Pencahue — 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%

Continues to higher education331st of 331 · Chile 55.6%8.7%

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

Of those continuing, women1st of 331 · Chile 49.7%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%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 151 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

62.8%

144th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

20.1%

146th of 335

Came from another region

17.1%

132nd of 335

Net internal migration

-2,595

-30.3 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Pencahue

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

01Agriculture and fishingNatural resources1,03439.1%+19%02Public administrationState and social services45117.1%+334%03Administrative servicesAdvanced services42015.9%—04ManufacturingIndustry and construction2389.0%+1,153%05Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics1907.2%+726%06ConstructionIndustry and construction1194.5%+45%07MiningNatural resources793.0%+3,850%08Other servicesOther services240.9%−57%09Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics220.8%+450%10TransportTrade and logistics220.8%—

Dependent workers, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.2% a year observed · 6.2% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.9% a year observed · -1.3% projected

What Pencahue is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Pencahue employs more people in 42 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.

42

activities it is specialised in

2,643

formal workers

269/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in Pencahue

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
Extracción de oro y plata	Extracción de minerales metalíferos no ferrosos, excepto cobre	79	119.7×
Elaboración de aceites y grasas de origen vegetal y animal (excepto elaboración de mantequilla)	Elaboración de aceites y grasas de origen vegetal y animal	73	93.6×
Cultivo de uva destinada a la producción de vino	Cultivo de plantas perennes	121	35.5×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductor	Ganadería	59	20.7×
Cultivo de otras plantas perennes	Cultivo de plantas perennes	135	19.2×
Cría de aves de corral para la producción de huevos	Ganadería	20	16.1×
Instalaciones de gasfitería, calefacción y aire acondicionado	Instalaciones eléctricas, de gasfitería y otras instalaciones para obras de construcción	72	15.4×
Cultivo de otros frutos y nueces de árboles y arbustos	Cultivo de plantas perennes	21	10.7×
Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (incluye el cultivo de aceitunas)	Cultivo de plantas perennes	22	9.5×
Venta al por mayor de frutas y verduras	Venta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco	94	9.3×
Elaboración de otros productos alimenticios n.c.p.	Elaboración de otros productos alimenticios	135	8.8×
Otras actividades de limpieza de edificios e instalaciones industriales n.c.p.	Actividades de limpieza	75	7.9×

The register files a firm at its tax address, so an activity can be over-represented here because the work happens here or because the head office does. Both are real facts about a place and they are not the same fact, and nothing in the register tells them apart: the communes where large firms keep their registered office carry activities that are physically elsewhere in Chile.

Revealed comparative advantage (Balassa, 1965) and the space of activities (Hidalgo, Klinger, Barabási and Hausmann, 2007), computed on formal employment because that is what a Chilean commune has. Built from the 500-worker activities and the communes above 1,000 formal workers; the floors are on /datos with everything else.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021

57,818

hectares in holdings

85.7%

of them under a named use

90.4%

of the crop land is irrigated

678

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 57,818 hectares of holdings in Pencahue 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 90.4% above is a share of the 10,264 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 678 holdings with land here, 81 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

