Commune · 07405

RetiroRetiro

Compare Retiro with another place
Census population
22,310
162nd of 346
Population density
27.0/km²
182nd of 346
Average years of schooling
8.4 yrs
316th of 346
Foreign-born share
0.8%
307th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Sought care when ill1st of 332 · Chile 92.1%100.0%
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%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.8 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF19.8 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 · 279 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
65.2%
125th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
19.3%
155th of 335
Came from another region
14.8%
178th of 335
Net internal migration
+2,602
+12.1 per 100 residents
Retirothis commune · 18,791elsewhere in the region4,154 peopleanother region3,192 peopleabroad141 peopleanother region2,850 peopleelsewhere in the region1,894 peopleRetirothis commune · 21,534
Retirothis commune · 18,791elsewhere in th…4,154 peopleanother region3,192 peopleabroad141 peopleanother region2,850 peopleelsewhere in th…1,894 peopleRetirothis commune · 21,534

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing3Public administration2Public administration▲14Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲12Manufacturing4Manufacturing▼26Transport5Transport▲111Construction6Construction▲55Education7Education▼29Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▲112Other services9Other services▲37Water and waste10Water and waste▼38Finance and insurance11Finance and insurance▼310Professional services12Professional services▼2
2005202411Agriculture and fishing32Public administration▲143Retail and wholesale▲124Manufacturing▼265Transport▲1116Construction▲557Education▼298Accommodation and food▲1129Other services▲3710Water and waste▼3811Finance and insurance▼31012Professional services▼2

The ten branches that employ most of Retiro

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.

03 k5 k8 k10 kprojection →9 k2029 · central2005201520242029
03 k5 k8 k10 kprojection →9 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.7% a year observed · 10.0% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

1.0 M2.0 M3.0 M4.0 M5.0 Mprojection →4.1 M2029 · central2005201520242029
1.0 M2.0 M3.0 M4.0 M5.0 Mprojection →4.1 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.7% a year observed · -0.9% projected

What Retiro is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Retiro employs more people in 41 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.

41
activities it is specialised in
5,362
formal workers
282/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.33.7Actividades de la administración …Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de …Elaboración y conservación de fru…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Actividades de envasado y empaque…Otros servicios de almacenamiento…Fabricación de artículos confecci…Cría de ovejas (ovinos)Otras actividades especializadas …How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.33.7Actividades de la administración …Fundaciones y corporaciones; asoc…Fabricación de artículos confecci…Venta al por menor de gas licuado…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Retiro

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

ActivityDivisionWorkers hereTimes the national share
Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (incluye el cultivo de aceitunas)Cultivo de plantas perennes32168.3×
Elaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizasElaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizas38236.9×
Cultivo de maízCultivo de plantas no perennes3825.4×
Venta al por mayor de materias primas agrícolasVenta al por mayor de materias primas agropecuarias y animales vivos25920.2×
Cría de ovejas (ovinos)Ganadería1115.7×
Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales (explotación mixta)Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales16513.3×
Actividades de envasado y empaquetadoActividades de servicios de apoyo a las empresas n.c.p.13112.7×
Fabricación de artículos confeccionados de materiales textiles, excepto prendas de vestirFabricación de otros productos textiles169.0×
Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de huesoCultivo de plantas perennes7778.6×
Servicios funerariosOtras actividades de servicios personales108.1×
Cultivo de papasCultivo de plantas no perennes77.3×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes547.1×

