Commune · 10404

PalenaPalena

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Census population
1,903
326th of 346
Population density
0.7/km²
318th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.3 yrs
170th of 346
Foreign-born share
4.6%
113th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Leaves from a rural school1st of 331 · Chile 3.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Households heating with wood2nd of 345 · Chile 24.4%97.2%
Irrecoverable dwellings4th of 345 · Chile 1.13%19.49%
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility5th of 345 · Chile 5.9153.6
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF24.9 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF24.9 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 · 0 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
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Came from another commune of the same region
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Came from another region
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Net internal migration
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Palenathis commune · 2,050another region1,059 peopleelsewhere in the region991 people
Palenathis commune · 2,050another region1,059 peopleelsewhere in th…991 people

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Public administration1Public administration4Construction2Construction▲22Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼13Agriculture and fishing4Agriculture and fishing▼15Manufacturing5Manufacturing
2005202411Public administration42Construction▲223Retail and wholesale▼134Agriculture and fishing▼155Manufacturing

The ten branches that employ most of Palena

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.

0200400600800projection →4202029 · central2005201520242029
0200400600800projection →4202029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval0.9% a year observed · -0.0% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0200 k400 k600 kprojection →359 k2029 · central2005201520242029
0200 k400 k600 kprojection →359 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.6% a year observed · 4.5% projected

What Palena is specialised in

2024 · SII

PuroChile does not compute this for Palena. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 421 formal workers here that division is a statement about a handful of people: one worker would move it further than a whole industry moves it in Santiago. The floor is 1,000 workers, and it is a floor rather than a caveat because a spectacular number nobody should read is worse than no number.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
69,555
hectares in holdings
58.3%
of them under a named use
15.9%
of the crop land is irrigated
210
holdings with land here
Woodland 50%Not farmed 42%Pasture 8.3%Native woodland49%Scrub, barren ground and buildings42%Pasture
Woodland 50%Not farmed 42%Native woodland49%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings42%Pastu…8.3%
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
PalenaChile% of each territory's own population · 1,903 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
1,903
18,47018,480,432326th of 346
Average age
42.0 yrs
39.4 yrs38.1 yrs36th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
122.0
82.779.038th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
0.7/km²
1.2/km²24.7/km²318th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
868
7,5866,596,527326th of 346
Dwellings
1,309
10,8837,642,716328th of 346
People per household
2.19
2.432.80337th of 345
Women
50.3%
48.7%51.5%245th of 346
Men per 100 women
98.9
105.594.3102nd of 346
Under 15
15.5%
17.6%17.7%309th of 346
65 and over
18.9%
14.6%14.0%47th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.5
47.546.5116th of 346
One-person households
31.5%
28.2%21.8%26th of 345
Households with children
24.4%
29.8%33.2%327th of 345
Indigenous peoples
17.6%
28.9%11.4%115th of 346
Female-headed households
48.5%
46.5%49.9%158th of 345
Land area
2,652 km²
15,044 km²748,041 km²59th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Palena23%Arrived since 202077%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Palena23%77%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
4.6%
3.7%8.7%113th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
88
6771,608,650294th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
36.8 yrs
34.7 yrs33.5 yrs60th of 345
Women among foreign-born
53.4%
52.9%51.7%79th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
71.6%
77.8%83.1%334th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
22.7%
32.2%34.4%303rd 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.
5.0%
4.2%10.6%125th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
10.7 yrs
12.2 yrs12.9 yrs329th of 345

Education

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How far schooling went

Palena22%Higher33%Secondary37%Primary only4.5%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Palena22%33%Secondary37%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
9.0 yrs10.4 yrs170th of 346
Reached higher education
22.3%
19.8%31.1%145th of 346
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.
72.0%
65.3%55.6%7th 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.
107.9%
105.1%99.8%11th of 346
Literacy rate
96.9%
95.9%97.8%148th of 346
Reached secondary education
32.5%
34.1%36.7%307th of 346
Primary education only
36.6%
37.3%24.1%92nd of 346
Never attended school
4.05%
3.98%3.01%118th of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
10.1 yrs
10.2 yrs12.1 yrs240th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.9 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs173rd of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.05%
4.13%2.18%201st of 345
Secondary school leavers · Secondary education for children and young people, by the comuna of the school where they took it. Adults are counted apart.
25
213217,565315th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
0.0%
23.0%33.9%301st 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.
100.0%
89.7%3.1%1st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
72.2%
64.0%67.2%74th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
11.1%
18.7%19.7%264th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
16.7%
17.3%13.1%152nd 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.
44.4%
28.8%13.0%58th 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.
38.9%
48.9%49.7%314th 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.

