%	99.3%	78.7%	68th of 345
Apartments	0.1%	0.1%	19.9%	185th of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.20%	0.20%	0.23%	140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	10.1%	11.6%	11.9%	241st of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	433	442	491,904	157th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	4.6%	4.6%	7.5%	235th of 345
Renting households	25.9%	25.9%	26.2%	55th of 345
Owner-occupiers	64.5%	64.1%	61.1%	246th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	4.8%	5.7%	24.4%	286th of 345
Commute by public transport	17.5%	17.4%	42.1%	277th of 345
Walks to work	17.8%	17.9%	10.2%	141st of 345
Households with a computer	54.8%	54.8%	54.9%	60th 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.	1.4	1.6	1.1	235th 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.	96.9%	96.3%	97.0%	119th 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.	98.9%	98.4%	99.9%	293rd 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.	99.1%	98.6%	100.0%	320th 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.	96.4%	95.6%	89.4%	67th 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.	98.4%	97.6%	98.1%	161st 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.	99.1%	98.3%	99.7%	283rd 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.	2.9	3.5	5.9	263rd 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.	96.4%	95.6%	80.3%	54th 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.	98.4%	97.6%	90.0%	95th 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.	99.1%	98.3%	96.2%	193rd 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.	1.2	1.3	0.6	153rd 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.	96.9%	96.5%	99.0%	222nd 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.	99.1%	98.7%	99.9%	303rd 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.	99.4%	99.2%	100.0%	323rd 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.	96.4%	95.6%	91.6%	77th 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.	98.4%	97.6%	98.5%	178th 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.	99.1%	98.3%	99.8%	286th 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

ElectricityOther sourceNo heatinghover 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

71.4%

of the registered voted in the first round

71.5%

voted in the runoff

24,339

registered voters on the roll

8.1%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman46.9%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist53.1%58.3%

NatalesChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez16.4%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman30.2%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio2.1%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.1%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist25.1%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.0%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.4%1.3%

NatalesChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile22.0%30.6%

KCambio por Chile20.5%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido6.6%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente5.4%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas10.8%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 pact34.6%0.7%

NatalesChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Natales 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.

Aysén0.74Aysén · 23,170 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Health.Coyhaique0.88Aysén · 57,823 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Scale.Chile Chico0.89Aysén · 4,905 peopleAlike in Housing and services; apart in Economy.Porvenir0.91Magallanes · 6,809 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Health.

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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