Commune · 09115

PucónPucón

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Census population
32,321
122nd of 346
Population density
25.9/km²
187th of 346
Average years of schooling
10.2 yrs
65th of 346
Foreign-born share
4.6%
112th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
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 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary1st of 345 · Chile 99.8%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.5 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF20.5 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 · 361 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
43.3%
273rd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
22.1%
125th of 335
Came from another region
31.8%
21st of 335
Net internal migration
+8,457
+27.5 per 100 residents
Pucónthis commune · 21,455another region9,799 peopleelsewhere in the region6,797 peopleabroad857 peopleanother region4,425 peopleelsewhere in the region3,714 peoplePucónthis commune · 30,769
Pucónthis commune · 21,455another region9,799 peopleelsewhere in th…6,797 peopleabroad857 peopleanother region4,425 peopleelsewhere in th…3,714 peoplePucónthis commune · 30,769

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Accommodation and food1Accommodation and food▲13Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▲11Arts and entertainment3Arts and entertainment▼25Construction4Construction▲112Administrative services5Administrative services▲79Other services6Other services▲311Education7Education▲48Health8Health6Manufacturing9Manufacturing▼34Professional services10Professional services▼610Real estate11Real estate▼113Transport12Transport▲17Agriculture and fishing13Agriculture and fishing▼6
2005202421Accommodation and food▲132Retail and wholesale▲113Arts and entertainment▼254Construction▲1125Administrative services▲796Other services▲3117Education▲488Health69Manufacturing▼3410Professional services▼61011Real estate▼11312Transport▲1713Agriculture and fishing▼6

The ten branches that employ most of Pucón

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.

05 k10 k15 k20 kprojection →16 k2029 · central2005201520242029
05 k10 k15 k20 kprojection →16 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.3% a year observed · 5.2% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 M20 Mprojection →15 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 M20 Mprojection →15 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.1% a year observed · 3.9% projected

What Pucón is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Pucón employs more people in 80 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.

80
activities it is specialised in
12,233
formal workers
83/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.63.7Actividades de restaurantes y de …Actividades de la administración …Actividades de hotelesConsejo de administración de edif…Otras actividades de alojamiento …Venta al por mayor no especializa…Cría de ganado bovino para la pro…Actividades de atención en instit…Venta al por menor de artículos d…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.63.7Actividades de hotelesConsejo de administración de edif…Extracción de maderaCultivo de trigoHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Pucón

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
Actividades de casinos de juegosActividades de juegos de azar y apuestas1,360131.5×
Otras actividades de alojamiento para turistas n.c.p.Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas10070.0×
Actividades de salones de masajes, baños turcos, saunas, servicio de baños públicosOtras actividades de servicios personales1320.3×
Actividades de operadores turísticosActividades de agencias de viajes y operadores turísticos1416.5×
Otras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas n.c.p.Otras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas17815.0×
Actividades de agencias de viajesActividades de agencias de viajes y operadores turísticos7810.2×
Venta al por menor en comercios especializados de frutas y verduras (verdulerías)Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados699.8×
Actividades postalesActividades postales89.4×
Actividades de contabilidad, teneduría de libros y auditoría; consultoría fiscalActividades de contabilidad, teneduría de libros y auditoria; consultoría fiscal1878.9×
Otras actividades creativas, artísticas y de entretenimiento n.c.p.Actividades creativas, artísticas y de entretenimiento108.0×
Actividades de veterinarios, técnicos y otro personal auxiliar, prestados de forma independienteActividades veterinarias157.7×
Actividades de restaurantes y de servicio móvil de comidasActividades de restaurantes y de servicio móvil de comidas2,4907.6×

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
132,098
hectares in holdings
83.4%
of them under a named use
31.5%
of the crop land is irrigated
600
holdings with land here
Woodland 77%Not farmed 17%Pasture 6.0%Native woodland76%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings17%Pasture6.0%
Woodland 77%Not farmed 17%Pastu… 6.0%Native woodland76%Scrub, barren ground and buildings17%Pasture6.0%
PastureOrchards and vineyardshover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