25left secondary school in 2024
18enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
72.0%continued immediately
72%of those, to a university
44%of those, outside their region

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%60.0%Health and welfareEducationSocial sciencesBusiness and lawInformation technologyEngineering and industryAgriculture and veterinaryServices
0.0%20.0%40.0%60.0%Health and welfareEducationSocial sciencesBusiness and lawInformation technologyEngineering and industryAgriculture and veterinaryServices
PalenaChile

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. The list of individual programmes is withheld here: fewer than 30 of this territory's leavers continued, and a ranking built on that few names people.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

01020302006201520242518
01020302006201520242518
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 Palena'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 Palena 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.

IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
7.8%
9.5%10.6%318th of 346
Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents · Not age-adjusted. It mixes how much illness there is with how much hospital there is nearby.
62.0
44.382.5204th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
20
58100322nd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
148
1,7491,950,388328th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
62.2 yrs
57.4 yrs56.4 yrs24th of 346
Disability among 65+
50.0%
43.9%43.0%80th of 346
Difficulty walking
2.36%
3.93%4.92%333rd of 346
Difficulty seeing
3.84%
4.24%4.58%301st of 346
Difficulty hearing
1.63%
2.14%2.16%314th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
1.58%
1.97%2.70%331st of 346
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
118
8191,523,716312th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
1
2336,698321st of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
0.85%
2.81%2.41%320th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
10.2 days
8.6 days6.1 days13th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
5.3
12.519.9319th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
70
53100221st of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
7
8589,723311th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.9%
10.4%5.9%136th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
36.8
46.048.6207th 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.
64
90100227th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Injuries, bones and skin 25%Digestive and urinary tract 18%Tumours, blood and metabolism 17%Mind, nerves and senses 15%Heart and lungs 15%Infections… 5.9%Injuries and poisoning18%Skin4.2%Musculoskel…3.4%Digestive system11%Genitourinarysystem6.8%Endocrine andmetabolic11%Cancersandtumours5.9%Mental andbehavioural10%Nervoussystem4.2%EyeRespiratory system8.5%Circulatory system6.8%Ill-definedsymptoms2.5%Contactwith healthservices2.5%Inf…andpar…Pregnan…andchildbi…3.4%
Injuries, bones and skin 25%Digestive and u… 18%Tumours,… 17%Mind, nerves and senses 15%Heart and lungs 15%Injuries andpoisoning18%Skin4.2%Muscul…3.4%Digestivesystem11%Genit…system6.8%Endocrineandmetabolic11%Cancers andtumours5.9%Mental andbehavioural10%Nervoussystem4.2%Respiratorysystem8.5%Circulato…system6.8%Ill-de…sympto…2.5%Contactwithhealth…Infecti…Pregna…andchildb…3.4%
Pregnancy, birth and newbornshover 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.

