Commune · 16205

PortezueloPortezuelo

Compare Portezuelo with another place
Census population
5,203
302nd of 346
Population density
18.0/km²
216th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.4 yrs
316th of 346
Foreign-born share
0.5%
332nd of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Disability prevalence1st of 346 · Chile 10.6%21.8%
Difficulty walking1st of 346 · Chile 4.92%11.69%
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.9 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.9 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 · 170 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
84.5%
5th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
6.0%
321st of 335
Came from another region
9.5%
301st of 335
Net internal migration
-4,658
-95.7 per 100 residents
Portezuelothis commune · 9,523another region464 peopleelsewhere in the region292 peopleanother region2,711 peopleelsewhere in the region2,703 peoplePortezuelothis commune · 4,865
Portezuelothis commune · 9,523another region464 peopleelsewhere in th…292 peopleanother region2,711 peopleelsewhere in th…2,703 peoplePortezuelothis commune · 4,865

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Education2Education5Health3Health▲26Manufacturing4Manufacturing▲28Transport5Transport▲34Retail and wholesale6Retail and wholesale▼23Other services7Other services▼47Information and communications8Information and communications▼1
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Education53Health▲264Manufacturing▲285Transport▲346Retail and wholesale▼237Other services▼478Information and communications▼1

The ten branches that employ most of Portezuelo

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.

2007001 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
2007001 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.8% a year observed · 1.8% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0200 k400 k600 k800 kprojection →633 k2029 · central2005201520242029
0200 k400 k600 k800 kprojection →633 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.6% a year observed · -0.6% projected

What Portezuelo is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Portezuelo employs more people in 31 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.

31
activities it is specialised in
1,005
formal workers
283/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.23.7Captación, tratamiento y distribu…Cultivo de trigoVenta al por menor de alimentos e…Otras actividades de servicios pe…Venta al por mayor de frutas y ve…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Actividades de apoyo para la extr…Cultivo de productos agrícolas en…Cría de ganado bovino para la pro…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.23.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de …Captación, tratamiento y distribu…Otras actividades de servicios pe…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Portezuelo

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
Cultivo de otros frutos y nueces de árboles y arbustosCultivo de plantas perennes4053.6×
Elaboración de vinosElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas6035.8×
Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales (excepto explotación de viveros forestales)Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales525.7×
Transmisiones de radioTransmisiones de radio520.9×
Actividades de apoyo para la extracción de petróleo y gas natural prestados por empresasActividades de apoyo para la extracción de petróleo y gas natural119.0×
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 especializados1214.9×
Cría de aves de corral para la producción de huevosGanadería714.8×
Extracción de maderaExtracción de madera1011.2×
Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de huesoCultivo de plantas perennes17510.4×
Enseñanza primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional privadaEnseñanza preescolar, primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional2287.4×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes85.6×
Captación, tratamiento y distribución de aguaCaptación, tratamiento y distribución de agua135.6×

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
14,145
hectares in holdings
87.3%
of them under a named use
18.0%
of the crop land is irrigated
269
holdings with land here
Woodland 59%Not farmed 17%Pasture 17%Orchard… 6.7%Forest plantations49%Nativewoodland10%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings13%Untilledland3.9%Pasture17%Vines5.6%Fruit treesCereals
Woodland 59%Not farmed 17%Pasture 17%Forest plantations49%Nativewoodla…10%Scrub,barrenground and…13%Unt…landPasture17%Vines5.6%
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
PortezueloChile% of each territory's own population · 5,203 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
5,203
56,73418,480,432302nd of 346
Average age
44.0 yrs
42.4 yrs38.1 yrs14th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
152.3
128.679.013th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
18.0/km²
20.6/km²24.7/km²216th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
2,045
21,8896,596,527303rd of 346
Dwellings
2,700
28,8367,642,716313th of 346
People per household
2.54
2.592.80290th of 345
Women
50.3%
51.0%51.5%252nd of 346
Men per 100 women
99.0
96.294.395th of 346
Under 15
14.2%
15.7%17.7%329th of 346
65 and over
21.6%
20.2%14.0%18th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
55.7
56.246.552nd of 346
One-person households
27.6%
25.5%21.8%46th of 345
Households with children
24.9%
28.3%33.2%326th of 345
Indigenous peoples
3.1%
3.9%11.4%331st of 346
Female-headed households
41.5%
46.2%49.9%313th of 345
Land area
289 km²
2,756 km²748,041 km²250th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Portezuelo25%Arrived since 202075%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Portezuelo25%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
0.5%
0.7%8.7%332nd 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.
84.5%
69.2%50.5%5th 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.
6.0%
14.2%23.9%321st of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
9.5%
15.9%17.2%301st of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
24
4241,608,650335th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
38.4 yrs
34.6 yrs33.5 yrs34th of 345
Women among foreign-born
50.0%
47.4%51.7%211th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
75.0%
84.9%83.1%314th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
25.0%
43.4%34.4%288th 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%
1.0%10.6%337th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.5 yrs
12.8 yrs12.9 yrs44th 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.
-4,658
-25,7960245th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-95.7
-45.80.0329th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Portezuelo16%Higher31%Secondary45%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Portezuelo16%31%Secondary45%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.4 yrs
8.8 yrs10.4 yrs316th of 346
Reached higher education
16.2%
18.8%31.1%281st 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.
53.3%
57.0%55.6%183rd 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.
105.5%
105.7%99.8%29th of 346
Literacy rate
91.3%
93.2%97.8%338th of 346
Reached secondary education
31.0%
33.2%36.7%322nd of 346
Primary education only
45.0%
39.5%24.1%10th of 346
Never attended school
3.98%
4.24%3.01%123rd 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.
9.1 yrs
9.7 yrs12.1 yrs330th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
9.6 yrs
10.2 yrs12.1 yrs325th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
8.69%
6.81%2.18%9th of 345
Households lacking schooling
29.7%
34.8%15.1%89th 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.
60
679217,565279th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
0.0%
32.7%33.9%301st 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%
12.4%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
62.5%
64.3%67.2%166th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
15.6%
18.1%19.7%209th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
21.9%
17.6%13.1%101st 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.
15.6%
62.8%13.0%147th 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.
59.4%
52.2%49.7%36th 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.

