Commune · 07108

Río ClaroRío Claro

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Census population
14,276
211th of 346
Population density
32.9/km²
161st of 346
Average years of schooling
8.4 yrs
316th of 346
Foreign-born share
1.4%
252nd 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%
Leaves from technical-vocational school1st of 331 · Chile 33.9%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 UF17.1 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF17.1 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 213 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
57.0%
206th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
21.8%
131st of 335
Came from another region
20.6%
77th of 335
Net internal migration
+4,499
+29.8 per 100 residents
Río Clarothis commune · 10,519elsewhere in the region3,292 peopleanother region3,114 peopleabroad92 peopleanother region1,428 peopleelsewhere in the region479 peopleRío Clarothis commune · 15,110
Río Clarothis commune · 10,519elsewhere in th…3,292 peopleanother region3,114 peopleabroad92 peopleanother region1,428 peopleelsewhere in th…479 peopleRío Clarothis commune · 15,110

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing9Administrative services2Administrative services▲75Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲23Transport4Transport▼16Construction5Construction▲14Water and waste6Water and waste▼27Accommodation and food7Accommodation and food10Manufacturing8Manufacturing▲211Finance and insurance9Finance and insurance▲28Professional services10Professional services▼22Other services11Other services▼912Information and communications12Information and communications
2005202411Agriculture and fishing92Administrative services▲753Retail and wholesale▲234Transport▼165Construction▲146Water and waste▼277Accommodation and food108Manufacturing▲2119Finance and insurance▲2810Professional services▼2211Other services▼91212Information and communications

The ten branches that employ most of Río Claro

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% interval10.4% a year observed · -1.3% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

02.0 M4.0 M6.0 Mprojection →4.2 M2029 · central2005201520242029
02.0 M4.0 M6.0 Mprojection →4.2 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval9.9% a year observed · -3.0% projected

What Río Claro is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Río Claro employs more people in 20 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.

20
activities it is specialised in
9,141
formal workers
296/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.53.7Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de …Actividades de la administración …Evacuación y tratamiento de aguas…Cría de ovejas (ovinos)Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Otras industrias manufactureras n…Transporte de carga por carreteraVenta al por menor de combustible…Servicio notarialHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.53.7Actividades de apoyo a la agricul…Actividades de la administración …Cultivo de trigoEvacuación y tratamiento de aguas…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Río Claro

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 plantas vivas incluida la producción en viveros (excepto viveros forestales)Propagación de plantas36047.1×
Cría de ovejas (ovinos)Ganadería2218.4×
Actividades de apoyo a la agriculturaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha4,99717.9×
Cría de caballos y otros equinosGanadería1117.2×
Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de huesoCultivo de plantas perennes1,69511.0×
Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales (explotación mixta)Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales21810.3×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes1068.2×
Venta al por mayor de maquinaria, equipo y materiales agropecuariosVenta al por mayor de maquinaria, equipo y materiales186.6×
Evacuación y tratamiento de aguas servidasEvacuación de aguas residuales254.3×
Venta al por menor de gas licuado en bombonas (cilindros) en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados163.3×
Cultivo de porotosCultivo de plantas no perennes23.2×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductorGanadería252.5×

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
26,097
hectares in holdings
88.3%
of them under a named use
98.3%
of the crop land is irrigated
464
holdings with land here
Orchards and vineyards 30%Woodland 24%Not farmed 22%Pasture 17%Annual crops 6.4%Fruit trees24%Vines5.9%Forest plantations17%Nativewoodland7.3%Scrub, barren groundand buildings12%Untilled land10%Pasture17%Foddercrops3.2%Cereals2.0%Indust…crops
Orchards and vineyards 30%Woodland 24%Not farmed 22%Pasture 17%Fruit trees24%VinesForestplantations17%Native woodland7.3%Scrub,barrenground an…12%Untilledland10%Pasture17%Foddercrops3.2%Cerea…2.0%
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
Río ClaroChile% of each territory's own population · 14,276 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
14,276
445,02118,480,432211th of 346
Average age
40.7 yrs
37.9 yrs38.1 yrs82nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
101.5
77.779.0105th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
32.9/km²
44.8/km²24.7/km²161st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
5,130
160,5066,596,527215th of 346
Dwellings
6,279
191,3267,642,716224th of 346
People per household
2.78
2.772.80146th of 345
Women
49.6%
51.5%51.5%300th of 346
Men per 100 women
101.6
94.394.347th of 346
Under 15
17.1%
18.3%17.7%226th of 346
65 and over
17.3%
14.2%14.0%103rd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.5
48.346.5117th of 346
One-person households
19.7%
21.5%21.8%259th of 345
Households with children
32.3%
33.8%33.2%201st of 345
Indigenous peoples
3.4%
3.7%11.4%326th of 346
Female-headed households
37.9%
47.9%49.9%338th of 345
Land area
434 km²
9,927 km²748,041 km²219th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Río Claro52%Arrived since 202048%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Río Claro52%Arrived since 202048%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
1.4%
4.8%8.7%252nd 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.
57.0%
60.8%50.5%206th 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.
21.8%
19.5%23.9%131st of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
20.6%
14.5%17.2%77th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
194
21,5741,608,650236th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
31.0 yrs
32.5 yrs33.5 yrs289th of 345
Women among foreign-born
44.8%
50.5%51.7%326th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
78.4%
80.6%83.1%264th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
51.5%
42.0%34.4%33rd of 345
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna.
1.6%
5.8%10.6%256th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
11.0 yrs
13.3 yrs12.9 yrs317th 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.
4,499
-18,381071st of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
29.8
-3.90.039th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Río Claro13%Higher35%Secondary41%Primary only5.7%4.6%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Río Claro35%Secondary41%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
9.9 yrs10.4 yrs316th of 346
Reached higher education
13.3%
26.9%31.1%326th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.3%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.
46.9%
52.5%55.6%282nd 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.
105.4%
102.7%99.8%31st of 346
Literacy rate
92.9%
96.6%97.8%329th of 346
Reached secondary education
35.5%
36.4%36.7%240th of 346
Primary education only
40.9%
27.7%24.1%38th of 346
Never attended school
5.72%
3.58%3.01%24th 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.
9.2 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs326th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
9.7 yrs
11.8 yrs12.1 yrs317th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
7.10%
3.38%2.18%18th of 345
Households lacking schooling
42.4%
18.5%15.1%17th 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.
49
5,338217,565290th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
100.0%
37.5%33.9%1st 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%
4.3%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
65.2%
69.4%67.2%139th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
13.0%
10.3%19.7%242nd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
21.7%
20.3%13.1%103rd 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.
0.0%
10.8%13.0%315th 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.
56.5%
48.3%49.7%67th 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.

