Commune · 09113

PerquencoPerquenco

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Census population
7,438
285th of 346
Population density
22.5/km²
198th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.8 yrs
264th of 346
Foreign-born share
0.5%
333rd of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
Gini coefficient321st of 321 · Chile 0.4880.327
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 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF24.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF24.3 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 · 152 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
46.2%
262nd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
37.9%
30th of 335
Came from another region
13.7%
212th of 335
Net internal migration
+209
+2.9 per 100 residents
Perquencothis commune · 6,900elsewhere in the region2,755 peopleanother region996 peopleabroad157 peopleanother region2,121 peopleelsewhere in the region1,421 peoplePerquencothis commune · 7,266
Perquencothis commune · 6,900elsewhere in th…2,755 peopleanother region996 peopleabroad157 peopleanother region2,121 peopleelsewhere in th…1,421 peoplePerquencothis commune · 7,266

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Public administration1Public administration▲11Agriculture and fishing2Agriculture and fishing▼14Education3Education▲17Retail and wholesale4Retail and wholesale▲33Construction5Construction▼25Transport6Transport▼18Manufacturing7Manufacturing▲16Water and waste8Water and waste▼29Other services9Other services
2005202421Public administration▲112Agriculture and fishing▼143Education▲174Retail and wholesale▲335Construction▼256Transport▼187Manufacturing▲168Water and waste▼299Other services

The ten branches that employ most of Perquenco

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.

05001 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
05001 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.8% a year observed · 5.3% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0500 k1.0 M1.5 Mprojection →1.4 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0500 k1.0 M1.5 Mprojection →1.4 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.5% a year observed · 4.8% projected

What Perquenco is specialised in

2024 · SII

PuroChile does not compute this for Perquenco. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 932 formal workers here that division is a statement about a handful of people: one worker would move it further than a whole industry moves it in Santiago. The floor is 1,000 workers, and it is a floor rather than a caveat because a spectacular number nobody should read is worse than no number.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
24,888
hectares in holdings
95.5%
of them under a named use
10.7%
of the crop land is irrigated
891
holdings with land here
Annual crops 69%Pasture 15%Woodland 8.2%Not farmed 4.9%Orchards … 2.5%Cereals52%Industrialcrops14%Pulsesandtubers1.9%Vegetab…FoddercropsPasture15%Forestplantations4.8%Native woodland3.3%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings4.5%Fruit trees
Annual crops 69%Pasture 15%Woodl… 8.2%Not … 4.9%Cereals52%Industrialcrops14%PulsesandtubersVege…Fod…Pasture15%ForestplantationsNative…Scrub,barren…Fruit trees
PastureOrchards and vineyardshover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MenWomen001122334455%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
MenWomen00224466%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
PerquencoChile% of each territory's own population · 7,438 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
7,438
803,77718,480,432285th of 346
Average age
39.4 yrs
38.4 yrs38.1 yrs163rd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
86.1
81.279.0191st of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
22.5/km²
43.8/km²24.7/km²198th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
2,742
297,7676,596,527285th of 346
Dwellings
3,345
389,0477,642,716295th of 346
People per household
2.71
2.702.80197th of 345
Women
51.2%
51.8%51.5%131st of 346
Men per 100 women
95.4
92.994.3216th of 346
Under 15
18.6%
18.2%17.7%113th of 346
65 and over
16.0%
14.8%14.0%164th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.9
49.346.5103rd of 346
One-person households
22.4%
22.9%21.8%168th of 345
Households with children
34.0%
33.1%33.2%138th of 345
Indigenous peoples
51.1%
36.5%11.4%28th of 346
Female-headed households
50.0%
49.3%49.9%108th of 345
Land area
331 km²
18,354 km²748,041 km²237th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Perquenco97%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Perquenco97%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
0.5%
2.4%8.7%333rd 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.
46.2%
57.2%50.5%262nd 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.
37.9%
21.3%23.9%30th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
13.7%
19.8%17.2%212th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
34
18,9301,608,650325th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
42.4 yrs
35.0 yrs33.5 yrs8th of 345
Women among foreign-born
52.9%
50.9%51.7%101st of 345
Foreign-born of working age
70.6%
82.3%83.1%336th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
2.9%
28.8%34.4%344th 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.
0.5%
2.9%10.6%339th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.6 yrs
13.5 yrs12.9 yrs40th 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.
209
-31,1780145th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
2.9
-3.80.0141st of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Perquenco16%Higher40%Secondary36%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Perquenco16%40%Secondary36%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.8 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs264th of 346
Reached higher education
16.0%
26.3%31.1%287th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.5%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.
57.6%
50.9%55.6%119th 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.
101.0%
101.3%99.8%193rd of 346
Literacy rate
95.3%
96.8%97.8%238th of 346
Reached secondary education
39.5%
36.6%36.7%85th of 346
Primary education only
35.9%
28.7%24.1%105th of 346
Never attended school
4.31%
3.41%3.01%95th of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
10.1 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs240th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.2 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs268th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.64%
3.16%2.18%109th of 345
Households lacking schooling
29.0%
20.5%15.1%95th 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.
85
10,404217,565252nd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
80.0%
36.9%33.9%22nd 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%
5.0%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
49.0%
71.6%67.2%294th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
16.3%
15.2%19.7%197th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
34.7%
13.3%13.1%27th 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%
10.1%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.
36.7%
51.2%49.7%323rd 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.

