Commune · 10207

QueilénQueilén

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Census population
5,690
298th of 346
Population density
17.3/km²
221st of 346
Average years of schooling
8.5 yrs
310th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.3%
257th 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 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.1 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.1 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 · 138 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
71.5%
62nd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
17.7%
180th of 335
Came from another region
10.8%
278th of 335
Net internal migration
-2,206
-40.3 per 100 residents
Queilénthis commune · 7,678elsewhere in the region968 peopleanother region593 peopleelsewhere in the region2,444 peopleanother region1,323 peopleQueilénthis commune · 5,472
Queilénthis commune · 7,678elsewhere in th…968 peopleanother region593 peopleelsewhere in th…2,444 peopleanother region1,323 peopleQueilénthis commune · 5,472

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520248Education1Education▲74Construction2Construction▲21Manufacturing3Manufacturing▼26Transport4Transport▲23Agriculture and fishing5Agriculture and fishing▼27Retail and wholesale6Retail and wholesale▲15Public administration7Public administration▼29Professional services8Professional services▲110Electricity and gas9Electricity and gas▲12Other services10Other services▼8
2005202481Education▲742Construction▲213Manufacturing▼264Transport▲235Agriculture and fishing▼276Retail and wholesale▲157Public administration▼298Professional services▲1109Electricity and gas▲1210Other services▼8

The ten branches that employ most of Queilén

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.

2004507009501 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
2004507009501 kprojection →1 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.3% a year observed · 1.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0250 k500 k750 k1.0 Mprojection →758 k2029 · central2005201520242029
0250 k500 k750 k1.0 Mprojection →758 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.7% a year observed · 0.6% projected

What Queilén is specialised in

2024 · SII

PuroChile does not compute this for Queilén. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 933 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
7,299
hectares in holdings
92.3%
of them under a named use
1.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
440
holdings with land here
Woodland 62%Pasture 28%Not farmed 7.9%Native woodland62%Pasture28%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings7.7%PulsesandtubersVegetab…
Woodland 62%Pasture 28%Not f… 7.9%Native woodland62%Pasture28%Scrub,barrenground an…7.7%Pulses…
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
QueilénChile% of each territory's own population · 5,690 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
5,690
176,86518,480,432298th of 346
Average age
39.9 yrs
38.8 yrs38.1 yrs132nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
94.9
80.579.0140th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
17.3/km²
19.1/km²24.7/km²221st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
2,237
68,0036,596,527297th of 346
Dwellings
3,142
85,9947,642,716301st of 346
People per household
2.54
2.602.80292nd of 345
Women
49.8%
50.8%51.5%292nd of 346
Men per 100 women
101.0
97.094.355th of 346
Under 15
16.6%
17.2%17.7%259th of 346
65 and over
15.7%
13.9%14.0%176th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
47.7
45.146.5256th of 346
One-person households
25.5%
23.6%21.8%72nd of 345
Households with children
29.3%
32.0%33.2%281st of 345
Indigenous peoples
50.9%
33.2%11.4%29th of 346
Female-headed households
52.3%
49.8%49.9%39th of 345
Land area
330 km²
9,240 km²748,041 km²239th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Queilén18%Arrived since 202082%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Queilén18%82%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
1.3%
3.3%8.7%257th 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.
71.5%
65.2%50.5%62nd 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.
17.7%
17.7%23.9%180th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
10.8%
14.2%17.2%278th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
76
5,7541,608,650301st of 346
Average age, foreign-born
37.1 yrs
34.0 yrs33.5 yrs55th of 345
Women among foreign-born
56.6%
51.4%51.7%24th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
82.9%
83.0%83.1%96th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
18.4%
38.1%34.4%328th 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.
1.6%
3.9%10.6%254th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.7 yrs
12.7 yrs12.9 yrs131st 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.
-2,206
-5,1190202nd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-40.3
-2.80.0277th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Queilén15%Higher31%Secondary45%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Queilén15%31%Secondary45%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.5 yrs
9.3 yrs10.4 yrs310th of 346
Reached higher education
15.3%
19.6%31.1%300th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.1%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.
51.2%
47.8%55.6%221st 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.
101.1%
100.9%99.8%191st of 346
Literacy rate
95.1%
96.7%97.8%247th of 346
Reached secondary education
31.3%
36.8%36.7%318th of 346
Primary education only
45.3%
35.9%24.1%8th of 346
Never attended school
3.71%
3.09%3.01%157th 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.
9.5 yrs
10.6 yrs12.1 yrs304th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
9.6 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs325th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.91%
3.32%2.18%97th of 345
Households lacking schooling
42.5%
27.6%15.1%16th 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.
43
2,361217,565296th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
51.2%
48.5%33.9%88th 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%
2.5%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
77.3%
70.5%67.2%41st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
9.1%
14.5%19.7%285th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
13.6%
15.0%13.1%194th 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.
40.9%
41.2%13.0%65th 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.
63.6%
52.6%49.7%20th 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.