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
24.9 UF
24.8 UF32.0 UF108th 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%
101.2%78.9%47th 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.
126.6
125.285.634th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
56.5%
55.6%54.4%72nd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
2.9%
5.1%8.6%329th of 345
Self-employed
37.3%
47.8%33.8%125th of 345
Registered firms
241
2,3131,582,390323rd of 346
Annual sales
287,997 UF
2,627,692 UF34,347,683,688 UF327th 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.
421
2,8669,699,164328th of 346
Sales per firm
1,195 UF
1,136 UF21,706 UF326th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.3
0.93.9296th of 346
Women among employees
46.8%
50.8%40.6%79th of 345
Independent contractors
312
2,3663,958,269326th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
42.6%
45.2%29.0%35th of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 35%Trade and logistics 23%Industry and construction 18%Natural re… 12%Advanced… 6.0%Other se… 5.5%Publicadministration14%Education10%Health10%Retail and wholesale14%Accommodationand food4.7%Transport4.3%Construction11%Manufactur…4.6%Electric…and gas2.5%Agricultureand fishing12%Adminis…services3.7%Prof…serv…Domest…work3.2%Artsandenter…Otherservi…
State and social services 35%Trade and logi… 23%Industry and con… 18%Natural … 12%Advanc… 6.0%Other … 5.5%Publicadministration14%Education10%Health10%Retail andwholesale14%Accommod…and food4.7%Transpo…4.3%Construct…11%Manufa…4.6%Elect…andgasAgricultureand fishing12%Admini…servic…3.7%Pro…ser…Domest…workArts…Other…
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 56%Managers and professionals 29%Elementary occupations 14%Service and sales23%Craft andtrades13%Skilled agricultural9.4%Plant andmachineoperators6.7%Clericalsupport5.0%Professionals14%Technicians11%Managers4.1%Elementary occupations14%
Skilled occupations 56%Managers and professionals 29%Elementary… 14%Service andsales23%Craft andtrades13%Skilledagricultural9.4%Plant andmachineoperators6.7%Clericalsupport5.0%Professiona…14%Technicians11%ManagersElementaryoccupations14%
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

Palena80%House20%Other dwelling typeChile79%House20%Flat
Palena80%House20%Chile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
3.1%
4.0%5.7%333rd of 345
Internet access
81.8%
87.3%93.2%297th 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.
6.4
32.82.377th 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.
6.3
7.11.664th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
862
7,5446,408,172326th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.00%
0.29%0.57%337th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
19.49%
3.66%1.13%4th of 345
Public water network
64.0%
67.0%92.3%293rd of 345
Electricity access
97.2%
98.1%99.6%324th of 345
Detached houses
80.2%
96.4%78.7%309th of 345
Apartments
0.2%
0.0%19.9%167th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.00%
0.20%0.23%324th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
32.2%
25.2%11.9%56th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
183
428491,904259th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
21.1%
5.6%7.5%7th of 345
Renting households
19.8%
17.5%26.2%104th of 345
Owner-occupiers
60.9%
69.9%61.1%275th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
97.2%
94.0%24.4%2nd of 345
Commute by public transport
3.5%
11.8%42.1%339th of 345
Walks to work
28.8%
29.7%10.2%42nd of 345
Households with a computer
43.9%
40.1%54.9%157th 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.
3.8
3.11.125th 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.
75.8%
79.8%97.0%311th 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.
95.2%
98.2%99.9%327th 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%
99.8%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
72.9%
20.6%89.4%183rd 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.
81.1%
23.6%98.1%299th 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.
95.3%
32.5%99.7%310th 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.
153.6
80.15.95th 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%
0.0%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.
0.0%
0.0%90.0%249th 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.
0.0%
7.5%96.2%306th 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.
2.9
2.20.626th 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.
79.2%
88.9%99.0%326th 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.
97.5%
99.2%99.9%316th 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.
72.9%
59.4%91.6%199th 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.
81.1%
82.3%98.5%301st 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.
97.7%
96.9%99.8%303rd of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 55%On foot or by bicycle 30%Other means 11%Car55%Walking29%Other9.8%Publictransp…3.5%
Private vehicle 55%On foot or by bicycle 30%Other means 11%Car55%Walking29%Other9.8%Public transport
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 61%Rented 20%Provided ren… 12%Oth… 7.6%Owned outright60%Rented, nocontract13%Rented,withcontract6.9%Provided byfamily7.3%Provided byemployer4.4%Otherarrangem…7.6%
Owned 61%Rented 20%Provided… 12%Owned outright60%Rented, nocontract13%Rented,withcontra…6.9%Provided byfamily7.3%Provided byemployerOtherarrange…7.6%
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 99%Firewood97%
Wood and biomass 99%Firewood97%
No heatingFossil fuelsElectricityhover 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
66.0%
of the registered voted in the first round
66.2%
voted in the runoff
2,248
registered voters on the roll
5.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman34.7%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist65.3%58.3%
PalenaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez10.0%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman25.1%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.5%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen27.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist24.0%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.8%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%
PalenaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile29.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile26.5%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido31.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente7.0%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.2%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%
PalenaChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Palena 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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