Commune · 10305

Río NegroRío Negro

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Census population
13,874
219th of 346
Population density
10.9/km²
253rd of 346
Average years of schooling
9.1 yrs
211th of 346
Foreign-born share
0.8%
310th 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 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents2nd of 330 · Chile 48.696.6
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.1 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.1 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 176 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
63.6%
135th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
21.5%
134th of 335
Came from another region
14.9%
174th of 335
Net internal migration
+1,467
+10.5 per 100 residents
Río Negrothis commune · 12,568elsewhere in the region3,016 peopleanother region2,094 peopleelsewhere in the region2,781 peopleanother region862 peopleRío Negrothis commune · 14,035
Río Negrothis commune · 12,568elsewhere in th…3,016 peopleanother region2,094 peopleelsewhere in th…2,781 peopleanother region862 peopleRío Negrothis commune · 14,035

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Education2Education14Administrative services3Administrative services▲113Manufacturing4Manufacturing▼110Health5Health▲55Construction6Construction▼14Retail and wholesale7Retail and wholesale▼315Water and waste8Water and waste▲77Transport9Transport▼26Public administration10Public administration▼413Professional services11Professional services▲211Real estate12Real estate▼19Mining13Mining▼48Other services14Other services▼612Finance and insurance15Finance and insurance▼3
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Education143Administrative services▲1134Manufacturing▼1105Health▲556Construction▼147Retail and wholesale▼3158Water and waste▲779Transport▼2610Public administration▼41311Professional services▲21112Real estate▼1913Mining▼4814Other services▼61215Finance and insurance▼3

The ten branches that employ most of Río Negro

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 k3 k4 k5 k6 kprojection →4 k2029 · central2005201520242029
2 k3 k4 k5 k6 kprojection →4 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval0.8% a year observed · 2.8% 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% interval4.5% a year observed · 1.3% projected

What Río Negro is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Río Negro employs more people in 37 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.

37
activities it is specialised in
3,627
formal workers
260/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.23.7Otras actividades de servicios de…Terminación y acabado de edificiosCultivo de trigoAserrado y acepilladura de maderaAlquiler de vehículos automotores…Cría de caballos y otros equinosCorretaje al por mayor de ganadoEvaluación de riesgos y daños (in…Actividades de la administración …How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.23.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Otras actividades de servicios de…Recuperación y reciclamiento de o…Cultivo de trigoHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Río Negro

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 lecheraGanadería482103.5×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductorGanadería28171.9×
Elaboración de productos lácteosElaboración de productos lácteos24431.0×
Reparación de maquinaria agropecuaria y forestalReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo1226.3×
Recuperación y reciclamiento de otros desperdicios y desechos n.c.p.Recuperación de materiales7619.0×
Actividades poscosechaActividades de apoyo a la agricultura y la ganadería y actividades poscosecha1514.2×
Cultivo de frutas de pepita y de huesoCultivo de plantas perennes77312.7×
Cría de caballos y otros equinosGanadería311.8×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada257.8×
Servicios de transporte de escolaresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre77.5×
Desratización, desinfección y exterminio de plagas no agrícolasActividades de limpieza137.5×
Corretaje al por mayor de ganadoVenta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata36.1×