49left secondary school in 2024
23enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
46.9%continued immediately
65%of those, to a university
0%of those, outside their region

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryAgriculture and veterinaryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationNatural sciencesServicesInformation technology
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryAgriculture and veterinaryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationNatural sciencesServicesInformation technology
Río ClaroChile

The ten broad fields of ISCED-F 2013, as SIES classifies each programme, as a share of everyone who continued, here and in the country. The list of individual programmes is withheld here: fewer than 30 of this territory's leavers continued, and a ranking built on that few names people.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

02040602006201520244923
02040602006201520244923
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 Claro'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 Claro 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 Claro94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Río Claro94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
13.0%
12.0%10.6%127th of 346
Public health insurance
94.4%
90.9%82.6%118th 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.
52.0
72.482.5260th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
88
84100176th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,850
53,1941,950,388216th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
58.9 yrs
56.5 yrs56.4 yrs128th of 346
Disability among 65+
46.6%
42.8%43.0%144th of 346
Difficulty walking
6.47%
5.70%4.92%124th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.69%
5.53%4.58%143rd of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.83%
2.37%2.16%119th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.17%
2.86%2.70%96th of 346
Private health insurance
0.0%
5.0%13.2%311th of 335
No health coverage
3.70%
2.33%1.98%54th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
97.6%
90.9%92.1%69th of 332
Households lacking health access
4.7%
3.9%6.0%195th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
743
32,2001,523,716234th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
30
74636,698205th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
4.04%
2.32%2.41%48th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.4 days
5.9 days6.1 days183rd of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
21.0
16.819.9132nd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
60
88100263rd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
62
2,14389,723201st of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
8.3%
6.7%5.9%28th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
43.4
48.248.6133rd 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.
77
98100168th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Injuries, bones and skin 19%Pregnancy, birth… 18%Heart and lungs 18%Tumours, blood and metabo… 15%Mind, n… 4.6%Infecti… 2.6%Digestivesystem13%Genitourin…system9.6%Injuries andpoisoning14%Muscu…3.4%Skin1.5%Pregnancy andchildbirth17%Circulatorysystem9.6%Respiratory system8.5%Cancers andtumours11%Endoc…andmetab…3.0%Blood…Nervo…system2.2%Mentalandbehav…EarInfecti…
Digestive and urinary … 23%Injuries, bones a… 19%Pregnancy… 18%Heart and… 18%Tumours, bloo… 15%Mind… 4.6%Digestivesystem13%Genitour…system9.6%Injuries andpoisoning14%Musc…SkinPregnancyandchildbirth17%Circulatorysystem9.6%Respiratorysystem8.5%Cancers andtumours11%End…andmet…Blo…Nerv…syst…Mentaland…Infec…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 digestivos27%Sitios reservados26%Sangre y sistema linfático16%Mama13%Genitalesfemeninos9.7%Genitales masculinos8.1%
Órganos digestivos27%Sitios reservados26%Sangre ysistemalinfático16%Mama13%Genitalesfemeninos9.7%Genitalesmasculinos8.1%
Órganos digestivosSitios reservadosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaGenitales femeninosGenitales masculinoshover 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.
20.0%
23.7%17.3%173rd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
17.1 UF
24.9 UF32.0 UF332nd of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
111.2%
100.5%78.9%79th 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.
92.4
84.985.698th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
49.5%
51.0%54.4%199th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.2%
9.1%8.6%245th of 345
Self-employed
24.9%
32.3%33.8%334th of 345
Extreme poverty
7.8%
10.5%6.9%168th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
16.7%
13.3%17.7%189th of 335
Unemployment rate
12.4%
8.4%8.8%65th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 518,915
CLP 538,802CLP 783,124186th 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
0.4610.488196th of 321
Registered firms
1,319
37,7891,582,390201st of 346
Annual sales
4,865,496 UF
236,637,990 UF34,347,683,688 UF201st 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.
9,141
169,0949,699,164125th of 346
Sales per firm
3,689 UF
6,262 UF21,706 UF178th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.3
2.83.9139th of 346
Women among employees
40.0%
38.2%40.6%195th of 345
Independent contractors
1,099
53,0023,958,269224th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
10.7%
