Commune · 05403

PapudoPapudo

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Census population
7,561
284th of 346
Population density
45.4/km²
139th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.9 yrs
94th of 346
Foreign-born share
5.0%
104th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer330th of 330 · Chile 5.9%1.1%
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents330th of 330 · Chile 48.64.0
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.8 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF23.8 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 · 136 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
75.7%
34th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
8.6%
305th of 335
Came from another region
15.5%
152nd of 335
Net internal migration
+955
+14.8 per 100 residents
Papudothis commune · 5,494another region1,004 peopleelsewhere in the region558 peopleabroad11 peopleanother region498 peopleelsewhere in the region109 peoplePapudothis commune · 6,460
Papudothis commune · 5,494another region1,004 peopleelsewhere in th…558 peopleabroad11 peopleanother region498 peopleelsewhere in th…109 peoplePapudothis commune · 6,460

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520248Construction1Construction▲72Public administration2Public administration4Other services3Other services▲15Accommodation and food4Accommodation and food▲13Retail and wholesale5Retail and wholesale▼29Real estate6Real estate▲31Agriculture and fishing7Agriculture and fishing▼610Finance and insurance8Finance and insurance▲26Manufacturing9Manufacturing▼37Arts and entertainment10Arts and entertainment▼311Professional services11Professional services12Water and waste12Water and waste
2005202481Construction▲722Public administration43Other services▲154Accommodation and food▲135Retail and wholesale▼296Real estate▲317Agriculture and fishing▼6108Finance and insurance▲269Manufacturing▼3710Arts and entertainment▼31111Professional services1212Water and waste

The ten branches that employ most of Papudo

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.

01 k2 k3 k4 kprojection →3 k2029 · central2005201520242029
01 k2 k3 k4 kprojection →3 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval9.5% a year observed · 1.2% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

02.0 M4.0 M6.0 Mprojection →4.3 M2029 · central2005201520242029
02.0 M4.0 M6.0 Mprojection →4.3 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.4% a year observed · -4.8% projected

What Papudo is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Papudo employs more people in 27 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.

27
activities it is specialised in
2,829
formal workers
131/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Actividades de la administración …Consejo de administración de edif…Actividades de restaurantes y de …Compra, venta y alquiler (excepto…Actividades inmobiliarias realiza…Cultivo de papasActividades de servicios de siste…Cultivo de trigoCultivos forrajeros en praderas m…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Construcción de edificios para us…Actividades de la administración …Consejo de administración de edif…Actividades de restaurantes y de …How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Papudo

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
Cultivo de floresCultivo de plantas no perennes70174.9×
Cría de caballos y otros equinosGanadería1365.7×
Consejo de administración de edificios y condominiosActividades de otras asociaciones27822.3×
Construcción de edificios para uso residencialConstrucción de edificios1,23814.8×
Compra, venta y alquiler (excepto amoblados) de inmueblesActividades inmobiliarias realizadas con bienes propios o arrendados1129.5×
Venta al por mayor de productos del mar (pescados, mariscos y algas)Venta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco409.0×
Elaboración de té, café, mate e infusiones de hierbasElaboración de otros productos alimenticios138.1×
Actividades de salones de masajes, baños turcos, saunas, servicio de baños públicosOtras actividades de servicios personales16.8×
Venta al por menor de recuerdos, artesanías y artículos religiosos en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados25.3×
Venta al por menor de alimentos en comercios especializados (almacenes pequeños y minimarket)Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados593.9×
Actividades de otros clubes deportivos n.c.p.Actividades deportivas103.7×
Corretaje al por mayor de ganadoVenta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata12.6×

