Commune · 10301

OsornoOsorno

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Census population
166,455
30th of 346
Population density
174.3/km²
75th of 346
Average years of schooling
10.2 yrs
65th of 346
Foreign-born share
2.3%
198th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary1st of 345 · Chile 99.8%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF27.2 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF27.2 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 · 1,995 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
68.6%
86th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
13.8%
232nd of 335
Came from another region
16.5%
141st of 335
Net internal migration
-31,790
-18.1 per 100 residents
Osornothis commune · 205,083another region28,873 peopleelsewhere in the region24,225 peopleabroad1,972 peopleanother region57,073 peopleelsewhere in the region27,815 peopleOsornothis commune · 175,265
Osornothis commune · 205,083another region28,873 peopleelsewhere in th…24,225 peopleabroad1,972 peopleanother region57,073 peopleelsewhere in th…27,815 peopleOsornothis commune · 175,265

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Construction1Construction3Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▲12Agriculture and fishing3Agriculture and fishing▼18Health4Health▲49Administrative services5Administrative services▲44Manufacturing6Manufacturing▼27Education7Education5Transport8Transport▼312Electricity and gas9Electricity and gas▲310Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food11Professional services11Professional services6Other services12Other services▼6
2005202411Construction32Retail and wholesale▲123Agriculture and fishing▼184Health▲495Administrative services▲446Manufacturing▼277Education58Transport▼3129Electricity and gas▲31010Accommodation and food1111Professional services612Other services▼6

The ten branches that employ most of Osorno

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.

30 k50 k70 k90 kprojection →79 k2029 · central2005201520242029
30 k50 k70 k90 kprojection →79 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.3% a year observed · 1.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0100 M200 M300 Mprojection →226 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0100 M200 M300 Mprojection →226 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.8% a year observed · 0.7% projected

What Osorno is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Osorno employs more people in 121 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.

121
activities it is specialised in
71,751
formal workers
107/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Construcción de edificios para us…Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Transmisión de energía eléctricaEnseñanza superior en universidad…Otros servicios de atención de la…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Venta al por mayor de vehículos a…Actividades de paisajismo, servic…Corretaje al por mayor de product…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Venta al por menor de productos f…Transmisión de energía eléctricaVenta al por menor de otros produ…Corretaje al por mayor de product…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Osorno

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
Transmisión de energía eléctricaGeneración, transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica1,09357.0×
Televisión de pago satelitalActividades de telecomunicaciones por satélite25051.3×
Distribución de energía eléctricaGeneración, transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica1,35032.6×
Venta al por menor de tabaco y productos de tabaco en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados10026.5×
Explotación de mataderos de bovinos, ovinos, equinos, caprinos, porcinos y camélidosElaboración y conservación de carne1,91224.4×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción lecheraGanadería1,87820.4×
Elaboración de piensos preparados para animalesElaboración de piensos preparados para animales58118.2×
Alquiler y arrendamiento de equipo recreativo y deportivoAlquiler y arrendamiento de efectos personales y enseres domésticos6817.8×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductorGanadería1,19315.4×
Reparación de maquinaria agropecuaria y forestalReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo12113.4×
Venta al por menor de ropa usada en comerciosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados1268.7×
Suministro de vapor y de aire acondicionadoSuministro de vapor y de aire acondicionado868.3×

