Commune · 14204

Río BuenoRío Bueno

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Census population
33,363
119th of 346
Population density
15.3/km²
227th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.1 yrs
211th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.0%
284th 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 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Of those continuing, enters a university21st of 331 · Chile 67.2%81.1%
Of those continuing, studies outside their region21st of 331 · Chile 13.0%71.1%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.3 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 814 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
67.0%
104th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
11.5%
265th of 335
Came from another region
20.3%
82nd of 335
Net internal migration
+655
+2.0 per 100 residents
Río Buenothis commune · 31,764another region6,669 peopleelsewhere in the region3,771 peopleabroad363 peopleanother region6,432 peopleelsewhere in the region3,353 peopleRío Buenothis commune · 32,782
Río Buenothis commune · 31,764another region6,669 peopleelsewhere in th…3,771 peopleabroad363 peopleanother region6,432 peopleelsewhere in th…3,353 peopleRío Buenothis commune · 32,782

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Public administration2Public administration3Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale5Manufacturing4Manufacturing▲14Construction5Construction▼16Administrative services6Administrative services8Education7Education▲117Mining8Mining▲99Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food10Electricity and gas10Electricity and gas12Professional services11Professional services▲17Transport12Transport▼511Other services15Other services▼4
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Public administration33Retail and wholesale54Manufacturing▲145Construction▼166Administrative services87Education▲1178Mining▲999Accommodation and food1010Electricity and gas1211Professional services▲1712Transport▼51115Other services▼4

The ten branches that employ most of Río Bueno

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.

2 k4 k6 k8 k10 kprojection →8 k2029 · central2005201520242029
2 k4 k6 k8 k10 kprojection →8 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.4% a year observed · 3.0% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →10 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →10 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.9% a year observed · 3.8% projected

What Río Bueno is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Río Bueno employs more people in 74 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.

74
activities it is specialised in
6,507
formal workers
206/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Actividades de la administración …Cultivo de productos agrícolas en…Cultivo de floresMantenimiento y reparación de veh…Cultivo de trigoOtras actividades de atención en …Fabricación de maletas, bolsos y …Generación de energía eléctrica e…Programación y transmisiones de t…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Cultivo de trigoFabricación de maletas, bolsos y …Cría de ovejas (ovinos)How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Río Bueno

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
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción lecheraGanadería73287.6×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductorGanadería46366.0×
Cultivo de floresCultivo de plantas no perennes5458.7×
Extracción de piedra, arena y arcillaExtracción de piedra, arena y arcilla21645.2×
Cría de caballos y otros equinosGanadería1839.5×
Alquiler y arrendamiento de equipo recreativo y deportivoAlquiler y arrendamiento de efectos personales y enseres domésticos1234.6×
Distribución de energía eléctricaGeneración, transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica12132.2×
Cultivo de otros frutos y nueces de árboles y arbustosCultivo de plantas perennes10421.5×
Destilación, rectificación y mezclas de bebidas alcohólicas; excepto piscoElaboración de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas1020.6×
Venta al por menor de telas, lanas, hilos y similares en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros enseres domésticos en comercios especializados2511.9×
Elaboración de otros productos alimenticios n.c.p.Elaboración de otros productos alimenticios40510.8×
Conservador de bienes raícesActividades jurídicas1610.3×

The register files a firm at its tax address, so an activity can be over-represented here because the work happens here or because the head office does. Both are real facts about a place and they are not the same fact, and nothing in the register tells them apart: the communes where large firms keep their registered office carry activities that are physically elsewhere in Chile.

