Commune · 07404

ParralParral

Compare Parral with another place
Census population
45,323
99th of 346
Population density
27.7/km²
178th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.1 yrs
211th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.9%
221st 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 school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Indigenous peoples338th of 346 · Chile 11.4%2.8%
Came from another commune of the same region323rd of 335 · Chile 23.9%5.7%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.7 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.7 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 · 443 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
71.3%
63rd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
5.7%
323rd of 335
Came from another region
21.5%
68th of 335
Net internal migration
-22,635
-49.5 per 100 residents
Parralthis commune · 67,651another region9,829 peopleelsewhere in the region2,614 peopleabroad683 peopleanother region26,922 peopleelsewhere in the region8,156 peopleParralthis commune · 45,699
Parralthis commune · 67,651another region9,829 peopleelsewhere in th…2,614 peopleabroad683 peopleanother region26,922 peopleelsewhere in th…8,156 peopleParralthis commune · 45,699

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale3Public administration3Public administration4Manufacturing4Manufacturing6Construction5Construction▲17Education6Education▲110Accommodation and food7Accommodation and food▲311Administrative services8Administrative services▲39Professional services9Professional services16Health10Health▲68Transport11Transport▼35Other services12Other services▼712Information and communications18Information and communications▼6
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Retail and wholesale33Public administration44Manufacturing65Construction▲176Education▲1107Accommodation and food▲3118Administrative services▲399Professional services1610Health▲6811Transport▼3512Other services▼71218Information and communications▼6

The ten branches that employ most of Parral

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.

5 k7 k9 k11 k13 kprojection →11 k2029 · central2005201520242029
5 k7 k9 k11 k13 kprojection →11 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.6% a year observed · 0.4% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 M20 Mprojection →14 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 M20 Mprojection →14 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.6% a year observed · 1.3% projected

What Parral is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Parral employs more people in 90 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.

90
activities it is specialised in
10,702
formal workers
166/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Actividades de la administración …Venta al por menor de artículos d…Molienda de arroz, producción de …Cultivo de trigoCultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Venta al por menor de calzado en …Venta al por mayor de artículos d…Corretaje al por mayor de product…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Venta al por mayor de artículos d…Cultivo de uva destinada a la pro…Fabricación de ropa de trabajoCultivo de uva para mesaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Parral

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
Molienda de arroz, producción de harina de arrozElaboración de productos de molinería, almidones y productos derivados del almidón131130.5×
Fabricación de productos primarios de aluminioFabricación de productos primarios de metales preciosos y otros metales no ferrosos4936.8×
Venta al por menor de artículos de papelería y escritorio en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de productos culturales y recreativos en comercios especializados13817.1×
Venta al por menor en comercios especializados de huevos, confites y productos alimenticios n.c.p.Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados24914.1×
Conservador de bienes raícesActividades jurídicas3212.6×
Venta al por menor de carteras, maletas y otros accesorios de viaje en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados1211.4×
Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (incluye el cultivo de aceitunas)Cultivo de plantas perennes869.2×
Cultivo de otros frutos y nueces de árboles y arbustosCultivo de plantas perennes688.6×
Actividades de asociaciones empresariales y de empleadoresActividades de asociaciones empresariales, profesionales y de empleadores168.4×
Distribución de energía eléctricaGeneración, transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica518.2×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes1167.6×
Cría de aves de corral para la producción de huevosGanadería367.2×

