Commune · 05105

PuchuncavíPuchuncaví

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Census population
22,539
161st of 346
Population density
75.0/km²
104th of 346
Average years of schooling
10.0 yrs
83rd of 346
Foreign-born share
4.2%
124th 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 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%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%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.6 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.6 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 · 266 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
46.8%
260th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
17.9%
175th of 335
Came from another region
26.5%
34th of 335
Net internal migration
+5,614
+26.3 per 100 residents
Puchuncavíthis commune · 13,828another region5,642 peopleelsewhere in the region3,818 peopleabroad1,871 peopleelsewhere in the region2,688 peopleanother region1,158 peoplePuchuncavíthis commune · 21,313
Puchuncavíthis commune · 13,828another region5,642 peopleelsewhere in th…3,818 peopleabroad1,871 peopleelsewhere in th…2,688 peopleanother region1,158 peoplePuchuncavíthis commune · 21,313

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520244Public administration1Public administration▲31Construction2Construction▼13Accommodation and food3Accommodation and food7Transport4Transport▲39Other services5Other services▲42Retail and wholesale6Retail and wholesale▼410Administrative services7Administrative services▲312Real estate8Real estate▲48Manufacturing9Manufacturing▼16Mining10Mining▼411Water and waste11Water and waste14Professional services12Professional services▲25Agriculture and fishing13Agriculture and fishing▼8
2005202441Public administration▲312Construction▼133Accommodation and food74Transport▲395Other services▲426Retail and wholesale▼4107Administrative services▲3128Real estate▲489Manufacturing▼1610Mining▼41111Water and waste1412Professional services▲2513Agriculture and fishing▼8

The ten branches that employ most of Puchuncaví

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.

02 k4 k6 k8 kprojection →6 k2029 · central2005201520242029
02 k4 k6 k8 kprojection →6 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.5% a year observed · 2.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →933 k2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →933 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval-2.1% a year observed · -28.0% projected

What Puchuncaví is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Puchuncaví employs more people in 62 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.

62
activities it is specialised in
5,280
formal workers
85/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de restaurantes y de …Construcción de edificios para us…Consejo de administración de edif…Limpieza general de edificiosVenta al por menor por comisionis…Fabricación de gas; distribución …Fabricación de papel y cartón ond…Cultivo de floresHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Consejo de administración de edif…Venta al por menor de bebidas alc…Fabricación de papel y cartón ond…Extracción de maderaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Puchuncaví

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
Venta al por menor por comisionistas (no dependientes de comercios)Venta al por menor no realizada en comercios, puestos de venta o mercados3037.9×
Extracción de piedra, arena y arcillaExtracción de piedra, arena y arcilla7118.3×
Elaboración de hielo (excepto fabricación de hielo seco)Suministro de vapor y de aire acondicionado516.2×
Actividades de otros clubes deportivos n.c.p.Actividades deportivas7214.3×
Otras actividades de servicio de bebidas n.c.p.Actividades de servicio de bebidas414.1×
Consejo de administración de edificios y condominiosActividades de otras asociaciones25310.9×
Fabricación de gas; distribución de combustibles gaseosos por tubería, excepto regasificación de GNLFabricación de gas; distribución de combustibles gaseosos por tuberías2510.3×
Otras actividades de alojamiento para turistas n.c.p.Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas46.5×
Acabado de productos textilesHilatura, tejedura y acabado de productos textiles35.7×
Cultivo de floresCultivo de plantas no perennes45.4×
Extracción de otros minerales metalíferos no ferrosos n.c.p. (excepto zinc, plomo y manganeso)Extracción de minerales metalíferos no ferrosos, excepto cobre175.2×
Evacuación y tratamiento de aguas servidasEvacuación de aguas residuales175.0×