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
64,100
hectares in holdings
94.7%
of them under a named use
5.6%
of the crop land is irrigated
854
holdings with land here
Pasture 66%Woodland 13%Annual crops 13%Not fa… 6.0%Orchar… 1.7%Pasture66%Native woodland8.9%Forestplantations4.5%Cereals6.9%Fodder crops5.2%Pul…andtub…Indu…Scrub,barrenground and…5.3%Fruit trees
Pasture 66%Woodland 13%Annual crops 13%Not… 6.0%Pasture66%Nativewoodland8.9%Forestplant…4.5%Cereals6.9%Foddercrops5.2%Puls…Scrub,barrenground…
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
OsornoChile% of each territory's own population · 166,455 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
166,455
239,10718,480,43230th of 346
Average age
38.7 yrs
39.5 yrs38.1 yrs209th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
84.8
92.679.0199th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
174.3/km²
25.8/km²24.7/km²75th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
62,545
90,4036,596,52728th of 346
Dwellings
68,763
107,1737,642,71627th of 346
People per household
2.66
2.642.80226th of 345
Women
52.2%
51.7%51.5%28th of 346
Men per 100 women
91.4
93.594.3319th of 346
Under 15
17.1%
16.9%17.7%225th of 346
65 and over
14.5%
15.6%14.0%234th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
46.1
48.246.5286th of 346
One-person households
23.2%
23.4%21.8%148th of 345
Households with children
32.0%
31.2%33.2%211th of 345
Indigenous peoples
28.9%
31.9%11.4%70th of 346
Female-headed households
51.9%
49.8%49.9%49th of 345
Land area
955 km²
9,255 km²748,041 km²140th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Osorno32%Arrived since 202068%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Osorno32%Arrived since 202068%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born share
2.3%
1.9%8.7%198th 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.
68.6%
65.9%50.5%86th 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.
13.8%
17.2%23.9%232nd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
16.5%
15.6%17.2%141st of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
3,779
4,6091,608,65073rd of 346
Average age, foreign-born
34.1 yrs
34.8 yrs33.5 yrs131st of 345
Women among foreign-born
49.2%
48.9%51.7%252nd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
83.1%
81.5%83.1%85th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
32.3%
32.3%34.4%235th of 345
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna.
2.8%
2.3%10.6%197th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.2 yrs
13.2 yrs12.9 yrs59th 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.
-31,790
-51,0710318th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-18.1
-20.60.0216th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Osorno29%Higher37%Secondary26%Primary only5.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Osorno29%Higher37%Secondary26%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.2 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs65th of 346
Reached higher education
29.3%
25.7%31.1%69th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.1%
98.9%98.6%215th 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.
64.5%
62.3%55.6%36th 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.
99.2%
100.2%99.8%278th of 346
Literacy rate
97.5%
96.9%97.8%121st of 346
Reached secondary education
36.8%
36.5%36.7%188th of 346
Primary education only
26.1%
29.9%24.1%253rd of 346
Never attended school
2.81%
3.14%3.01%283rd 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.
11.9 yrs
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs71st of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.8 yrs
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs84th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
2.52%
3.13%2.18%228th of 345
Households lacking schooling
18.0%
20.6%15.1%225th 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.
2,281
3,101217,56529th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
36.5%
38.8%33.9%171st 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.
3.5%
7.4%3.1%98th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
71.3%
68.2%67.2%81st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
12.5%
13.6%19.7%249th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
16.2%
18.2%13.1%162nd of 331
Of those continuing, studies outside their region · Compares the region of the school they graduated from with the region of the campus where they enrol. A campus is not necessarily where the student lives.
25.5%
22.8%13.0%106th 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.
49.4%
51.0%49.7%208th 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.

2,281left secondary school in 2024
1,472enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
64.5%continued immediately
71%of those, to a university
26%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoPsicologiaIngenieria Civil en InformaticaIngenieria ComercialEnfermeriaTecnologia MedicaKinesiologiaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizObstetricia y PuericulturaQuimica y Farmacia
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoPsicologiaIngenieria Civil en InformaticaIngenieria ComercialEnfermeriaTecnologia MedicaKinesiologiaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizObstetricia y PuericulturaQuimica y Farmacia
OsornoChile

Each bar is that programme's share of everyone who continued, here and in the country — not a headcount, so a commune of a few hundred can be read beside a country of 121,050. Programme names as the register writes them: in capitals and without accents, and unmerged, since SIES publishes 1,481 distinct names in a single year and two spellings of one degree stay two rows. Only the capitals are undone here.

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technologySocial sciencesServicesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technologySocial sciencesServicesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
OsornoChile

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

01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,2811,472
01,0002,0003,0002006201520242,2811,472
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 Osorno'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 Osorno 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

