Commune · 09114

PitrufquénPitrufquén

Compare Pitrufquén with another place
Census population
27,041
139th of 346
Population density
46.8/km²
134th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.5 yrs
136th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.5%
239th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 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%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary1st of 345 · Chile 98.5%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.9 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.9 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 · 359 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
57.2%
204th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
26.5%
87th of 335
Came from another region
15.2%
166th of 335
Net internal migration
-2,260
-8.5 per 100 residents
Pitrufquénthis commune · 28,399elsewhere in the region7,001 peopleanother region4,009 peopleabroad313 peopleelsewhere in the region7,201 peopleanother region6,069 peoplePitrufquénthis commune · 26,452
Pitrufquénthis commune · 28,399elsewhere in th…7,001 peopleanother region4,009 peopleabroad313 peopleelsewhere in th…7,201 peopleanother region6,069 peoplePitrufquénthis commune · 26,452

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520247Construction1Construction▲65Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▲34Education3Education▲12Administrative services4Administrative services▼26Transport5Transport▲11Agriculture and fishing6Agriculture and fishing▼511Accommodation and food7Accommodation and food▲43Manufacturing8Manufacturing▼512Health9Health▲310Professional services10Professional services9Other services11Other services▼213Water and waste12Water and waste▲18Information and communications15Information and communications▼7
2005202471Construction▲652Retail and wholesale▲343Education▲124Administrative services▼265Transport▲116Agriculture and fishing▼5117Accommodation and food▲438Manufacturing▼5129Health▲31010Professional services911Other services▼21312Water and waste▲1815Information and communications▼7

The ten branches that employ most of Pitrufquén

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.

1 k2 k3 k4 k5 kprojection →4 k2029 · central2005201520242029
1 k2 k3 k4 k5 kprojection →4 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.3% a year observed · 1.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

1.0 M2.0 M3.0 M4.0 M5.0 Mprojection →2.8 M2029 · central2005201520242029
1.0 M2.0 M3.0 M4.0 M5.0 Mprojection →2.8 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.0% a year observed · -4.8% projected

What Pitrufquén is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Pitrufquén employs more people in 72 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.

72
activities it is specialised in
3,979
formal workers
189/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de restaurantes y de …Cultivo de productos agrícolas en…Cultivo de trigoVenta al por mayor de bebidas alc…Venta al por menor de otros artíc…Venta al por menor en comercios d…Venta de partes, piezas y accesor…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Cultivo de trigoCría de cerdosPeluquería y otros tratamientos d…Cultivo de maízHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Pitrufquén

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

ActivityDivisionWorkers hereTimes the national share
Servicios de transporte de escolaresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre7977.2×
Venta al por menor en comercios especializados de frutas y verduras (verdulerías)Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados7834.0×
ApiculturaGanadería1233.2×
Actividades de operadores turísticosActividades de agencias de viajes y operadores turísticos621.8×
Cultivos forrajeros en praderas mejoradas o sembradas; cultivos suplementarios forrajerosCultivo de plantas no perennes1711.0×
Venta al por menor de otros artículos y equipos de deporte n.c.p.Venta al por menor de productos culturales y recreativos en comercios especializados2910.9×
Conservador de bienes raícesActividades jurídicas99.5×
Venta al por menor de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas en comercios especializados (botillerías)Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados309.4×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes539.4×
Cría de otros animales n.c.p.Ganadería38.8×
Venta al por menor de carbón, leña y otros combustibles de uso doméstico en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados58.0×
Alquiler de maquinaria y equipo agropecuario, forestal, de construcción e ing. civil, sin operariosAlquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles497.5×