23.9%29.0%339th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 52%Trade and logi… 16%State and … 13%Industry and constr… 13%Advan… 3.6%Other… 3.3%Agriculture and fishing51%Retail andwholesale8.9%Transport4.2%Accomm…andfood2.5%Education5.8%PublicadministrationHealth3.5%Construct…6.7%Manufact…4.4%Waterand…Pro…ser…Admini…servic…Inf…Domes…work2.0%Oth…ser…
Natural resources 52%Trade and… 16%State … 13%Industry and c… 13%Agriculture and fishing51%Retail andwholesale8.9%Transpo…4.2%Acco…andfoodEducation5.8%Publicadmin…3.7%Health3.5%Construc…6.7%Manufac…4.4%Water…Dome…work
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 51%Elementary occupations 35%Managers and professionals 14%Skilledagricultural15%Craft andtrades11%Service andsales11%Plant and machineoperators9.8%Clerical support4.0%Elementary occupations35%Technicians6.3%Professionals6.0%Man…
Skilled occupations 51%Elementary occupations 35%Managers… 14%Skilledagricultur…15%Craft and trades11%Service and sales11%Plant andmachineoperators9.8%ClericalsupportElementary occupations35%Technicians6.3%Professi…6.0%
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 Claro100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Río Claro100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.8%
5.1%5.7%102nd of 345
Internet access
86.3%
91.1%93.2%226th 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.
5.3
2.52.3108th 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.
5.1
2.21.697th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
5,054
157,3776,408,172215th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.24%
0.30%0.57%265th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.23%
0.67%1.13%152nd of 345
Public water network
86.6%
92.0%92.3%156th of 345
Electricity access
99.5%
99.7%99.6%165th of 345
Detached houses
99.3%
90.0%78.7%72nd of 345
Apartments
0.0%
9.7%19.9%216th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.10%
0.11%0.23%243rd of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
13.6%
14.3%11.9%191st of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
251
8,220491,904230th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.9%
5.1%7.5%208th of 345
Renting households
7.7%
19.5%26.2%330th of 345
Owner-occupiers
74.3%
69.0%61.1%52nd of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
81.5%
35.9%24.4%109th of 345
Commute by public transport
23.6%
27.0%42.1%200th of 345
Walks to work
9.0%
10.3%10.2%265th of 345
Households with a computer
36.3%
51.0%54.9%264th 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.
2.1
1.11.1113th 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.
90.9%
97.5%97.0%220th 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.
51.5%
86.6%89.4%269th 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.
99.2%
98.6%98.1%142nd 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.
28.5
5.15.995th of 345
People within 5 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
0.0%
78.4%80.3%194th of 345
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
0.0%
88.9%90.0%249th of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
53.0%
95.7%96.2%259th 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.
1.6
0.80.681st 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.
99.6%
98.8%99.0%108th 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.
57.8%
88.0%91.6%261st 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.
95.8%
98.0%98.5%229th 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 47%Public transport 24%On foot or by bicycle 19%Other m… 10%Car43%MotorcyclePublic transport24%Bicycle10%Walking9.0%Other10.0%
Private vehicle 47%Public transport 24%On foot or by bicycle 19%Other means 10%Car43%Mot…Publictransport24%Bicycle10%Walking9.0%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 74%Provided rent… 15%Rented 7.7%Owned outright73%Provided byfamily11%Provided byemployerRented,nocontract4.4%Rente…withcontr…3.3%Other arrangement
Owned 74%Provided rent-free 15%Rented 7.7%Owned outright73%Provided by family11%Provi…byemplo…4.0%Rented,nocontra…4.4%Rente…withcontr…3.3%Oth…arr…
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 83%Fossil fuels 10%Electricity 3.6%No heati… 2.4%Firewood82%Gas6.9%Paraffin3.2%Electricity3.6%No heating2.4%
Wood and biomass 83%Fossil fuels 10%Ele… 3.6%Firewood82%GasParaffinElectrici…No…
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
93.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
93.5%
voted in the runoff
13,112
registered voters on the roll
6.0%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman28.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist71.8%58.3%
Río ClaroChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez23.2%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman17.7%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.7%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist33.2%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
Río ClaroChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile38.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile24.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido21.7%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.4%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%
Río ClaroChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile19.2%
KCambio por Chile29.4%
JChile Grande y Unido24.4%
IPartido de la Gente11.6%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.3%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular2.0%
Independents outside a pact8.1%
Río Claroshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Río Claro 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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