Commune · 10303

PurranquePurranque

Compare Purranque with another place
Census population
19,542
176th of 346
Population density
13.5/km²
236th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.0 yrs
230th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.2%
269th 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 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 school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents4th of 330 · Chile 48.682.9
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.0 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.0 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 · 243 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
65.7%
115th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
18.2%
172nd of 335
Came from another region
12.4%
244th of 335
Net internal migration
-8,532
-41.1 per 100 residents
Purranquethis commune · 28,541elsewhere in the region3,786 peopleanother region2,569 peopleabroad764 peopleelsewhere in the region9,636 peopleanother region5,251 peoplePurranquethis commune · 20,773
Purranquethis commune · 28,541elsewhere in th…3,786 peopleanother region2,569 peopleabroad764 peopleelsewhere in th…9,636 peopleanother region5,251 peoplePurranquethis commune · 20,773

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing▲13Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale▲15Public administration3Public administration▲24Manufacturing4Manufacturing7Administrative services5Administrative services▲26Education6Education9Construction7Construction▲28Transport8Transport13Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food▲415Water and waste10Water and waste▲512Health11Health▲111Professional services12Professional services▼110Information and communications13Information and communications▼31Other services15Other services▼14
2005202421Agriculture and fishing▲132Retail and wholesale▲153Public administration▲244Manufacturing75Administrative services▲266Education97Construction▲288Transport139Accommodation and food▲41510Water and waste▲51211Health▲11112Professional services▼11013Information and communications▼3115Other services▼14

The ten branches that employ most of Purranque

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

Dependent workers, projected

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

05 k10 k15 k20 kprojection →2 k2029 · central2005201520242029
05 k10 k15 k20 kprojection →2 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval-5.9% a year observed · -15.5% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →11 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →11 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.4% a year observed · 1.6% projected

What Purranque is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Purranque employs more people in 52 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.

52
activities it is specialised in
5,514
formal workers
237/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.13.7Actividades de la administración …Venta al por mayor de materias pr…Cría de ganado bovino para la pro…Terminación y acabado de edificiosElaboración de otros productos al…Otros servicios de almacenamiento…Cultivos forrajeros en praderas m…Actividades de mensajeríaMantenimiento y reparación de veh…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.13.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Terminación y acabado de edificiosElaboración de hielo (excepto fab…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Purranque

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
Cultivo de papasCultivo de plantas no perennes130132.6×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción lecheraGanadería739104.4×
Venta al por mayor de materias primas agrícolasVenta al por mayor de materias primas agropecuarias y animales vivos61846.8×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductorGanadería22537.9×
Elaboración de productos lácteosElaboración de productos lácteos25221.0×
Transmisiones de radioTransmisiones de radio2116.0×
Cultivos forrajeros en praderas mejoradas o sembradas; cultivos suplementarios forrajerosCultivo de plantas no perennes2913.6×
Elaboración de hielo (excepto fabricación de hielo seco)Suministro de vapor y de aire acondicionado412.4×
Destilación, rectificación y mezclas de bebidas alcohólicas; excepto piscoElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas512.1×
Fabricación de tanques, depósitos y recipientes de metal n.c.p.Fabricación de productos metálicos para uso estructural, tanques, depósitos, recipientes de metal711.6×
Cultivo de floresCultivo de plantas no perennes911.5×
Transporte de pasajeros por vías de navegación interioresTransporte por vías de navegación interiores48.3×

