Commune · 13128

RencaRenca

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Census population
143,622
41st of 346
Population density
6,056.2/km²
21st of 346
Average years of schooling
9.5 yrs
136th of 346
Foreign-born share
8.7%
50th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 5 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 97.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 89.4%100.0%
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF34.0 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF34.0 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 · 899 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
50.0%
252nd of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
27.5%
77th of 335
Came from another region
13.7%
211th of 335
Net internal migration
+5,858
+3.6 per 100 residents
Rencathis commune · 142,482elsewhere in the region44,757 peopleanother region22,310 peopleabroad14,155 peopleelsewhere in the region53,242 peopleanother region7,967 peopleRencathis commune · 162,495
Rencathis commune · 142,482elsewhere in th…44,757 peopleanother region22,310 peopleabroad14,155 peopleelsewhere in th…53,242 peopleanother region7,967 peopleRencathis commune · 162,495

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520243Manufacturing1Manufacturing▲22Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale4Administrative services3Administrative services▲15Construction4Construction▲16Transport5Transport▲116Health6Health▲107Education7Education9Professional services8Professional services▲114Mining9Mining▲513Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food▲312Public administration11Public administration▲11Information and communications12Information and communications▼1110Agriculture and fishing13Agriculture and fishing▼311Other services14Other services▼38Finance and insurance17Finance and insurance▼9
2005202431Manufacturing▲222Retail and wholesale43Administrative services▲154Construction▲165Transport▲1166Health▲1077Education98Professional services▲1149Mining▲51310Accommodation and food▲31211Public administration▲1112Information and communications▼111013Agriculture and fishing▼31114Other services▼3817Finance and insurance▼9

The ten branches that employ most of Renca

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.

40 k60 k80 k100 k120 kprojection →85 k2029 · central2005201520242029
40 k60 k80 k100 k120 kprojection →85 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval0.2% a year observed · 6.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0200 M400 M600 M800 Mprojection →413 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0200 M400 M600 M800 Mprojection →413 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.4% a year observed · 7.2% projected

What Renca is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Renca employs more people in 109 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.

109
activities it is specialised in
61,393
formal workers
5/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%60%-2.50.33.7Otros servicios de atención de la…Servicio de transporte de valores…Otros servicios de almacenamiento…Construcción de proyectos de serv…Venta de partes, piezas y accesor…Actividades de plantas de revisió…Fabricación de otras bombas, comp…Fabricación de papel y cartón ond…Venta al por menor de alimentos e…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%60%-2.50.33.7Servicio de transporte de valores…Actividades de plantas de revisió…Cultivo de hortalizas y melonesServicios de publicidad prestados…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Renca

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
Elaboración de bebidas no alcohólicasElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas3,781109.5×
Fabricación de calzadoFabricación de calzado71696.4×
Fabricación de otras bombas, compresores, grifos y válvulasFabricación de maquinaria de uso general40280.4×
Servicio de transporte de valores en vehículos blindadosActividades de seguridad privada1,08349.7×
Actividades de plantas de revisión técnica para vehículos automotoresEnsayos y análisis técnicos74334.0×
Venta al por menor de productos de vidrio en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros enseres domésticos en comercios especializados30033.6×
Fabricación de otros productos de cauchoFabricación de productos de caucho1,10122.4×
Industrias básicas de hierro y aceroIndustrias básicas de hierro y acero93020.9×
Producción de aguas minerales y otras aguas embotelladasElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas25919.2×
Recuperación y reciclamiento de papelRecuperación de materiales7917.4×
Acabado de productos textilesHilatura, tejedura y acabado de productos textiles9715.9×
Fabricación de productos farmacéuticos, sustancias químicas medicinales y productos botánicosFabricación de productos farmacéuticos, sustancias químicas medicinales y productos botánicos1,24214.9×

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.

