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%
Average length of stay1st of 331 · Chile 6.1 days42.4 days
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents1st of 331 · Chile 19.952.5
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio1st of 331 · Chile 100212
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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.3 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 · 166 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
60.1%
181st of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
29.7%
62nd of 335
Came from another region
9.6%
300th of 335
Net internal migration
+2,362
+13.1 per 100 residents
Putaendothis commune · 15,567elsewhere in the region5,363 peopleanother region1,726 peopleabroad98 peopleelsewhere in the region3,509 peopleanother region1,218 peoplePutaendothis commune · 18,027
Putaendothis commune · 15,567elsewhere in th…5,363 peopleanother region1,726 peopleabroad98 peopleelsewhere in th…3,509 peopleanother region1,218 peoplePutaendothis commune · 18,027

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing3Manufacturing2Manufacturing▲14Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲17Administrative services4Administrative services▲35Education5Education6Transport6Transport10Finance and insurance7Finance and insurance▲313Construction8Construction▲511Water and waste9Water and waste▲29Mining10Mining▼18Accommodation and food11Accommodation and food▼312Professional services12Professional services2Arts and entertainment14Arts and entertainment▼12
2005202411Agriculture and fishing32Manufacturing▲143Retail and wholesale▲174Administrative services▲355Education66Transport107Finance and insurance▲3138Construction▲5119Water and waste▲2910Mining▼1811Accommodation and food▼31212Professional services214Arts and entertainment▼12

The ten branches that employ most of Putaendo

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.

02 k4 k6 kprojection →5 k2029 · central2005201520242029
02 k4 k6 kprojection →5 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.4% a year observed · 6.2% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

01.0 M2.0 M3.0 Mprojection →2.5 M2029 · central2005201520242029
01.0 M2.0 M3.0 Mprojection →2.5 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.2% a year observed · 4.0% projected

What Putaendo is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Putaendo employs more people in 43 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.

43
activities it is specialised in
3,589
formal workers
193/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.23.7Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Actividades de mantenimiento del …Elaboración y conservación de fru…Reparación de equipo eléctrico (e…Venta al por mayor de artículos d…Venta al por mayor de muebles, ex…Investigaciones y desarrollo expe…Transporte de carga por carreteraVenta al por menor de artículos d…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.23.7Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Actividades de mantenimiento del …Reparación de equipo eléctrico (e…Venta al por menor de alimentos e…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Putaendo

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

ActivityDivisionWorkers hereTimes the national share
Actividades de mantenimiento del orden público y de seguridadPrestación de servicios a la comunidad en general814817.9×
Actividades poscosechaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha3937.2×
Televisión de pago satelitalActividades de telecomunicaciones por satélite520.5×
Otros tipos de intermediación monetaria n.c.p.Intermediación monetaria5720.3×
Servicios de transporte de escolaresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre1718.4×
Elaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizasElaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizas12518.0×
Actividades de apoyo a la agriculturaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha1,55214.1×
Desratización, desinfección y exterminio de plagas no agrícolasActividades de limpieza2011.6×
Reparación de equipo eléctrico (excepto reparación de equipo y enseres domésticos)Reparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo2910.7×
Cultivos forrajeros en praderas mejoradas o sembradas; cultivos suplementarios forrajerosCultivo de plantas no perennes96.5×
Evacuación y tratamiento de aguas servidasEvacuación de aguas residuales125.2×
Servicio notarialActividades jurídicas94.4×