Revealed comparative advantage (Balassa, 1965) and the space of activities (Hidalgo, Klinger, Barabási and Hausmann, 2007), computed on formal employment because that is what a Chilean commune has. Built from the 500-worker activities and the communes above 1,000 formal workers; the floors are on /datos with everything else.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
144,088
hectares in holdings
88.5%
of them under a named use
9.1%
of the crop land is irrigated
1,959
holdings with land here
Pasture 41%Woodland 38%Not farmed 12%Annual crops 8.8%Pasture41%Native woodland36%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings11%Foddercrops4.8%Cereals3.0%Pulsesand…
Pasture 41%Woodland 38%Not farmed 12%Annual crops 8.8%Pasture41%Native woodland36%Scrub, barren ground andbuildingsFoddercropsCerea…3.0%
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
Río BuenoChile% of each territory's own population · 33,363 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
33,363
98,43218,480,432119th of 346
Average age
40.7 yrs
40.0 yrs38.1 yrs82nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
103.9
94.679.096th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
15.3/km²
12.1/km²24.7/km²227th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
12,935
37,3656,596,527113th of 346
Dwellings
16,369
47,7057,642,716115th of 346
People per household
2.58
2.632.80271st of 345
Women
51.3%
51.3%51.5%110th of 346
Men per 100 women
94.8
94.894.3237th of 346
Under 15
16.9%
17.7%17.7%244th of 346
65 and over
17.5%
16.7%14.0%95th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.3
52.346.5123rd of 346
One-person households
25.1%
23.7%21.8%82nd of 345
Households with children
30.1%
31.6%33.2%261st of 345
Indigenous peoples
28.1%
30.5%11.4%78th of 346
Female-headed households
47.4%
48.1%49.9%196th of 345
Land area
2,175 km²
8,153 km²748,041 km²69th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Río Bueno34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Río Bueno34%Arrived since 202066%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
1.0%
1.0%8.7%284th 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.
67.0%
68.4%50.5%104th 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.
11.5%
13.2%23.9%265th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
20.3%
17.6%17.2%82nd of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
325
9551,608,650195th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
33.0 yrs
34.7 yrs33.5 yrs193rd of 345
Women among foreign-born
47.4%
50.3%51.7%294th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
80.3%
81.5%83.1%209th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
34.5%
31.7%34.4%209th 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.
1.2%
1.2%10.6%286th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.3 yrs
12.7 yrs12.9 yrs180th 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.
655
-11,2620134th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
2.0
-11.60.0145th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Río Bueno20%Higher37%Secondary35%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Río Bueno20%37%Secondary35%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.1 yrs
9.1 yrs10.4 yrs211th of 346
Reached higher education
20.0%
20.5%31.1%188th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.6%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.
59.0%
57.3%55.6%94th 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.
101.9%
101.8%99.8%153rd of 346
Literacy rate
95.9%
95.9%97.8%208th of 346
Reached secondary education
36.6%
36.1%36.7%194th of 346
Primary education only
35.5%
35.1%24.1%112th of 346
Never attended school
3.66%
3.75%3.01%163rd of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
10.3 yrs
10.4 yrs12.1 yrs213th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.5 yrs
10.6 yrs12.1 yrs222nd of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.07%
4.06%2.18%138th of 345
Households lacking schooling
19.5%
22.3%15.1%208th 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.
305
1,392217,565139th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
22.6%
45.0%33.9%250th 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.
6.2%
26.7%3.1%86th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
81.1%
62.2%67.2%21st of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
8.9%
18.3%19.7%288th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
10.0%
19.5%13.1%243rd 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.
71.1%
64.0%13.0%21st 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.
56.7%
50.4%49.7%65th 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.

305left secondary school in 2024
180enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
59.0%continued immediately
81%of those, to a university
71%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%PsicologiaEnfermeriaObstetricia y PuericulturaArquitecturaKinesiologiaIngenieria ComercialBiologia MarinaIngenieria Civil en InformaticaTecnologia MedicaDerecho
0.0%5.0%10.0%PsicologiaEnfermeriaObstetricia y PuericulturaArquitecturaKinesiologiaIngenieria ComercialBiologia MarinaIngenieria Civil en InformaticaTecnologia MedicaDerecho
Río BuenoChile

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

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationSocial sciencesNatural sciencesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryServicesArts and humanities
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationSocial sciencesNatural sciencesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryServicesArts and humanities
Río BuenoChile

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

0100200300400200620152024305180
0100200300400200620152024305180
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 Río Bueno'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 Río Bueno 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

