Commune · 09112

Padre las CasasPadre las Casas

Compare Padre las Casas with another place
Census population
80,656
72nd of 346
Population density
174.1/km²
76th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.3 yrs
170th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.5%
241st 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 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.5 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.5 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 · 1,150 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
51.2%
245th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
34.6%
43rd of 335
Came from another region
13.4%
220th of 335
Net internal migration
+32,589
+38.2 per 100 residents
Padre las Casasthis commune · 52,062elsewhere in the region29,556 peopleanother region11,433 peopleabroad654 peopleelsewhere in the region5,798 peopleanother region2,602 peoplePadre las Casasthis commune · 85,305
Padre las Casasthis commune · 52,062elsewhere in th…29,556 peopleanother region11,433 peopleabroad654 peopleelsewhere in th…5,798 peopleanother region2,602 peoplePadre las Casasthis commune · 85,305

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Education1Education2Construction2Construction5Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲26Public administration4Public administration▲24Agriculture and fishing5Agriculture and fishing▼13Manufacturing6Manufacturing▼310Administrative services7Administrative services▲311Transport8Transport▲38Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food▼19Professional services10Professional services▼113Water and waste11Water and waste▲212Other services12Other services7Mining13Mining▼6
2005202411Education22Construction53Retail and wholesale▲264Public administration▲245Agriculture and fishing▼136Manufacturing▼3107Administrative services▲3118Transport▲389Accommodation and food▼1910Professional services▼11311Water and waste▲21212Other services713Mining▼6

The ten branches that employ most of Padre las Casas

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.

010 k20 k30 kprojection →22 k2029 · central2005201520242029
010 k20 k30 kprojection →22 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.6% a year observed · 4.8% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

010 M20 M30 Mprojection →25 M2029 · central2005201520242029
010 M20 M30 Mprojection →25 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.5% a year observed · 12.0% projected

What Padre las Casas is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Padre las Casas employs more people in 67 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.

67
activities it is specialised in
17,385
formal workers
127/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Actividades de la administración …Construcción de carreteras y líne…Venta al por mayor de bebidas alc…Terminación y acabado de edificiosLimpieza general de edificiosFabricación de otros productos el…Fabricación de productos metálico…Venta al por menor de combustible…Cultivo de trigoHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Fabricación de otros productos el…Fabricación de productos metálico…Cultivo de trigoIndustrias básicas de hierro y ac…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Padre las Casas

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
Otras industrias manufactureras n.c.p.Otras industrias manufactureras n.c.p.10429.2×
Actividades de motelesActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas3915.6×
Enseñanza deportiva y recreativaOtros tipos de enseñanza2214.6×
Fabricación de instrumentos y materiales médicos, oftalmológicos y odontológicos n.c.p.Fabricación de instrumentos y materiales médicos y odontológicos4213.0×
Venta al por mayor de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicasVenta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco77511.8×
Enseñanza primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional privadaEnseñanza preescolar, primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional4,7068.8×
Construcción de carreteras y líneas de ferrocarrilConstrucción de carreteras y líneas de ferrocarril1,2696.8×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada1006.5×
Fabricación de carrocerías para vehículos automotores; fabricación de remolques y semirremolques y semirremolquesFabricación de carrocerías para vehículos automotores; fabricación de remolques y semirremolques196.5×
Reparación de maquinaria agropecuaria y forestalReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo135.9×
Fabricación de maquinaria agropecuaria y forestalFabricación de maquinaria de uso especial135.1×
Extracción de piedra, arena y arcillaExtracción de piedra, arena y arcilla624.9×

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
16,499
hectares in holdings
87.1%
of them under a named use
13.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
4,021
holdings with land here
Annual crops 38%Pasture 32%Not farmed 18%Woodland 8.9%Cereals24%Fodder crops4.8%Vegetab…3.5%Industrialcrops3.1%Pulses andtubersPasture32%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings13%Untill…land4.6%Forestplantations5.8%Nativewoodla…3.1%Fruittrees3.4%
Annual crops 38%Pasture 32%Not farmed 18%Woodland 8.9%Cereals24%Foddercrops4.8%Vegeta…3.5%Industri…cropsPulses an…Pasture32%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings13%Untill…land4.6%Forestplantat…5.8%Nat…woo…Fru…tre…
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