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
RencaChile% of each territory's own population · 143,622 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
143,622
5,385,73718,480,43241st of 346
Average age
36.8 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs300th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
66.4
85.179.0288th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
6,056.2/km²
2,653.4/km²24.7/km²21st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
46,397
1,951,4816,596,52744th of 346
Dwellings
46,455
2,060,6137,642,71649th of 346
People per household
3.10
2.762.8018th of 345
Women
51.3%
51.8%51.5%121st of 346
Men per 100 women
95.0
93.294.3226th of 346
Under 15
19.3%
16.3%17.7%69th of 346
65 and over
12.8%
13.8%14.0%288th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
47.3
43.046.5267th of 346
One-person households
16.8%
23.6%21.8%320th of 345
Households with children
38.7%
30.2%33.2%29th of 345
Indigenous peoples
11.5%
7.2%11.4%145th of 346
Female-headed households
54.1%
51.1%49.9%9th of 345
Land area
24 km²
2,030 km²748,041 km²324th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Renca32%Arrived since 202068%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Renca32%Arrived since 202068%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
8.7%
15.4%8.7%50th 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.
50.0%
34.9%50.5%252nd 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.
27.5%
35.2%23.9%77th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
13.7%
16.4%17.2%211th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
12,523
828,3681,608,65040th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.2 yrs
34.4 yrs33.5 yrs179th of 345
Women among foreign-born
51.3%
51.8%51.7%159th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
84.3%
84.3%83.1%53rd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
32.4%
31.7%34.4%232nd 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.
10.8%
18.5%10.6%50th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.0 yrs
13.4 yrs12.9 yrs229th of 345
Net internal migration · People who arrived from another comuna minus people born here who live in another comuna. It is a lifetime balance, not a year's. Chile adds to zero by construction: nobody leaves the country in this count.
5,858
-150,290060th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
3.6
-2.50.0134th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Renca21%Higher44%Secondary27%Primary only5.9%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Renca21%44%Secondary27%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.5 yrs
11.2 yrs10.4 yrs136th of 346
Reached higher education
20.8%
38.6%31.1%170th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.5%
98.2%98.6%197th 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.
58.9%
54.9%55.6%99th 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.
98.2%
98.2%99.8%310th of 346
Literacy rate
97.9%
98.7%97.8%92nd of 346
Reached secondary education
43.7%
34.9%36.7%21st of 346
Primary education only
26.7%
19.1%24.1%245th of 346
Never attended school
2.93%
2.55%3.01%258th 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.
11.3 yrs
13.1 yrs12.1 yrs119th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.1 yrs
12.8 yrs12.1 yrs149th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
2.13%
1.25%2.18%249th of 345
Households lacking schooling
17.0%
9.9%15.1%237th of 335
Secondary school leavers · Secondary education for children and young people, by the comuna of the school where they took it. Adults are counted apart.
1,378
57,776217,56552nd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
70.0%
31.5%33.9%32nd 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%
0.1%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
48.3%
70.6%67.2%300th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
40.0%
21.9%19.7%9th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
11.7%
7.5%13.1%219th 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.
1.1%
1.3%13.0%300th 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.
42.4%
48.6%49.7%302nd of 331

The class of 2024

Mineduc (SIES), by the comuna they went to school in

Approximation: the comuna is the one this cohort was enrolled in for secondary school, which is what Mineduc publishes — not a home address, which it does not.

1,378left secondary school in 2024
811enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
58.9%continued immediately
48%of those, to a university
1%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%Ingenieria en InformaticaIngenieria en Electricidad y Automatizacion IndustrialIngenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y AutotronicaIngenieria en Redes y TelecomunicacionesEnfermeriaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizDerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologia
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%Ingenieria en InformaticaIngenieria en Electricidad y Automatizacion IndustrialIngenieria en Mecanica Automotriz y AutotronicaIngenieria en Redes y TelecomunicacionesEnfermeriaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizDerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialPsicologia
RencaChile

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%Engineering and industryInformation technologyBusiness and lawHealth and welfareServicesEducationArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryInformation technologyBusiness and lawHealth and welfareServicesEducationArts and humanitiesNatural sciencesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinary
RencaChile

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

05001,0001,5002006201520241,378811
05001,0001,5002006201520241,378811
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 Renca'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 Renca 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

