Commune · 13124

PudahuelPudahuel

Compare Pudahuel with another place
Census population
227,820
20th of 346
Population density
1,154.8/km²
40th of 346
Average years of schooling
10.2 yrs
65th of 346
Foreign-born share
7.2%
65th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 5 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 97.0%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%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 90.0%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF36.7 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF36.7 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 · 1,105 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
40.3%
287th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
39.7%
25th of 335
Came from another region
14.4%
197th of 335
Net internal migration
+65,938
+25.4 per 100 residents
Pudahuelthis commune · 179,327elsewhere in the region103,198 peopleanother region37,406 peopleabroad14,500 peopleelsewhere in the region61,731 peopleanother region12,935 peoplePudahuelthis commune · 259,765
Pudahuelthis commune · 179,327elsewhere in th…103,198 peopleanother region37,406 peopleabroad14,500 peopleelsewhere in th…61,731 peopleanother region12,935 peoplePudahuelthis commune · 259,765

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520243Transport1Transport▲21Manufacturing2Manufacturing▼12Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼16Administrative services4Administrative services▲27Accommodation and food5Accommodation and food▲24Construction6Construction▼213Public administration7Public administration▲69Professional services8Professional services▲112Mining9Mining▲38Education10Education▼217Real estate11Real estate▲611Health12Health▼110Agriculture and fishing13Agriculture and fishing▼35Other services14Other services▼9
2005202431Transport▲212Manufacturing▼123Retail and wholesale▼164Administrative services▲275Accommodation and food▲246Construction▼2137Public administration▲698Professional services▲1129Mining▲3810Education▼21711Real estate▲61112Health▼11013Agriculture and fishing▼3514Other services▼9

The ten branches that employ most of Pudahuel

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.

050 k100 k150 k200 kprojection →162 k2029 · central2005201520242029
050 k100 k150 k200 kprojection →162 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.4% a year observed · 4.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0200 M400 M600 M800 Mprojection →545 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0200 M400 M600 M800 Mprojection →545 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval10.6% a year observed · -3.4% projected

What Pudahuel is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Pudahuel employs more people in 108 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.

108
activities it is specialised in
128,850
formal workers
3/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.50.33.7Transporte de pasajeros por vía a…Elaboración y conservación de car…Actividades de hotelesVenta al por menor en comercios d…Actividades de agencias de empleo…Actividades de consultoría de ges…Reparación de aeronaves y naves e…Venta al por mayor de equipo de t…Agencias de aduanasHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.50.33.7Transporte de pasajeros por vía a…Transporte de carga por vía aéreaActividades de hotelesVenta al por mayor de vehículos a…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Pudahuel

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
Transporte de carga por vía aéreaTransporte de carga por vía aérea2,96950.8×
Transporte de pasajeros por vía aéreaTransporte de pasajeros por vía aérea7,12738.6×
Fabricación de equipo de elevación y manipulaciónFabricación de maquinaria de uso general42531.0×
Tratamiento y eliminación de desechos peligrososTratamiento y eliminación de desechos23320.6×
Explotación de terminales terrestres de pasajerosActividades de apoyo al transporte39219.6×
Venta al por mayor de equipo de transporte (excepto vehículos automotores, motocicletas y bicicletas)Venta al por mayor de maquinaria, equipo y materiales45219.1×
Elaboración y conservación de carne y productos cárnicosElaboración y conservación de carne3,46517.5×
Actividades de servicios vinculadas al transporte terrestre n.c.p.Actividades de apoyo al transporte4,83316.7×
Reparación de aeronaves y naves espacialesReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo49215.4×
Reparación de maquinaria para la elaboración de alimentos, bebidas y tabacoReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo13212.6×
Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en puestos de venta y mercados (incluye ferias)Venta al por menor en puestos de venta y mercados19011.9×
Elaboración de otros productos alimenticios n.c.p.Elaboración de otros productos alimenticios8,45411.3×