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
13,258
hectares in holdings
58.4%
of them under a named use
41.4%
of the crop land is irrigated
28
holdings with land here
Not farmed 58%Pasture 31%Woodland 9.8%Scrub, barren ground and buildings42%Untilled land16%Pasture31%Forest plantations6.0%Nativewoodland3.8%
Not farmed 58%Pasture 31%Woodl… 9.8%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings42%Untilledland16%Pasture31%Forestplantations6.0%Nativewoodland
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
PapudoChile% of each territory's own population · 7,561 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
7,561
85,03218,480,432284th of 346
Average age
40.2 yrs
39.9 yrs38.1 yrs114th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
99.3
96.579.0117th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
45.4/km²
18.5/km²24.7/km²139th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
2,713
30,4046,596,527288th of 346
Dwellings
8,022
52,5677,642,716191st of 346
People per household
2.79
2.802.80142nd of 345
Women
50.2%
50.9%51.5%260th of 346
Men per 100 women
99.2
96.494.387th of 346
Under 15
17.6%
17.6%17.7%187th of 346
65 and over
17.5%
16.9%14.0%94th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
54.2
52.746.576th of 346
One-person households
21.5%
21.2%21.8%198th of 345
Households with children
32.8%
33.1%33.2%183rd of 345
Indigenous peoples
7.4%
6.7%11.4%186th of 346
Female-headed households
43.8%
47.6%49.9%286th of 345
Land area
166 km²
4,592 km²748,041 km²276th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Papudo52%Arrived since 202048%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Papudo52%Arrived since 202048%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
5.0%
3.4%8.7%104th 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.
75.7%
42.2%50.5%34th 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.
8.6%
9.9%23.9%305th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
15.5%
46.6%17.2%152nd of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
377
2,9161,608,650185th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
31.7 yrs
32.6 yrs33.5 yrs260th of 345
Women among foreign-born
53.6%
50.9%51.7%73rd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
77.2%
79.5%83.1%289th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
52.0%
44.4%34.4%29th 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.
5.9%
4.2%10.6%104th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.7 yrs
12.3 yrs12.9 yrs131st 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.
955
21,2340124th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
14.8
25.20.084th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Papudo25%Higher39%Secondary29%Primary only4.8%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Papudo25%Higher39%Secondary29%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.9 yrs
9.5 yrs10.4 yrs94th of 346
Reached higher education
24.8%
22.8%31.1%113th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
100.0%98.6%1st of 333
Continues to higher education · Of young secondary-school graduates, those enrolled in first-year undergraduate studies the following March. By the comuna of the school where they finished secondary school, which is the approximation to origin that Mineduc publishes.
47.4%
59.3%55.6%274th 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.
103.5%
103.0%99.8%91st of 346
Literacy rate
98.0%
96.9%97.8%84th of 346
Reached secondary education
38.7%
38.5%36.7%119th of 346
Primary education only
28.8%
30.2%24.1%215th of 346
Never attended school
2.90%
3.53%3.01%265th 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.
11.3 yrs
10.9 yrs12.1 yrs119th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.7 yrs
11.2 yrs12.1 yrs95th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.99%
3.12%2.18%258th of 345
Households lacking schooling
23.3%
27.7%15.1%170th 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.
57
1,093217,565281st of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
63.2%
32.2%33.9%52nd of 331
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates.
0.0%
4.3%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
51.9%
59.3%67.2%270th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
22.2%
20.7%19.7%119th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
25.9%
20.1%13.1%68th 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.
25.9%
12.2%13.0%104th 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.
66.7%
50.8%49.7%11th 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.