60left secondary school in 2024
32enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
53.3%continued immediately
63%of those, to a university
16%of those, outside their region

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%EducationHealth and welfareServicesBusiness and lawInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesEngineering and industry
0.0%20.0%40.0%EducationHealth and welfareServicesBusiness and lawInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesEngineering and industry
PortezueloChile

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

02550751002006201520246032
02550751002006201520246032
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 Portezuelo'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 Portezuelo 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

Portezuelo98%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Portezuelo98%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapre% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
21.8%
17.5%10.6%1st of 346
Public health insurance
97.1%
94.4%82.6%37th 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.
42.7
67.582.5282nd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
70
100100242nd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,132
9,9101,950,388269th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
62.0 yrs
61.4 yrs56.4 yrs30th of 346
Disability among 65+
50.3%
51.0%43.0%76th of 346
Difficulty walking
11.69%
9.56%4.92%1st of 346
Difficulty seeing
9.84%
7.83%4.58%3rd of 346
Difficulty hearing
4.84%
3.72%2.16%3rd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
5.21%
3.87%2.70%3rd of 346
Private health insurance
2.3%
2.4%13.2%216th of 335
No health coverage
0.00%
2.18%1.98%279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
87.7%
90.2%92.1%268th of 332
Households lacking health access
4.2%
6.1%6.0%212th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
222
3,8291,523,716296th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
11
15736,698279th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
4.95%
4.10%2.41%24th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
9.2 days
7.8 days6.1 days20th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
21.1
27.719.9128th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
46
75100292nd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
20
22189,723284th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
9.0%
5.8%5.9%21st of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
38.4
39.048.6186th 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.
61
65100238th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 28%Digestive and urinary tract 26%Injuries, bones and skin 16%Tumours, blood a… 14%Pregna… 8.6%Mind, nerves a… 5.0%Infect… 3.2%Circulatory system18%Respiratorysystem9.9%Digestive system15%Genitourinarysystem11%Injuries and poisoning13%Skin2.3%Muscu…Cancers andtumours11%Endocrine and…Bloodand…Pregnancyandchildbirth7.7%NervoussystemMentalandbehavio…Infect…andparasi…Ill-…
Heart and lungs 28%Digestive and urina… 26%Injuries, b… 16%Tumours,… 14%Pregnancy, … 8.6%Min… 5.0%Circulatory system18%Respiratory system9.9%Digestive system15%Genitourinary system11%Injuries andpoisoning13%SkinCancers andtumours11%Endocrine…Blo…Pregnancy andchildbirth7.7%Ner…sys…Ment…and…EyeInfec…andparas…Ill…sym…
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 reservados75%Genitalesmasculinos25%
Sitios reservados75%Genitales masculinos25%
Sitios reservadosGenitales masculinoshover 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.
31.4%
26.4%17.3%36th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
18.9 UF
21.9 UF32.0 UF307th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
136.7%
115.0%78.9%3rd 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.
64.4
71.385.6262nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
42.5%
44.1%54.4%305th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.4%
6.9%8.6%234th of 345
Self-employed
34.6%
34.1%33.8%182nd of 345
Extreme poverty
12.4%
11.7%6.9%56th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
19.3%
21.6%17.7%140th of 335
Unemployment rate
15.8%
8.1%8.8%22nd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 450,939
CLP 507,910CLP 783,124272nd 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.
0.478
0.4800.48860th of 321
Registered firms
335
4,0461,582,390314th of 346
Annual sales
651,278 UF
14,584,104 UF34,347,683,688 UF312th of 342
Employees reported · People reported at some point in the tax year, not average employment: the national total exceeds the employed because someone who worked two months counts the same as someone who worked twelve.
1,005
12,6769,699,164295th of 346
Sales per firm
1,944 UF
3,605 UF21,706 UF277th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.9
2.33.9212th of 346
Women among employees
42.4%
39.3%40.6%139th of 345
Independent contractors
210
3,7533,958,269336th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
17.3%
22.8%29.0%314th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 31%State and social services 23%Industry and construction 19%Trade and logisti… 17%Oth… 5.7%Adv… 2.9%Agriculture and fishing31%Education9.0%Publicadministra…7.3%Health7.1%Construction11%Manufacturi…6.7%Water and…Retail andwholesale10%Transport4.7%Accom…andfood2.3%Domesticwork3.4%Otherservi…Admi…serv…Prof…serv…
Natural resources 31%State and socia… 23%Industry and co… 19%Trade and log… 17%Agriculture andfishing31%Education9.0%Publicadminis…7.3%Health7.1%Construction11%Manufacturing6.7%Retail andwholesale10%Transport4.7%Accom…andfoodDomest…workOtherservi…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 54%Elementary occupations 29%Managers and professionals 18%Service andsales16%Craft andtrades13%Skilledagricultural11%Plant and machineoperators9.5%Clerical support4.1%Elementary occupations29%Professiona…8.3%Technicians7.1%Man…
Skilled occupations 54%Elementary occupations 29%Managers and … 18%Service andsales16%Craft and trades13%Skilled agricultural11%Plant andmachineoperators9.5%ClericalsupportElementary occupations29%Professionals8.3%Technicians7.1%Man…
Elementary occupationshover 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