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
46,860
hectares in holdings
94.7%
of them under a named use
7.2%
of the crop land is irrigated
377
holdings with land here
Pasture 55%Woodland 31%Annual crops 6.5%Not farmed 5.8%Pasture55%Native woodland19%Forestplantations12%Cereals2.8%Fodder crops2.5%Pulses an…Scrub, barrenground andbuildings5.3%
Pasture 55%Woodland 31%Annual … 6.5%Not … 5.8%Pasture55%Native woodland19%Forestplantations12%Cerea…2.8%Fodd…cropsScrub,barrenground an…
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
PurranqueChile% of each territory's own population · 19,542 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
19,542
239,10718,480,432176th of 346
Average age
40.7 yrs
39.5 yrs38.1 yrs82nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
107.1
92.679.081st of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
13.5/km²
25.8/km²24.7/km²236th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
7,304
90,4036,596,527174th of 346
Dwellings
8,707
107,1737,642,716176th of 346
People per household
2.68
2.642.80219th of 345
Women
51.3%
51.7%51.5%116th of 346
Men per 100 women
94.9
93.594.3231st of 346
Under 15
16.9%
16.9%17.7%243rd of 346
65 and over
18.0%
15.6%14.0%77th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
53.6
48.246.591st of 346
One-person households
21.8%
23.4%21.8%188th of 345
Households with children
30.8%
31.2%33.2%240th of 345
Indigenous peoples
29.2%
31.9%11.4%68th of 346
Female-headed households
47.8%
49.8%49.9%182nd of 345
Land area
1,451 km²
9,255 km²748,041 km²100th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Purranque35%Arrived since 202065%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Purranque35%Arrived since 202065%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
1.2%
1.9%8.7%269th 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.
65.7%
65.9%50.5%115th 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.
18.2%
17.2%23.9%172nd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
12.4%
15.6%17.2%244th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
229
4,6091,608,650220th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
38.3 yrs
34.8 yrs33.5 yrs37th of 345
Women among foreign-born
47.6%
48.9%51.7%290th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
79.5%
81.5%83.1%237th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
34.9%
32.3%34.4%200th 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.
1.4%
2.3%10.6%268th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.5 yrs
13.2 yrs12.9 yrs153rd of 345
Net internal migration · People who arrived from another comuna minus people born here who live in another comuna. It is a lifetime balance, not a year's. Chile adds to zero by construction: nobody leaves the country in this count.
-8,532
-51,0710275th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-41.1
-20.60.0280th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Purranque19%Higher35%Secondary37%Primary only4.7%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Purranque19%35%Secondary37%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.0 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs230th of 346
Reached higher education
19.2%
25.7%31.1%211th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.9%98.6%1st of 333
Continues to higher education · Of young secondary-school graduates, those enrolled in first-year undergraduate studies the following March. By the comuna of the school where they finished secondary school, which is the approximation to origin that Mineduc publishes.
56.7%
62.3%55.6%132nd 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.
101.0%
100.2%99.8%195th of 346
Literacy rate
96.2%
96.9%97.8%186th of 346
Reached secondary education
35.1%
36.5%36.7%256th of 346
Primary education only
37.5%
29.9%24.1%77th of 346
Never attended school
3.45%
3.14%3.01%192nd 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.
10.2 yrs
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs227th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.3 yrs
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs251st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.79%
3.13%2.18%162nd of 345
Households lacking schooling
25.7%
20.6%15.1%135th 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.
277
3,101217,565153rd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
15.5%
38.8%33.9%277th 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%
7.4%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
70.1%
68.2%67.2%91st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
17.2%
13.6%19.7%186th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
12.7%
18.2%13.1%206th 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.
15.3%
22.8%13.0%151st 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.
53.5%
51.0%49.7%111th 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.

277left secondary school in 2024
157enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
56.7%continued immediately
70%of those, to a university
15%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoObstetricia y PuericulturaConstruccion CivilPsicologiaQuimica y FarmaciaAgronomiaEducacion ParvulariaEnfermeriaKinesiologiaNutricion y Dietetica
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoObstetricia y PuericulturaConstruccion CivilPsicologiaQuimica y FarmaciaAgronomiaEducacion ParvulariaEnfermeriaKinesiologiaNutricion y Dietetica
PurranqueChile

Each bar is that programme's share of everyone who continued, here and in the country — not a headcount, so a commune of a few hundred can be read beside a country of 121,050. Programme names as the register writes them: in capitals and without accents, and unmerged, since SIES publishes 1,481 distinct names in a single year and two spellings of one degree stay two rows. Only the capitals are undone here.