85left secondary school in 2024
49enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
57.6%continued immediately
49%of those, to a university
0%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%Tecnico en Construccion
0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%Tecnico en Construccion
PerquencoChile

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%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationSocial sciencesInformation technologyArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciencesServices
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationSocial sciencesInformation technologyArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciencesServices
PerquencoChile

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

0501001502006201520248549
0501001502006201520248549
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 Perquenco'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 Perquenco 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

Perquenco98%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Perquenco98%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
14.5%
12.2%10.6%67th of 346
Public health insurance
97.7%
91.4%82.6%24th 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.
40.3
77.682.5290th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
65
93100255th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,078
98,0291,950,388274th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
56.8 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs233rd of 346
Disability among 65+
42.8%
44.9%43.0%250th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.47%
5.65%4.92%125th of 346
Difficulty seeing
7.49%
5.70%4.58%31st of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.51%
2.78%2.16%40th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.27%
3.02%2.70%83rd of 346
Private health insurance
1.2%
5.3%13.2%263rd of 335
No health coverage
0.00%
1.11%1.98%279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
90.1%
92.0%92.1%240th of 332
Households lacking health access
2.8%
5.0%6.0%258th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
300
62,4061,523,716289th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
11
1,57136,698279th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.67%
2.52%2.41%78th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
10.3 days
7.2 days6.1 days12th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
14.8
19.519.9244th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
48
93100286th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
18
3,84589,723291st of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.0%
6.2%5.9%132nd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
24.2
47.848.6281st 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.
46
96100278th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Injuries, bones and skin 21%Heart and lungs 19%Tumours, blo… 14%Pregnancy, birth… 12%Mind, nerves a… 7.0%Infections and… 4.0%Digestive system17%Genitou…system6.3%Injuries andpoisoning18%Musc…Circulatory system12%Respiratory system7.7%Cancers andtumours9.7%Endocrine andmetabolic4.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Mental andbehavioural5.7%Contact with…
Digestive and urinary… 23%Injuries, bones an… 21%Heart and l… 19%Tumours, blood an… 14%Pregnancy, birth … 12%Digestivesystem17%Genit…system6.3%Injuries andpoisoning18%Circulatorysystem12%Respiratorysystem7.7%Cancers andtumours9.7%Endoc…andmetab…4.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Mentalandbehavio…5.7%Conta…withhealt…
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 reservados61%Órganos digestivos39%
Sitios reservados61%Órganos digestivos39%
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivoshover 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.
29.9%
30.0%17.3%48th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
24.3 UF
22.9 UF32.0 UF120th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
107.7%
101.1%78.9%105th 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.
53.4
77.785.6310th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
45.8%
48.4%54.4%253rd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
5.7%
10.2%8.6%292nd of 345
Self-employed
37.0%
35.8%33.8%132nd of 345
Extreme poverty
15.2%
13.8%6.9%34th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
28.6%
18.6%17.7%35th of 335
Unemployment rate
15.4%
11.3%8.8%24th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 390,542
CLP 533,802CLP 783,124319th 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.
0.327
0.4950.488321st of 321
Registered firms
397
62,4281,582,390307th of 346
Annual sales
1,088,531 UF
267,044,738 UF34,347,683,688 UF290th 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.
932
254,9539,699,164302nd of 346
Sales per firm
2,742 UF
4,278 UF21,706 UF220th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.9
2.73.9218th of 346
Women among employees
49.5%
41.9%40.6%44th of 345
Independent contractors
500
104,1373,958,269306th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
34.9%
29.0%29.0%78th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 24%State and social services 23%Industry and construction 22%Trade and logistics 21%Other… 6.1%Advan… 3.9%Agriculture and fishing23%Education8.6%Publicadministration7.6%Health7.1%Manufacturing11%Construction8.7%Water and…Electri…Retail and wholesale14%Transport4.5%Accommod…and food2.8%Domesticwork3.8%Otherservic…Artsandent…Admin…servi…2.0%Profe…
Natural resources 24%State and social se… 23%Industry and co… 22%Trade and logi… 21%Agriculture andfishing23%Education8.6%Publicadministration7.6%Health7.1%Manufacturing11%Construction8.7%Retail andwholesale14%Transport4.5%Accomm…andfoodDomest…work3.8%Otherserv…Adm…ser…Pro…
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 59%Elementary occupations 23%Managers and professionals 19%Service and sales18%Craft andtrades14%Plant andmachineoperators12%Skilledagricultural10%Clerical supportElementary occupations23%Technicians9.2%Profession…7.5%Managers
Skilled occupations 59%Elementary occupations 23%Managers and prof… 19%Service andsales18%Craft and trades14%Plant and machineoperators12%Skilledagricultu…10%ClericalsupportElementary occupations23%Technici…9.2%Professi…7.5%Managers
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

