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PuqueldónPuqueldón

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Census population
4,048
317th of 346
Population density
42.2/km²
145th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.6 yrs
300th of 346
Foreign-born share
0.9%
294th 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 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 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.5 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.5 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 · 119 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
77.9%
21st of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
13.3%
242nd of 335
Came from another region
7.3%
316th of 335
Net internal migration
-133
-3.2 per 100 residents
Puqueldónthis commune · 4,235elsewhere in the region555 peopleanother region305 peopleabroad61 peopleelsewhere in the region568 peopleanother region425 peoplePuqueldónthis commune · 4,163
Puqueldónthis commune · 4,235elsewhere in th…555 peopleanother region305 peopleabroad61 peopleelsewhere in th…568 peopleanother region425 peoplePuqueldónthis commune · 4,163

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520247Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing▲64Public administration2Public administration▲22Construction3Construction▼18Manufacturing4Manufacturing▲45Transport5Transport3Retail and wholesale6Retail and wholesale▼31Other services7Other services▼66Water and waste8Water and waste▼29Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food
2005202471Agriculture and fishing▲642Public administration▲223Construction▼184Manufacturing▲455Transport36Retail and wholesale▼317Other services▼668Water and waste▼299Accommodation and food

The ten branches that employ most of Puqueldón

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.

05001 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
05001 k2 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval8.3% a year observed · 5.8% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0200 k400 k600 k800 kprojection →575 k2029 · central2005201520242029
0200 k400 k600 k800 kprojection →575 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval10.9% a year observed · 2.8% projected

What Puqueldón is specialised in

2024 · SII

PuroChile does not compute this for Puqueldón. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 813 formal workers here that division is a statement about a handful of people: one worker would move it further than a whole industry moves it in Santiago. The floor is 1,000 workers, and it is a floor rather than a caveat because a spectacular number nobody should read is worse than no number.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
4,313
hectares in holdings
91.5%
of them under a named use
2.1%
of the crop land is irrigated
484
holdings with land here
Pasture 63%Woodland 21%Not farmed 9.5%Annual cro… 6.2%Pasture63%Native woodland21%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings8.5%Pulses andtubers4.2%FoddercropsVege…
Pasture 63%Woodland 21%Not f… 9.5%Pasture63%Native woodland21%Scrub,barrenground an…8.5%PulsesandtubersFodd…crops
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
PuqueldónChile% of each territory's own population · 4,048 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
4,048
176,86518,480,432317th of 346
Average age
41.6 yrs
38.8 yrs38.1 yrs44th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
118.6
80.579.045th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
42.2/km²
19.1/km²24.7/km²145th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
1,556
68,0036,596,527318th of 346
Dwellings
2,093
85,9947,642,716321st of 346
People per household
2.60
2.602.80261st of 345
Women
50.1%
50.8%51.5%270th of 346
Men per 100 women
99.7
97.094.377th of 346
Under 15
15.4%
17.2%17.7%314th of 346
65 and over
18.3%
13.9%14.0%66th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
50.7
45.146.5180th of 346
One-person households
24.1%
23.6%21.8%110th of 345
Households with children
28.9%
32.0%33.2%287th of 345
Indigenous peoples
30.8%
33.2%11.4%62nd of 346
Female-headed households
49.3%
49.8%49.9%130th of 345
Land area
96 km²
9,240 km²748,041 km²299th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Puqueldón8.1%Arrived since…92%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Puqueldón92%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born share
0.9%
3.3%8.7%294th 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.
77.9%
65.2%50.5%21st 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.
13.3%
17.7%23.9%242nd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
7.3%
14.2%17.2%316th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
37
5,7541,608,650324th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
36.9 yrs
34.0 yrs33.5 yrs59th of 345
Women among foreign-born
48.6%
51.4%51.7%268th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
70.3%
83.0%83.1%337th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
8.1%
38.1%34.4%340th 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.
1.0%
3.9%10.6%307th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.0 yrs
12.7 yrs12.9 yrs229th 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.
-133
-5,1190156th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-3.2
-2.80.0169th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Puqueldón13%Higher34%Secondary47%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Puqueldón34%Secondary47%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.6 yrs
9.3 yrs10.4 yrs300th of 346
Reached higher education
13.3%
19.6%31.1%328th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.1%98.6%1st of 333
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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.
93.9%
100.9%99.8%341st of 346
Literacy rate
96.3%
96.7%97.8%181st of 346
Reached secondary education
33.5%
36.8%36.7%289th of 346
Primary education only
46.9%
35.9%24.1%3rd of 346
Never attended school
2.55%
3.09%3.01%306th of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
9.9 yrs
10.6 yrs12.1 yrs267th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
9.3 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs336th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.65%
3.32%2.18%166th of 345
Households lacking schooling
36.8%
27.6%15.1%38th of 335

