Punta Arenas — PuroChile

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.

Came from another commune of the same region331st of 335 · Chile 23.9%2.6%

Never attended school341st of 346 · Chile 3.01%1.66%

Came from another region18th of 335 · Chile 17.2%33.1%

Multidimensional poverty312th of 335 · Chile 17.7%6.5%

Households lacking schooling312th of 335 · Chile 15.1%9.2%

Households with a computer25th of 345 · Chile 54.9%61.3%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 4,628 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

58.3%

197th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

2.6%

331st of 335

Came from another region

33.1%

18th of 335

Net internal migration

+9,422

+6.5 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Punta Arenas

Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.

BranchWorkersShare of total2005–2024Change

01ConstructionIndustry and construction11,01317.5%+36%02Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics10,66516.9%+6%03EducationState and social services7,23911.5%+428%04Public administrationState and social services5,5638.8%+179%05TransportTrade and logistics5,4398.6%+87%06ManufacturingIndustry and construction4,6957.4%−16%07Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics4,6237.3%+106%08Administrative servicesAdvanced services4,4607.1%+31%09Agriculture and fishingNatural resources2,9514.7%−41%10HealthState and social services1,5652.5%+169%

Dependent workers, projected

Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.9% a year observed · 1.6% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.9% a year observed · 3.3% projected

What Punta Arenas is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Punta Arenas employs more people in 141 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.

141

activities it is specialised in

63,037

formal workers

47/296

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Each dot is one activity. Filled, Punta Arenas is already specialised in it; hollow, it is not. Size is how many people work in it here.

Across: how much of what tends to sit beside that activity this place already does. Up: how few and how diversified the places that do it are. Two activities are counted as close when the places good at one tend also to be good at the other — that co-occurrence is the whole of it.

The corners are not labelled on purpose. Which one is worth being in depends on what a place wants and can afford, and neither is in the tax register. The dashed lines are this place's own medians; the axes are the same on every commune's page, so two of them can be laid side by side. The named ones are those whose name fits without covering another dot; the rest are a hover away.

Most over-represented in Punta Arenas

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

Activity	Division	Workers here	Times the national share
Actividades de apoyo para la extracción de petróleo y gas natural prestados por empresas	Actividades de apoyo para la extracción de petróleo y gas natural	413	125.0×
Cría de ovejas (ovinos)	Ganadería	631	76.4×
Transporte de carga por vías de navegación interiores	Transporte por vías de navegación interiores	523	64.7×
Pesca marítima artesanal	Pesca	531	37.2×
Elaboración y conservación de salmónidos	Elaboración y conservación de pescado, crustáceos y moluscos	906	17.3×
Preparación del terreno	Demolición y preparación del terreno	5,719	14.7×
Venta al por menor de recuerdos, artesanías y artículos religiosos en comercios especializados	Venta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados	106	12.5×
Otras actividades de alojamiento n.c.p.	Otras actividades de alojamiento	472	10.6×
Elaboración de bebidas malteadas y de malta	Elaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas	177	10.5×
Enseñanza primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional pública	Enseñanza preescolar, primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional	4,594	10.0×
Explotación de mataderos de bovinos, ovinos, equinos, caprinos, porcinos y camélidos	Elaboración y conservación de carne	590	8.6×
Agencias de naves	Actividades de apoyo al transporte	58	8.1×

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

460,793

hectares in holdings

49.4%

of them under a named use

6.5%

of the crop land is irrigated

326

holdings with land here

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.

The agricultural census measured 460,793 hectares of holdings in Punta Arenas in the 2020/2021 agricultural year, and this is how it divided them.

Fourteen of the fifteen tiles are categories the census publishes. The fifteenth is not: it is the censused surface less the other fourteen, and what it holds is scrub, barren ground, roads and buildings. Across Chile it is half of everything, because most of the censused surface is Patagonian scrub and northern desert inside very large holdings.

Irrigation is asked of eleven of the uses and not of forest, native woodland, natural pasture or untilled ground — so the 6.5% above is a share of the 2,491 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 326 holdings with land here, 152 are self-consumption plots — under two hectares and with nothing sold in the year. These counts are the census's own for this territory and they are not added to anything: a holding with land in two comunas is counted in both.

VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal 2021, INE

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

Punta ArenasChile% of each territory's own population · 132,363 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	132,363	132,975	18,480,432	45th of 346
Average age	39.2 yrs	39.2 yrs	38.1 yrs	175th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	90.5	90.7	79.0	168th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	7.8/km²	3.7/km²	24.7/km²	276th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	49,571	49,842	6,596,527	41st of 346
Dwellings	59,195	60,117	7,642,716	34th of 346
People per household	2.67	2.67	2.80	222nd of 345
Women	50.9%	50.8%	51.5%	181st of 346
Men per 100 women	96.6	96.9	94.3	166th of 346
Under 15	16.4%	16.4%	17.7%	270th of 346
65 and over	14.9%	14.9%	14.0%	219th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	45.5	45.4	46.5	295th of 346
One-person households	22.1%	22.3%	21.8%	178th of 345
Households with children	30.9%	30.8%	33.2%	237th of 345
Indigenous peoples	22.2%	22.2%	11.4%	101st of 346
Female-headed households	48.8%	48.7%	49.9%	148th of 345
Land area	16,926 km²	36,148 km²	748,041 km²	9th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	6.0%	6.0%	8.7%	83rd 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.	58.3%	57.8%	50.5%	197th 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.	2.6%	2.9%	23.9%	331st of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	33.1%	33.3%	17.2%	18th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	7,991	8,019	1,608,650	52nd of 346
Average age, foreign-born	33.7 yrs	33.7 yrs	33.5 yrs	153rd of 345
Women among foreign-born	54.8%	54.8%	51.7%	45th of 345
Foreign-born of working age	82.6%	82.6%	83.1%	107th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	35.4%	35.5%	34.4%	196th 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.	7.3%	7.2%	10.6%	85th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	12.8 yrs	12.8 yrs	12.9 yrs	122nd 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.	9,422	5,930	0	49th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	6.5	4.0	0.0	121st of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	10.8 yrs	10.8 yrs	10.4 yrs	32nd of 346
Reached higher education	34.1%	34.0%	31.1%	39th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	99.0%	99.0%	98.6%	217th 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.	64.1%	64.1%	55.6%	38th of 331

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
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.	99.2%	99.3%	99.8%	270th of 346
Literacy rate	98.8%	98.8%	97.8%	30th of 346
Reached secondary education	37.9%	37.9%	36.7%	144th of 346
Primary education only	21.1%	21.1%	24.1%	309th of 346
Never attended school	1.66%	1.66%	3.01%	341st 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.	12.6 yrs	12.6 yrs	12.1 yrs	34th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	12.5 yrs	12.5 yrs	12.1 yrs	41st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	1.16%	1.17%	2.18%	315th of 345
Households lacking schooling	9.2%	9.4%	15.1%	312th 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.	1,563	1,563	217,565	45th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	31.7%	31.7%	33.9%	204th 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%	0.0%	3.1%	114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	69.2%	69.2%	67.2%	104th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	9.0%	9.0%	19.7%	287th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	21.9%	21.9%	13.1%	102nd 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.	19.7%	19.7%	13.0%	131st 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.	47.5%	47.5%	49.7%	256th 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.

1,563left secondary school in 2024

1,002enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

64.1%continued immediately

69%of those, to a university

20%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

Punta ArenasChile

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

Punta ArenasChile

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

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 Punta Arenas'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.

Health

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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 Punta Arenas 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.

This region's own series says it stopped reporting in 2019, 2024 and 2025: 21,838 discharges in 2019 against a median of 14,183 in its other years, 54%; 7,768 discharges in 2024 against a median of 14,958 in its other years, -48%; 9,770 discharges in 2025 against a median of 14,958 in its other years, -35%. The rule withholds any year that departs more than 25% from that median, and no other region crosses it in any year. A register that loses records is not a place whose health changed, so those years are not published here. The counts are still in the published data, and /datos carries the check.

Which health system

FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Against its peers	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	8.8%		8.7%	10.6%	307th of 346
Public health insurance	79.6%		79.4%	82.6%	302nd of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	11,595	11,631	1,950,388	54th of 346
Average age, people with a disability	56.8 yrs	56.8 yrs	56.4 yrs	233rd of 346
Disability among 65+	44.9%	44.9%	43.0%	191st of 346
Difficulty walking	4.16%	4.15%	4.92%	287th of 346
Difficulty seeing	3.37%	3.37%	4.58%	321st of 346
Difficulty hearing	1.84%	1.84%	2.16%	295th of 346
Difficulty concentrating	2.13%	2.13%	2.70%	294th of 346
Private health insurance	12.4%	12.6%	13.2%	45th of 335
No health coverage	0.96%	0.94%	1.98%	208th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	95.9%	95.9%	92.1%	115th of 332
Households lacking health access	6.1%	6.0%	6.0%	137th of 335
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	206	206	89,723	95th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	3.6%	3.6%	5.9%	302nd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	15.6	15.5	48.6	306th 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.	31	31	100	306th of 330