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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
Padre las CasasChile% of each territory's own population · 80,656 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
80,656
803,77718,480,43272nd of 346
Average age
36.7 yrs
38.4 yrs38.1 yrs302nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
62.6
81.279.0305th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
174.1/km²
43.8/km²24.7/km²76th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
27,708
297,7676,596,52771st of 346
Dwellings
32,154
389,0477,642,71665th of 346
People per household
2.91
2.702.8067th of 345
Women
51.7%
51.8%51.5%69th of 346
Men per 100 women
93.4
92.994.3278th of 346
Under 15
19.8%
18.2%17.7%50th of 346
65 and over
12.4%
14.8%14.0%298th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
47.5
49.346.5263rd of 346
One-person households
18.5%
22.9%21.8%295th of 345
Households with children
37.9%
33.1%33.2%42nd of 345
Indigenous peoples
51.2%
36.5%11.4%27th of 346
Female-headed households
47.9%
49.3%49.9%177th of 345
Land area
463 km²
18,354 km²748,041 km²213th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Padre las Casas34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Padre las Casas34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born share
1.5%
2.4%8.7%241st 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.
51.2%
57.2%50.5%245th 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.
34.6%
21.3%23.9%43rd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
13.4%
19.8%17.2%220th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
1,200
18,9301,608,650114th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.2 yrs
35.0 yrs33.5 yrs179th of 345
Women among foreign-born
50.7%
50.9%51.7%183rd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
82.1%
82.3%83.1%125th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
33.8%
28.8%34.4%218th of 345
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna.
1.8%
2.9%10.6%242nd of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.0 yrs
13.5 yrs12.9 yrs92nd 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.
32,589
-31,178024th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
38.2
-3.80.026th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Padre las Casas21%Higher39%Secondary31%Primary only5.2%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Padre las Casas21%39%Secondary31%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.3 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs170th of 346
Reached higher education
20.9%
26.3%31.1%169th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.5%
99.5%98.6%194th 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.
51.3%
50.9%55.6%219th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.
100.0%
101.3%99.8%231st of 346
Literacy rate
96.4%
96.8%97.8%177th of 346
Reached secondary education
39.5%
36.6%36.7%88th of 346
Primary education only
30.6%
28.7%24.1%193rd of 346
Never attended school
3.90%
3.41%3.01%133rd 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.
11.0 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs139th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.0 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs159th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.59%
3.16%2.18%169th of 345
Households lacking schooling
26.7%
20.5%15.1%126th 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.
400
10,404217,565113th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
78.0%
36.9%33.9%24th 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.
21.8%
5.0%3.1%50th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
49.3%
71.6%67.2%292nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
31.2%
15.2%19.7%41st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
19.5%
13.3%13.1%131st 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.
1.5%
10.1%13.0%285th 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.
48.3%
51.2%49.7%237th 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.

400left secondary school in 2024
205enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
51.3%continued immediately
49%of those, to a university
1%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria ElectricaIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en ConstruccionKinesiologiaPsicologiaAsistente en Educacion de ParvulosConstruccion CivilDerecho
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria ElectricaIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en ConstruccionKinesiologiaPsicologiaAsistente en Educacion de ParvulosConstruccion CivilDerecho
Padre las CasasChile

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

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryEducationBusiness and lawHealth and welfareServicesSocial sciencesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciencesArts and humanities
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryEducationBusiness and lawHealth and welfareServicesSocial sciencesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciencesArts and humanities
Padre las CasasChile

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

0200400600200620152024400205
0200400600200620152024400205
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 Padre las Casas'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 Padre las Casas 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