57left secondary school in 2024
27enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
47.4%continued immediately
52%of those, to a university
26%of those, outside their region

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareBusiness and lawServicesEducationEngineering and industryInformation technologyArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareBusiness and lawServicesEducationEngineering and industryInformation technologyArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
PapudoChile

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

0204060802006201520245727
0204060802006201520245727
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 Papudo'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 Papudo 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

Papudo92%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Papudo92%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.9%
11.6%10.6%185th of 346
Public health insurance
92.0%
93.3%82.6%179th 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.
35.0
61.982.5302nd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
81
98100205th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
900
9,8421,950,388291st of 346
Average age, people with a disability
57.6 yrs
59.4 yrs56.4 yrs192nd of 346
Disability among 65+
45.0%
48.4%43.0%185th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.66%
5.86%4.92%190th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.57%
5.01%4.58%155th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.37%
2.36%2.16%210th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.29%
2.57%2.70%278th of 346
Private health insurance
2.4%
1.7%13.2%207th of 335
No health coverage
2.28%
3.65%1.98%114th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
83.7%
90.2%92.1%298th of 332
Households lacking health access
9.6%
8.4%6.0%43rd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
265
5,2611,523,716292nd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
14
19536,698265th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
5.28%
3.71%2.41%19th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
13.4 days
8.5 days6.1 days6th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
18.5
22.919.9180th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
41
72100302nd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
3
29689,723322nd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
1.1%
5.6%5.9%330th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
4.0
34.848.6330th 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.
7
65100328th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Injuries, bones and skin 26%Heart and lungs 25%Digestive and urinary tract 22%Mind, nerves and senses 8.3%Infections and other reasons 7.2%Tumours, blood an… 5.7%Pregnancy, birth … 5.7%Injuries and poisoning21%Musculos…3.8%Skin1.1%Respiratory system13%Circulatory system12%Digestive system14%Genitourinarysystem8.7%Mental andbehavioural6.0%NervoussystemEye1.1%Contact withhealthservices3.4%Infectio…andparasitic2.6%Ill…sym…Endocrineandmetabolic3.0%Cancersandtumours2.6%Pregnancy andchildbirth5.7%
Injuries, bones and … 26%Heart and lungs 25%Digestive and uri… 22%Mind, ne… 8.3%Infectio… 7.2%Tum… 5.7%Pre… 5.7%Injuries andpoisoning21%Mus…SkinRespirato…system13%Circulato…system12%Digestive system14%Genitourinary system8.7%Mentalandbehaviou…Ner…sys…EyeConta…withhealt…Infect…and…Endo…andmeta…Can…andtum…Pregnancyandchildbirth
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
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
7.7%
25.2%17.3%319th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
23.8 UF
22.5 UF32.0 UF134th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
99.1%
102.8%78.9%176th 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.
109.6
106.785.650th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
52.7%
50.1%54.4%139th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
6.8%
9.0%8.6%260th of 345
Self-employed
48.5%
39.2%33.8%19th of 345
Extreme poverty
1.1%
4.0%6.9%320th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
8.7%
35.5%17.7%298th of 335
Unemployment rate
2.7%
15.0%8.8%313th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 523,736
CLP 501,138CLP 783,124180th 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.
0.390
0.4700.488277th of 321
Registered firms
829
9,0741,582,390252nd of 346
Annual sales
5,437,840 UF
52,419,048 UF34,347,683,688 UF186th 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.
2,894
19,3119,699,164237th of 346
Sales per firm
6,560 UF
5,777 UF21,706 UF95th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.1
1.53.9182nd of 346
Women among employees
36.1%
40.9%40.6%252nd of 345
Independent contractors
1,271
9,6783,958,269202nd of 346
Contractors as share of workers
30.5%
33.4%29.0%117th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 23%Industry and construction 22%State and social services 20%Advanced ser… 15%Other services 12%Natural resources 7.1%Retail andwholesale12%Accommodationand food7.9%Transport3.7%Construction16%Manufact…4.7%WaterandwasteEle…andgasEducation7.9%Publicadministrat…7.4%Health4.9%Administrati…services8.0%ProfessionalservicesReal estate2.4%Inf…andcom…Fin…and…Otherservices7.4%Domesticwork3.2%Arts andenterta…Agriculture andfishing5.2%Mining1.9%
Trade and logistics 23%Industry and constr… 22%State and so… 20%Advanced services 15%Other services 12%Retail andwholesale12%Accommoda…and food7.9%Transport3.7%Construction16%Manuf…4.7%Education7.9%Publicadminis…7.4%Health4.9%Administra…services8.0%Profe…servi…2.8%Realesta…Informa…Fin…Otherservices7.4%Domes…work3.2%Agri…andfish…Mini…
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 58%Managers and professionals 25%Elementary occupations 16%Service and sales24%Craft and trades18%Skilledagricultural6.7%Plant andmachineoperators5.4%Cleric…support3.8%Professionals11%Technicians9.7%Mana…Elementary occupations16%
Skilled occupations 58%Managers and professionals 25%Elementary occ… 16%Service andsales24%Craft andtrades18%Skilledagricultur…6.7%Plant andmachineoperatorsClericalsupportProfession…11%Technicians9.7%ManagersElementaryoccupations16%
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