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
43,305
hectares in holdings
96.0%
of them under a named use
90.0%
of the crop land is irrigated
1,084
holdings with land here
Pasture 37%Annual crops 23%Woodland 17%Orchards and vineyards 13%Not farmed 9.9%Pasture37%Cereals15%Vegetables3.2%Foddercrops1.8%Seedcrops1.5%Pulsesand…Indu…cropsForest plantations17%Fruit trees11%VinesUntilledland5.9%Scrub,barrenground…4.0%
Pasture 37%Annual crops 23%Woodland 17%Orchards a… 13%Not … 9.9%Pasture37%Cereals15%Veget…3.2%Fodder…Seed…Forestplantations17%Fruit trees11%Untilledland5.9%Scrub,barren…
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
RetiroChile% of each territory's own population · 22,310 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
22,310
307,82618,480,432162nd of 346
Average age
40.6 yrs
39.4 yrs38.1 yrs91st of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
98.1
88.979.0125th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
27.0/km²
30.6/km²24.7/km²182nd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
8,218
112,4046,596,527160th of 346
Dwellings
10,149
135,5247,642,716168th of 346
People per household
2.71
2.742.80195th of 345
Women
50.3%
51.6%51.5%241st of 346
Men per 100 women
98.7
94.094.3106th of 346
Under 15
17.5%
18.3%17.7%203rd of 346
65 and over
17.1%
16.2%14.0%110th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.9
52.646.5105th of 346
One-person households
20.4%
20.9%21.8%232nd of 345
Households with children
32.2%
33.7%33.2%205th of 345
Indigenous peoples
3.0%
3.8%11.4%332nd of 346
Female-headed households
41.1%
47.3%49.9%319th of 345
Land area
825 km²
10,068 km²748,041 km²153rd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Retiro46%Arrived since 202054%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Retiro46%Arrived since 202054%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born share
0.8%
1.7%8.7%307th of 346
Lives in the commune where they were born · Casen 2024 asks in which comuna each person's mother lived when they were born. It is lifetime migration, not last year's, and it measures origin, not moves: someone born here who left and came back counts as living where they were born.
65.2%
68.1%50.5%125th 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.
19.3%
16.2%23.9%155th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
14.8%
13.8%17.2%178th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
182
5,3371,608,650243rd of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.7 yrs
33.7 yrs33.5 yrs153rd of 345
Women among foreign-born
54.4%
49.8%51.7%55th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
81.9%
81.3%83.1%137th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
45.6%
38.8%34.4%77th of 345
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna.
1.0%
2.2%10.6%305th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
11.6 yrs
12.4 yrs12.9 yrs281st 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.
2,602
-50,720094th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
12.1
-16.00.0100th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Retiro13%Higher36%Secondary42%Primary only4.6%4.6%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Retiro36%Secondary42%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.4 yrs
9.1 yrs10.4 yrs316th of 346
Reached higher education
12.9%
19.7%31.1%332nd of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.4%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.
48.9%
49.3%55.6%253rd 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.
106.5%
103.9%99.8%19th of 346
Literacy rate
94.0%
95.3%97.8%300th of 346
Reached secondary education
36.1%
36.4%36.7%219th of 346
Primary education only
41.9%
34.9%24.1%28th of 346
Never attended school
4.56%
3.81%3.01%76th 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.
9.3 yrs
10.3 yrs12.1 yrs320th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
9.9 yrs
10.7 yrs12.1 yrs299th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
5.98%
4.68%2.18%48th of 345
Households lacking schooling
39.5%
27.1%15.1%28th 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.
284
3,750217,565150th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
52.8%
44.1%33.9%79th 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.
28.9%
4.4%3.1%37th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
46.8%
56.9%67.2%304th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
20.9%
8.6%19.7%135th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
32.4%
34.5%13.1%34th 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.
48.9%
21.2%13.0%51st 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.
55.4%
52.3%49.7%83rd 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.

284left secondary school in 2024
139enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
48.9%continued immediately
47%of those, to a university
49%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%Ingenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizTecnico de Nivel Superior en VeterinariaTecnico en EnfermeriaDerechoEnfermeriaContador Publico y AuditorIngenieria AgricolaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria ElectricaTecnico Agricola
0.0%5.0%10.0%Ingenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizTecnico de Nivel Superior en VeterinariaTecnico en EnfermeriaDerechoEnfermeriaContador Publico y AuditorIngenieria AgricolaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria ElectricaTecnico Agricola
RetiroChile

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%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
RetiroChile

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

0100200300200620152024284139
0100200300200620152024284139
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 Retiro'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 Retiro 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