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
3,118
hectares in holdings
73.1%
of them under a named use
68.9%
of the crop land is irrigated
36
holdings with land here
Not farmed 31%Woodland 25%Pasture 21%Annual crops 13%Orchards and vineyards 10%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings27%Untilled landNative woodland25%Pasture21%Fodder crops7.5%Vegetables5.5%Fruit trees10%
Not farmed 31%Woodland 25%Pasture 21%Annual c… 13%Orch… 10%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings27%Native woodland25%Pasture21%Foddercrops7.5%Vegetables5.5%Fruittrees10%
WoodlandPastureOrchards 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
PudahuelChile% of each territory's own population · 227,820 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
227,820
5,385,73718,480,43220th of 346
Average age
37.5 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs272nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
68.6
85.179.0279th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
1,154.8/km²
2,653.4/km²24.7/km²40th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
74,144
1,951,4816,596,52721st of 346
Dwellings
73,709
2,060,6137,642,71625th of 346
People per household
3.07
2.762.8022nd of 345
Women
51.9%
51.8%51.5%53rd of 346
Men per 100 women
92.8
93.294.3294th of 346
Under 15
17.8%
16.3%17.7%174th of 346
65 and over
12.2%
13.8%14.0%301st of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
42.9
43.046.5322nd of 346
One-person households
16.0%
23.6%21.8%329th of 345
Households with children
36.7%
30.2%33.2%59th of 345
Indigenous peoples
9.5%
7.2%11.4%159th of 346
Female-headed households
52.9%
51.1%49.9%28th of 345
Land area
197 km²
2,030 km²748,041 km²271st of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Pudahuel34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Pudahuel34%Arrived since 202066%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
7.2%
15.4%8.7%65th 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.
40.3%
34.9%50.5%287th 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.
39.7%
35.2%23.9%25th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
14.4%
16.4%17.2%197th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
16,505
828,3681,608,65030th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.5 yrs
34.4 yrs33.5 yrs163rd of 345
Women among foreign-born
52.6%
51.8%51.7%113th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
83.2%
84.3%83.1%82nd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
33.6%
31.7%34.4%219th 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.
8.6%
18.5%10.6%66th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.4 yrs
13.4 yrs12.9 yrs171st 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.
65,938
-150,290012th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
25.4
-2.50.055th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Pudahuel28%Higher41%Secondary24%Primary only4.9%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Pudahuel28%Higher41%Secondary24%Chile31%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
11.2 yrs10.4 yrs65th of 346
Reached higher education
27.6%
38.6%31.1%82nd of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.0%
98.2%98.6%216th 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.
50.7%
54.9%55.6%226th 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.
98.3%
98.2%99.8%305th of 346
Literacy rate
98.2%
98.7%97.8%65th of 346
Reached secondary education
41.0%
34.9%36.7%46th of 346
Primary education only
23.6%
19.1%24.1%284th of 346
Never attended school
2.90%
2.55%3.01%266th 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
13.1 yrs12.1 yrs66th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.8 yrs
12.8 yrs12.1 yrs84th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.77%
1.25%2.18%277th of 345
Households lacking schooling
11.5%
9.9%15.1%293rd 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.
1,448
57,776217,56547th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
52.8%
31.5%33.9%80th 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.
2.3%
0.1%3.1%104th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
58.0%
70.6%67.2%211th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
30.9%
21.9%19.7%44th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
11.0%
7.5%13.1%226th 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.
1.4%
1.3%13.0%292nd 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.
50.7%
48.6%49.7%172nd 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.

1,448left secondary school in 2024
734enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
50.7%continued immediately
58%of those, to a university
1%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria en InformaticaIngenieria ComercialContador AuditorDerechoPsicologiaEnfermeriaArquitecturaIngenieria Civil IndustrialKinesiologiaMedicina Veterinaria
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria en InformaticaIngenieria ComercialContador AuditorDerechoPsicologiaEnfermeriaArquitecturaIngenieria Civil IndustrialKinesiologiaMedicina Veterinaria
PudahuelChile

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%Business and lawEngineering and industryHealth and welfareInformation technologyEducationServicesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Business and lawEngineering and industryHealth and welfareInformation technologyEducationServicesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
PudahuelChile

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

05001,0001,5002006201520241,448734
05001,0001,5002006201520241,448734
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 Pudahuel'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 Pudahuel 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