Río Bueno94%Fonasa4.9%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Río Bueno94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.8%
12.2%10.6%139th of 346
Public health insurance
93.1%
93.0%82.6%166th 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.
102.9
94.482.529th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
121
10810060th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
4,281
11,9701,950,388113th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.4 yrs
60.1 yrs56.4 yrs81st of 346
Disability among 65+
50.7%
49.1%43.0%69th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.29%
5.95%4.92%140th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.86%
5.40%4.58%123rd of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.81%
2.76%2.16%123rd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.96%
2.73%2.70%148th of 346
Private health insurance
4.8%
4.7%13.2%122nd of 335
No health coverage
1.33%
1.07%1.98%180th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
95.7%
92.8%92.1%122nd of 332
Households lacking health access
12.1%
10.3%6.0%24th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
3,432
9,2911,523,716103rd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
98
24736,69897th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.86%
2.66%2.41%162nd of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
5.9 days
6.1 days6.1 days226th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
29.4
25.119.937th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
119
11010036th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
128
40889,723127th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
3.7%
4.4%5.9%298th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
38.4
41.448.6187th 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.
69
77100200th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries, bones and… 16%Infections… 11%Tumours, b… 11%Pregnancy, birth a… 8.5%Mind, nerves and s… 7.7%Digestive system14%Genitourin…system8.6%Circulatorysystem12%Respiratorysystem10%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculoskelet…4.1%Skin2.2%Ill-definedsymptoms6.8%InfectiousandparasiticCont…withheal…Cancers andtumours5.3%Endocrineandmetabolic3.9%Blo…andimm…Pregnancy andchildbirth7.7%Mental andbehavioural5.2%NervoussystemEye
Digestive and urinar… 23%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries… 16%Infections and… 11%Tumours, blood… 11%Pregnan… 8.5%Mind, n… 7.7%Digestivesystem14%Genitou…system8.6%Circulatorysystem12%Respirat…system10%Injuriesandpoisoning10%Musculo…4.1%SkinIll-defin…symptoms6.8%Infec…and…Contact…Cancersandtumours5.3%Endocrineand…Blood and…Pregnancyandchildbirth7.7%Mentalandbehavio…5.2%Ner…sys…Eye
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 digestivos38%Sitios reservados17%Mama14%Vías urinarias13%Sangre ysistemalinfático9.4%Boca yfaringe4.7%Sitios maldefinidos4.7%
Órganos digestivos38%Sitiosreservados17%Mama14%Víasurinarias13%Sangre y sistemalinfático9.4%Boca yfaringe4.7%Sitiosmaldefinidos4.7%
Órganos digestivosSitios reservadosMamaVías urinariasSangre y sistema linfáticoBoca y faringehover 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.
26.8%
24.3%17.3%78th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.3 UF
23.8 UF32.0 UF220th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
104.2%
96.6%78.9%132nd 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.
89.3
90.885.6115th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
48.3%
47.2%54.4%220th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
8.1%
9.0%8.6%197th of 345
Self-employed
37.8%
35.8%33.8%113th of 345
Extreme poverty
9.8%
8.9%6.9%109th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
18.5%
16.3%17.7%157th of 335
Unemployment rate
5.7%
7.0%8.8%279th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 529,619
CLP 526,826CLP 783,124172nd 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.
0.443
0.4540.488142nd of 321
Registered firms
2,978
8,9351,582,390114th of 346
Annual sales
8,483,792 UF
73,988,520 UF34,347,683,688 UF149th 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.
6,508
23,5559,699,164151st of 346
Sales per firm
2,849 UF
8,281 UF21,706 UF218th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.5
1.83.9272nd of 346
Women among employees
41.7%
41.1%40.6%158th of 345
Independent contractors
2,826
8,6353,958,269129th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
30.3%
26.8%29.0%121st of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 28%Trade and logistics 22%State and social services 20%Industry and constr… 19%Advanc… 5.8%Other … 5.0%Agriculture and fishing28%Retail and wholesale14%Transport4.6%Accommodati…and food2.9%Education8.8%Health6.2%Publicadminis…4.7%Construction10%Manufacturing6.7%Elect…andgas1.6%Waterand…Admin…servi…2.5%Profe…servi…2.1%Inform…Fina…Domes…work3.0%Otherserv…Arts…
Natural resources 28%Trade and logist… 22%State and soci… 20%Industry and … 19%Adv… 5.8%Oth… 5.0%Agriculture andfishing28%Retail andwholesale14%Transport4.6%Accomm…andfoodEducation8.8%Health6.2%Publicadmini…4.7%Construction10%Manufacturi…6.7%Ele…andgasWate…Admi…serv…Pro…ser…Domes…work3.0%Oth…ser…
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 61%Managers and professionals 21%Elementary occupations 18%Service and sales17%Skilledagricultural15%Craft and trades14%Plant and machineoperators10%Clerical support4.4%Profession…11%Technicians8.1%Managers2.9%Elementaryoccupations18%
Skilled occupations 61%Managers and professio… 21%Elementary occupa… 18%Service and sales17%Skilled agricultural15%Craft and trades14%Plant andmachineoperators10%Cleri…suppo…4.4%Profession…11%Technicians8.1%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