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareBusiness and lawEngineering and industryEducationAgriculture and veterinaryServicesSocial sciencesInformation technologyNatural sciencesArts and humanities
0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareBusiness and lawEngineering and industryEducationAgriculture and veterinaryServicesSocial sciencesInformation technologyNatural sciencesArts and humanities
PurranqueChile

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

0100200300200620152024277157
0100200300200620152024277157
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 Purranque'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 Purranque 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

Purranque94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Purranque94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.6%
11.5%10.6%103rd of 346
Public health insurance
94.5%
91.8%82.6%117th 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.
105.8
101.382.526th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
118
9410072nd of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,651
27,6101,950,388166th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.0 yrs
58.9 yrs56.4 yrs96th of 346
Disability among 65+
49.0%
46.9%43.0%94th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.91%
5.65%4.92%88th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.68%
5.00%4.58%144th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.88%
2.57%2.16%109th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.10%
2.81%2.70%106th of 346
Private health insurance
1.7%
5.7%13.2%236th of 335
No health coverage
2.13%
1.23%1.98%125th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
95.7%
90.6%92.1%117th of 332
Households lacking health access
5.8%
6.2%6.0%147th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
2,067
24,2271,523,716136th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
57
49436,698144th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.76%
2.04%2.41%173rd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.9 days
5.9 days6.1 days233rd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
29.2
20.719.938th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
122
12010030th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
162
1,66489,723112th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
7.8%
6.9%5.9%44th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
82.9
69.648.64th 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.
149
1341008th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 26%Digestive and urinary tract 26%Injuries, bones and skin 16%Tumours, blood and metabolism 14%Infectio… 7.3%Respiratorysystem14%Circulatorysystem13%Digestive system15%Genitourinarysystem12%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculoskele…3.2%Skin3.0%Cancers and tumours9.7%Endocrineandmetabolic3.9%Infectious andparasiticContactwithhealth…Ill…sym…Spe…Pregnan…andchildbi…3.9%Eye1.8%Nervous…Mental…
Heart and lungs 26%Digestive and urinar… 26%Injuries, b… 16%Tumours,… 14%Infections… 7.3%Respiratory system14%Circulatory system13%Digestive system15%Genitourinary system12%Injuries andpoisoning10%Muscul…3.2%Skin3.0%Cancers andtumours9.7%Endocrineand…Infect…andparasi…Cont…withheal…Pregna…andchildb…EyeNer…sys…
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 digestivos49%Vías urinarias12%Genitalesmasculinos9.3%Sitiosreservados8.0%Mama6.8%Sangre ysistemalinfático6.8%Tiroides yendocrinas4.9%Genita…femeni…3.1%
Órganos digestivos49%Vías urinarias12%Genitalesmasculinos9.3%Sitiosreservados8.0%Mama6.8%Sangre ysistemalinfático6.8%Tiroidesyendocri…4.9%Geni…feme…
Órganos digestivosVías urinariasGenitales masculinosSitios reservadosMamaSangre y sistema linfáticohover 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.
17.9%
18.3%17.3%216th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
22.0 UF
26.3 UF32.0 UF199th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
96.8%
93.3%78.9%189th 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.
90.0
90.485.6108th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
50.4%
51.3%54.4%180th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.0%
8.9%8.6%253rd of 345
Self-employed
31.5%
32.7%33.8%250th of 345
Extreme poverty
9.4%
7.2%6.9%123rd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
23.8%
17.4%17.7%75th of 335
Unemployment rate
6.9%
8.3%8.8%245th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 548,811
CLP 604,837CLP 783,124156th 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.
0.410
0.4650.488232nd of 321
Registered firms
1,759
21,6211,582,390158th of 346
Annual sales
10,223,585 UF
251,143,478 UF34,347,683,688 UF134th of 342
Employees reported · People reported at some point in the tax year, not average employment: the national total exceeds the employed because someone who worked two months counts the same as someone who worked twelve.
5,514
91,0799,699,164167th of 346
Sales per firm
5,812 UF
11,616 UF21,706 UF104th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.0
2.83.9187th of 346
Women among employees
42.0%
36.7%40.6%146th of 345
Independent contractors
1,987
30,0703,958,269154th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
26.5%
24.8%29.0%190th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 25%Trade and logistics 25%Industry and construction 21%State and social se… 18%Other … 6.0%Advanc… 4.6%Agriculture and fishing25%Retail andwholesale15%Transport5.9%Accommodati…and foodManufacturing11%Construction9.5%Education8.4%Health6.9%Publicadmin…3.1%Domestic work3.7%OtherservicesProfessio…servicesAdministr…services
Natural resources 25%Trade and logistics 25%Industry and co… 21%State and so… 18%Agriculture andfishing25%Retail andwholesale15%Transpo…5.9%Accommo…and foodManufacturing11%Construction9.5%Education8.4%Health6.9%Publ…admi…DomesticworkOther…Profess…Adminis…
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 19%Service and sales18%Craft and trades16%Plant andmachineoperators11%Skilledagricultural11%Cleric…support4.3%Professiona…9.5%Technicians8.5%ManagersElementary occupations19%
Skilled occupations 60%Managers and professi… 21%Elementary occupati… 19%Service andsales18%Craft and trades16%Plant and machineoperators11%Skilledagricultu…11%ClericalsupportProfessio…9.5%Technicians8.5%ManagersElementaryoccupations19%
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