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 Puqueldón 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

Puqueldón88%Fonasa8.7%No coverChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Puqueldón88%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.7%
11.5%10.6%148th of 346
Public health insurance
88.4%
90.4%82.6%239th 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.
20.5
76.482.5318th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
39
96100307th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
515
20,3731,950,388312th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
63.6 yrs
57.5 yrs56.4 yrs13th of 346
Disability among 65+
55.7%
43.5%43.0%17th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.92%
5.28%4.92%87th of 346
Difficulty seeing
6.10%
5.51%4.58%108th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.42%
2.42%2.16%198th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
1.53%
2.49%2.70%333rd of 346
Private health insurance
1.5%
3.4%13.2%252nd of 335
No health coverage
8.67%
4.18%1.98%8th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
97.7%
95.7%92.1%68th of 332
Households lacking health access
1.5%
7.1%6.0%291st of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
83
13,5041,523,716320th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
4
34736,698311th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
4.82%
2.57%2.41%25th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
13.7 days
5.8 days6.1 days4th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
9.9
19.619.9302nd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
24
92100319th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
7
84489,723311th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
8.4%
6.3%5.9%27th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
17.3
47.748.6302nd 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
96100303rd of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Injuries, bones and skin 28%Digestive and urinary tract 24%Tumours, blood and meta… 19%Heart and lungs 18%Infections and other reas… 6.0%Mind, nerve… 3.6%Injuries and poisoning19%Musculoskele…4.8%Skin3.6%Digestive system14%Genitourinarysystem9.6%Cancers and tumours9.6%Endocrine andmetabolic9.6%Circulatory system12%Respiratory system6.0%Ill-defin…symptoms2.4%Infec…andparas…1.2%Conta…withhealt…1.2%Speci…codes1.2%Mentalandbehaviou…2.4%Nerv…syst…Preg…andchil…
Injuries, bones and sk… 28%Digestive and urin… 24%Tumours, blood… 19%Heart and lun… 18%Inf… 6.0%Injuries andpoisoning19%Muscu…4.8%Skin3.6%Digestive system14%Genitourinary system9.6%Cancers andtumours9.6%Endocrine andmetabolic9.6%Circulatorysystem12%RespiratorysystemIll-de…sympto…Cont…Spec…Mentaland…Nervous…
Pregnancy, birth and newbornshover 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.

