Commune · 16303
Ñiquén
Compare Ñiquén with another placeCensus population
12,797
229th of 346
Population density
25.9/km²
186th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.3 yrs
326th of 346
Foreign-born share
0.5%
324th 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
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 · 194 surveyedLives in the commune where they were born
48.2%
256th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
25.4%
94th of 335
Came from another region
26.4%
35th of 335
Net internal migration
+3,015
+26.2 per 100 residents
Formal employment, 2005–2024
2005–2024 · Source SIIThe ten branches that employ most of Ñiquén
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 resources671+180%02Public administrationState and social services264−21%03Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics115+505%04ConstructionIndustry and construction95−36%05Administrative servicesAdvanced services75—06Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics56+1,767%07Water and wasteIndustry and construction37+164%08TransportTrade and logistics35+338%09EducationState and social services33—10Professional servicesAdvanced services20—Dependent workers, projected
Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.
Annual sales in UF, projected
UF is indexed to inflation, so this is a projection in real terms.
What Ñiquén is specialised in
2024 · SIIOf the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Ñiquén employs more people in 33 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.
33
activities it is specialised in
1,445
formal workers
259/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
Most over-represented in Ñiquén
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cría de otros animales n.c.p. | Ganadería | 37 | 297.5× |
| Cultivos forrajeros en praderas mejoradas o sembradas; cultivos suplementarios forrajeros | Cultivo de plantas no perennes | 45 | 80.2× |
| Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales (explotación mixta) | Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales | 95 | 28.4× |
| Cultivo de maíz | Cultivo de plantas no perennes | 10 | 24.8× |
| Servicio notarial | Actividades jurídicas | 20 | 24.2× |
| Cría de caballos y otros equinos | Ganadería | 2 | 19.8× |
| Servicios de transporte de escolares | Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre | 7 | 18.8× |
| Cultivo de trigo | Cultivo de plantas no perennes | 32 | 15.6× |
| 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 especializados | 17 | 14.7× |
| Captación, tratamiento y distribución de agua | Captación, tratamiento y distribución de agua | 37 | 11.0× |
| Actividades de apoyo a la agricultura | Actividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha | 417 | 9.4× |
| Servicios funerarios | Otras actividades de servicios personales | 3 | 9.0× |
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 · 2020/202129,260
hectares in holdings
93.7%
of them under a named use
87.0%
of the crop land is irrigated
1,213
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.
Population and territory
See all →Population pyramid
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Census population | 12,797 | 118,754 | 18,480,432 | 229th of 346 | |
Average age | 43.4 yrs | 40.2 yrs | 38.1 yrs | 18th of 346 | |
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15. | 140.7 | 97.8 | 79.0 | 20th of 345 | |
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography. | 25.9/km² | 22.6/km² | 24.7/km² | 186th of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Households | 4,920 | 43,524 | 6,596,527 | 221st of 346 | |
Dwellings | 6,008 | 51,508 | 7,642,716 | 229th of 346 | |
People per household | 2.60 | 2.73 | 2.80 | 262nd of 345 | |
Women | 49.9% | 51.2% | 51.5% | 285th of 346 | |
Men per 100 women | 100.5 | 95.2 | 94.3 | 62nd of 346 | |
Under 15 | 15.4% | 17.3% | 17.7% | 310th of 346 | |
65 and over | 21.7% | 16.9% | 14.0% | 16th of 346 | |
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age. | 59.2 | 51.9 | 46.5 | 23rd of 346 | |
One-person households | 23.3% | 20.6% | 21.8% | 138th of 345 | |
Households with children | 27.8% | 32.4% | 33.2% | 305th of 345 | |
Indigenous peoples | 3.0% | 3.6% | 11.4% | 334th of 346 | |
Female-headed households | 39.1% | 44.7% | 49.9% | 330th of 345 | |
Land area | 493 km² | 5,249 km² | 748,041 km² | 206th of 346 |
Migration
See all →When the migrant population arrived
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign-born share | 0.5% | 1.2% | 8.7% | 324th 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. | 48.2% | 66.6% | 50.5% | 256th 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. | 25.4% | 16.2% | 23.9% | 94th of 335 | |
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region. | 26.4% | 15.8% | 17.2% | 35th of 335 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign-born population | 70 | 1,470 | 1,608,650 | 305th of 346 | |
Average age, foreign-born | 37.2 yrs | 33.9 yrs | 33.5 yrs | 53rd of 345 | |
Women among foreign-born | 45.7% | 51.4% | 51.7% | 319th of 345 | |
Foreign-born of working age | 84.3% | 79.5% | 83.1% | 51st of 345 | |
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later. | 18.6% | 38.2% | 34.4% | 326th 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. | 0.7% | 1.5% | 10.6% | 323rd of 346 | |
Average schooling, foreign-born | 11.9 yrs | 12.6 yrs | 12.9 yrs | 248th of 345 | |
Net internal migration · People who arrived from another comuna minus people born here who live in another comuna. It is a lifetime balance, not a year's. Chile adds to zero by construction: nobody leaves the country in this count. | 3,015 | -9,470 | 0 | 88th of 335 | |
