Pelarco — PuroChile

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%

Leaves from technical-vocational school1st of 331 · Chile 33.9%100.0%

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 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%

People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 162 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

60.4%

175th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

27.7%

73rd of 335

Came from another region

11.9%

254th of 335

Net internal migration

-1,830

-19.5 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Pelarco

Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.

BranchWorkersShare of total2005–2024Change

01Public administrationState and social services59835.5%+94%02Agriculture and fishingNatural resources45727.1%−2%03ManufacturingIndustry and construction1619.6%+7,950%04Administrative servicesAdvanced services1046.2%—05Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics734.3%+564%06ConstructionIndustry and construction623.7%+464%07TransportTrade and logistics613.6%+1,120%08EducationState and social services603.6%—09Water and wasteIndustry and construction352.1%+289%10HealthState and social services261.5%+117%

Dependent workers, projected

Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.7% a year observed · 5.0% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.7% a year observed · 0.0% projected

What Pelarco is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Pelarco employs more people in 43 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.

43

activities it is specialised in

1,684

formal workers

275/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in Pelarco

Ranked by how many times the national share this place reaches. The division each activity belongs to is a page of its own.

Activity	Division	Workers here	Times the national share
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductor	Ganadería	159	87.6×
Actividades combinadas de servicios administrativos de oficina	Actividades administrativas y de apoyo de oficina	35	49.1×
Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (incluye el cultivo de aceitunas)	Cultivo de plantas perennes	60	40.7×
Cultivo de maíz	Cultivo de plantas no perennes	14	29.8×
Evacuación y tratamiento de aguas servidas	Evacuación de aguas residuales	31	28.7×
Aserrado y acepilladura de madera	Aserrado y acepilladura de madera	90	26.9×
Fabricación de otros productos de madera, de artículos de corcho, paja y materiales trenzables	Fabricación de productos de madera, corcho, paja y materiales trenzables	14	23.6×
Corretaje al por mayor de ganado	Venta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata	4	17.4×
Actividades de atención en instituciones para personas de edad y personas con discapacidad física	Actividades de atención en instituciones para personas de edad y personas con discapacidad	25	17.1×
Fabricación de artículos de hormigón, cemento y yeso	Fabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.	17	9.9×
Cultivo de trigo	Cultivo de plantas no perennes	22	9.2×
Cría de caballos y otros equinos	Ganadería	1	8.5×

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

24,382

hectares in holdings

89.3%

of them under a named use

98.3%

of the crop land is irrigated

454

holdings with land here

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.

The agricultural census measured 24,382 hectares of holdings in Pelarco in the 2020/2021 agricultural year, and this is how it divided them.

Fourteen of the fifteen tiles are categories the census publishes. The fifteenth is not: it is the censused surface less the other fourteen, and what it holds is scrub, barren ground, roads and buildings. Across Chile it is half of everything, because most of the censused surface is Patagonian scrub and northern desert inside very large holdings.

Irrigation is asked of eleven of the uses and not of forest, native woodland, natural pasture or untilled ground — so the 98.3% above is a share of the 9,932 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 454 holdings with land here, 136 are self-consumption plots — under two hectares and with nothing sold in the year. These counts are the census's own for this territory and they are not added to anything: a holding with land in two comunas is counted in both.

VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal 2021, INE

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

PelarcoChile% of each territory's own population · 9,229 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	9,229	445,021	18,480,432	265th of 346
Average age	40.3 yrs	37.9 yrs	38.1 yrs	109th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	97.3	77.7	79.0	128th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	27.9/km²	44.8/km²	24.7/km²	176th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	3,247	160,506	6,596,527	273rd of 346
Dwellings	4,073	191,326	7,642,716	281st of 346
People per household	2.84	2.77	2.80	100th of 345
Women	50.2%	51.5%	51.5%	255th of 346
Men per 100 women	99.0	94.3	94.3	92nd of 346
Under 15	17.9%	18.3%	17.7%	170th of 346
65 and over	17.4%	14.2%	14.0%	102nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	54.4	48.3	46.5	70th of 346
One-person households	18.1%	21.5%	21.8%	300th of 345
Households with children	33.8%	33.8%	33.2%	148th of 345
Indigenous peoples	3.5%	3.7%	11.4%	323rd of 346
Female-headed households	38.7%	47.9%	49.9%	335th of 345
Land area	331 km²	9,927 km²	748,041 km²	238th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	1.6%	4.8%	8.7%	235th 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.	60.4%	60.8%	50.5%	175th 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.	27.7%	19.5%	23.9%	73rd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	11.9%	14.5%	17.2%	254th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	145	21,574	1,608,650	261st of 346
Average age, foreign-born	33.9 yrs	32.5 yrs	33.5 yrs	141st of 345
Women among foreign-born	54.5%	50.5%	51.7%	52nd of 345
Foreign-born of working age	83.4%	80.6%	83.1%	70th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	32.4%	42.0%	34.4%	233rd 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.	2.0%	5.8%	10.6%	231st of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	12.2 yrs	13.3 yrs	12.9 yrs	191st 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.	-1,830	-18,381	0	197th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	-19.5	-3.9	0.0	225th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	8.8 yrs	9.9 yrs	10.4 yrs	264th of 346
Reached higher education	16.4%	26.9%	31.1%	275th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	100.0%	99.3%	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.	47.3%	52.5%	55.6%	276th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
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.	107.2%	102.7%	99.8%	12th of 346
Literacy rate	93.6%	96.6%	97.8%	314th of 346
Reached secondary education	37.0%	36.4%	36.7%	175th of 346
Primary education only	36.7%	27.7%	24.1%	91st of 346
Never attended school	5.23%	3.58%	3.01%	35th 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.	9.7 yrs	11.4 yrs	12.1 yrs	287th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	10.4 yrs	11.8 yrs	12.1 yrs	237th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	6.32%	3.38%	2.18%	38th of 345
Households lacking schooling	31.5%	18.5%	15.1%	73rd 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.	55	5,338	217,565	285th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	100.0%	37.5%	33.9%	1st 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.	34.6%	69.4%	67.2%	325th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	11.5%	10.3%	19.7%	259th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	53.8%	20.3%	13.1%	3rd 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.	0.0%	10.8%	13.0%	315th 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.	46.2%	48.3%	49.7%	275th 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.

55left secondary school in 2024

26enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

47.3%continued immediately

35%of those, to a university

0%of those, outside their region

By field of study

PelarcoChile

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

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 Pelarco'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.

Health

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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 Pelarco 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

FonasaIsapre% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	15.2%	12.0%	10.6%	40th of 346
Public health insurance	98.2%	90.9%	82.6%	14th 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.	58.3	72.4	82.5	226th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	45	84	100	299th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	1,403	53,194	1,950,388	245th of 346
Average age, people with a disability	59.9 yrs	56.5 yrs	56.4 yrs	101st of 346
Disability among 65+	48.4%	42.8%	43.0%	105th of 346
Difficulty walking	7.79%	5.70%	4.92%	32nd of 346
Difficulty seeing	7.37%	5.53%	4.58%	34th of 346
Difficulty hearing	3.46%	2.37%	2.16%	47th of 346
Difficulty concentrating	3.68%	2.86%	2.70%	28th of 346
Private health insurance	1.1%	5.0%	13.2%	271st of 335
No health coverage	0.00%	2.33%	1.98%	279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	86.4%	90.9%	92.1%	281st of 332
Households lacking health access	16.2%	3.9%	6.0%	5th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	538	32,200	1,523,716	258th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	10	746	36,698	285th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	1.86%	2.32%	2.41%	289th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	5.7 days	5.9 days	6.1 days	261st of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	10.8	16.8	19.9	294th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	67	88	100	232nd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	35	2,143	89,723	252nd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	6.5%	6.7%	5.9%	103rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	37.9	48.2	48.6	192nd 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.	69	98	100	204th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

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

Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosGenitales masculinosPiel y melanomahover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	12.5%	23.7%	17.3%	291st of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	24.2 UF	24.9 UF	32.0 UF	125th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	107.0%	100.5%	78.9%	110th 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.	92.4	84.9	85.6	96th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	48.7%	51.0%	54.4%	212th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	7.3%	9.1%	8.6%	239th of 345
Self-employed	44.0%	32.3%	33.8%	44th of 345
Extreme poverty	4.8%	10.5%	6.9%	264th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	12.5%	13.3%	17.7%	258th of 335
Unemployment rate	15.4%	8.4%	8.8%	25th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 467,927	CLP 538,802	CLP 783,124	249th 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.	0.430	0.461	0.488	180th of 321
Registered firms	853	37,789	1,582,390	249th of 346
Annual sales	2,136,820 UF	236,637,990 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	261st 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.	1,684	169,094	9,699,164	263rd of 346
Sales per firm	2,505 UF	6,262 UF	21,706 UF	238th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	1.4	2.8	3.9	281st of 346
Women among employees	41.1%	38.2%	40.6%	169th of 345
Independent contractors	807	53,002	3,958,269	261st of 346
Contractors as share of workers	32.4%	23.9%	29.0%	101st of 346