Pudahuel79%Fonasa16%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Pudahuel79%Fonasa16%Chile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.3%
9.3%10.6%254th of 346
Public health insurance
78.8%
73.9%82.6%305th 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.
72.7
87.182.5147th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
91
100100160th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
23,483
499,3711,950,38817th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
55.0 yrs
56.6 yrs56.4 yrs288th of 346
Disability among 65+
39.7%
43.7%43.0%299th of 346
Difficulty walking
4.71%
4.33%4.92%248th of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.55%
3.83%4.58%251st of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.08%
1.87%2.16%267th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.61%
2.50%2.70%220th of 346
Private health insurance
16.2%
22.4%13.2%33rd of 335
No health coverage
1.99%
1.80%1.98%136th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
90.3%
91.7%92.1%236th of 332
Households lacking health access
8.1%
5.8%6.0%73rd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
16,554
469,3531,523,71628th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
364
10,69136,69824th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.20%
2.28%2.41%254th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.2 days
6.0 days6.1 days206th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
16.0
19.919.9226th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
91
106100128th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
1,098
28,65989,72322nd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.6%
6.1%5.9%94th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
48.2
53.248.691st 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.
102
11110065th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 25%Heart and lungs 18%Tumours, blood a… 16%Injuries, bones… 16%Pregnancy, birth and n… 16%Infection… 4.7%Mind, ner… 4.7%Digestivesystem15%Genitourin…system10%Respiratorysystem10%Circulatorysystem8.3%Cancers andtumours10%Endocrine andmetabolic5.5%Injuries andpoisoning7.9%Musculoskelet…6.2%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth12%Per…con…Con…mal…Conta…withhealt…1.8%Infe…andpara…Nervo…system2.2%Mentaland…Eye
Digestive and urinary tr… 25%Heart and lungs 18%Tumours, blood and meta… 16%Injuries, bones and skin 16%Pregnancy, birth… 16%Inf… 4.7%Min… 4.7%Digestivesystem15%Genitouri…system10%Respirat…system10%Circula…system8.3%Cancers andtumours10%Endocrineandmetabolic5.5%Injuries andpoisoning7.9%Musculos…6.2%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Per…con…Con…mal…Infec…and…Ill-d…Ner…sys…Ment…and…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

By tumour site

Órganos digestivos30%Sangre y sistema linfático18%Vías urinarias12%Genitalesmasculinos7.7%Mama7.0%Víasrespiratori…6.3%Genitalesfemeninos5.3%Tiroidesyendocrin…4.7%Sitiosmaldefinidos4.1%Piel ymelanomaTejidosblandosBoca y…Hue…Enc…y…
Órganos digestivos30%Sangre ysistemalinfático18%Vías urinarias12%Genitalesmasculinos7.7%Mama7.0%Víasrespirator…6.3%Genitalesfemeninos5.3%Tiroid…yendocr…4.7%Sitiosmaldefini…4.1%Piel ymelan…2.0%Bocay…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariasGenitales masculinosMamaVías 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.
13.8%
12.4%17.3%280th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
36.7 UF
37.3 UF32.0 UF10th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
67.8%
73.0%78.9%331st 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.
55.8
104.385.6306th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
56.1%
59.5%54.4%75th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.0%
7.7%8.6%150th of 345
Self-employed
34.8%
33.2%33.8%175th of 345
Extreme poverty
5.3%
4.4%6.9%248th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
15.6%
18.9%17.7%208th of 335
Unemployment rate
9.9%
8.4%8.8%133rd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 691,675
CLP 1,019,380CLP 783,12460th 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.
0.448
0.5000.488124th of 321
Registered firms
12,716
561,5661,582,39030th of 346
Annual sales
647,515,485 UF
25,794,247,870 UF34,347,683,688 UF7th 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.
128,913
5,253,9409,699,16413th of 346
Sales per firm
50,921 UF
45,933 UF21,706 UF8th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
7.1
6.13.96th of 346
Women among employees
39.5%
41.7%40.6%203rd of 345
Independent contractors
28,908
2,467,4083,958,26921st of 346
Contractors as share of workers
18.3%
32.0%29.0%300th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 38%State and social s… 18%Industry and const… 18%Advanced services 16%Other serv… 7.6%Retail and wholesale20%Transport13%Accomm…andfood4.6%Health7.6%Education6.8%Publicadmini…3.9%Manufacturing8.4%Construction8.2%Administ…services6.0%Professi…services3.7%Finan…andinsur…2.9%Informationand…Otherservic…3.8%Domest…work2.8%Arts and…MiningAgric…
Trade and logistics 38%State and … 18%Industry and co… 18%Advanced ser… 16%Oth… 7.6%Retail andwholesale20%Transport13%Accommodationand foodHealth7.6%Education6.8%Publ…admi…Manufacturing8.4%Construction8.2%Administ…services6.0%Profes…servic…3.7%Finan…andinsur…Inform…andcommun…OtherservicesDomest…work2.8%Mining
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%Managers and professionals 31%Elementary occupations 14%Service and sales22%Craft andtrades13%Clerical support10%Plant and machineoperators8.6%Professionals14%Technicians13%ManagersElementary occupations14%
Skilled occupations 54%Managers and professionals 31%Elementar… 14%Service andsales22%Craft and trades13%Clerical support10%Plantandmachin…8.6%Profession…14%Technicians13%ManagersElementaryoccupations14%
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