Retiro94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Retiro94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
14.2%
13.6%10.6%77th of 346
Public health insurance
93.5%
92.0%82.6%143rd 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.
84.3
76.682.578th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
130
11710041st of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
3,171
41,8951,950,388146th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
58.1 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs164th of 346
Disability among 65+
44.3%
45.2%43.0%208th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.88%
6.74%4.92%92nd of 346
Difficulty seeing
7.12%
6.31%4.58%48th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.11%
2.79%2.16%85th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.83%
3.23%2.70%172nd of 346
Private health insurance
2.2%
1.9%13.2%222nd of 335
No health coverage
1.64%
3.18%1.98%153rd of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
100.0%
96.9%92.1%1st of 332
Households lacking health access
5.6%
6.8%6.0%155th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,880
23,5811,523,716144th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
68
79936,698123rd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.62%
3.39%2.41%81st of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.2 days
6.0 days6.1 days303rd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
30.5
26.019.932nd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
98
9010094th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
98
1,37989,723144th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.2%
5.8%5.9%203rd of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
43.9
44.848.6124th 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.
79
84100160th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 25%Digestive and urinary tract 23%Injuries, bones a… 17%Pregnancy,… 13%Tumours, blood … 12%Infections a… 6.3%Mind, nerves… 4.3%Respiratorysystem13%Circulatorysystem12%Digestivesystem14%Genitourin…system9.3%Injuries andpoisoning12%Musculoskeletal4.0%SkinPregnancyandchildbirth11%Cancers andtumours7.8%Endocrine andmetabolicBloodandimmun…Infec…andparas…2.7%Contactwith healt…Ill-def…NervoussystemMen…andbeh…
Heart and lungs 25%Digestive and urina… 23%Injuries, … 17%Pregnancy, birth a… 13%Tumours, blood and… 12%Respiratorysystem13%Circulato…system12%Digestivesystem14%Genitou…system9.3%Injuries andpoisoning12%Musculoske…4.0%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Cancers andtumours7.8%Endocr…and…Infectio…and…Cont…withheal…Nerv…syst…Men…and…
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 digestivos28%Sangre y sistema linfático13%Genitales femeninos10%Sitios reservados9.2%Mama8.2%Piel ymelanoma7.1%Genitalesmasculinos7.1%Sitios maldefinidos7.1%Víasrespirator…5.1%Tiroides yendocrinas5.1%
Órganos digestivos28%Sangre ysistemalinfático13%Genitalesfemeninos10%Sitiosreservados9.2%Mama8.2%Piel ymelanoma7.1%Genitalesmasculin…7.1%Sitiosmaldefinidos7.1%Víasrespirat…5.1%Tiroidesyendocrin…5.1%
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales femeninosSitios reservadosMamaPiel y melanomahover 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.
31.2%
29.7%17.3%38th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
19.8 UF
19.2 UF32.0 UF286th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
115.8%
109.0%78.9%40th 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.
111.1
89.685.649th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
42.5%
46.7%54.4%306th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
12.2%
10.7%8.6%23rd of 345
Self-employed
37.4%
35.3%33.8%121st of 345
Extreme poverty
13.7%
12.5%6.9%43rd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
17.8%
14.9%17.7%165th of 335
Unemployment rate
9.5%
9.0%8.8%147th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 443,282
CLP 466,464CLP 783,124281st 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.
0.424
0.4420.488198th of 321
Registered firms
2,479
27,5711,582,390126th of 346
Annual sales
4,326,078 UF
83,517,785 UF34,347,683,688 UF213th of 342
Employees reported · People reported at some point in the tax year, not average employment: the national total exceeds the employed because someone who worked two months counts the same as someone who worked twelve.
5,365
92,1109,699,164169th of 346
Sales per firm
1,745 UF
3,029 UF21,706 UF289th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.1
1.83.9313th of 346
Women among employees
47.9%
42.3%40.6%63rd of 345
Independent contractors
1,317
22,1653,958,269200th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
19.7%
19.4%29.0%287th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 45%State and social… 17%Industry and c… 15%Trade and logistics 15%Other … 4.0%Advanc… 3.5%Agriculture and fishing44%Education8.3%Publicadminis…4.4%Health4.3%Manufacturing7.1%Construction6.8%Retail andwholesale9.3%Transport3.9%Accommoda…and foodDomes…work2.3%Otherserv…Admin…servi…1.6%Profess…Inf…
Natural resources 45%State and… 17%Industry and constructi… 15%Trade and logistics 15%Agriculture and fishing44%Education8.3%Publicadmini…4.4%Health4.3%Manufactu…7.1%Construct…6.8%Retail andwholesale9.3%Transport3.9%Accommodat…Domes…work2.3%Otherservi…Admin…servi…Profe…
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 52%Elementary occupations 32%Managers and professionals 16%Skilledagricultural14%Service andsales13%Craft andtrades11%Plant and machineoperators9.6%Clerical support4.2%Elementary occupations32%Professiona…7.4%Technicians6.4%Man…
Skilled occupations 52%Elementary occupations 32%Managers a… 16%Skilledagricultural14%Serviceand sales13%Craft andtrades11%Plant andmachineoperators9.6%Clerical supportElementary occupations32%Professionals7.4%Technicia…6.4%Man…
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