Portezuelo100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Portezuelo100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
3.6%
4.2%5.7%320th of 345
Internet access
76.4%
80.7%93.2%331st 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.
3.7
4.02.3178th 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.
3.2
3.41.6173rd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
2,019
21,6356,408,172303rd of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.20%
0.25%0.57%296th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.14%
1.28%1.13%166th of 345
Public water network
74.0%
64.3%92.3%258th of 345
Electricity access
98.9%
99.1%99.6%251st of 345
Detached houses
99.2%
99.1%78.7%98th of 345
Apartments
0.3%
0.2%19.9%158th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.00%
0.21%0.23%324th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
23.8%
22.2%11.9%96th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
80
892491,904318th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.9%
4.1%7.5%291st of 345
Renting households
6.2%
11.8%26.2%339th of 345
Owner-occupiers
78.2%
72.3%61.1%16th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
78.1%
81.3%24.4%116th of 345
Commute by public transport
15.6%
19.4%42.1%297th of 345
Walks to work
25.1%
24.0%10.2%59th of 345
Households with a computer
30.8%
35.3%54.9%319th 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.
2.6
2.21.167th 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.
78.4%
86.4%97.0%302nd 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%
65.7%89.4%238th 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.
100.0%
97.3%98.1%1st 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.
30.8
32.75.984th 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%
0.0%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.
0.0%
0.0%90.0%249th 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.
61.0%
38.2%96.2%255th 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.
2.0
1.20.639th 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.
91.5%
98.4%99.0%302nd 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.
72.2%
71.6%91.6%202nd 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%
97.3%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 46%On foot or by bicycle 29%Public transport 16%Other m… 9.0%Car43%Walking25%Bicyc…4.3%Public transport16%Other8.8%
Private vehicle 46%On foot or by… 29%Public transport 16%Other means 9.0%Car43%Walking25%BicyclePublic transport16%Other8.8%
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 78%Provided r… 12%Rented 6.2%Other 3.2%Owned outright78%Provided byfamily11%Provided by…Rented,nocontract3.7%Rente…withcontr…2.5%Other arrangement
Owned 78%Provided rent-free 12%Rented 6.2%Owned outright78%Provided by family11%Rente…nocontr…Rent…withcont…Otherarran…3.2%
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 79%Fossil fuels 11%No heating 4.9%Electricity 4.5%Firewood78%Gas9.0%ParaffinNo heating4.9%Electricity4.5%
Wood and biomass 79%Fossil fuels 11%No h… 4.9%Ele… 4.5%Firewood78%Gas9.0%Par…No heating4.9%Electric…4.5%
No heatingElectricityOther 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
88.2%
of the registered voted in the first round
88.1%
voted in the runoff
5,776
registered voters on the roll
4.7%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman27.4%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist72.6%58.3%
PortezueloChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez18.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman18.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.9%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.6%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist37.8%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.6%1.3%
PortezueloChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile45.4%30.6%
KCambio por Chile13.3%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido26.2%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente4.0%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas1.8%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista2.8%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde2.8%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile2.7%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.1%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
PortezueloChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Portezuelo 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

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