Pudahuel83%House17%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Pudahuel83%House17%Chile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.3%
6.7%5.7%66th of 345
Internet access
94.9%
95.9%93.2%53rd 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.
1.2
1.02.3309th 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.
0.6
0.51.6308th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
70,285
1,868,7116,408,17221st of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.55%
0.93%0.57%55th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.58%
0.51%1.13%295th of 345
Public water network
97.8%
99.6%92.3%45th of 345
Electricity access
99.9%
99.9%99.6%15th of 345
Detached houses
82.2%
55.8%78.7%300th of 345
Apartments
17.2%
42.0%19.9%42nd of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.09%0.23%243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
1.9%
5.2%11.9%341st of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
7,301
193,039491,90415th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
9.8%
9.9%7.5%43rd of 345
Renting households
23.2%
37.8%26.2%71st of 345
Owner-occupiers
66.0%
51.5%61.1%229th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
1.3%
0.2%24.4%298th of 345
Commute by public transport
55.9%
54.0%42.1%23rd of 345
Walks to work
6.2%
8.4%10.2%325th of 345
Households with a computer
54.8%
62.8%54.9%61st 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.
0.5
0.51.1322nd 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.
100.0%
100.0%97.0%1st 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.
92.5%
99.6%89.4%90th 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%
100.0%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.
1.2
1.05.9314th 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.
96.2%
99.7%80.3%56th 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.
100.0%
100.0%90.0%1st 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%
100.0%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.
0.4
0.30.6305th 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.
100.0%
100.0%99.0%1st 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.
99.8%
100.0%91.6%44th 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

Public transport 56%Private vehicle 31%On foot or by bi… 9.0%Public transport56%Car29%Walking6.2%Bicyc…2.8%Other4.2%
Public transport 56%Private vehicle 31%On foot… 9.0%Other m… 4.2%Public transport56%Car29%Walking6.2%Bic…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 23%Provided ren… 8.0%Owned outright46%Owned, still paying20%Rented, withcontract14%Rented, no contract8.7%Provided byfamily7.3%Otherarran…2.8%
Owned 66%Rented 23%Provided… 8.0%Owned outright46%Owned,stillpaying20%Rented, withcontract14%Rented, nocontract8.7%Provided byfamily7.3%
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 65%Electricity 20%No heating 13%Gas47%Paraffin18%Electricity20%No heating13%Fir…Oth…
Fossil fuels 65%Electricity 20%No heating 13%Gas47%Paraffin18%Electricity20%No heating13%
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
89.6%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.4%
voted in the runoff
176,284
registered voters on the roll
6.6%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman51.4%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist48.6%58.3%
PudahuelChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez18.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman33.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.6%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.5%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist20.2%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.8%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet11.5%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.4%1.3%
PudahuelChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile33.4%30.6%
KCambio por Chile24.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido12.0%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente16.9%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.5%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista6.5%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios1.7%0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
PudahuelChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Pudahuel 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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