Papudo93%House6.6%Chile79%House20%Flat
Papudo93%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.8%
4.6%5.7%100th of 345
Internet access
95.3%
91.3%93.2%45th of 345
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
3.4
4.12.3195th 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.
3.0
4.61.6183rd of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
2,652
29,8026,408,172288th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.53%
0.28%0.57%62nd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.45%
0.88%1.13%321st of 345
Public water network
79.3%
84.5%92.3%209th of 345
Electricity access
99.5%
99.4%99.6%140th of 345
Detached houses
93.2%
94.0%78.7%247th of 345
Apartments
6.6%
5.4%19.9%81st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.18%0.23%205th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
65.6%
40.8%11.9%9th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
152
1,586491,904281st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
5.6%
5.2%7.5%160th of 345
Renting households
15.7%
14.6%26.2%157th of 345
Owner-occupiers
70.0%
70.9%61.1%141st of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
22.3%
24.5%24.4%237th of 345
Commute by public transport
23.2%
26.9%42.1%205th of 345
Walks to work
16.9%
19.1%10.2%152nd of 345
Households with a computer
51.1%
45.4%54.9%82nd 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
1.91.1199th 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.
87.2%
90.0%97.0%250th 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%
99.6%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.
59.4%
68.1%89.4%240th 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.
15.4
14.45.9143rd of 345
People within 5 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
0.0%
30.9%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.
45.0%
51.9%90.0%209th 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%
89.8%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.7
1.20.668th 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.
86.9%
95.8%99.0%317th of 345
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
99.7%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.
80.3%
72.7%91.6%161st 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%
90.2%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%
99.1%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 50%Public transport 23%On foot or by bicycle 21%Car49%Public transport23%Walking17%Bicy…Other5.8%
Private vehicle 50%Public transport 23%On foot or by b… 21%Car49%Public transport23%Walking17%BicycleOther
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 70%Rented 16%Provided rent-free 13%Owned outright66%Rented, withcontract8.6%Rented, no contract7.2%Provided byfamily10%
Owned 70%Rented 16%Provided rent-f… 13%Owned outright66%Rented,withcontract8.6%Rented, nocontract7.2%Provided byfamily10%
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

Fossil fuels 36%No heating 27%Wood and biomass 23%Electrici… 13%Gas31%Paraffin5.5%No heating27%Firewood22%Electricity13%
Fossil fuels 36%No heating 27%Wood and biomass 23%Electricity 13%Gas31%ParaffinNo heating27%Firewood22%Electricity13%
No heatingElectricityOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
91.0%
of the registered voted in the first round
90.6%
voted in the runoff
7,407
registered voters on the roll
6.1%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman41.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist58.9%58.3%
PapudoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez18.3%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman27.0%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist21.5%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet16.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%
PapudoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile30.6%30.6%
KCambio por Chile20.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido31.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente13.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.9%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%
PapudoChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile31.1%
KCambio por Chile15.8%
JChile Grande y Unido40.8%
IPartido de la Gente9.4%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.9%
Papudoshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Papudo 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

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