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory. | 26.2 | -8.3 | 0.0 | 50th of 335 |
Education
See all →How far schooling went
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Average years of schooling | 8.3 yrs | 8.9 yrs | 10.4 yrs | 326th of 346 | |
Reached higher education | 12.1% | 18.0% | 31.1% | 336th of 346 | |
School attendance, ages 6-17 | 100.0% | 99.7% | 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. | 58.3% | 60.8% | 55.6% | 109th of 331 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | 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. | 105.6% | 104.3% | 99.8% | 26th of 346 | |
Literacy rate | 92.8% | 94.2% | 97.8% | 330th of 346 | |
Reached secondary education | 34.8% | 36.0% | 36.7% | 262nd of 346 | |
Primary education only | 44.3% | 36.4% | 24.1% | 13th of 346 | |
Never attended school | 4.97% | 4.75% | 3.01% | 42nd 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. | 9.0 yrs | 10.0 yrs | 12.1 yrs | 338th of 346 | |
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men. | 9.5 yrs | 10.4 yrs | 12.1 yrs | 331st of 346 | |
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write. | 7.23% | 5.83% | 2.18% | 17th of 345 | |
Households lacking schooling | 26.2% | 27.7% | 15.1% | 131st 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. | 84 | 1,459 | 217,565 | 253rd of 331 | |
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks. | 64.3% | 43.9% | 33.9% | 47th 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. | 21.4% | 5.4% | 3.1% | 51st of 331 | |
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 51.0% | 61.3% | 67.2% | 279th of 331 | |
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 28.6% | 21.6% | 19.7% | 63rd of 331 | |
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 20.4% | 17.0% | 13.1% | 112th 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. | 30.6% | 26.5% | 13.0% | 88th 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. | 59.2% | 50.6% | 49.7% | 38th of 331 |
The class of 2024
Mineduc (SIES), by the comuna they went to school inApproximation: 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.
84left secondary school in 2024
49enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
58.3%continued immediately
51%of those, to a university
31%of those, outside their region
The ten programmes they enrolled in most
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
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 Ñiquén'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
See all →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 Ñiquén 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
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Disability prevalence | 16.4% | 14.8% | 10.6% | 15th of 346 | |
Public health insurance | 98.2% | 94.3% | 82.6% | 13th 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. | 60.3 | 75.4 | 82.5 | 216th of 331 | |
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. | 90 | 106 | 100 | 163rd of 331 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
People with a disability | 2,094 | 17,523 | 1,950,388 | 196th of 346 | |
Average age, people with a disability | 61.4 yrs | 58.6 yrs | 56.4 yrs | 47th of 346 | |
Disability among 65+ | 51.2% | 45.8% | 43.0% | 59th of 346 | |
Difficulty walking | 8.61% | 7.21% | 4.92% | 13th of 346 | |
Difficulty seeing | 7.06% | 6.91% | 4.58% | 55th of 346 | |
Difficulty hearing | 3.42% | 3.08% | 2.16% | 52nd of 346 | |
Difficulty concentrating | 3.91% | 3.72% | 2.70% | 16th of 346 | |
Private health insurance | 0.2% | 2.8% | 13.2% | 309th of 335 | |
No health coverage | 0.00% | 1.19% | 1.98% | 279th of 335 | |
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months. | 98.0% | 95.1% | 92.1% | 64th of 332 | |
Households lacking health access | 5.3% | 7.3% | 6.0% | 171st of 335 | |
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times. | 772 | 8,949 | 1,523,716 | 227th of 331 | |
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register. | 33 | 295 | 36,698 | 198th of 331 | |
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death. | 4.27% | 3.30% | 2.41% | 40th of 331 | |
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up. | 6.2 days | 5.8 days | 6.1 days | 205th of 331 | |
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older. | 25.8 | 24.8 | 19.9 | 73rd of 331 | |
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. | 66 | 88 | 100 | 235th of 331 | |
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people. | 43 | 491 | 89,723 | 234th of 330 | |
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour. | 5.6% | 5.5% | 5.9% | 170th of 330 | |
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is. | 33.6 | 41.3 | 48.6 | 224th 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. | 54 | 76 | 100 | 264th 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 digestivosMamaSitios reservadosGenitales femeninosSangre y sistema linfáticohover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile
Economy and poverty
See all →| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line. | 20.2% | 28.4% | 17.3% | 169th of 335 | |
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked. | 18.1 UF | 21.0 UF | 32.0 UF | 323rd of 342 | |
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job. | 115.2% | 115.6% | 78.9% | 45th 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. | 82.4 | 82.7 | 85.6 | 146th of 346 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over. | 36.8% | 43.2% | 54.4% | 339th of 345 | |
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently. | 11.2% | 10.6% | 8.6% | 53rd of 345 | |
Self-employed | 44.2% | 35.5% | 33.8% | 40th of 345 | |
Extreme poverty | 7.2% | 13.0% | 6.9% | 188th of 335 | |
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks. | 5.5% | 18.6% | 17.7% | 315th of 335 | |