43left secondary school in 2024
22enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
51.2%continued immediately
77%of those, to a university
41%of those, outside their region

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareSocial sciencesEducationBusiness and lawServicesInformation technologyEngineering and industry
0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareSocial sciencesEducationBusiness and lawServicesInformation technologyEngineering and industry
QueilénChile

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. The list of individual programmes is withheld here: fewer than 30 of this territory's leavers continued, and a ranking built on that few names people.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

02040602006201520244322
02040602006201520244322
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 Queilén'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 Queilén 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

Queilén95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Queilén95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.1%
11.5%10.6%122nd of 346
Public health insurance
95.2%
90.4%82.6%89th 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.
37.1
76.482.5297th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
70
96100244th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
743
20,3731,950,388299th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
61.7 yrs
57.5 yrs56.4 yrs41st of 346
Disability among 65+
50.1%
43.5%43.0%78th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.66%
5.28%4.92%111th of 346
Difficulty seeing
6.99%
5.51%4.58%58th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.78%
2.42%2.16%129th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.46%
2.49%2.70%253rd of 346
Private health insurance
3.4%
3.4%13.2%160th of 335
No health coverage
1.44%
4.18%1.98%166th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
98.5%
95.7%92.1%55th of 332
Households lacking health access
9.0%
7.1%6.0%51st of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
211
13,5041,523,716298th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
9
34736,698287th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
4.27%
2.57%2.41%41st of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.2 days
5.8 days6.1 days92nd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
15.8
19.619.9230th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
44
92100296th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
5
84489,723318th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
2.4%
6.3%5.9%323rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
8.8
47.748.6322nd 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.
17
96100324th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 25%Injuries, bones and skin 19%Heart and lungs 18%Pregnancy, birth and … 13%Tumours, blood an… 9.5%Mind, nerves and… 9.0%Infection… 6.6%Digestive system17%Genitourinarysystem8.5%Injuries and poisoning17%Skin1.9%Muscu…0.9%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem6.6%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Cancers andtumours5.7%Endocrine andmetabolic2.8%Bloodandimmu…Mental andbehavioural6.2%Nervous system2.4%Ill-definedsymptoms3.8%Infecti…andparasit…Cont…withheal…
Digestive and urinary t… 25%Injuries, bones … 19%Heart and… 18%Pregnancy, bir… 13%Tumours, bloo… 9.5%Mind, … 9.0%Infect… 6.6%Digestivesystem17%Genitou…system8.5%Injuries andpoisoning17%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem6.6%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Cancers andtumours5.7%Endoc…and…Mental andbehavioural6.2%Nervous…Ill-d…sympt…3.8%Infe…and…Conta…
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.