Renca95%Fonasa4.5%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Renca95%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.7%
9.3%10.6%194th of 346
Public health insurance
94.6%
73.9%82.6%110th 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.
76.3
87.182.5126th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
122
10010059th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
16,795
499,3711,950,38829th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
54.5 yrs
56.6 yrs56.4 yrs297th of 346
Disability among 65+
39.4%
43.7%43.0%302nd of 346
Difficulty walking
5.47%
4.33%4.92%202nd of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.11%
3.83%4.58%198th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.17%
1.87%2.16%247th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.97%
2.50%2.70%141st of 346
Private health insurance
4.5%
22.4%13.2%132nd of 335
No health coverage
0.00%
1.80%1.98%279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
92.8%
91.7%92.1%181st of 332
Households lacking health access
5.7%
5.8%6.0%153rd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
10,963
469,3531,523,71646th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
315
10,69136,69833rd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.87%
2.28%2.41%159th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.7 days
6.0 days6.1 days144th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
21.9
19.919.9116th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
95
106100106th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
503
28,65989,72352nd 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%
6.1%5.9%260th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
35.0
53.248.6217th 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.
76
111100175th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 24%Heart and lungs 22%Pregnancy, birth … 17%Injuries, bo… 14%Tumours, blood and … 13%Infection… 4.9%Mind, ner… 4.2%Digestive system14%Genitourina…system9.4%Respiratorysystem12%Circulatorysystem11%Pregnancy andchildbirth15%Perinatal…Congenit…Injuries andpoisoning7.8%Musculoske…5.0%Cancers andtumours7.3%Endocrineandmetabolic5.4%Infect…andparasi…Conta…with…Ill-de…Nervoussystem1.7%Mentalandbehav…
Digestive and urinary… 24%Heart and lungs 22%Pregnancy… 17%Injuries, bones and … 14%Tumours, blood and m… 13%Digestivesystem14%Genitour…system9.4%Respirato…system12%Circulat…system11%Pregnancyandchildbirth15%Congen…Injuriesandpoisoning7.8%Musculosk…5.0%Cancers andtumours7.3%Endocrineandmetabolic5.4%Infec…andparas…Cont…withheal…Nervou…Men…andbeh…
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 digestivos25%Sangre y sistemalinfático18%Mama10%Genitalesfemeninos8.9%Genitalesmasculinos7.4%Víasurinarias6.0%Encéfalo ysistemanervioso5.0%Víasrespiratori…4.8%Tiroides yendocrinas3.8%Sitios maldefinidos3.6%Huesos2.2%Boca yfarin…1.8%Piel ymelan…1.8%Tejid…bland…1.4%
Órganos digestivos25%Sangre ysistemalinfático18%Mama10%Genitalesfemeninos8.9%Genitalesmasculinos7.4%Víasurinarias6.0%Encéfaloy sistemanervioso5.0%Víasrespirat…4.8%Tiroides yendocrinas3.8%Sitios maldefinidos3.6%HuesosBocayfari…Pielymela…Tejidos…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaGenitales femeninosGenitales masculinosVías urinariashover 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.
22.6%
12.4%17.3%134th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
34.0 UF
37.3 UF32.0 UF19th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
82.3%
73.0%78.9%293rd 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.
50.7
104.385.6323rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
55.1%
59.5%54.4%89th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.7%
7.7%8.6%109th of 345
Self-employed
34.5%
33.2%33.8%189th of 345
Extreme poverty
8.7%
4.4%6.9%146th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
22.0%
18.9%17.7%100th of 335
Unemployment rate
10.8%
8.4%8.8%100th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 522,915
CLP 1,019,380CLP 783,124181st 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.
0.377
0.5000.488294th of 321
Registered firms
7,282
561,5661,582,39053rd of 346
Annual sales
291,764,594 UF
25,794,247,870 UF34,347,683,688 UF14th 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.
61,484
5,253,9409,699,16433rd of 346
Sales per firm
40,067 UF
45,933 UF21,706 UF11th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
6.0
6.13.910th of 346
Women among employees
30.7%
41.7%40.6%312th of 345
Independent contractors
13,904
2,467,4083,958,26947th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
18.4%
32.0%29.0%297th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 38%Industry and construction 24%State and so… 15%Advanced services 14%Other servic… 7.4%Retail and wholesale21%Transport13%Accom…andfood4.7%Manufacturing12%Construction9.8%Ele…andgasWat…andwas…Health6.1%Education6.1%Public…Administra…services6.4%Profe…servi…2.6%Infor…andcommu…2.3%Finance andinsuranceOtherservic…3.5%Domesticwork3.0%
Trade and logistics 38%Industry and … 24%State and soci… 15%Advanced ser… 14%Othe… 7.4%Retail andwholesale21%Transport13%Accommodationand foodManufacturing12%Construction9.8%Health6.1%Education6.1%Admini…servic…6.4%Professi…servicesInformat…and…Financeand…OtherservicesDomesticwork
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 23%Elementary occupations 18%Service and sales22%Craft andtrades16%Plant and machineoperators10%Clerical support9.9%Technicians12%Profession…8.6%ManagersElementary occupations18%
Skilled occupations 59%Managers and profession… 23%Elementary occup… 18%Service andsales22%Craft and trades16%Plant and machineoperators10%Cleric…support9.9%Technicians12%Profession…8.6%ManagersElementaryoccupations18%
Elementary occupationsArmed forceshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itCIUO-08 (ISCO) skill levels.