Unemployment rate | 6.9% | 8.2% | 8.8% | 246th of 335 | |
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income. | CLP 418,133 | CLP 458,315 | CLP 783,124 | 302nd 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. | 0.511 | 0.485 | 0.488 | 23rd of 321 | |
Registered firms | 1,054 | 9,820 | 1,582,390 | 226th of 346 | |
Annual sales | 1,323,001 UF | 21,716,602 UF | 34,347,683,688 UF | 278th 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. | 1,445 | 37,502 | 9,699,164 | 276th of 346 | |
Sales per firm | 1,255 UF | 2,211 UF | 21,706 UF | 323rd of 342 | |
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions. | 0.7 | 1.9 | 3.9 | 338th of 346 | |
Women among employees | 40.3% | 47.3% | 40.6% | 186th of 345 | |
Independent contractors | 602 | 8,668 | 3,958,269 | 289th of 346 | |
Contractors as share of workers | 29.4% | 18.8% | 29.0% | 136th 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
See all →House or flat
| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Overcrowded dwellings | 5.0% | 4.9% | 5.7% | 196th of 345 | |
Internet access | 77.1% | 84.6% | 93.2% | 328th 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. | 8.4 | 5.6 | 2.3 | 48th of 345 | |
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line. | 5.1 | 4.1 | 1.6 | 96th of 345 |
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| Indicator | Value | Against its peers | Province | Chile | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Occupied dwellings with residents | 4,869 | 42,975 | 6,408,172 | 219th of 346 | |
Critically overcrowded | 0.21% | 0.26% | 0.57% | 289th of 345 | |
Irrecoverable dwellings | 1.60% | 2.17% | 1.13% | 100th of 345 | |
Public water network | 80.4% | 83.1% | 92.3% | 202nd of 345 | |
Electricity access | 98.0% | 99.2% | 99.6% | 306th of 345 | |
Detached houses | 99.5% | 97.6% | 78.7% | 48th of 345 | |
Apartments | 0.0% | 0.8% | 19.9% | 219th of 345 | |
Precarious wall materials | 0.60% | 0.38% | 0.23% | 31st of 345 | |
Unoccupied private dwellings | 16.4% | 12.9% | 11.9% | 149th of 345 | |
Quantitative housing deficit | 213 | 2,359 | 491,904 | 247th of 345 | |
Housing deficit as share of households | 4.3% | 5.4% | 7.5% | 257th of 345 | |
Renting households | 6.8% | 11.9% | 26.2% | 336th of 345 | |
Owner-occupiers | 76.1% | 72.6% | 61.1% | 30th of 345 | |
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south. | 83.8% | 75.5% | 24.4% | 103rd of 345 | |
Commute by public transport | 21.6% | 23.9% | 42.1% | 219th of 345 | |
Walks to work | 12.0% | 13.9% | 10.2% | 208th of 345 | |
Households with a computer | 28.5% | 37.8% | 54.9% | 329th 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. | 2.7 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 66th 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. | 92.9% | 85.4% | 97.0% | 194th 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. | 23.4% | 52.0% | 89.4% | 324th 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. | 91.7% | 94.0% | 98.1% | 255th 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% | 99.9% | 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. | 15.8 | 11.3 | 5.9 | 138th 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% | 30.8% | 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. | 37.4% | 70.1% | 90.0% | 212th 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% | 95.5% | 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. | 1.8 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 62nd 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. | 97.4% | 97.6% | 99.0% | 209th 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. | 54.1% | 63.7% | 91.6% | 280th 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. | 96.2% | 98.6% | 98.5% | 222nd 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% | 99.9% | 99.8% | 1st 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
No heatingElectricityOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.
How it voted in 2025
TRICEL · qualified result90.2%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.8%
voted in the runoff
11,649
registered voters on the roll
5.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank
Presidential runoff · 14 December
Jeannette Jara Roman22.3%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist77.7%58.3%
Presidential, first round · 16 November
Franco Parisi Fernandez22.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman13.5%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen17.1%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist36.5%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.4%1.3%
Chamber of Deputies · 16 November
CUnidad por Chile16.7%30.6%
KCambio por Chile16.4%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido43.1%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente7.5%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas1.8%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista4.8%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde4.2%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile3.4%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular2.0%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
Sister communes
How this is computedThe four communes that most resemble Ñiquén 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.
Paredones0.60O'Higgins · 7,228 peopleAlike in Health; apart in Migration.San Ignacio0.66Ñuble · 17,405 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Health.Quilleco0.78Biobío · 9,700 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Economy.Cunco0.80Araucanía · 19,177 peopleAlike in Migration; 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
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