MenWomen001122334455%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
MenWomen00224466%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
PucónChile% of each territory's own population · 32,321 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
32,321
803,77718,480,432122nd of 346
Average age
37.8 yrs
38.4 yrs38.1 yrs261st of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
70.4
81.279.0271st of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
25.9/km²
43.8/km²24.7/km²187th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
12,548
297,7676,596,527114th of 346
Dwellings
28,770
389,0477,642,71676th of 346
People per household
2.58
2.702.80274th of 345
Women
51.2%
51.8%51.5%126th of 346
Men per 100 women
95.2
92.994.3221st of 346
Under 15
19.1%
18.2%17.7%76th of 346
65 and over
13.5%
14.8%14.0%267th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
48.4
49.346.5237th of 346
One-person households
25.2%
22.9%21.8%81st of 345
Households with children
32.9%
33.1%33.2%182nd of 345
Indigenous peoples
25.7%
36.5%11.4%92nd of 346
Female-headed households
48.9%
49.3%49.9%143rd of 345
Land area
1,248 km²
18,354 km²748,041 km²117th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Pucón19%Arrived since 202081%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Pucón19%81%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
4.6%
2.4%8.7%112th 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.
43.3%
57.2%50.5%273rd 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.
22.1%
21.3%23.9%125th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
31.8%
19.8%17.2%21st of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
1,495
18,9301,608,650104th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
38.3 yrs
35.0 yrs33.5 yrs37th of 345
Women among foreign-born
49.9%
50.9%51.7%219th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
81.8%
82.3%83.1%142nd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
18.8%
28.8%34.4%323rd 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.
5.6%
2.9%10.6%110th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.7 yrs
13.5 yrs12.9 yrs35th 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.
8,457
-31,178052nd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
27.5
-3.80.043rd of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Pucón30%Higher36%Secondary26%Primary only5.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Pucón30%Higher36%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
10.2 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs65th of 346
Reached higher education
29.9%
26.3%31.1%64th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.5%98.6%1st of 333
Continues to higher education · Of young secondary-school graduates, those enrolled in first-year undergraduate studies the following March. By the comuna of the school where they finished secondary school, which is the approximation to origin that Mineduc publishes.
43.8%
50.9%55.6%297th 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.
100.8%
101.3%99.8%224th of 346
Literacy rate
98.3%
96.8%97.8%59th of 346
Reached secondary education
36.0%
36.6%36.7%222nd of 346
Primary education only
26.0%
28.7%24.1%254th of 346
Never attended school
3.02%
3.41%3.01%242nd 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.
12.0 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs66th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.1 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs64th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.71%
3.16%2.18%286th of 345
Households lacking schooling
16.0%
20.5%15.1%247th 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.
425
10,404217,565107th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
37.4%
36.9%33.9%164th 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.
14.6%
5.0%3.1%69th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
77.4%
71.6%67.2%39th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
15.1%
15.2%19.7%220th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
7.5%
13.3%13.1%276th 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.
23.1%
10.1%13.0%114th 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.
54.3%
51.2%49.7%97th 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.

425left secondary school in 2024
186enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
43.8%continued immediately
77%of those, to a university
23%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%Ingenieria ComercialDerechoPsicologiaKinesiologiaAgronomiaArquitecturaIngenieria Civil IndustrialOdontologiaTecnico Universitario en EnfermeriaFonoaudiologia
0.0%5.0%10.0%Ingenieria ComercialDerechoPsicologiaKinesiologiaAgronomiaArquitecturaIngenieria Civil IndustrialOdontologiaTecnico Universitario en EnfermeriaFonoaudiologia
PucónChile

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 industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareEducationSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryServicesNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesInformation technology
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryBusiness and lawHealth and welfareEducationSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryServicesNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesInformation technology
PucónChile

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

0200400600200620152024425186
0200400600200620152024425186
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 Pucón'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 Pucón 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