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
42,540
hectares in holdings
92.0%
of them under a named use
17.3%
of the crop land is irrigated
2,009
holdings with land here
Pasture 38%Woodland 34%Annual crops 14%Not farmed 11%Pasture38%Forest plantations23%Native woodland12%Cereals8.5%Foddercrops4.8%Pul…and…Veg…Scrub, barrenground andbuildings8.0%Untill…land3.2%
Pasture 38%Woodland 34%Annual crops 14%Not farmed 11%Pasture38%Forestplantations23%Native woodland12%Cereals8.5%Foddercrops4.8%Scrub,barrenground and…Unti…land
Pasturehover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MenWomen001122334455%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
MenWomen00224466%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
PitrufquénChile% of each territory's own population · 27,041 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
27,041
803,77718,480,432139th of 346
Average age
39.9 yrs
38.4 yrs38.1 yrs132nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
95.2
81.279.0139th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
46.8/km²
43.8/km²24.7/km²134th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
10,252
297,7676,596,527132nd of 346
Dwellings
13,102
389,0477,642,716139th of 346
People per household
2.64
2.702.80240th of 345
Women
52.0%
51.8%51.5%45th of 346
Men per 100 women
92.4
92.994.3302nd of 346
Under 15
17.7%
18.2%17.7%178th of 346
65 and over
16.9%
14.8%14.0%122nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
53.0
49.346.5100th of 346
One-person households
23.3%
22.9%21.8%138th of 345
Households with children
32.4%
33.1%33.2%198th of 345
Indigenous peoples
34.0%
36.5%11.4%51st of 346
Female-headed households
52.7%
49.3%49.9%30th of 345
Land area
577 km²
18,354 km²748,041 km²185th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Pitrufquén25%Arrived since 202075%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Pitrufquén25%Arrived sinc…75%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born share
1.5%
2.4%8.7%239th 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.
57.2%
57.2%50.5%204th 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.
26.5%
21.3%23.9%87th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
15.2%
19.8%17.2%166th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
414
18,9301,608,650176th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
35.5 yrs
35.0 yrs33.5 yrs85th of 345
Women among foreign-born
51.2%
50.9%51.7%161st of 345
Foreign-born of working age
85.5%
82.3%83.1%28th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
24.6%
28.8%34.4%293rd 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%
2.9%10.6%233rd of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.1 yrs
13.5 yrs12.9 yrs74th 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.
-2,260
-31,1780203rd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-8.5
-3.80.0185th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Pitrufquén22%Higher39%Secondary31%Primary only5.1%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Pitrufquén22%39%Secondary31%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.5 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs136th of 346
Reached higher education
21.8%
26.3%31.1%154th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.4%
99.5%98.6%248th 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.
54.5%
50.9%55.6%166th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.
102.8%
101.3%99.8%124th of 346
Literacy rate
96.6%
96.8%97.8%167th of 346
Reached secondary education
38.9%
36.6%36.7%114th of 346
Primary education only
31.1%
28.7%24.1%182nd of 346
Never attended school
3.10%
3.41%3.01%234th 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.
10.8 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs157th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.1 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs149th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.36%
3.16%2.18%181st of 345
Households lacking schooling
28.0%
20.5%15.1%109th 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.
593
10,404217,56592nd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
44.2%
36.9%33.9%119th 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.
1.2%
5.0%3.1%110th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
69.0%
71.6%67.2%106th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
15.8%
15.2%19.7%204th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
15.2%
13.3%13.1%172nd 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.
7.1%
10.1%13.0%213th 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.
57.9%
51.2%49.7%48th 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.

593left secondary school in 2024
323enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
54.5%continued immediately
69%of those, to a university
7%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaQuimica y FarmaciaEnfermeriaIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizTecnico en Electricidad IndustrialTerapia OcupacionalBachiller en Ciencias y Humanidades
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologiaQuimica y FarmaciaEnfermeriaIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizTecnico en Electricidad IndustrialTerapia OcupacionalBachiller en Ciencias y Humanidades
PitrufquénChile

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

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationSocial sciencesServicesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technologyArts and humanities
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationSocial sciencesServicesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technologyArts and humanities
PitrufquénChile

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

0200400600800200620152024593323
0200400600800200620152024593323
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 Pitrufquén'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 Pitrufquén 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