Purranque99%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Purranque99%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.9%
4.9%5.7%216th of 345
Internet access
87.5%
90.3%93.2%200th 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.
5.3
3.72.3110th 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.
4.3
3.11.6129th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
7,190
89,3196,408,172175th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.39%
0.34%0.57%107th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.70%
1.73%1.13%273rd of 345
Public water network
76.6%
82.0%92.3%238th of 345
Electricity access
99.4%
99.3%99.6%175th of 345
Detached houses
98.9%
91.9%78.7%128th of 345
Apartments
0.8%
6.7%19.9%136th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.40%
0.56%0.23%56th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
10.9%
12.0%11.9%226th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
340
4,760491,904185th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.7%
5.3%7.5%226th of 345
Renting households
15.0%
19.3%26.2%173rd of 345
Owner-occupiers
60.5%
63.8%61.1%278th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
87.8%
73.6%24.4%72nd of 345
Commute by public transport
21.4%
34.4%42.1%223rd of 345
Walks to work
21.5%
12.4%10.2%92nd of 345
Households with a computer
39.6%
46.0%54.9%223rd 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.
1.5
1.81.1218th 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.
91.3%
88.4%97.0%218th 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.
75.0%
80.8%89.4%168th 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.
86.9%
93.3%98.1%281st 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.
99.2%
99.7%99.7%281st 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.
6.0
8.05.9203rd 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.
75.0%
69.7%80.3%110th 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.
86.1%
82.2%90.0%161st 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.
94.9%
92.1%96.2%224th 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.
1.2
1.00.6143rd 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.
92.3%
96.2%99.0%294th 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.
75.5%
81.7%91.6%182nd 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.
90.8%
94.1%98.5%278th 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.
99.2%
99.7%99.8%282nd of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 41%On foot or by bicycle 27%Public transport 21%Other me… 10%Car40%Walking21%Bicycle5.8%Public transport21%Other9.9%
Private vehicle 41%On foot or by … 27%Public transport 21%Other means 10%Car40%Walking21%BicyclePublic transport21%Other9.9%
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 60%Provided rent-free 20%Rented 15%Owned outright57%Provided byfamily11%Provided byemployer8.5%Rented, no contract8.1%Rented, withcontract6.9%Otherarrang…4.9%
Owned 60%Provided rent-free 20%Rented 15%Owned outright57%Provided byfamily11%Providedbyemployer8.5%Rented,nocontract8.1%Rented,withcontra…6.9%Otherarra…
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 90%Fos… 5.9%Ele… 3.0%Firewood88%Gas3.9%Paraffin1.9%Electric…3.0%Noheating
Wood and biomass 90%Firewood88%GasParaffinElectricityNo…
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
86.0%
of the registered voted in the first round
85.5%
voted in the runoff
19,642
registered voters on the roll
6.7%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman30.6%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist69.4%58.3%
PurranqueChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez21.8%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman19.9%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen18.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist30.2%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.4%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%
PurranqueChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile48.7%30.6%
KCambio por Chile16.9%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido9.1%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente22.8%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.6%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%
PurranqueChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Purranque 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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