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
30.0%
19.4%17.3%47th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
18.5 UF
20.6 UF32.0 UF318th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
112.1%
98.2%78.9%72nd 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.
68.4
87.985.6233rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
48.8%
54.2%54.4%209th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
6.5%
7.7%8.6%277th of 345
Self-employed
31.6%
37.6%33.8%245th of 345
Extreme poverty
17.1%
7.7%6.9%20th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
19.5%
17.8%17.7%139th of 335
Unemployment rate
17.1%
10.0%8.8%10th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 452,202
CLP 543,039CLP 783,124271st 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.
0.440
0.4550.488157th of 321
Registered firms
277
15,5461,582,390320th of 346
Annual sales
501,456 UF
95,172,956 UF34,347,683,688 UF317th 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.
813
59,3239,699,164307th of 346
Sales per firm
1,810 UF
6,122 UF21,706 UF283rd of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.1
2.63.9175th of 346
Women among employees
34.6%
44.0%40.6%278th of 345
Independent contractors
395
19,5483,958,269320th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
32.7%
24.8%29.0%98th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 34%Industry and construction 21%State and social services 21%Trade and logistics 17%Agriculture and fishing34%Construction10%Manufacturing9.4%Education7.5%Publicadministration7.0%Health6.3%Retail andwholesale7.8%Transport6.6%Accommodation and foodAdmini…servic…2.5%Prof…serv…Dom…work
Natural resources 34%Industry and … 21%State and social s… 21%Trade and log… 17%Agriculture andfishing34%Construction10%Manufacturing9.4%Education7.5%Publicadministration7.0%Health6.3%Retailandwholesale7.8%Transp…6.6%Admin…servi…2.5%Domest…
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 60%Managers and professionals 21%Elementary occupations 18%Craft and trades20%Service andsales14%Skilledagricultural12%Plant andmachineoperators10%Cleri…suppo…4.5%Technicians11%Professiona…8.4%ManagersElementary occupations18%
Skilled occupations 60%Managers and professio… 21%Elementary occupa… 18%Craft andtrades20%Service and sales14%Skilledagricultural12%Plant andmachineoperators10%Clericalsupport4.5%Technicians11%Profession…8.4%ManagersElementaryoccupations18%
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

Puqueldón100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Puqueldón100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.0%
4.4%5.7%302nd of 345
Internet access
80.8%
87.3%93.2%303rd 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.
5.0
4.72.3116th 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.
4.7
4.41.6108th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
1,546
67,5066,408,172318th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.19%
0.20%0.57%302nd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.65%
1.49%1.13%283rd of 345
Public water network
60.3%
73.0%92.3%308th of 345
Electricity access
99.2%
99.3%99.6%222nd of 345
Detached houses
99.7%
98.4%78.7%9th of 345
Apartments
0.1%
0.4%19.9%202nd of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.50%
0.30%0.23%43rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
24.4%
16.2%11.9%89th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
32
2,776491,904333rd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
2.1%
4.1%7.5%343rd of 345
Renting households
8.8%
20.1%26.2%315th of 345
Owner-occupiers
82.3%
70.3%61.1%2nd of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
92.5%
82.3%24.4%32nd of 345
Commute by public transport
24.4%
28.4%42.1%191st of 345
Walks to work
13.5%
19.1%10.2%186th of 345
Households with a computer
37.3%
40.0%54.9%257th of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.8
1.61.1164th 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%
94.1%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%
99.9%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.
57.6%
68.6%89.4%248th 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.
96.3%
92.0%98.1%202nd 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%
99.5%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.
18.7
11.25.9127th 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%
49.0%80.3%194th of 345
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
8.8%
66.6%90.0%223rd 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%
90.2%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.
1.1
1.10.6171st 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%
96.7%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.
57.6%
70.4%91.6%262nd 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%
91.7%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%
99.9%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 39%Public transport 24%Other means 23%On foot or by bicycle 14%Car38%Public transport24%Other22%Walking14%
Private vehicle 39%Public transp… 24%Other means 23%On foot or b… 14%Car38%Publictransport24%Other22%Walking14%
Public transportOn foot or by bicyclehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 82%Rented 8.8%Provid… 8.2%Owned outright82%Rented, nocontract5.6%Rented, withcontract3.2%Provided byfamily6.8%Provided by…
Owned 82%Rented 8.8%Provided rent-free 8.2%Owned outright82%Rented, nocontractRented,with…Provided by family
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 95%Firewood92%GasPara…Elec…No…
Wood and biomass 95%Firewood92%
ElectricityNo 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
80.0%
of the registered voted in the first round
79.3%
voted in the runoff
4,298
registered voters on the roll
7.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman36.5%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist63.5%58.3%
PuqueldónChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez36.7%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman21.8%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen8.8%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist24.4%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet6.0%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
PuqueldónChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile13.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile9.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido13.8%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente54.6%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas8.8%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
PuqueldónChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Puqueldón 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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