Pucón94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Pucón94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.6%
12.2%10.6%241st of 346
Public health insurance
93.7%
91.4%82.6%140th 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.
82.3
77.682.589th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
143
9310022nd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
3,417
98,0291,950,388139th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
55.9 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs271st of 346
Disability among 65+
40.9%
44.9%43.0%291st of 346
Difficulty walking
4.39%
5.65%4.92%273rd of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.46%
5.70%4.58%166th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.23%
2.78%2.16%235th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.61%
3.02%2.70%221st of 346
Private health insurance
2.3%
5.3%13.2%213th of 335
No health coverage
0.46%
1.11%1.98%260th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
92.4%
92.0%92.1%193rd of 332
Households lacking health access
2.2%
5.0%6.0%271st of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
2,660
62,4061,523,716114th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
89
1,57136,698105th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.35%
2.52%2.41%108th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.9 days
7.2 days6.1 days127th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
27.5
19.519.951st of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
100
9310085th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
139
3,84589,723121st of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.2%
6.2%5.9%200th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
43.0
47.848.6137th 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.
89
96100112th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 24%Heart and lungs 20%Pregnancy, birth … 17%Injuries, bone… 15%Tumours, blood a… 12%Mind, nerves a… 7.8%Infections and… 3.8%Digestive system18%Genito…system6.4%Respiratorysystem10%Circulatorysystem9.8%Pregnancy andchildbirth15%Perinatal…Congeni…Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskele…3.4%SkinCancers andtumours8.0%Endocr…andmetabo…3.1%Blood…Mental andbehavioural5.8%Nerv…syst…Contact…Ill-d…Infe…
Digestive and urinary … 24%Heart and lungs 20%Pregnancy… 17%Injuries, bones and… 15%Tumours, blood and … 12%Digestivesystem18%Genit…system6.4%Respirat…system10%Circulat…system9.8%Pregnancyandchildbirth15%Perinata…Cong…Injuries andpoisoning11%Muscu…3.4%SkinCancers andtumours8.0%Endoc…andmetab…Mentalandbehavio…5.8%Nervous…Ill-d…Infec…
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%Vías urinarias14%Sangre ysistemalinfático11%Mama9.4%Piel ymelanoma5.8%Víasrespirator…5.0%Genitalesfemeninos5.0%Genitalesmasculinos5.0%Sitiosmaldefinidos5.0%Tiroides yendocrinas3.6%Sitiosreservados3.6%
Órganos digestivos33%Víasurinarias14%Sangre y sistemalinfático11%Mama9.4%Piel ymelanoma5.8%Víasrespirat…5.0%Genitalesfemeninos5.0%Genitalesmasculin…5.0%Sitiosmaldefini…5.0%Tiroides yendocrinasSitiosreservados
Órganos digestivosVías urinariasSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaPiel y melanomaVías respiratoriashover 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.
18.7%
30.0%17.3%202nd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
20.5 UF
22.9 UF32.0 UF259th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
95.9%
101.1%78.9%198th 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.
131.5
77.785.633rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
54.9%
48.4%54.4%95th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.2%
10.2%8.6%133rd of 345
Self-employed
43.8%
35.8%33.8%45th of 345
Extreme poverty
9.9%
13.8%6.9%108th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
7.3%
18.6%17.7%305th of 335
Unemployment rate
12.7%
11.3%8.8%58th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 546,074
CLP 533,802CLP 783,124160th 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.
0.407
0.4950.488238th of 321
Registered firms
4,250
62,4281,582,39086th of 346
Annual sales
12,173,974 UF
267,044,738 UF34,347,683,688 UF125th 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.
12,251
254,9539,699,164106th of 346
Sales per firm
2,864 UF
4,278 UF21,706 UF217th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.7
2.73.9255th of 346
Women among employees
49.0%
41.9%40.6%48th of 345
Independent contractors
5,681
104,1373,958,26978th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
31.7%
29.0%29.0%107th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 32%Industry and construction 20%State and social services 19%Advanced se… 14%Other services 11%Natural reso… 4.2%Retail andwholesale16%Accommodationand food13%TransportConstruction12%Manufacturi…6.8%Electrici…Water…Education8.0%Health6.5%Publicadmini…4.5%Administrativeservices5.5%Professionalservices4.1%Realestate1.9%Informat…and…Otherservices3.9%Artsandentert…3.5%Domestic work3.4%Agriculture andfishing
Trade and logistics 32%Industry and … 20%State and soci… 19%Advanced… 14%Other ser… 11%Natural … 4.2%Retail andwholesale16%Accommodat…and food13%TransportConstruction12%Manufacturing6.8%Educati…8.0%Health6.5%Public administrationAdministrati…services5.5%Profes…servic…4.1%RealestateInform…and…OtherservicesArts andentertai…Dom…workAgriculture an…
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 57%Managers and professionals 29%Elementary occupations 13%Service and sales25%Craft and trades18%Clerical support5.6%Plant andmachineoperators4.6%Skilledagricul…4.2%Professionals15%Technicians8.9%Managers5.1%Elementary occupations13%
Skilled occupations 57%Managers and professionals 29%Elementar… 13%Service andsales25%Craft andtrades18%Clericalsupport5.6%Plant andmachineoperatorsSkilledagricultur…Professionals15%Technicians8.9%ManagersElementaryoccupations13%
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