Padre las Casas95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Padre las Casas95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.1%
12.2%10.6%220th of 346
Public health insurance
94.9%
91.4%82.6%99th 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.
70.9
77.682.5161st of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
110
9310092nd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
8,917
98,0291,950,38869th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
56.5 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs248th of 346
Disability among 65+
42.3%
44.9%43.0%262nd of 346
Difficulty walking
5.18%
5.65%4.92%224th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.08%
5.70%4.58%200th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.39%
2.78%2.16%206th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.52%
3.02%2.70%239th of 346
Private health insurance
2.3%
5.3%13.2%218th of 335
No health coverage
0.28%
1.11%1.98%273rd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
93.4%
92.0%92.1%167th of 332
Households lacking health access
7.1%
5.0%6.0%98th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
5,720
62,4061,523,71678th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
159
1,57136,69873rd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.78%
2.52%2.41%170th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
8.5 days
7.2 days6.1 days37th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
19.7
19.519.9161st of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
88
93100138th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
354
3,84589,72369th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.2%
6.2%5.9%119th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
43.9
47.848.6125th 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.
95
9610086th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 21%Pregnancy, birth … 17%Injuries, bone… 15%Tumours, blood and … 14%Mind, nerve… 6.0%Infections … 4.8%Digestive system15%Genitour…system7.3%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem10%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Congenital…Perinatal…Injuries andpoisoning10.0%Musculoskele…3.7%SkinCancers andtumours9.0%Endocr…andmetabo…3.6%Bloodand…Mentalandbehaviou…3.4%Nervo…system2.3%Infect…andparasi…Conta…withhealt…Ill-…symp…
Digestive and urinary… 23%Heart and lungs 21%Pregnancy, birth and ne… 17%Injuries, bones and skin 15%Tumours, blood a… 14%Mind… 6.0%Digestivesystem15%Genito…system7.3%Circulato…system11%Respirat…system10%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Injuries andpoisoning10.0%Musculo…3.7%Cancers andtumours9.0%Endoc…andmetab…Blood…Mentalandbehav…3.4%Nerv…syst…Inf…andpar…
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 digestivos32%Sangre y sistema linfático24%Mama10%Genitalesmasculinos6.2%Genitalesfemeninos5.9%Tiroides yendocrinas4.2%Sitios maldefinidos4.0%Tejidosblandos2.8%Víasurinarias2.5%Boca yfaringe2.3%Huesos2.0%Víasrespi…1.7%Sitiosreser…1.7%
Órganos digestivos32%Sangre y sistemalinfático24%Mama10%Genitalesmasculinos6.2%Genitalesfemeninos5.9%Tiroidesyendocri…4.2%Sitiosmaldefinid…4.0%Tejid…bland…2.8%Víasurina…2.5%Boca yfaringeHuesos2.0%Víasrespir…1.7%Sitiosreserv…1.7%
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaGenitales masculinosGenitales femeninosTiroides y endocrinashover 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.
29.5%
30.0%17.3%51st of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.5 UF
22.9 UF32.0 UF215th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
111.1%
101.1%78.9%80th 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.
47.1
77.785.6330th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
47.8%
48.4%54.4%224th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
12.8%
10.2%8.6%15th of 345
Self-employed
35.1%
35.8%33.8%166th of 345
Extreme poverty
11.5%
13.8%6.9%69th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
28.5%
18.6%17.7%36th of 335
Unemployment rate
9.5%
11.3%8.8%148th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 450,528
CLP 533,802CLP 783,124273rd 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.
0.432
0.4950.488171st of 321
Registered firms
3,795
62,4281,582,39094th of 346
Annual sales
14,002,263 UF
267,044,738 UF34,347,683,688 UF113th 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.
17,387
254,9539,699,16483rd of 346
Sales per firm
3,690 UF
4,278 UF21,706 UF177th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
3.0
2.73.979th of 346
Women among employees
43.5%
41.9%40.6%123rd of 345
Independent contractors
5,304
104,1373,958,26982nd of 346
Contractors as share of workers
23.4%
29.0%29.0%239th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 30%Industry and construction 23%State and social services 23%Advanced services 8.5%Natural resources 8.0%Retail andwholesale19%Transport7.2%Accommodationand food4.0%Construction12%Manufacturing8.6%Electricit…Water…Education10%Health8.3%Publicadministration4.9%Administr…services4.1%Profe…servi…2.2%Infor…and…Agriculture andfishing7.3%Domesticwork3.2%Otherservices2.5%
Trade and logistics 30%Industry and con… 23%State and social ser… 23%Advanced s… 8.5%Natural re… 8.0%Retail andwholesale19%Transport7.2%Accommod…and food4.0%Construction12%Manufacturing8.6%Ele…andgasWat…and…Educati…10%Health8.3%Publicadministrat…Admini…servic…4.1%Professi…Inf…and…Agricultureand fishingDomes…work3.2%Otherservi…2.5%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 60%Managers and professionals 24%Elementary occupations 16%Service and sales22%Craft andtrades17%Plant andmachineoperators8.8%Clericalsupport6.8%Skilledagricult…4.7%Professionals11%Technicians10%Elementary occupations16%
Skilled occupations 60%Managers and professionals 24%Elementary occu… 16%Service andsales22%Craft andtrades17%Plant andmachineoperators8.8%Clericalsupport6.8%Skill…agric…4.7%Profession…11%Technicians10%Elementaryoccupations16%
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