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	10.5%	10.4%	17.3%	307th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	21.0 UF	21.1 UF	32.0 UF	242nd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	92.4%	92.2%	78.9%	227th 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.	95.1	95.3	85.6	80th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	59.4%	59.4%	54.4%	41st of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	6.8%	6.8%	8.6%	261st of 345
Self-employed	28.0%	27.9%	33.8%	308th of 345
Extreme poverty	4.8%	4.8%	6.9%	262nd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	6.5%	6.4%	17.7%	312th of 335
Unemployment rate	6.0%	5.9%	8.8%	271st of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 897,200	CLP 907,446	CLP 783,124	28th 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.	0.450	0.449	0.488	120th of 321
Registered firms	12,589	12,669	1,582,390	31st of 346
Annual sales	91,616,008 UF	93,747,642 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	44th 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.	63,042	63,416	9,699,164	31st of 346
Sales per firm	7,277 UF	7,400 UF	21,706 UF	79th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	3.2	3.2	3.9	56th of 346
Women among employees	40.9%	40.8%	40.6%	175th of 345
Independent contractors	22,534	22,775	3,958,269	32nd of 346
Contractors as share of workers	26.3%	26.4%	29.0%	194th of 346

Employment by industry

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

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

HouseFlat% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	4.0%	3.9%	5.7%	303rd of 345
Internet access	95.8%	95.7%	93.2%	30th 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.	1.3	1.7	2.3	304th 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.	1.3	1.7	1.6	272nd of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	48,834	49,100	6,408,172	40th of 346
Critically overcrowded	0.28%	0.27%	0.57%	236th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	0.56%	0.56%	1.13%	303rd of 345
Public water network	96.8%	96.4%	92.3%	55th of 345
Electricity access	99.8%	99.8%	99.6%	55th of 345
Detached houses	91.4%	91.4%	78.7%	266th of 345
Apartments	8.1%	8.1%	19.9%	72nd of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.20%	0.21%	0.23%	140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	10.4%	11.3%	11.9%	235th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	2,163	2,173	491,904	63rd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	4.4%	4.4%	7.5%	254th of 345
Renting households	23.5%	23.4%	26.2%	67th of 345
Owner-occupiers	64.1%	63.8%	61.1%	251st of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	2.5%	2.8%	24.4%	292nd of 345
Commute by public transport	27.0%	26.9%	42.1%	153rd of 345
Walks to work	7.3%	7.3%	10.2%	302nd of 345
Households with a computer	61.3%	61.2%	54.9%	25th 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.	0.8	0.9	1.1	292nd 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.	99.3%	99.1%	97.0%	72nd 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.	99.8%	99.6%	99.9%	258th 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.	99.9%	99.8%	100.0%	308th 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.	96.9%	96.4%	89.4%	60th 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%	99.0%	98.1%	128th 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.	99.8%	99.4%	99.7%	259th 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.	1.7	2.1	5.9	292nd 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.	96.9%	96.4%	80.3%	50th 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.	99.5%	99.0%	90.0%	84th of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	99.8%	99.4%	96.2%	163rd 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.	0.7	0.7	0.6	263rd 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.	99.3%	99.1%	99.0%	136th 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.	99.6%	99.4%	99.9%	291st 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%	99.9%	100.0%	310th 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.	96.9%	96.4%	91.6%	72nd 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.	99.5%	99.0%	98.5%	143rd 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.	99.8%	99.4%	99.8%	260th of 345

How people commute

Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

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

ElectricityOther sourceNo heatinghover 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

78.7%

of the registered voted in the first round

78.5%

voted in the runoff

122,999

registered voters on the roll

8.0%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman44.7%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist55.3%58.3%

Punta ArenasChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez16.5%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman28.8%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.9%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen17.2%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist22.9%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.5%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.6%1.3%

Punta ArenasChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile24.7%30.6%

KCambio por Chile26.7%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido9.9%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente5.5%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.3%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 pact29.9%0.7%

Punta ArenasChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Punta Arenas 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.

Los Andes0.60Valparaíso · 63,440 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Scale.La Serena0.75Coquimbo · 250,141 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Scale.Valdivia0.77Los Ríos · 170,043 peopleAlike in Population structure; apart in Scale.Coyhaique0.79Aysén · 57,823 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Housing and services.

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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Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of Punta Arenas

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Punta Arenas is specialised in

Most over-represented in Punta Arenas

The land and who works it

Population and territory

Population pyramid

Migration

When the migrant population arrived

Education

How far schooling went

The class of 2024

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

By field of study

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

Health

Which health system

Economy and poverty

Employment by industry

Employment by occupation

Housing and services

House or flat

How people commute

Housing tenure

Home heating fuel

How it voted in 2025

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

Sister communes

Inside the commune