Housing and services

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House or flat

Renca75%House24%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Renca75%House24%Chile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
7.9%
6.7%5.7%36th of 345
Internet access
93.3%
95.9%93.2%88th of 345
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.0
1.02.3319th 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.
0.4
0.51.6336th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
43,835
1,868,7116,408,17245th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.67%
0.93%0.57%43rd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.57%
0.51%1.13%300th of 345
Public water network
99.8%
99.6%92.3%17th of 345
Electricity access
99.9%
99.9%99.6%15th of 345
Detached houses
74.9%
55.8%78.7%320th of 345
Apartments
23.7%
42.0%19.9%26th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.09%0.23%243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
2.7%
5.2%11.9%332nd of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
5,393
193,039491,90425th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
11.6%
9.9%7.5%36th of 345
Renting households
23.8%
37.8%26.2%65th of 345
Owner-occupiers
62.8%
51.5%61.1%262nd of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
0.3%
0.2%24.4%317th of 345
Commute by public transport
56.3%
54.0%42.1%22nd of 345
Walks to work
6.8%
8.4%10.2%314th of 345
Households with a computer
48.8%
62.8%54.9%106th of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.6
0.51.1319th of 345
People within 5 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%97.0%1st of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%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.
100.0%
99.6%89.4%1st 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.
100.0%
100.0%98.1%1st 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%
100.0%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.
1.4
1.05.9309th 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.
100.0%
99.7%80.3%1st 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.
100.0%
100.0%90.0%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
0.3
0.30.6326th of 345
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.0%1st of 345
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%91.6%1st of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Public transport 56%Private vehicle 29%On foot or by bicy… 11%Public transport56%Car26%Walking6.8%Bicycle3.8%Other4.4%
Public transport 56%Private vehicle 29%On foot or … 11%Public transport56%Car26%Walking6.8%Bicyc…3.8%Other
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 63%Rented 24%Provided rent-fr… 10%Owned outright48%Owned, still paying15%Rented, with contract14%Rented, no contract9.9%Provided byfamily9.7%Otherarran…3.2%
Owned 63%Rented 24%Provided ren… 10%Owned outright48%Owned,stillpaying15%Rented, withcontract14%Rented, nocontract9.9%Provided byfamily9.7%
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

Fossil fuels 62%Electricity 20%No heating 18%Gas43%Paraffin18%Electricity20%No heating18%
Fossil fuels 62%Electricity 20%No heating 18%Gas43%Paraffin18%Electricity20%No heating18%
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
87.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
87.6%
voted in the runoff
115,313
registered voters on the roll
6.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman53.0%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist47.0%58.3%
RencaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez20.8%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman34.1%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.7%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.2%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist18.7%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.8%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.3%1.3%
RencaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile34.2%30.6%
KCambio por Chile25.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido10.8%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente16.6%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.3%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista6.0%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular2.9%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
RencaChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Renca 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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