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
88,532
hectares in holdings
89.0%
of them under a named use
83.6%
of the crop land is irrigated
1,475
holdings with land here
Woodland 40%Pasture 22%Annual crops 18%Not farmed 16%Orchards and vin… 3.8%Forest plantations21%Native woodland19%Pasture22%Cereals15%SeedcropsFoddercropsIndustr…cropsVeget…0.5%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings11%Untilled land5.1%Fruit trees3.7%
Woodland 40%Pasture 22%Annual crops 18%Not farmed 16%Forestplantations21%Nativewoodland19%Pasture22%Cereals15%Seedcro…Fod…Ind…Scrub,barrenground and…11%Until…land5.1%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
ParralChile% of each territory's own population · 45,323 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
45,323
307,82618,480,43299th of 346
Average age
40.0 yrs
39.4 yrs38.1 yrs122nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
93.9
88.979.0148th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
27.7/km²
30.6/km²24.7/km²178th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
17,034
112,4046,596,52797th of 346
Dwellings
20,794
135,5247,642,716100th of 346
People per household
2.66
2.742.80228th of 345
Women
51.8%
51.6%51.5%64th of 346
Men per 100 women
93.1
94.094.3283rd of 346
Under 15
18.2%
18.3%17.7%139th of 346
65 and over
17.1%
16.2%14.0%112th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
54.6
52.646.567th of 346
One-person households
23.0%
20.9%21.8%152nd of 345
Households with children
32.9%
33.7%33.2%180th of 345
Indigenous peoples
2.8%
3.8%11.4%338th of 346
Female-headed households
48.2%
47.3%49.9%166th of 345
Land area
1,637 km²
10,068 km²748,041 km²88th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Parral43%Arrived since 202057%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Parral43%Arrived since 202057%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
1.9%
1.7%8.7%221st 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.
71.3%
68.1%50.5%63rd 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.
5.7%
16.2%23.9%323rd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
21.5%
13.8%17.2%68th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
840
5,3371,608,650133rd of 346
Average age, foreign-born
34.4 yrs
33.7 yrs33.5 yrs115th of 345
Women among foreign-born
49.2%
49.8%51.7%253rd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
78.1%
81.3%83.1%269th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
42.9%
38.8%34.4%113th of 345
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna.
2.2%
2.2%10.6%224th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.1 yrs
12.4 yrs12.9 yrs211th 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.
-22,635
-50,7200312th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-49.5
-16.00.0298th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Parral21%Higher36%Secondary34%Primary only5.1%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Parral21%36%Secondary34%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.1 yrs
9.1 yrs10.4 yrs211th of 346
Reached higher education
20.7%
19.7%31.1%173rd of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.3%
98.4%98.6%249th 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.
41.8%
49.3%55.6%308th 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.
102.9%
103.9%99.8%115th of 346
Literacy rate
94.9%
95.3%97.8%261st of 346
Reached secondary education
35.5%
36.4%36.7%239th of 346
Primary education only
34.4%
34.9%24.1%131st of 346
Never attended school
4.33%
3.81%3.01%91st 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.
10.4 yrs
10.3 yrs12.1 yrs197th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.7 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs191st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
5.12%
4.68%2.18%82nd of 345
Households lacking schooling
20.2%
27.1%15.1%200th 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.
538
3,750217,56597th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
23.8%
44.1%33.9%243rd 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.
4.3%
4.4%3.1%93rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
64.9%
56.9%67.2%143rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
11.1%
8.6%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.
24.0%
34.5%13.1%79th 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.
59.6%
21.2%13.0%33rd 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.
51.1%
52.3%49.7%164th 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.

538left secondary school in 2024
225enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
41.8%continued immediately
65%of those, to a university
60%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoQuimica y FarmaciaIngenieria ComercialTecnico en EnfermeriaMedicina VeterinariaTecnologia MedicaTerapia OcupacionalGastronomiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria en Informatica
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoQuimica y FarmaciaIngenieria ComercialTecnico en EnfermeriaMedicina VeterinariaTecnologia MedicaTerapia OcupacionalGastronomiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria en Informatica
ParralChile

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

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryEducationServicesArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryEducationServicesArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesNatural sciences
ParralChile

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

0200400600200620152024538225
0200400600200620152024538225
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 Parral'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 Parral 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