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
61,066
hectares in holdings
81.8%
of them under a named use
98.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
559
holdings with land here
Woodland 77%Not farmed 20%Orchards and vi… 2.7%Native woodland77%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings18%Fruit trees
Woodland 77%Not farmed 20%Native woodland77%Scrub, barren ground and buildings18%Fruittrees2.7%
Pasturehover 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
PutaendoChile% of each territory's own population · 17,336 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
17,336
159,39618,480,432191st of 346
Average age
40.3 yrs
38.4 yrs38.1 yrs109th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
100.0
81.479.0113th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
11.9/km²
60.5/km²24.7/km²246th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
6,037
57,2046,596,527199th of 346
Dwellings
6,746
63,3767,642,716217th of 346
People per household
2.87
2.792.8083rd of 345
Women
50.8%
51.3%51.5%190th of 346
Men per 100 women
96.9
94.994.3157th of 346
Under 15
17.6%
18.5%17.7%190th of 346
65 and over
17.6%
15.1%14.0%92nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
54.3
50.546.574th of 346
One-person households
21.5%
21.9%21.8%195th of 345
Households with children
33.9%
34.6%33.2%144th of 345
Indigenous peoples
6.4%
5.2%11.4%210th of 346
Female-headed households
47.7%
50.0%49.9%187th of 345
Land area
1,451 km²
2,635 km²748,041 km²99th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Putaendo38%Arrived since 202062%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Putaendo38%Arrived since 202062%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
2.0%
6.5%8.7%212th 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.
60.1%
63.4%50.5%181st 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.
29.7%
19.2%23.9%62nd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
9.6%
12.7%17.2%300th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
349
10,3631,608,650190th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.9 yrs
31.7 yrs33.5 yrs141st of 345
Women among foreign-born
52.1%
46.3%51.7%128th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
80.2%
84.1%83.1%212th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
37.8%
45.3%34.4%170th 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.
2.5%
8.2%10.6%210th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.2 yrs
11.3 yrs12.9 yrs190th 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.
2,362
-13,282095th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
13.1
-7.70.095th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Putaendo24%Higher40%Secondary28%Primary only5.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Putaendo24%40%Secondary28%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.7 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs115th of 346
Reached higher education
23.7%
24.3%31.1%124th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.5%98.6%1st of 333
Continues to higher education · Of young secondary-school graduates, those enrolled in first-year undergraduate studies the following March. By the comuna of the school where they finished secondary school, which is the approximation to origin that Mineduc publishes.
41.9%
53.9%55.6%307th 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.
103.6%
102.3%99.8%90th of 346
Literacy rate
96.6%
97.3%97.8%167th of 346
Reached secondary education
39.6%
39.9%36.7%77th of 346
Primary education only
28.3%
27.4%24.1%222nd of 346
Never attended school
3.37%
2.98%3.01%203rd 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.
11.0 yrs
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs139th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.4 yrs
11.5 yrs12.1 yrs119th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.35%
2.69%2.18%182nd of 345
Households lacking schooling
23.1%
20.2%15.1%175th 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.
74
2,019217,565263rd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
20.3%
52.5%33.9%261st 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.
77.4%
63.7%67.2%39th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
22.6%
31.9%19.7%113th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
0.0%
4.4%13.1%323rd 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.
9.7%
18.8%13.0%184th 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.
45.2%
49.8%49.7%284th 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.

74left secondary school in 2024
31enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
41.9%continued immediately
77%of those, to a university
10%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%Enfermeria
0.0%5.0%10.0%Enfermeria
PutaendoChile

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

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryEducationInformation technologyBusiness and lawServicesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryEducationInformation technologyBusiness and lawServicesNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
PutaendoChile

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

02550751002006201520247431
02550751002006201520247431
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 Putaendo'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 Putaendo 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