Perquenco100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Perquenco100%HouseChile79%House20%
House% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.7%
5.3%5.7%125th of 345
Internet access
84.1%
88.1%93.2%270th of 345
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
3.8
3.52.3173rd of 345
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
3.6
2.91.6158th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
2,734
294,5656,408,172283rd of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.44%
0.38%0.57%80th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.24%
1.00%1.13%149th of 345
Public water network
75.4%
80.7%92.3%246th of 345
Electricity access
96.8%
98.6%99.6%329th of 345
Detached houses
99.2%
91.1%78.7%88th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
8.2%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.40%
0.30%0.23%76th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
14.7%
19.6%11.9%177th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
107
12,914491,904306th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.9%
4.3%7.5%293rd of 345
Renting households
9.7%
18.7%26.2%302nd of 345
Owner-occupiers
75.6%
68.3%61.1%37th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
93.4%
68.1%24.4%24th of 345
Commute by public transport
25.4%
35.3%42.1%173rd of 345
Walks to work
19.7%
13.5%10.2%114th of 345
Households with a computer
34.6%
46.7%54.9%285th 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.
2.0
1.71.1127th 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.
96.0%
92.6%97.0%144th 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.
69.1%
75.6%89.4%202nd 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.
96.2%
96.8%98.1%204th 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.
13.3
10.55.9157th 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%
50.5%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.
82.4%
72.5%90.0%170th of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
90.7%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.5
0.90.698th 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.
98.4%
98.7%99.0%179th 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.
73.6%
78.2%91.6%193rd 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.
97.1%
98.3%98.5%202nd 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%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 40%On foot or by bicycle 29%Public transport 25%Car37%Walking20%Bicycle9.2%Public transport25%Other6.1%
Private vehicle 40%On foot or by b… 29%Public transport 25%Car37%Walking20%Bicycle9.2%Public transport25%Other6.1%
Public transportOther meanshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 76%Provided ren… 12%Rented 9.7%Other 3.1%Owned outright75%Provided byfamily8.3%Provided byemployerRented, nocontract4.9%Rented, withcontract4.8%
Owned 76%Provided rent-free 12%Rented 9.7%Owned outright75%Provided byfamily8.3%Provi…byemplo…3.3%Rented,nocontractRented,withcontractOtherarra…
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 95%Firewood93%GasPar…Ele…Nohea…
Wood and biomass 95%Firewood93%
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
88.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
88.4%
voted in the runoff
7,066
registered voters on the roll
6.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman30.7%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist69.3%58.3%
PerquencoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez26.0%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman19.0%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.6%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist33.7%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet6.8%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.5%1.3%
PerquencoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile33.8%30.6%
KCambio por Chile13.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido32.5%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente8.8%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.7%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.0%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile4.4%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
PerquencoChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile33.2%
KCambio por Chile24.9%
JChile Grande y Unido23.0%
IPartido de la Gente10.4%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.8%
Independents outside a pact4.8%
Perquencoshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Perquenco 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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