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
29.8%
19.4%17.3%49th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.1 UF
20.6 UF32.0 UF231st of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
104.1%
98.2%78.9%133rd 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.
74.9
87.985.6186th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
48.5%
54.2%54.4%217th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.3%
7.7%8.6%243rd of 345
Self-employed
47.1%
37.6%33.8%26th of 345
Extreme poverty
10.0%
7.7%6.9%103rd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
18.6%
17.8%17.7%153rd of 335
Unemployment rate
4.5%
10.0%8.8%296th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 494,474
CLP 543,039CLP 783,124214th 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.
0.427
0.4550.488193rd of 321
Registered firms
426
15,5461,582,390304th of 346
Annual sales
734,541 UF
95,172,956 UF34,347,683,688 UF306th 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.
933
59,3239,699,164301st of 346
Sales per firm
1,724 UF
6,122 UF21,706 UF291st of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.4
2.63.9289th of 346
Women among employees
41.9%
44.0%40.6%150th of 345
Independent contractors
553
19,5483,958,269296th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
37.2%
24.8%29.0%62nd of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 33%State and social services 23%Industry and construction 21%Trade and logistics 16%Agriculture and fishing33%Education9.2%Health8.0%Publicadminist…5.5%Manufacturi…10%Construction9.8%Retail and wholesale8.6%Transport5.2%Accom…andfood2.2%Administ…servicesProfe…servi…1.5%Dome…work
Natural resources 33%State and soci… 23%Industry and constr… 21%Trade and lo… 16%Agriculture andfishing33%Education9.2%Health8.0%Publicadmini…5.5%Manufact…10%Construct…9.8%Water…Elect…Retail andwholesale8.6%Transport5.2%Acco…andfoodAdmini…servic…Pro…ser…Domest…workArt…
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 59%Managers and professionals 22%Elementary occupations 19%Craft and trades19%Service andsales15%Skilledagricultural14%Plant and machineoperators7.4%Clerical support4.1%Professiona…10%Technicians9.7%Elementary occupations19%
Skilled occupations 59%Managers and professi… 22%Elementary occupat… 19%Craft andtrades19%Service and sales15%Skilled agricultural14%Plantandmachine…7.4%Clericalsupport4.1%Professio…10%Technicians9.7%Elementaryoccupations19%
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

Queilén100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Queilén100%HouseChile79%House20%
House% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.1%
4.4%5.7%293rd of 345
Internet access
80.1%
87.3%93.2%307th 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.
6.7
4.72.369th 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.
6.8
4.41.659th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
2,226
67,5066,408,172297th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.09%
0.20%0.57%333rd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.31%
1.49%1.13%336th of 345
Public water network
58.3%
73.0%92.3%312th of 345
Electricity access
98.2%
99.3%99.6%300th of 345
Detached houses
99.8%
98.4%78.7%6th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
0.4%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.30%0.23%298th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
26.7%
16.2%11.9%73rd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
50
2,776491,904329th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
2.2%
4.1%7.5%340th of 345
Renting households
11.1%
20.1%26.2%266th of 345
Owner-occupiers
79.7%
70.3%61.1%12th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
91.3%
82.3%24.4%42nd of 345
Commute by public transport
27.1%
28.4%42.1%149th of 345
Walks to work
24.7%
19.1%10.2%67th of 345
Households with a computer
34.4%
40.0%54.9%288th 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.
1.9
1.61.1153rd 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.
95.3%
94.1%97.0%159th 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.
48.0%
68.6%89.4%279th 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.
84.5%
92.0%98.1%291st 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.
29.7
11.25.990th 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.
0.0%
66.6%90.0%249th 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.
59.3%
90.2%96.2%257th 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.
2.0
1.10.643rd 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.
91.6%
96.7%99.0%301st 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.
45.8%
70.4%91.6%300th 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.
84.5%
91.7%98.5%297th 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 33%Public transport 27%On foot or by bicycle 25%Other means 15%Car33%Public transport27%Walking25%Other13%Boat
Private vehicle 33%Public transport 27%On foot or by bicycle 25%Other means 15%Car33%Publictransport27%Walking25%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 80%Rented 11%Provided… 8.0%Owned outright78%Rented, nocontract7.8%Rented, withcontractProvided byfamily7.1%
Owned 80%Rented 11%Provided ren… 8.0%Owned outright78%Rented, nocontractRente…with…Provided byfamily
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 96%Firewood91%Pell…
Wood and biomass 96%Firewood91%
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
76.3%
of the registered voted in the first round
76.4%
voted in the runoff
5,980
registered voters on the roll
7.9%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman36.6%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist63.4%58.3%
QueilénChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez31.3%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman23.7%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.9%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen11.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist25.3%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.3%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet6.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.7%1.3%
QueilénChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile13.9%30.6%
KCambio por Chile6.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido20.0%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente53.6%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.6%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%
QueilénChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Queilén 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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