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
44,576
hectares in holdings
92.7%
of them under a named use
16.9%
of the crop land is irrigated
571
holdings with land here
Pasture 55%Woodland 27%Not farmed 8.6%Annual crops 7.4%Pasture55%Forest plantations16%Native woodland11%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings7.3%Foddercrops4.1%Cereals2.2%Pulsesandtubers
Pasture 55%Woodland 27%Not farmed 8.6%Annual cr… 7.4%Pasture55%Forestplantations16%Nativewoodland11%Scrub, barrenground andbuildingsFoddercrops4.1%Cereals2.2%Pul…
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 NegroChile% of each territory's own population · 13,874 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
13,874
239,10718,480,432219th of 346
Average age
41.3 yrs
39.5 yrs38.1 yrs54th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
113.1
92.679.058th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
10.9/km²
25.8/km²24.7/km²253rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
5,269
90,4036,596,527211th of 346
Dwellings
6,493
107,1737,642,716220th of 346
People per household
2.63
2.642.80243rd of 345
Women
50.7%
51.7%51.5%202nd of 346
Men per 100 women
97.2
93.594.3145th of 346
Under 15
16.4%
16.9%17.7%271st of 346
65 and over
18.6%
15.6%14.0%59th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
53.8
48.246.586th of 346
One-person households
23.1%
23.4%21.8%149th of 345
Households with children
29.9%
31.2%33.2%267th of 345
Indigenous peoples
37.7%
31.9%11.4%42nd of 346
Female-headed households
45.9%
49.8%49.9%236th of 345
Land area
1,268 km²
9,255 km²748,041 km²114th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Río Negro37%Arrived since 202063%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Río Negro37%Arrived since 202063%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%
1.9%8.7%310th 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.
63.6%
65.9%50.5%135th 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.
21.5%
17.2%23.9%134th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
14.9%
15.6%17.2%174th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
107
4,6091,608,650279th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
35.6 yrs
34.8 yrs33.5 yrs82nd of 345
Women among foreign-born
48.6%
48.9%51.7%270th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
68.2%
81.5%83.1%340th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
37.4%
32.3%34.4%178th 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.
0.8%
2.3%10.6%319th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.2 yrs
13.2 yrs12.9 yrs59th 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.
1,467
-51,0710111th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
10.5
-20.60.0111th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Río Negro19%Higher37%Secondary36%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Río Negro19%37%Secondary36%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
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs211th of 346
Reached higher education
19.0%
25.7%31.1%218th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.9%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.
56.4%
62.3%55.6%136th 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.
100.0%
100.2%99.8%231st of 346
Literacy rate
95.6%
96.9%97.8%222nd of 346
Reached secondary education
36.8%
36.5%36.7%185th of 346
Primary education only
36.3%
29.9%24.1%100th of 346
Never attended school
3.47%
3.14%3.01%189th 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
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs213th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.3 yrs
11.3 yrs12.1 yrs251st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.39%
3.13%2.18%123rd of 345
Households lacking schooling
17.3%
20.6%15.1%235th 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.
181
3,101217,565180th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
54.1%
38.8%33.9%74th 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%
7.4%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
57.8%
68.2%67.2%215th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
18.6%
13.6%19.7%165th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
23.5%
18.2%13.1%86th 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.
8.8%
22.8%13.0%198th 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.
58.8%
51.0%49.7%39th 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.

181left secondary school in 2024
102enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
56.4%continued immediately
58%of those, to a university
9%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%Medicina VeterinariaEnfermeriaTecnico Experto AgrarioConstruccion CivilQuimica y FarmaciaKinesiologiaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizAgronomiaPedagogia en Educacion Media Mencion Educacion FisicaTecnico en Enfermeria
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%Medicina VeterinariaEnfermeriaTecnico Experto AgrarioConstruccion CivilQuimica y FarmaciaKinesiologiaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizAgronomiaPedagogia en Educacion Media Mencion Educacion FisicaTecnico en Enfermeria
Río NegroChile

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

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareAgriculture and veterinaryEngineering and industryServicesEducationBusiness and lawInformation technologySocial sciences
0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareAgriculture and veterinaryEngineering and industryServicesEducationBusiness and lawInformation technologySocial sciences
Río NegroChile