PencahueChile% of each territory's own population · 9,181 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	9,181	445,021	18,480,432	266th of 346
Average age	41.1 yrs	37.9 yrs	38.1 yrs	63rd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	111.3	77.7	79.0	66th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	9.6/km²	44.8/km²	24.7/km²	263rd of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	3,421	160,506	6,596,527	265th of 346
Dwellings	4,682	191,326	7,642,716	267th of 346
People per household	2.68	2.77	2.80	216th of 345
Women	49.4%	51.5%	51.5%	307th of 346
Men per 100 women	102.2	94.3	94.3	40th of 346
Under 15	15.7%	18.3%	17.7%	300th of 346
65 and over	17.5%	14.2%	14.0%	93rd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	49.9	48.3	46.5	201st of 346
One-person households	23.4%	21.5%	21.8%	134th of 345
Households with children	29.6%	33.8%	33.2%	275th of 345
Indigenous peoples	2.6%	3.7%	11.4%	341st of 346
Female-headed households	38.0%	47.9%	49.9%	337th of 345
Land area	956 km²	9,927 km²	748,041 km²	139th 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	2.3%	4.8%	8.7%	196th 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.	62.8%	60.8%	50.5%	144th 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.	20.1%	19.5%	23.9%	146th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	17.1%	14.5%	17.2%	132nd of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	210	21,574	1,608,650	231st of 346
Average age, foreign-born	30.2 yrs	32.5 yrs	33.5 yrs	314th of 345
Women among foreign-born	45.2%	50.5%	51.7%	322nd of 345
Foreign-born of working age	81.0%	80.6%	83.1%	181st of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	51.9%	42.0%	34.4%	31st 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.	2.8%	5.8%	10.6%	195th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	12.7 yrs	13.3 yrs	12.9 yrs	131st 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.	-2,595	-18,381	0	213th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	-30.3	-3.9	0.0	253rd 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	8.9 yrs	9.9 yrs	10.4 yrs	247th of 346
Reached higher education	18.9%	26.9%	31.1%	221st 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.	8.7%	52.5%	55.6%	331st 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.	106.1%	102.7%	99.8%	24th of 346
Literacy rate	93.1%	96.6%	97.8%	324th of 346
Reached secondary education	34.1%	36.4%	36.7%	275th of 346
Primary education only	36.8%	27.7%	24.1%	89th of 346
Never attended school	5.68%	3.58%	3.01%	25th 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.	9.8 yrs	11.4 yrs	12.1 yrs	277th 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.	6.90%	3.38%	2.18%	22nd of 345
Households lacking schooling	33.5%	18.5%	15.1%	61st 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.	23	5,338	217,565	318th 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.	50.0%	69.4%	67.2%	282nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	0.0%	10.3%	19.7%	323rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	50.0%	20.3%	13.1%	5th 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.	100.0%	48.3%	49.7%	1st 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.

23left secondary school in 2024

2enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

8.7%continued immediately

50%of those, to a university

0%of those, outside their region

By field of study

PencahueChile

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 Pencahue'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 Pencahue 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

FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	10.8%	12.0%	10.6%	231st of 346
Public health insurance	85.9%	90.9%	82.6%	271st 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.	47.8	72.4	82.5	273rd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	58	84	100	276th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	993	53,194	1,950,388	284th of 346
Average age, people with a disability	62.4 yrs	56.5 yrs	56.4 yrs	21st of 346
Disability among 65+	53.4%	42.8%	43.0%	34th of 346
Difficulty walking	6.19%	5.70%	4.92%	149th of 346
Difficulty seeing	4.28%	5.53%	4.58%	271st of 346
Difficulty hearing	2.03%	2.37%	2.16%	272nd of 346
Difficulty concentrating	2.47%	2.86%	2.70%	251st of 346
Private health insurance	9.4%	5.0%	13.2%	60th of 335
No health coverage	2.74%	2.33%	1.98%	87th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	68.4%	90.9%	92.1%	329th of 332
Households lacking health access	0.0%	3.9%	6.0%	310th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	439	32,200	1,523,716	268th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	13	746	36,698	268th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	2.96%	2.32%	2.41%	149th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	7.6 days	5.9 days	6.1 days	73rd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	14.2	16.8	19.9	257th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	55	88	100	273rd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	34	2,143	89,723	255th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	7.7%	6.7%	5.9%	46th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	37.0	48.2	48.6	203rd 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.	66	98	100	222nd 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 digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales femeninoshover 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.	33.4%	23.7%	17.3%	30th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	22.3 UF	24.9 UF	32.0 UF	187th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	89.4%	100.5%	78.9%	253rd 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.	97.9	84.9	85.6	77th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	51.4%	51.0%	54.4%	164th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	5.5%	9.1%	8.6%	298th of 345
Self-employed	45.8%	32.3%	33.8%	34th of 345
Extreme poverty	17.5%	10.5%	6.9%	19th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	10.5%	13.3%	17.7%	285th of 335
Unemployment rate	2.8%	8.4%	8.8%	312th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 493,780	CLP 538,802	CLP 783,124	215th 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.	0.484	0.461	0.488	53rd of 321
Registered firms	899	37,789	1,582,390	244th of 346
Annual sales	3,507,337 UF	236,637,990 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	231st 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.	2,643	169,094	9,699,164	242nd of 346
Sales per firm	3,901 UF	6,262 UF	21,706 UF	166th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	1.7	2.8	3.9	248th of 346
Women among employees	42.1%	38.2%	40.6%	145th of 345
Independent contractors	1,045	53,002	3,958,269	232nd of 346
Contractors as share of workers	28.3%	23.9%	29.0%	151st 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	4.5%	5.1%	5.7%	260th of 345
Internet access	83.4%	91.1%	93.2%	279th of 345
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	6.0	2.5	2.3	85th of 345
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	6.1	2.2	1.6	68th of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	3,387	157,377	6,408,172	265th of 346
Critically overcrowded	0.21%	0.30%	0.57%	288th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	1.45%	0.67%	1.13%	120th of 345
Public water network	69.4%	92.0%	92.3%	273rd of 345
Electricity access	99.5%	99.7%	99.6%	140th of 345
Detached houses	99.7%	90.0%	78.7%	17th of 345
Apartments	0.0%	9.7%	19.9%	236th of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.10%	0.11%	0.23%	298th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	24.2%	14.3%	11.9%	90th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	155	8,220	491,904	279th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	4.5%	5.1%	7.5%	237th of 345
Renting households	8.8%	19.5%	26.2%	314th of 345
Owner-occupiers	72.9%	69.0%	61.1%	74th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	65.4%	35.9%	24.4%	145th of 345
Commute by public transport	17.2%	27.0%	42.1%	279th of 345
Walks to work	11.6%	10.3%	10.2%	215th of 345
Households with a computer	39.3%	51.0%	54.9%	230th 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.	2.1	1.1	1.1	118th 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.	90.0%	97.5%	97.0%	230th 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.	60.5%	86.6%	89.4%	237th 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.	88.6%	98.6%	98.1%	276th 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.	13.8	5.1	5.9	154th 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.	3.5%	78.4%	80.3%	181st 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.	67.8%	88.9%	90.0%	193rd 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.	97.4%	95.7%	96.2%	213th of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	2.1	0.8	0.6	38th 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.	92.3%	98.8%	99.0%	295th 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.	64.4%	88.0%	91.6%	238th 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.	86.6%	98.0%	98.5%	291st 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

92.6%

of the registered voted in the first round

92.7%

voted in the runoff

10,244

registered voters on the roll

4.9%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman25.3%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist74.7%58.3%

PencahueChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez19.8%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman16.8%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.9%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.3%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist40.1%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.2%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.4%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.4%1.3%

PencahueChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile30.0%30.6%

KCambio por Chile27.8%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido27.5%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente9.3%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.3%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%

PencahueChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile26.2%

KCambio por Chile37.5%

JChile Grande y Unido16.8%

IPartido de la Gente8.1%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.2%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.3%

Independents outside a pact6.8%

Pencahueshare 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 Pencahue 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 Pencahue 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.

Los Muermos0.55Los Lagos · 17,162 peopleAlike in Health; apart in Education.Chanco0.62Maule · 9,446 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Economy.Hualañé0.71Maule · 10,775 peopleAlike in Education; apart in Health.Licantén0.71Maule · 6,892 peopleAlike in Health; 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 Pencahue

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Pencahue is specialised in

Most over-represented in Pencahue

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