Putaendo87%Fonasa9.7%No coverChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Putaendo87%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.3%
11.7%10.6%110th of 346
Public health insurance
86.7%
90.8%82.6%261st 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.
88.5
85.282.562nd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
212
1361001st of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,299
18,5951,950,388185th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.0 yrs
57.0 yrs56.4 yrs96th of 346
Disability among 65+
49.3%
44.6%43.0%91st of 346
Difficulty walking
7.08%
5.67%4.92%76th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.05%
4.88%4.58%204th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.47%
2.30%2.16%184th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.49%
2.92%2.70%55th of 346
Private health insurance
0.0%
3.3%13.2%311th of 335
No health coverage
9.73%
4.48%1.98%4th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
95.2%
88.5%92.1%132nd of 332
Households lacking health access
1.2%
4.9%6.0%303rd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,535
13,5881,523,716164th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
91
45836,698104th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
5.93%
3.37%2.41%10th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
42.4 days
10.6 days6.1 days1st of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
52.5
28.719.91st of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
102
10210075th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
70
84489,723182nd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
4.6%
6.2%5.9%262nd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
40.4
52.948.6163rd 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.
74
105100185th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 31%Digestive and urinary tract 21%Injuries, bones… 15%Tumours, … 12%Mind, ner… 9.9%Pregnancy, bi… 7.1%Infections an… 4.7%Respiratory system21%Circulato…system9.8%Digestive system13%Genitourina…system8.1%Injuries andpoisoning9.4%Musculoskel…4.2%SkinCancers andtumours7.1%EndocrineandmetabolicMental andbehavioural8.2%Nervous systemPregnancy andchildbirth6.1%Infec…andparas…Cont…withheal…
Heart and lungs 31%Digestive and … 21%Injuries,… 15%Tumours, blood a… 12%Mind, nerves an… 9.9%Preg… 7.1%Infe… 4.7%Respiratorysystem21%Circula…system9.8%Digestive system13%Genitourinarysystem8.1%Injuries andpoisoning9.4%Musculosk…4.2%Cancers andtumours7.1%Endocr…andmetabo…Mental andbehaviouralPregnancyandchildbirth6.1%Conta…Ill-d…
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 digestivos41%Sitios reservados26%Mama13%Sangre y sistemalinfático13%Genitales femeninos7.1%
Órganos digestivos41%Sitiosreservados26%Mama13%Sangre ysistemalinfático13%Genitalesfemeninos7.1%
Órganos digestivosSitios reservadosMamaSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales femeninoshover 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.
22.3%
18.1%17.3%137th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
19.3 UF
22.8 UF32.0 UF296th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
138.9%
102.4%78.9%2nd 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.
72.5
78.785.6207th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
50.0%
52.9%54.4%189th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.6%
9.1%8.6%225th of 345
Self-employed
34.5%
28.6%33.8%191st of 345
Extreme poverty
3.9%
6.0%6.9%289th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
2.6%
17.2%17.7%323rd of 335
Unemployment rate
7.2%
10.0%8.8%236th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 439,543
CLP 527,654CLP 783,124285th 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.
0.378
0.4010.488293rd of 321
Registered firms
1,256
12,5391,582,390206th of 346
Annual sales
2,057,381 UF
57,210,672 UF34,347,683,688 UF263rd 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.
3,591
55,8229,699,164215th of 346
Sales per firm
1,638 UF
4,563 UF21,706 UF298th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.4
2.73.9285th of 346
Women among employees
43.7%
43.3%40.6%119th of 345
Independent contractors
1,174
13,8223,958,269214th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
24.6%
19.8%29.0%214th of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 25%Natural resources 24%Trade and logistics 21%Industry and cons… 17%Other se… 6.1%Advanced… 6.0%Health11%Education9.1%PublicadministrationAgriculture andfishing19%Mining5.4%Retail andwholesale12%Transport5.3%Accommodationand foodConstruction8.0%Manufacturi…6.7%WaterandwasteElect…Domest…work3.0%Otherservic…2.0%Arts andenterta…Admin…servi…2.8%Profes…servic…Inf…and…
State and social ser… 25%Natural resources 24%Trade and logis… 21%Industry an… 17%Othe… 6.1%Adva… 6.0%Health11%Education9.1%Pub…adm…Agricultureand fishing19%Mini…Retail andwholesale12%Transport5.3%Accomm…andfoodConstruction8.0%Manufactu…6.7%Wat…andwas…Ele…Dome…workOtherserv…Arts…Admi…serv…Profe…servi…
hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Skilled occupations 54%Managers and professionals 26%Elementary occupations 20%Service andsales17%Craft andtrades14%Plant andmachineoperators11%Skilledagricultural7.0%Clerical support4.3%Profession…11%Technicians11%ManagersElementary occupations20%
Skilled occupations 54%Managers and profession… 26%Elementary occupa… 20%Service andsales17%Craft andtrades14%Plant and machineoperators11%Skilledagricultu…7.0%Cleri…suppo…4.3%Professio…11%Technicians11%ManagersElementaryoccupations20%
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