Parral91%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Parral91%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.9%
13.6%10.6%131st of 346
Public health insurance
91.0%
92.0%82.6%194th 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.
106.8
76.682.524th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
151
11710014th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
5,857
41,8951,950,38893rd of 346
Average age, people with a disability
58.8 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs130th of 346
Disability among 65+
47.7%
45.2%43.0%127th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.37%
6.74%4.92%132nd of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.82%
6.31%4.58%130th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.69%
2.79%2.16%143rd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.00%
3.23%2.70%132nd of 346
Private health insurance
1.9%
1.9%13.2%227th of 335
No health coverage
3.62%
3.18%1.98%56th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
98.4%
96.9%92.1%57th of 332
Households lacking health access
5.4%
6.8%6.0%164th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
4,840
23,5811,523,71685th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
161
79936,69872nd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.33%
3.39%2.41%110th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.9 days
6.0 days6.1 days234th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
35.5
26.019.916th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
124
9010025th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
284
1,37989,72381st 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%
5.8%5.9%143rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
62.7
44.848.620th 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.
116
8410037th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 25%Heart and lungs 21%Injuries, bones … 16%Tumours, blo… 13%Pregnancy, bir… 12%Infections and… 7.3%Mind, nerves a… 5.3%Digestivesystem16%Genitourin…system9.6%Respiratorysystem11%Circulatorysystem10%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskelet…3.5%Skin1.5%Cancers andtumours8.2%Endocrine andmetabolic4.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Contactwithhealth…3.1%Ill-…symp…Infe…andpara…NervoussystemMentalandbehavi…
Digestive and urinary … 25%Heart and lungs 21%Injuries… 16%Tumours, blood and… 13%Pregnancy, birth a… 12%Infe… 7.3%Mind… 5.3%Digestivesystem16%Genitour…system9.6%Respirato…system11%Circulat…system10%Injuriesandpoisoning11%Musculo…3.5%SkinCancers andtumours8.2%Endocr…andmetabo…Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Contactwith healt…Ill…sym…Infec…and…Nerv…syst…Ment…andbeha…
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 digestivos27%Sangre y sistema linfático17%Mama13%Sitios maldefinidos7.7%Tiroides yendocrinas7.0%Genitalesfemeninos6.3%Genitalesmasculinos6.0%Víasrespirato…5.3%Víasurinari…3.5%Piel ymelanoma2.5%SitiosreservadosEnc…ysis…
Órganos digestivos27%Sangre ysistemalinfático17%Mama13%Sitios maldefinidos7.7%Tiroides yendocrinas7.0%Genitalesfemeninos6.3%Genitalesmasculin…6.0%Víasrespira…5.3%Víasurina…3.5%Piel ymelan…2.5%Siti…rese…Encéfalo y…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaSitios mal definidosTiroides y endocrinasGenitales femeninoshover 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.
31.7%
29.7%17.3%35th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
18.7 UF
19.2 UF32.0 UF316th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
114.0%
109.0%78.9%60th 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.
96.0
89.685.679th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
45.1%
46.7%54.4%266th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
10.2%
10.7%8.6%89th of 345
Self-employed
36.0%
35.3%33.8%150th of 345
Extreme poverty
13.1%
12.5%6.9%48th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
12.7%
14.9%17.7%253rd of 335
Unemployment rate
10.7%
9.0%8.8%102nd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 446,615
CLP 466,464CLP 783,124276th 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.
0.427
0.4420.488191st of 321
Registered firms
4,350
27,5711,582,39084th of 346
Annual sales
13,562,423 UF
83,517,785 UF34,347,683,688 UF116th 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.
10,716
92,1109,699,164113th of 346
Sales per firm
3,118 UF
3,029 UF21,706 UF198th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.5
1.83.9275th of 346
Women among employees
43.0%
42.3%40.6%129th of 345
Independent contractors
3,607
22,1653,958,269105th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
25.2%
19.4%29.0%205th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 26%State and social services 23%Natural resources 20%Industry and constru… 20%Advance… 6.1%Other s… 5.3%Retail andwholesale17%Transport4.8%Accommoda…and food3.5%Education10%Health7.1%Publicadministration5.6%Agriculture and fishing19%Manufacturing8.7%Construction8.7%Elec…andgasWaterand…Profes…servic…2.3%Admin…servi…2.0%Inform…Fin…Domes…work2.7%Otherservic…2.1%
Trade and logistics 26%State and social s… 23%Natural resour… 20%Industry and … 20%Adv… 6.1%Oth… 5.3%Retail andwholesale17%Transp…4.8%Accomm…andfoodEducation10%Health7.1%Publ…admi…Agriculture andfishing19%Manufacturing8.7%Construction8.7%Prof…serv…Adm…ser…Info…Dome…workOtherserv…
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 54%Managers and professionals 25%Elementary occupations 21%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades15%Plant andmachineoperators7.9%Skilledagricultur…6.6%Clericalsupport4.4%Professionals14%Technicians8.3%ManagersElementary occupations21%
Skilled occupations 54%Managers and professio… 25%Elementary occupa… 21%Service andsales20%Craft andtrades15%Plant andmachineoperatorsSkilledagricult…6.6%Cleri…suppo…4.4%Professiona…14%Technicia…8.3%ManagersElementaryoccupations21%
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