Osorno90%Fonasa7.4%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Osorno90%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.6%
11.5%10.6%238th of 346
Public health insurance
90.2%
91.8%82.6%208th 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.
107.5
101.382.523rd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
98
94100139th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
17,674
27,6101,950,38826th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
58.0 yrs
58.9 yrs56.4 yrs169th of 346
Disability among 65+
45.6%
46.9%43.0%169th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.12%
5.65%4.92%229th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.57%
5.00%4.58%250th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.29%
2.57%2.16%223rd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.70%
2.81%2.70%200th of 346
Private health insurance
7.4%
5.7%13.2%83rd of 335
No health coverage
1.12%
1.23%1.98%195th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
91.9%
90.6%92.1%199th of 332
Households lacking health access
5.7%
6.2%6.0%152nd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
17,892
24,2271,523,71621st of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
335
49436,69825th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
1.87%
2.04%2.41%287th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.2 days
5.9 days6.1 days299th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
20.1
20.719.9154th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
130
12010018th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
1,166
1,66489,72319th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.5%
6.9%5.9%101st of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
70.0
69.648.612th 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.
141
13410013th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 22%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones and … 18%Tumours, blo… 13%Pregnancy, birth… 13%Infections and … 6.8%Mind, nerves an… 6.3%Digestive system14%Genitour…system8.1%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem8.4%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskeletal5.7%SkinCancers andtumours9.1%Endocrine andmetabolicPregnancy andchildbirth11%Perinatal…Congenit…Contactwithhealth…Infect…andparasi…Eye3.0%Nerv…syst…Ment…andbeha…
Digestive and urinary … 22%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries,… 18%Tumours, blood an… 13%Pregnancy, birth … 13%Inf… 6.8%Min… 6.3%Digestivesystem14%Genitou…system8.1%Circulatorysystem11%Respira…system8.4%Injuriesandpoisoning11%Musculoske…5.7%Cancers andtumours9.1%Endoc…andmetab…3.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Contactwith healt…Infec…andparas…EyeNerv…syst…Ment…and…
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 digestivos29%Mama13%Vías urinarias9.9%Sangre y sistemalinfático9.8%Genitalesfemeninos9.0%Genitalesmasculinos7.9%Víasrespirator…6.3%Tiroidesyendocrin…5.1%Sitios maldefinidos3.4%Piel ymelanomaEncéfaloysistema…Boca yfaringeSitios…
Órganos digestivos29%Mama13%Víasurinarias9.9%Sangre ysistemalinfático9.8%Genitalesfemeninos9.0%Genitalesmasculinos7.9%Víasrespirat…6.3%Tiroid…yendocr…5.1%Sitios maldefinidosPiel ymelanomaEncéfa…ysistem…Boca yfaringeSitios…
Órganos digestivosMamaVías urinariasSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales femeninosGenitales masculinoshover 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.
17.9%
18.3%17.3%218th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
27.2 UF
26.3 UF32.0 UF70th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
92.0%
93.3%78.9%231st 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.
94.4
90.485.684th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
53.1%
51.3%54.4%129th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.3%
8.9%8.6%129th of 345
Self-employed
31.9%
32.7%33.8%242nd of 345
Extreme poverty
6.6%
7.2%6.9%208th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
15.7%
17.4%17.7%205th of 335
Unemployment rate
8.6%
8.3%8.8%185th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 657,653
CLP 604,837CLP 783,12474th 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.
0.464
0.4650.48888th of 321
Registered firms
15,714
21,6211,582,39026th of 346
Annual sales
218,152,291 UF
251,143,478 UF34,347,683,688 UF19th 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.
71,887
91,0799,699,16424th of 346
Sales per firm
13,883 UF
11,616 UF21,706 UF43rd of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
3.0
2.83.970th of 346
Women among employees
35.4%
36.7%40.6%261st of 345
Independent contractors
22,731
30,0703,958,26931st of 346
Contractors as share of workers
24.0%
24.8%29.0%226th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 31%State and social services 24%Industry and construction 21%Advanced services 9.9%Natural resources 7.1%Retail andwholesale20%Transport7.0%Accommodationand food4.6%Education10%Health9.7%Publicadmin…4.2%Construction9.1%Manufacturing8.9%Electricity an…Wat…and…Profes…servic…3.5%Admini…servic…3.4%Inform…and…Financeand…Real…Agriculture andfishing6.8%Domest…work3.3%Otherservic…2.4%Arts and…
Trade and logistics 31%State and social… 24%Industry and const… 21%Advanced ser… 9.9%Natural reso… 7.1%Retail andwholesale20%Transport7.0%Accommod…and food4.6%Education10%Health9.7%Publicadmin…4.2%Construction9.1%Manufacturing8.9%Profe…servi…3.5%Admin…servi…3.4%Infor…Finan…Agriculture andfishingDomest…work3.3%Otherservic…2.4%Arts…
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 53%Managers and professionals 32%Elementary occupations 15%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades14%Plant and machineoperators8.4%Clericalsupport6.4%Skill…agric…3.3%Professionals18%Technicians10%Managers3.9%Elementary occupations15%
Skilled occupations 53%Managers and professionals 32%Elementar… 15%Service andsales20%Craft andtrades14%Plant andmachineoperatorsClericalsupport6.4%Skil…agri…Professionals18%Technicians10%ManagersElementaryoccupations15%
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