Padre las Casas94%House6.3%Chile79%House20%Flat
Padre las Casas94%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.7%
5.3%5.7%52nd of 345
Internet access
87.8%
88.1%93.2%199th 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.
2.8
3.52.3228th 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.
2.4
2.91.6212th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
27,469
294,5656,408,17270th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.48%
0.38%0.57%72nd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.67%
1.00%1.13%281st of 345
Public water network
79.0%
80.7%92.3%212th of 345
Electricity access
98.6%
98.6%99.6%278th of 345
Detached houses
93.2%
91.1%78.7%246th of 345
Apartments
6.3%
8.2%19.9%83rd of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.30%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
10.1%
19.6%11.9%243rd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
1,070
12,914491,90487th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.9%
4.3%7.5%296th of 345
Renting households
13.2%
18.7%26.2%212th of 345
Owner-occupiers
76.7%
68.3%61.1%26th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
64.0%
68.1%24.4%151st of 345
Commute by public transport
45.7%
35.3%42.1%46th of 345
Walks to work
8.3%
13.5%10.2%284th of 345
Households with a computer
43.0%
46.7%54.9%169th 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.
1.6
1.71.1203rd 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.
95.8%
92.6%97.0%149th 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%
100.0%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.
77.4%
75.6%89.4%153rd 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.
100.0%
96.8%98.1%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
5.2
10.55.9215th 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.
61.3%
50.5%80.3%140th 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.
93.1%
72.5%90.0%138th 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%
90.7%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.
0.8
0.90.6241st 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.
100.0%
98.7%99.0%81st 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.
90.3%
78.2%91.6%113th 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.
100.0%
98.3%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Public transport 46%Private vehicle 38%On foot or by bicycle 12%Public transport46%Car37%Walking8.3%Bicycle3.6%Other4.1%
Public transport 46%Private vehicle 38%On foot or by bicycle 12%Other… 4.2%Public transport46%Car37%WalkingBicycleOther
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 77%Rented 13%Provided r… 7.4%Owned outright68%Owned,stillpaying9.0%Rented, withcontract8.3%Rented, nocontract4.9%Provided byfamily6.6%Other arrangement
Owned 77%Rented 13%Provided… 7.4%Owned outright68%Owne…stillpayi…Rented, withcontract8.3%Rented,nocontractProvided byfamily6.6%Oth…arr…
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 79%Fossil fuels 13%Electricity 5.7%No heating 2.1%Firewood64%Pellets15%Paraffin6.9%Gas5.9%Electricity5.7%
Wood and biomass 79%Fossil fuels 13%Electr… 5.7%Firewood64%Pellets15%Paraffin6.9%Gas5.9%Electricity5.7%Nohea…
ElectricityNo heatingOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
89.2%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.1%
voted in the runoff
64,453
registered voters on the roll
6.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman32.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist67.9%58.3%
Padre las CasasChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez25.0%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman18.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist31.5%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%
Padre las CasasChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile21.8%30.6%
KCambio por Chile27.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido20.1%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente13.2%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas8.0%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.7%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile6.2%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
Padre las CasasChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile32.9%
KCambio por Chile28.4%
JChile Grande y Unido20.3%
IPartido de la Gente10.2%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.1%
Independents outside a pact5.0%
Padre las Casasshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Padre las Casas 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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