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
8,280
hectares in holdings
88.0%
of them under a named use
55.3%
of the crop land is irrigated
109
holdings with land here
Woodland 50%Pasture 34%Not farmed 13%Native woodland47%Pasture34%Scrub, barren ground and buildings12%Unt…landVege…Fruittrees
Woodland 50%Pasture 34%Not farmed 13%Native woodland47%Pasture34%Scrub,barrenground and…12%Veg…Fruit…
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
PuchuncavíChile% of each territory's own population · 22,539 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
22,539
757,17618,480,432161st of 346
Average age
40.5 yrs
39.8 yrs38.1 yrs97th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
103.4
108.779.098th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
75.0/km²
375.0/km²24.7/km²104th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
8,480
291,2616,596,527157th of 346
Dwellings
21,145
377,7757,642,71699th of 346
People per household
2.66
2.602.80230th of 345
Women
50.5%
51.9%51.5%232nd of 346
Men per 100 women
98.0
92.794.3115th of 346
Under 15
17.5%
15.5%17.7%201st of 346
65 and over
18.1%
16.9%14.0%73rd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
55.2
47.946.559th of 346
One-person households
24.3%
25.8%21.8%103rd of 345
Households with children
30.7%
27.6%33.2%244th of 345
Indigenous peoples
5.9%
5.0%11.4%229th of 346
Female-headed households
48.2%
52.6%49.9%167th of 345
Land area
300 km²
2,019 km²748,041 km²246th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Puchuncaví40%Arrived since 202060%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Puchuncaví40%Arrived since 202060%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
4.2%
5.8%8.7%124th 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.
46.8%
57.1%50.5%260th 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.
17.9%
15.9%23.9%175th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
26.5%
21.8%17.2%34th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
949
43,9371,608,650126th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
34.7 yrs
33.7 yrs33.5 yrs105th of 345
Women among foreign-born
48.9%
51.5%51.7%260th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
80.6%
81.3%83.1%191st of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
40.3%
35.1%34.4%143rd 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.
5.3%
7.0%10.6%114th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.5 yrs
13.6 yrs12.9 yrs153rd 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.
5,614
-35,276062nd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
26.3
-4.30.049th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Puchuncaví27%Higher40%Secondary26%Primary only5.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Puchuncaví27%Higher40%Secondary26%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.0 yrs
11.1 yrs10.4 yrs83rd of 346
Reached higher education
26.6%
37.9%31.1%92nd of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
95.5%
97.7%98.6%315th 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.
56.8%
62.3%55.6%129th 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.
100.9%
98.7%99.8%219th of 346
Literacy rate
98.0%
98.7%97.8%89th of 346
Reached secondary education
39.7%
36.4%36.7%75th of 346
Primary education only
25.8%
18.9%24.1%259th of 346
Never attended school
2.88%
2.27%3.01%268th 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.
11.6 yrs
12.9 yrs12.1 yrs89th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.7 yrs
12.7 yrs12.1 yrs95th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.96%
1.30%2.18%261st of 345
Households lacking schooling
18.7%
9.2%15.1%222nd 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.
155
8,083217,565196th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
55.5%
25.2%33.9%68th 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%
0.1%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
68.2%
74.7%67.2%113th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
20.5%
19.7%19.7%140th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
11.4%
5.6%13.1%221st 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.
3.4%
4.2%13.0%247th 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.
44.3%
49.9%49.7%295th 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.

155left secondary school in 2024
88enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
56.8%continued immediately
68%of those, to a university
3%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%Tecnico Universitario en ElectricidadIngenieria en InformaticaEnfermeriaPsicologiaTecnico de Nivel Superior en Estetica Cosmetologia y Terapias ComplementariasTecnico en Mecanica Automotriz y Autotronica
0.0%5.0%10.0%Tecnico Universitario en ElectricidadIngenieria en InformaticaEnfermeriaPsicologiaTecnico de Nivel Superior en Estetica Cosmetologia y Terapias ComplementariasTecnico en Mecanica Automotriz y Autotronica
PuchuncavíChile

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 welfareInformation technologyBusiness and lawServicesEducationSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareInformation technologyBusiness and lawServicesEducationSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
PuchuncavíChile

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

05010015020020062015202415588
05010015020020062015202415588
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 Puchuncaví'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 Puchuncaví 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