Río Bueno98%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Río Bueno98%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.1%
5.2%5.7%186th of 345
Internet access
85.2%
86.2%93.2%248th 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.
7.3
6.52.366th 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.
4.4
4.71.6128th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
12,833
37,0866,408,172111th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.31%
0.28%0.57%194th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.04%
1.29%1.13%184th of 345
Public water network
78.5%
75.7%92.3%218th of 345
Electricity access
99.2%
99.0%99.6%222nd of 345
Detached houses
97.8%
98.3%78.7%190th of 345
Apartments
1.3%
0.9%19.9%116th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.53%0.23%205th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
16.6%
17.3%11.9%144th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
531
1,569491,904138th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.1%
4.2%7.5%274th of 345
Renting households
13.4%
13.4%26.2%210th of 345
Owner-occupiers
65.1%
67.5%61.1%241st of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
86.6%
87.6%24.4%86th of 345
Commute by public transport
21.1%
23.5%42.1%226th of 345
Walks to work
22.3%
20.5%10.2%84th of 345
Households with a computer
39.4%
40.7%54.9%228th 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.
2.4
2.21.181st 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.
81.6%
84.6%97.0%285th of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
99.6%
99.8%99.9%280th 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.
57.2%
60.2%89.4%249th 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.
72.8%
83.4%98.1%317th of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
99.9%
98.6%99.7%252nd 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.
12.3
18.35.9162nd 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.
57.0%
48.5%80.3%146th 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.
63.0%
55.6%90.0%200th 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.
85.3%
70.5%96.2%240th 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.
1.3
1.50.6128th 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.
96.0%
94.9%99.0%243rd 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%
99.9%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.
65.6%
67.1%91.6%233rd 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.
95.0%
92.8%98.5%238th of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
99.9%
99.6%99.8%251st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 42%On foot or by bicycle 27%Public transport 21%Other … 9.9%Car41%Walking22%Bicycle4.7%Public transport21%Other9.6%
Private vehicle 42%On foot or by… 27%Public transport 21%Other me… 9.9%Car41%Walking22%BicyclePublic transport21%Other9.6%
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 65%Provided rent-free 18%Rented 13%Owned outright61%Provided by family9.5%Provided by employer9.0%Rented, withcontract7.1%Rented, nocontract6.2%Oth…arr…
Owned 65%Provided rent-free 18%Rented 13%Owned outright61%Provided byfamily9.5%Providedbyemployer9.0%Rented,withcontract7.1%Rented,nocontra…6.2%
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 89%Fossi… 5.6%Elect… 4.2%No … 1.4%Firewood87%Gas3.3%Paraffin2.2%Electrici…4.2%No heating
Wood and biomass 89%Firewood87%GasParaffinElectricityNoheat…
ElectricityNo heatingOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
86.0%
of the registered voted in the first round
85.8%
voted in the runoff
30,972
registered voters on the roll
6.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman30.0%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist70.0%58.3%
Río BuenoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez21.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman18.7%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen17.8%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist29.6%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.9%1.3%
Río BuenoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile39.5%30.6%
KCambio por Chile15.6%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido16.8%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente8.5%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.9%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 pact16.7%0.7%
Río BuenoChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Río Bueno 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

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