Pitrufquén93%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Pitrufquén93%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
15.2%
12.2%10.6%42nd of 346
Public health insurance
93.5%
91.4%82.6%147th 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.
82.8
77.682.586th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
102
93100121st of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
4,102
98,0291,950,388118th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
59.4 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs108th of 346
Disability among 65+
47.0%
44.9%43.0%136th of 346
Difficulty walking
7.13%
5.65%4.92%73rd of 346
Difficulty seeing
7.58%
5.70%4.58%27th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.66%
2.78%2.16%28th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.47%
3.02%2.70%58th of 346
Private health insurance
2.6%
5.3%13.2%194th of 335
No health coverage
3.07%
1.11%1.98%76th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
94.3%
92.0%92.1%148th of 332
Households lacking health access
8.9%
5.0%6.0%54th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
2,238
62,4061,523,716131st of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
66
1,57136,698127th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.95%
2.52%2.41%150th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.9 days
7.2 days6.1 days134th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
24.4
19.519.985th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
96
93100101st of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
110
3,84589,723137th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
4.9%
6.2%5.9%237th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
40.7
47.848.6158th 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.
76
96100173rd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 22%Heart and lungs 21%Pregnancy, birth an… 18%Injuries, bon… 14%Tumours, blo… 11%Mind, nerve… 10%Digestive system15%Genitour…system7.0%Circulatorysystem13%Respiratorysystem8.4%Pregnancy andchildbirth15%Congenital…Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculoskelet…Cancers andtumours7.7%Endocrine and…Mental andbehavioural7.7%Nervous systemInfec…andparas…2.0%Ill-d…sympt…1.4%Contactwith…
Digestive and urinar… 22%Heart and lungs 21%Pregnancy… 18%Injuries, bones … 14%Tumours, blood a… 11%Mind, … 10%Infec… 4.4%Digestivesystem15%Genit…system7.0%Circulatorysystem13%Respira…system8.4%Pregnancyandchildbirth15%Congenital…Injuries andpoisoning10%Mus…SkinCancers andtumours7.7%Endo…andmeta…Mental andbehaviour…7.7%Nervous…Infe…and…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

By tumour site

Órganos digestivos33%Mama20%Genitalesmasculinos9.1%Sitiosreservados8.2%Sangre ysistemalinfático7.3%Tiroides yendocrinas6.4%Sitios maldefinidos6.4%Vías urinarias5.5%Genitales femeninos4.5%
Órganos digestivos33%Mama20%Genitalesmasculinos9.1%Sitiosreservados8.2%Sangre ysistemalinfático7.3%Tiroides yendocrinas6.4%Sitios maldefinidos6.4%Víasurinari…5.5%Genit…femen…4.5%
Órganos digestivosMamaGenitales masculinosSitios reservadosSangre y sistema linfáticoTiroides y endocrinashover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
31.1%
30.0%17.3%41st of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.9 UF
22.9 UF32.0 UF202nd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
114.3%
101.1%78.9%57th 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.
69.2
77.785.6226th 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%254th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.5%
10.2%8.6%119th of 345
Self-employed
35.0%
35.8%33.8%169th of 345
Extreme poverty
20.7%
13.8%6.9%13th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
22.8%
18.6%17.7%88th of 335
Unemployment rate
10.5%
11.3%8.8%110th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 432,503
CLP 533,802CLP 783,124287th 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.
0.467
0.4950.48878th of 321
Registered firms
1,870
62,4281,582,390150th of 346
Annual sales
3,520,136 UF
267,044,738 UF34,347,683,688 UF230th 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.
3,979
254,9539,699,164203rd of 346
Sales per firm
1,882 UF
4,278 UF21,706 UF278th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.5
2.73.9277th of 346
Women among employees
45.4%
41.9%40.6%97th of 345
Independent contractors
1,537
104,1373,958,269180th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
27.9%
29.0%29.0%162nd of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 27%Trade and logistics 25%Industry and construction 22%Natural resour… 14%Advanced … 5.9%Other ser… 5.5%Education11%Health9.3%Publicadministration6.6%Retail andwholesale16%Transport5.8%Accommodationand food3.7%Construction12%Manufacturi…8.2%Electric…Waterand…Agriculture andfishing13%Admin…servi…2.7%Profes…servic…Domest…work2.9%Otherservic…1.9%Arts an…
State and social serv… 27%Trade and logistics 25%Industry and const… 22%Natural … 14%Adva… 5.9%Othe… 5.5%Education11%Health9.3%Publicadmin…6.6%Retail andwholesale16%Transport5.8%Accommo…and food3.7%Construct…12%Manufac…8.2%Elect…Wat…Agricultureand fishing13%Admi…serv…Profe…servi…Domes…work2.9%Otherserv…
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 60%Managers and professionals 26%Elementary occupations 14%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades16%Plant andmachineoperators10%Skilledagricultur…7.9%Clericalsupport5.4%Professionals13%Technicians10%Mana…Elementary occupations14%
Skilled occupations 60%Managers and professionals 26%Elementary … 14%Service andsales21%Craft and trades16%Plant and machineoperators10%Skilledagricult…7.9%Clericalsupport5.4%Professiona…13%Technicians10%Elementaryoccupations14%
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