Pucón96%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Pucón96%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.3%
5.3%5.7%161st of 345
Internet access
92.7%
88.1%93.2%102nd 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.
3.6
3.52.3183rd 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.
3.8
2.91.6152nd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
12,372
294,5656,408,172115th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.45%
0.38%0.57%77th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.91%
1.00%1.13%226th of 345
Public water network
67.0%
80.7%92.3%278th of 345
Electricity access
99.2%
98.6%99.6%207th of 345
Detached houses
95.2%
91.1%78.7%230th of 345
Apartments
4.1%
8.2%19.9%98th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.30%
0.30%0.23%100th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
53.1%
19.6%11.9%22nd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
600
12,914491,904124th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.8%
4.3%7.5%214th of 345
Renting households
28.7%
18.7%26.2%36th of 345
Owner-occupiers
54.4%
68.3%61.1%300th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
77.8%
68.1%24.4%117th of 345
Commute by public transport
24.2%
35.3%42.1%196th of 345
Walks to work
16.0%
13.5%10.2%165th of 345
Households with a computer
48.1%
46.7%54.9%112th 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.
2.4
1.71.179th 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.
84.5%
92.6%97.0%269th 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%243rd 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.
73.6%
75.6%89.4%177th 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.
99.5%
96.8%98.1%132nd 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.
26.1
10.55.9103rd of 345
People within 5 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
0.0%
50.5%80.3%194th of 345
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
1.9%
72.5%90.0%238th 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.
70.8%
90.7%96.2%248th of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.5
0.90.699th 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.
94.9%
98.7%99.0%265th 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.
67.6%
78.2%91.6%224th 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.
96.7%
98.3%98.5%211th 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 47%Public transport 24%On foot or by bicycle 24%Car46%Public transport24%Walking16%Bicycle7.8%Other4.7%
Private vehicle 47%Public transport 24%On foot or by bicycle 24%Car46%Public transport24%Walking16%Bicycle7.8%
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 54%Rented 29%Provided rent-free 14%Owned outright48%Owned, still payingRented, withcontract17%Rented, nocontract12%Provided byfamily10%Provi…byemplo…3.6%Otherarran…3.2%
Owned 54%Rented 29%Provided ren… 14%Owned outright48%Owne…stillpayi…Rented, withcontract17%Rented, nocontract12%Provided byfamily10%Pro…byemp…
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 83%Fossil fuels 8.8%Electricity 6.9%Firewood78%Pell…Gas4.6%Paraffin4.3%Electricity6.9%No heating
Wood and biomass 83%Fossil fuels 8.8%Electricity 6.9%Firewood78%GasParaffinElectricity
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
77.9%
of the registered voted in the first round
77.8%
voted in the runoff
34,159
registered voters on the roll
7.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman35.8%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist64.2%58.3%
PucónChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez16.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman22.7%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen20.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist25.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet11.2%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.3%1.3%
PucónChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile23.2%30.6%
KCambio por Chile28.3%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido22.0%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.7%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.5%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde5.8%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile5.5%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
PucónChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile28.6%
KCambio por Chile38.6%
JChile Grande y Unido14.2%
IPartido de la Gente9.2%
APartido Ecologista Verde5.5%
Independents outside a pact3.9%
Pucónshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Pucón 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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