Puchuncaví96%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Puchuncaví96%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.6%
10.9%10.6%151st of 346
Public health insurance
96.3%
82.2%82.6%63rd 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.
55.3
90.682.5246th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
86
97100184th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,841
82,2661,950,388161st of 346
Average age, people with a disability
58.1 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs164th of 346
Disability among 65+
46.3%
46.3%43.0%152nd of 346
Difficulty walking
6.25%
5.18%4.92%141st of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.49%
4.48%4.58%161st of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.72%
2.23%2.16%137th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.27%
2.91%2.70%82nd of 346
Private health insurance
1.5%
12.1%13.2%251st of 335
No health coverage
1.28%
1.00%1.98%186th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
89.7%
91.3%92.1%246th of 332
Households lacking health access
8.5%
7.3%6.0%66th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,246
68,6051,523,716182nd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
46
1,69336,698171st of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.69%
2.47%2.41%72nd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.9 days
6.3 days6.1 days236th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
20.4
22.419.9147th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
64
106100247th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
84
5,15089,723157th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.7%
7.5%5.9%88th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
37.3
68.048.6198th 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.
67
130100216th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 22%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, bones an… 18%Pregnancy, birt… 16%Tumours, blood an… 13%Mind, nerves an… 7.5%Infections and … 4.7%Digestivesystem14%Genitour…system8.1%Circulatorysystem10%Respiratorysystem8.3%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskeletal5.5%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth15%Congen…Cancers andtumours10%End…andmet…Blo…Mental andbehavioural5.0%NervoussystemEyeInfect…and…Conta…with…Ill-…symp…
Digestive and urinary … 22%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, bones and skin 18%Pregnancy, birth and new… 16%Tumours, blood … 13%Mind,… 7.5%Digestivesystem14%Genitou…system8.1%Circulato…system10%Respirat…system8.3%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculo…5.5%Pregnancy andchildbirth15%Cancers andtumours10%Mentalandbehavi…5.0%Ner…sys…EyeInfect…and…Contact…Ill-…symp…
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 reservados26%Sangre y sistema linfático25%Órganos digestivos17%Genitalesfemeninos12%Mama8.3%Víasurinarias6.0%Sitios maldefinidos6.0%
Sitios reservados26%Sangre y sistemalinfático25%Órganosdigestivos17%Genitalesfemeninos12%Mama8.3%Víasurinarias6.0%Sitios maldefinidos6.0%
Sitios reservadosSangre y sistema linfáticoÓrganos digestivosGenitales femeninosMamaVías urinariashover 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.
16.1%
17.2%17.3%251st of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.6 UF
29.3 UF32.0 UF213th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
102.6%
83.6%78.9%149th 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.
91.5
86.085.6103rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
49.0%
53.0%54.4%206th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
8.7%
8.4%8.6%172nd of 345
Self-employed
40.7%
36.4%33.8%77th of 345
Extreme poverty
4.9%
7.1%6.9%260th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
28.2%
17.0%17.7%40th of 335
Unemployment rate
7.4%
8.7%8.8%231st of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 649,504
CLP 749,502CLP 783,12481st 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.
0.454
0.5000.488112th of 321
Registered firms
2,063
65,1271,582,390143rd of 346
Annual sales
4,816,538 UF
1,063,691,359 UF34,347,683,688 UF203rd 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.
5,338
376,8749,699,164171st of 346
Sales per firm
2,335 UF
16,333 UF21,706 UF248th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.7
4.13.9237th of 346
Women among employees
37.6%
38.9%40.6%230th of 345
Independent contractors
2,632
138,8773,958,269134th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
33.0%
26.9%29.0%93rd of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 31%Industry and construction 22%State and social services 16%Advanced servi… 14%Other ser… 10%Natural resources 6.6%Retail andwholesale17%Accommodationand food8.5%Transport6.2%Construction13%Manufacturing6.4%Electrici…and gasWaterand…Education7.3%Health4.7%Publicadminis…4.3%Administrativeservices6.7%Professi…services3.5%RealestateInfor…andcommu…Otherservices4.9%Domesticwork3.7%Artsandent…MiningAgriculture and…
Trade and logistics 31%Industry and co… 22%State and s… 16%Advanced… 14%Other servic… 10%Natural res… 6.6%Retail andwholesale17%Accommodat…and food8.5%Transport6.2%Construction13%Manufacturing6.4%Elect…and…Water…Education7.3%Health4.7%Publicadmin…4.3%Administrat…services6.7%Profe…servi…3.5%Real…Inf…andcom…Otherservic…4.9%DomesticworkArts and…Mining3.7%Agricu…and…
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 58%Managers and professionals 26%Elementary occupations 16%Service and sales23%Craft andtrades19%Plant and machineoperators7.4%Clericalsupport4.3%Skilledagricult…4.3%Professionals12%Technicians9.6%ManagersElementary occupations16%
Skilled occupations 58%Managers and professionals 26%Elementary oc… 16%Service andsales23%Craft andtrades19%Plant andmachineoperators7.4%ClericalsupportSkilledagriculturalProfession…12%Technicians9.6%ManagersElementaryoccupations16%
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