Retiro100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Retiro100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.7%
5.7%5.7%123rd of 345
Internet access
82.1%
87.3%93.2%293rd 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.
7.8
4.62.356th of 345
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
4.6
3.31.6116th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
8,153
111,0606,408,172158th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.22%
0.32%0.57%281st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.83%
0.96%1.13%245th of 345
Public water network
78.7%
88.5%92.3%216th of 345
Electricity access
99.6%
99.6%99.6%108th of 345
Detached houses
99.6%
98.3%78.7%29th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
1.2%19.9%219th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.14%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
16.2%
13.8%11.9%150th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
315
5,214491,904197th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.8%
4.6%7.5%297th of 345
Renting households
7.6%
13.6%26.2%332nd of 345
Owner-occupiers
76.6%
73.0%61.1%28th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
83.6%
64.9%24.4%104th of 345
Commute by public transport
17.3%
23.0%42.1%278th of 345
Walks to work
12.9%
11.3%10.2%194th of 345
Households with a computer
34.0%
41.6%54.9%293rd 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.
2.3
1.61.197th 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.
89.7%
95.3%97.0%233rd 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.
37.3%
67.4%89.4%302nd 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.
81.8%
93.3%98.1%297th 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%
99.8%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.
12.4
6.55.9160th 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.
1.8%
56.1%80.3%184th 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.
74.0%
86.3%90.0%185th 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.
99.6%
99.0%96.2%173rd 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.
1.4
1.10.6110th 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.
97.3%
98.5%99.0%210th 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.
68.1%
74.5%91.6%219th 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.
91.8%
96.7%98.5%265th 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 49%On foot or by bicycle 26%Public transport 17%Othe… 7.7%Car46%Walking13%Bicycle13%Public transport17%Other7.5%
Private vehicle 49%On foot or by bicycle 26%Public transport 17%Other means 7.7%Car46%Walking13%Bicycle13%Public transport17%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 77%Provided re… 13%Rented 7.6%Other 3.2%Owned outright76%Provided byfamily9.5%Provided byemployerRented,nocontract4.0%Rente…withcontr…3.6%Other arrangement
Owned 77%Provided rent-free 13%Rented 7.6%Owned outright76%Provided by family9.5%Provi…byemplo…3.1%Rented,nocontra…Rente…withcontr…Otherarran…3.2%
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 85%Fossil fu… 8.2%Electrici… 4.0%No heati… 2.6%Firewood84%Gas6.1%Paraffin2.1%Electricity4.0%No heating2.6%
Wood and biomass 85%Fossil fuels 8.2%Elect… 4.0%Firewood84%GasParaff…ElectricityNoheati…
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
92.2%
of the registered voted in the first round
92.0%
voted in the runoff
19,471
registered voters on the roll
6.0%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman22.9%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist77.1%58.3%
RetiroChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez24.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman13.5%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.7%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist37.4%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.3%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.6%1.3%
RetiroChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile13.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile14.9%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido60.5%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente7.7%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.9%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%
RetiroChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile12.8%
KCambio por Chile35.2%
JChile Grande y Unido30.5%
IPartido de la Gente9.3%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas8.9%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.7%
Independents outside a pact1.6%
Retiroshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Retiro 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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