Employment by industry

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

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

HouseFlat% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	5.8%	5.1%	5.7%	112th of 345
Internet access	87.4%	91.1%	93.2%	204th 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.	4.5	2.5	2.3	134th 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.	4.5	2.2	1.6	123rd of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	3,191	157,377	6,408,172	274th of 346
Critically overcrowded	0.16%	0.30%	0.57%	318th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	1.38%	0.67%	1.13%	128th of 345
Public water network	81.6%	92.0%	92.3%	193rd of 345
Electricity access	99.4%	99.7%	99.6%	175th of 345
Detached houses	99.2%	90.0%	78.7%	89th of 345
Apartments	0.1%	9.7%	19.9%	202nd of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.30%	0.11%	0.23%	86th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	16.5%	14.3%	11.9%	146th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	166	8,220	491,904	271st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	5.1%	5.1%	7.5%	186th of 345
Renting households	7.0%	19.5%	26.2%	335th of 345
Owner-occupiers	73.1%	69.0%	61.1%	70th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	72.1%	35.9%	24.4%	126th of 345
Commute by public transport	19.5%	27.0%	42.1%	252nd of 345
Walks to work	10.2%	10.3%	10.2%	242nd of 345
Households with a computer	38.2%	51.0%	54.9%	248th 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.	2.2	1.1	1.1	103rd 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.	93.0%	97.5%	97.0%	192nd 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.	59.1%	86.6%	89.4%	241st of 345
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	97.8%	98.6%	98.1%	173rd 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.	13.9	5.1	5.9	153rd 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%	78.4%	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.	76.6%	88.9%	90.0%	180th 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.	99.4%	95.7%	96.2%	180th 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.	1.6	0.8	0.6	76th 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.	98.8%	98.8%	99.0%	159th 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.	59.1%	88.0%	91.6%	256th 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.	98.3%	98.0%	98.5%	185th 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%	1st of 345

How people commute

Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

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

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

91.9%

of the registered voted in the first round

92.1%

voted in the runoff

9,740

registered voters on the roll

6.1%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman27.0%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist73.0%58.3%

PelarcoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez24.6%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman16.4%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.9%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.4%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist34.0%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.5%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%

PelarcoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile12.8%30.6%

KCambio por Chile67.7%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido9.6%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente7.0%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.0%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%

PelarcoChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile18.9%

KCambio por Chile39.4%

JChile Grande y Unido16.6%

IPartido de la Gente9.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.0%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.4%

Independents outside a pact10.6%

Pelarcoshare of the valid vote

Congress is compared by list, not by candidate: the candidates change at every district line, and the list — the pact — is the same across the country.

District 17

The deputies elected for the district Pelarco votes in:

Priscilla Castillo Gerli Partido Democrata Cristiano · list C · 47,964 votes
Roberto Celedon Fernandez Independiente Frente Amplio · list C · 44,677 votes
Jorge Guzman Zepeda Evolucion Politica · list J · 37,180 votes
Javier Muñoz Riquelme Partido Democrata Cristiano · list C · 34,935 votes
Benjamin Moreno Bascur Partido Republicano de Chile · list K · 34,451 votes
German Verdugo Soto Partido Nacional Libertario · list K · 21,484 votes
Guillermo Victoriano Valdes Carmona Partido de la Gente · list I · 12,500 votes

Circunscripción 9

Cristian Vial Maceratta Independiente Republicano de Chile · list K · 137,620 votes
Paulina Vodanovic Rojas Partido Socialista de Chile · list C · 56,824 votes
Beatriz Sanchez Muñoz Frente Amplio · list C · 38,118 votes
Andrea Balladares Letelier Renovacion Nacional · list J · 35,707 votes
Ignacio Urrutia Bonilla Partido Republicano de Chile · list K · 32,314 votes

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Pelarco 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.

San Nicolás0.52Ñuble · 15,099 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Economy.Marchihue0.58O'Higgins · 8,715 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Population structure.Colbún0.62Maule · 22,637 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Population structure.Hualañé0.63Maule · 10,775 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Population structure.

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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Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of Pelarco

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Pelarco is specialised in

Most over-represented in Pelarco

The land and who works it

Population and territory

Population pyramid

Migration

When the migrant population arrived

Education

How far schooling went

The class of 2024

By field of study

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

Health

Which health system

What people are hospitalised for

By tumour site

Economy and poverty

Employment by industry

Employment by occupation

Housing and services

House or flat

How people commute

Housing tenure

Home heating fuel

How it voted in 2025

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

Senate · 16 November

Sister communes

Inside the commune