Pitrufquén100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Pitrufquén100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.1%
5.3%5.7%188th of 345
Internet access
85.9%
88.1%93.2%233rd 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.
5.1
3.52.3113th of 345
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
2.7
2.91.6202nd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
10,139
294,5656,408,172132nd of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.29%
0.38%0.57%223rd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.68%
1.00%1.13%276th of 345
Public water network
84.6%
80.7%92.3%173rd of 345
Electricity access
99.1%
98.6%99.6%225th of 345
Detached houses
99.5%
91.1%78.7%39th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
8.2%19.9%219th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.30%0.23%205th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
15.0%
19.6%11.9%172nd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
401
12,914491,904168th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.9%
4.3%7.5%292nd of 345
Renting households
14.0%
18.7%26.2%198th of 345
Owner-occupiers
69.6%
68.3%61.1%154th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
87.4%
68.1%24.4%74th of 345
Commute by public transport
27.3%
35.3%42.1%148th of 345
Walks to work
19.1%
13.5%10.2%121st of 345
Households with a computer
39.8%
46.7%54.9%216th of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.9
1.71.1151st 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.
88.3%
92.6%97.0%243rd 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.
68.1%
75.6%89.4%207th 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.
86.1%
96.8%98.1%286th 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.
6.4
10.55.9197th 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.
68.1%
50.5%80.3%128th 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.
81.1%
72.5%90.0%176th 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.
99.2%
90.7%96.2%189th 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.
1.2
0.90.6146th 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.
95.0%
98.7%99.0%263rd 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.
75.8%
78.2%91.6%180th of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
98.3%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 39%Public transport 27%On foot or by bicycle 26%Oth… 7.9%Car38%Public transport27%Walking19%Bicycle6.6%Other7.9%
Private vehicle 39%Public transport 27%On foot or by bicycle 26%Othe… 7.9%Car38%Public transport27%Walking19%Bicycle6.6%Other7.9%
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 70%Rented 14%Provided rent-free 11%Other 5.6%Owned outright67%Rented, withcontract7.8%Rented, no contract6.2%Provided byfamily8.9%Other arrangement5.6%
Owned 70%Rented 14%Provided re… 11%Owned outright67%Rented,withcontract7.8%Rented,nocontract6.2%Provided byfamily8.9%Otherarrang…5.6%
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 90%Foss… 5.4%Elec… 3.6%Firewood87%Gas3.2%Paraffin2.2%Electric…3.6%No heating
Wood and biomass 90%Firewood87%GasParaffinElectricityNoheat…
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
84.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
84.7%
voted in the runoff
24,794
registered voters on the roll
5.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman29.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist70.8%58.3%
PitrufquénChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez18.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman19.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen18.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist32.2%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.0%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
PitrufquénChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile18.5%30.6%
KCambio por Chile21.9%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido17.9%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente9.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.3%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.0%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile25.4%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
PitrufquénChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile34.6%
KCambio por Chile27.6%
JChile Grande y Unido24.6%
IPartido de la Gente7.5%
APartido Ecologista Verde2.5%
Independents outside a pact3.2%
Pitrufquénshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Pitrufquén 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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