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

050100150200200620152024181102
050100150200200620152024181102
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 Negro'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 Negro 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 Negro97%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Río Negro97%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapre% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
14.4%
11.5%10.6%69th of 346
Public health insurance
96.4%
91.8%82.6%60th 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.
92.8
101.382.548th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
147
9410017th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,004
27,6101,950,388205th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
60.6 yrs
58.9 yrs56.4 yrs74th of 346
Disability among 65+
50.4%
46.9%43.0%72nd of 346
Difficulty walking
7.03%
5.65%4.92%80th of 346
Difficulty seeing
6.57%
5.00%4.58%77th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.55%
2.57%2.16%37th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.38%
2.81%2.70%66th of 346
Private health insurance
3.1%
5.7%13.2%172nd of 335
No health coverage
0.00%
1.23%1.98%279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
96.8%
90.6%92.1%95th of 332
Households lacking health access
5.4%
6.2%6.0%163rd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,287
24,2271,523,716178th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
52
49436,698152nd of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
4.04%
2.04%2.41%47th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
11.5 days
5.9 days6.1 days9th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
37.5
20.719.911th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
106
12010064th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
134
1,66489,723123rd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
10.4%
6.9%5.9%10th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
96.6
69.648.62nd 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.
169
1341004th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 28%Digestive and urinary tract 22%Tumours, blood … 17%Injuries, b… 14%Pregna… 7.0%Infec… 6.7%Min… 5.4%Circulatorysystem15%Respiratorysystem13%Digestive system13%Genitourina…system8.5%Cancers andtumours12%Endocrine andmetabolic4.2%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculos…2.6%Skin1.7%Pregnancyandchildbirth6.1%Contact withhealthservices3.7%Infec…andparas…Ill-…symp…NervoussystemMental andbehaviour…Eye
Heart and lungs 28%Digestive and ur… 22%Tumours, b… 17%Injurie… 14%Pregnancy, b… 7.0%Circulatorysystem15%Respiratorysystem13%Digestive system13%Genitourinary system8.5%Cancers andtumours12%Endocrine andmetabolicInjuriesandpoisoning10%Muscul…2.6%SkinPregnancy andchildbirthContactwithhealth…Infe…and…Ill…sym…NervoussystemMental…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 digestivos34%Tejidosblandos9.7%Mama9.7%Sangre ysistemalinfático9.7%Víasrespiratorias7.5%Genitalesmasculinos6.7%Víasurinarias6.7%Genitalesfemeninos6.0%Tiroides yendocrinas5.2%Sitiosreservados5.2%
Órganos digestivos34%Tejidosblandos9.7%Mama9.7%Sangre ysistemalinfático9.7%Víasrespirato…7.5%Genitalesmasculinos6.7%Víasurinarias6.7%Genital…femenin…6.0%Tiroidesyendocrin…5.2%Sitiosreservad…5.2%
Órganos digestivosTejidos blandosMamaSangre y sistema linfáticoVías respiratoriasGenitales 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.
18.9%
18.3%17.3%194th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.1 UF
26.3 UF32.0 UF234th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
114.5%
93.3%78.9%56th 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.
81.7
90.485.6151st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
47.3%
51.3%54.4%237th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.1%
8.9%8.6%140th of 345
Self-employed
33.6%
32.7%33.8%200th of 345
Extreme poverty
9.0%
7.2%6.9%133rd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
9.4%
17.4%17.7%293rd of 335
Unemployment rate
7.4%
8.3%8.8%233rd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 505,192
CLP 604,837CLP 783,124198th 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.
0.460
0.4650.48895th of 321
Registered firms
1,134
21,6211,582,390218th of 346
Annual sales
3,867,476 UF
251,143,478 UF34,347,683,688 UF223rd 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.
3,627
91,0799,699,164212th of 346
Sales per firm
3,410 UF
11,616 UF21,706 UF185th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.9
2.83.9205th of 346
Women among employees
39.9%
36.7%40.6%197th of 345
Independent contractors
1,150
30,0703,958,269216th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
24.1%
24.8%29.0%223rd of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resources 28%Trade and logistics 22%State and social services 20%Industry and constr… 19%Advanc… 5.9%Other … 5.1%Agriculture and fishing27%Retail andwholesale13%Transport6.0%Accommodationand foodEducation8.9%Health7.2%Publicadmin…4.3%Construction9.6%Manufacturing7.8%Admin…servi…2.6%Prof…serv…Finan…Info…Domesticwork3.5%Oth…ser…Art…