Osorno89%House9.6%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Osorno89%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.9%
4.9%5.7%214th of 345
Internet access
92.8%
90.3%93.2%99th 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.
2.4
3.72.3248th 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.
1.7
3.11.6251st of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
61,741
89,3196,408,17227th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.35%
0.34%0.57%148th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.83%
1.73%1.13%83rd of 345
Public water network
92.0%
82.0%92.3%110th of 345
Electricity access
99.7%
99.3%99.6%79th of 345
Detached houses
88.9%
91.9%78.7%276th of 345
Apartments
9.6%
6.7%19.9%66th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.60%
0.56%0.23%27th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
5.7%
12.0%11.9%305th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
3,513
4,760491,90446th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
5.6%
5.3%7.5%158th of 345
Renting households
23.3%
19.3%26.2%69th of 345
Owner-occupiers
62.7%
63.8%61.1%263rd of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
66.0%
73.6%24.4%142nd of 345
Commute by public transport
38.2%
34.4%42.1%61st of 345
Walks to work
9.5%
12.4%10.2%256th of 345
Households with a computer
50.9%
46.0%54.9%89th 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.
1.3
1.81.1236th 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%
88.4%97.0%193rd 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.
91.3%
80.8%89.4%95th 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.
97.2%
93.3%98.1%183rd 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%
99.7%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.
2.5
8.05.9271st 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.
91.6%
69.7%80.3%73rd 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.
97.6%
82.2%90.0%106th 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.
99.9%
92.1%96.2%154th 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.
0.6
1.00.6276th 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.
99.5%
96.2%99.0%123rd of 345
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
91.8%
81.7%91.6%108th 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.
98.5%
94.1%98.5%177th 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%
99.7%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 42%Public transport 38%On foot or by bicycle 12%Other means 8.1%Car42%Public transport38%Walking9.5%Bic…Other8.0%
Private vehicle 42%Public transport 38%On foot or by bicycle 12%Other means 8.1%Car42%Public transport38%Walking9.5%Bicy…Other8.0%
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 63%Rented 23%Provided rent-fr… 11%Owned outright49%Owned, still paying14%Rented, withcontract16%Rented, no contract7.0%Provided byfamily8.6%Otherarran…3.3%
Owned 63%Rented 23%Provided rent… 11%Owned outright49%Owned,stillpaying14%Rented, withcontract16%Rented,nocontract7.0%Provided byfamily8.6%
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 76%Fossil fuels 14%Electricity 8.4%Firewood66%Pellets9.7%Paraffin7.1%Gas6.9%Electricity8.4%Nohea…
Wood and biomass 76%Fossil fuels 14%Electricity 8.4%Firewood66%Pelle…9.7%Paraffin7.1%Gas6.9%Electricity8.4%
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
86.3%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.1%
voted in the runoff
146,241
registered voters on the roll
7.3%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman38.9%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist61.1%58.3%
OsornoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez21.0%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman24.7%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen16.5%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist24.6%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.2%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.2%1.3%
OsornoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile38.3%30.6%
KCambio por Chile25.6%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido20.6%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente11.0%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.4%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
OsornoChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Osorno across the 28 figures PuroChile publishes for the 345 communes with complete data, grouped into seven dimensions of equal weight. This is not proximity: nothing in the computation knows where any commune is.

ScalePopulation structureMigrationEducationHealthEconomyHousing and services

The figure beside each name is the distance between the two communes: 0 would be identical, and 1.48 is what separates any two communes in the country. Each bar is one of the seven dimensions, and reaches the end when the two differ on it by twice what two communes picked at random do. Location is not part of the computation: 52% of these pairings cross into another region.

Inside the commune

Census districts
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