Parral98%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Parral98%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.4%
5.7%5.7%154th of 345
Internet access
86.8%
87.3%93.2%218th 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.
4.2
4.62.3152nd 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.
2.2
3.31.6228th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
16,856
111,0606,408,17297th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.29%
0.32%0.57%218th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.79%
0.96%1.13%250th of 345
Public water network
87.1%
88.5%92.3%147th of 345
Electricity access
99.7%
99.6%99.6%76th of 345
Detached houses
97.9%
98.3%78.7%188th of 345
Apartments
1.7%
1.2%19.9%114th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.14%0.23%243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
15.4%
13.8%11.9%165th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
735
5,214491,904112th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.3%
4.6%7.5%260th of 345
Renting households
15.0%
13.6%26.2%172nd of 345
Owner-occupiers
72.5%
73.0%61.1%84th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
64.9%
64.9%24.4%147th of 345
Commute by public transport
20.0%
23.0%42.1%246th of 345
Walks to work
11.2%
11.3%10.2%225th of 345
Households with a computer
41.6%
41.6%54.9%182nd 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.
1.2
1.61.1245th 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.
97.3%
95.3%97.0%108th 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.
74.6%
67.4%89.4%171st 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.
92.7%
93.3%98.1%246th 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.
99.6%
99.8%99.7%267th 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.
5.0
6.55.9220th 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.
74.0%
56.1%80.3%114th 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.
86.7%
86.3%90.0%158th of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
99.3%
99.0%96.2%184th 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.
1.1
1.10.6184th of 345
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
97.2%
98.5%99.0%216th 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.
83.0%
74.5%91.6%149th of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
98.2%
96.7%98.5%186th of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
99.9%99.8%241st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 48%On foot or by bicycle 21%Public transport 20%Other … 10%Car47%Walking11%Bicycle10%Public transport20%Other10%
Private vehicle 48%On foot or by b… 21%Public transp… 20%Car47%Walking11%Bicycle10%Publictransport20%Other10%
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 73%Rented 15%Provided rent-… 9.1%Other 3.4%Owned outright66%Own…sti…pay…Rented, withcontract8.5%Rented, nocontract6.5%Provided byfamily7.3%
Owned 73%Rented 15%Provided … 9.1%Owned outright66%Own…sti…pay…Rented, withcontract8.5%Rented,nocontract6.5%Provided byfamily7.3%Otherarra…
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 67%Fossil fuels 20%Electricity 7.9%No h… 3.8%Firewood65%Gas13%Paraffin7.2%Electricity7.9%No heating3.8%
Wood and biomass 67%Fossil fuels 20%Elec… 7.9%Firewood65%Gas13%Paraffin7.2%Electric…7.9%Noheat…
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
89.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.5%
voted in the runoff
39,371
registered voters on the roll
6.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman29.5%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist70.5%58.3%
ParralChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez21.5%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman18.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.3%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist33.7%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.6%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.6%1.3%
ParralChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile17.6%30.6%
KCambio por Chile16.6%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido52.1%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente8.9%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%
ParralChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile16.0%
KCambio por Chile41.8%
JChile Grande y Unido19.8%
IPartido de la Gente9.5%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas9.9%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.5%
Independents outside a pact1.6%
Parralshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Parral 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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