Natural resources 28%Trade and logist… 22%State and soci… 20%Industry and … 19%Adv… 5.9%Oth… 5.1%Agriculture andfishing27%Retail andwholesale13%Transport6.0%Accom…andfoodEducation8.9%Health7.2%Publicadmini…4.3%Construction9.6%Manufacturi…7.8%Admi…serv…Pro…ser…Domes…work3.5%
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%Craft and trades14%Skilledagricultural14%Plant and machineoperators11%Clerical support4.6%Professiona…9.7%Technicians8.4%ManagersElementaryoccupations18%
Skilled occupations 61%Managers and professi… 21%Elementary occupat… 18%Service and sales17%Craft and trades14%Skilled agricultural14%Plant andmachineoperators11%Cleri…suppo…4.6%Professio…9.7%Technicians8.4%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 Negro98%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Río Negro98%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.8%
4.9%5.7%221st of 345
Internet access
84.4%
90.3%93.2%264th 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.
5.5
3.72.3102nd 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.
3.9
3.11.6147th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
5,221
89,3196,408,172211th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.31%
0.34%0.57%203rd of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
2.39%
1.73%1.13%62nd of 345
Public water network
71.7%
82.0%92.3%268th of 345
Electricity access
99.1%
99.3%99.6%229th of 345
Detached houses
97.7%
91.9%78.7%192nd of 345
Apartments
0.8%
6.7%19.9%138th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.90%
0.56%0.23%16th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
12.8%
12.0%11.9%208th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
266
4,760491,904216th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
5.0%
5.3%7.5%194th of 345
Renting households
10.3%
19.3%26.2%287th of 345
Owner-occupiers
67.3%
63.8%61.1%201st of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
91.0%
73.6%24.4%46th of 345
Commute by public transport
25.8%
34.4%42.1%165th of 345
Walks to work
18.9%
12.4%10.2%126th of 345
Households with a computer
36.4%
46.0%54.9%263rd 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.
2.8
1.81.156th 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.
78.1%
88.4%97.0%304th 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.
99.4%
99.9%99.9%283rd 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.
57.8%
80.8%89.4%247th 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.
93.8%
93.3%98.1%235th 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%
99.7%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.
15.6
8.05.9142nd 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%
69.7%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.
67.9%
82.2%90.0%192nd 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.
98.6%
92.1%96.2%198th of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
2.0
1.00.640th 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.
84.6%
96.2%99.0%320th 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.
69.4%
81.7%91.6%212th 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.
96.5%
94.1%98.5%215th 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.
99.7%
99.7%99.8%269th of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 45%Public transport 26%On foot or by bicycle 21%Othe… 8.6%Car43%Public transport26%Walking19%Other8.1%
Private vehicle 45%Public trans… 26%On foot or by bicycle 21%Other m… 8.6%Car43%Publictransport26%Walking19%Other8.1%
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 67%Provided rent-free 19%Rented 10%Owned outright65%Provided by employer9.4%Provided by family9.2%Rented, nocontract5.2%Rented, withcontract5.1%Otherarran…3.8%
Owned 67%Provided rent-free 19%Rented 10%Owned outright65%Provided byemployer9.4%Provided byfamily9.2%Rente…nocontr…5.2%Rented,withcontra…5.1%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 93%Firewood91%Gas2.6%Paraf…1.3%Elect…1.8%Noheati…0.9%
Wood and biomass 93%Firewood91%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
86.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
86.4%
voted in the runoff
13,214
registered voters on the roll
7.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman33.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist66.8%58.3%
Río NegroChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez22.3%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman21.3%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen18.5%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist27.6%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.9%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
Río NegroChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile44.3%30.6%
KCambio por Chile19.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido23.5%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente9.3%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.7%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 NegroChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Río Negro 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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