Putaendo98%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Putaendo98%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.0%
5.3%5.7%207th of 345
Internet access
89.3%
90.9%93.2%168th of 345
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
3.8
2.42.3177th 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.
2.9
1.71.6188th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
5,868
55,8596,408,172200th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.48%
0.37%0.57%71st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
2.51%
1.69%1.13%57th of 345
Public water network
92.8%
94.0%92.3%100th of 345
Electricity access
99.4%
99.3%99.6%175th of 345
Detached houses
98.2%
90.4%78.7%173rd of 345
Apartments
0.0%
7.8%19.9%259th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.40%
0.40%0.23%56th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
9.1%
7.8%11.9%255th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
448
4,038491,904152nd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
7.4%
7.1%7.5%76th of 345
Renting households
12.1%
21.5%26.2%243rd of 345
Owner-occupiers
68.8%
64.9%61.1%173rd of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
43.7%
25.4%24.4%192nd of 345
Commute by public transport
27.5%
23.9%42.1%144th of 345
Walks to work
10.1%
11.8%10.2%245th of 345
Households with a computer
44.8%
45.7%54.9%145th 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.
1.7
1.41.1173rd 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.
93.9%
95.9%97.0%176th 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.
99.0%
99.9%99.9%290th 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.
99.0%
99.9%100.0%322nd 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.
67.0%
86.4%89.4%212th 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.
98.8%
99.9%98.1%151st 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.
99.0%
99.9%99.7%284th 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.
5.1
7.65.9217th 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.
55.0%
56.6%80.3%149th 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.
98.8%
73.9%90.0%91st 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.
99.0%
99.9%96.2%196th 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
0.60.6179th 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.
98.6%
99.4%99.0%172nd 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.
83.4%
90.8%91.6%147th 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.
98.8%
99.9%98.5%170th 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.
99.0%
99.9%99.8%288th of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 46%Public transport 28%On foot or by b… 14%Other means 13%Car44%Public transport28%Walking10%BicycleOther13%
Private vehicle 46%Public transp… 28%On foot or by bicycle 14%Other means 13%Car44%Publictransport28%Walking10%Bicyc…3.5%Other13%
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 69%Provided rent-free 12%Rented 12%Other 6.8%Owned outright65%Provided byfamily11%Rented, withcontract7.2%Rented,nocontract4.9%Other arrangement6.8%
Owned 69%Provided rent-… 12%Rented 12%Owned outright65%Provided byfamily11%Rented,withcontract7.2%Rente…nocontr…4.9%Otherarrangem…6.8%
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 44%Fossil fuels 29%No heating 14%Electricity 13%Firewood44%Gas23%Paraffin6.1%No heating14%Electricity13%
Wood and biomass 44%Fossil fuels 29%No heating 14%Electricity 13%Firewood44%Gas23%Paraffin6.1%No heating14%Electricity13%
No heatingElectricityOther 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
91.3%
of the registered voted in the first round
90.9%
voted in the runoff
14,533
registered voters on the roll
8.6%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman45.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist54.8%58.3%
PutaendoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez25.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman29.1%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.8%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist21.6%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.1%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%
PutaendoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile41.4%30.6%
KCambio por Chile22.3%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido15.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente15.4%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.6%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%
PutaendoChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile40.5%
KCambio por Chile18.4%
JChile Grande y Unido22.5%
IPartido de la Gente13.9%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.7%
Putaendoshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Putaendo 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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