Puchuncaví99%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Puchuncaví99%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.5%
4.5%5.7%271st of 345
Internet access
92.3%
95.1%93.2%110th 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.
2.1
1.42.3258th 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.
2.8
1.01.6190th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
8,346
283,7526,408,172156th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.35%
0.57%0.57%149th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.13%
1.69%1.13%168th of 345
Public water network
56.3%
94.4%92.3%316th of 345
Electricity access
98.9%
99.6%99.6%245th of 345
Detached houses
98.6%
64.9%78.7%144th of 345
Apartments
0.7%
33.7%19.9%139th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.36%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
57.2%
19.9%11.9%18th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
399
19,434491,904169th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.7%
6.7%7.5%223rd of 345
Renting households
17.8%
30.4%26.2%130th of 345
Owner-occupiers
65.7%
54.0%61.1%233rd of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
30.9%
9.0%24.4%222nd of 345
Commute by public transport
29.1%
49.8%42.1%127th of 345
Walks to work
14.7%
9.6%10.2%175th of 345
Households with a computer
45.9%
58.9%54.9%133rd 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
0.91.1148th 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.
92.3%
97.8%97.0%202nd 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.
92.3%
97.3%89.4%91st 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%
99.9%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.
21.0
3.55.9118th 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%
89.7%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.
5.6%
96.0%90.0%228th 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%
99.9%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.
0.9
0.50.6220th 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.
99.8%
99.2%99.0%101st 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.
79.5%
96.3%91.6%165th 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%
100.0%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 50%Public transport 29%On foot or by bicycle 16%Car49%Public transport29%Walking15%Other4.5%
Private vehicle 50%Public transport 29%On foot or by b… 16%Car49%Public transport29%Walking15%Other
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 66%Rented 18%Provided rent-free 14%Owned outright61%Owned, still payingRented, with contract11%Rented, no contract7.1%Provided byfamily12%
Owned 66%Rented 18%Provided rent-… 14%Owned outright61%Rented, withcontract11%Rented,nocontract7.1%Provided byfamily12%
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

Fossil fuels 34%Wood and biomass 32%No heating 21%Electricity 13%Gas28%Paraffin6.7%Firewood31%No heating21%Electricity13%
Fossil fuels 34%Wood and biomass 32%No heating 21%Electricity 13%Gas28%ParaffinFirewood31%No heating21%Electricity13%
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
89.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.6%
voted in the runoff
20,628
registered voters on the roll
8.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman45.6%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist54.4%58.3%
PuchuncavíChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez21.3%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman28.5%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.4%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist19.1%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet13.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.3%1.3%
PuchuncavíChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile32.3%30.6%
KCambio por Chile26.4%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido18.1%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente16.9%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.4%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
PuchuncavíChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile34.5%
KCambio por Chile19.9%
JChile Grande y Unido27.3%
IPartido de la Gente13.5%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.7%
Puchuncavíshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Puchuncaví 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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