Río Verde — PuroChile

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.

People per household345th of 345 · Chile 2.801.62

Average age1st of 346 · Chile 38.1 yrs47.9 yrs

Ageing index1st of 345 · Chile 79.0283.3

One-person households1st of 345 · Chile 21.8%60.3%

Households with children345th of 345 · Chile 33.2%6.3%

Women's schooling as share of men's1st of 346 · Chile 99.8%121.5%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 21 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

23.8%

321st of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

9.5%

290th of 335

Came from another region

66.7%

4th of 335

Net internal migration

+160

+76.2 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Río Verde

Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.

BranchWorkersShare of total2005–2024Change

01Public administrationState and social services6271.3%+210%02Agriculture and fishingNatural resources2528.7%−32%03Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics00.0%—04Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics00.0%−100%05MiningNatural resources00.0%—06Other servicesOther services00.0%—

What Río Verde is specialised in

2024 · SII

PuroChile does not compute this for Río Verde. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 87 formal workers here that division is a statement about a handful of people: one worker would move it further than a whole industry moves it in Santiago. The floor is 1,000 workers, and it is a floor rather than a caveat because a spectacular number nobody should read is worse than no number.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021

263,110

hectares in holdings

84.6%

of them under a named use

49.2%

of the crop land is irrigated

35

holdings with land here

PastureWoodlandhover 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.

The agricultural census measured 263,110 hectares of holdings in Río Verde in the 2020/2021 agricultural year, and this is how it divided them.

Fourteen of the fifteen tiles are categories the census publishes. The fifteenth is not: it is the censused surface less the other fourteen, and what it holds is scrub, barren ground, roads and buildings. Across Chile it is half of everything, because most of the censused surface is Patagonian scrub and northern desert inside very large holdings.

Irrigation is asked of eleven of the uses and not of forest, native woodland, natural pasture or untilled ground — so the 49.2% above is a share of the 4,878 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 35 holdings with land here, — are self-consumption plots — under two hectares and with nothing sold in the year. These counts are the census's own for this territory and they are not added to anything: a holding with land in two comunas is counted in both.

VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal 2021, INE

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

Río VerdeChile% of each territory's own population · 102 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	102	132,975	18,480,432	345th of 346
Average age	47.9 yrs	39.2 yrs	38.1 yrs	1st of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	283.3	90.7	79.0	1st of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	0.0/km²	3.7/km²	24.7/km²	346th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	63	49,842	6,596,527	344th of 346
Dwellings	188	60,117	7,642,716	345th of 346
People per household	1.62	2.67	2.80	345th of 345
Women	29.4%	50.8%	51.5%	345th of 346
Men per 100 women	240.0	96.9	94.3	2nd of 346
Under 15	5.9%	16.4%	17.7%	345th of 346
65 and over	16.7%	14.9%	14.0%	134th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	29.1	45.4	46.5	343rd of 346
One-person households	60.3%	22.3%	21.8%	1st of 345
Households with children	6.3%	30.8%	33.2%	345th of 345
Indigenous peoples	18.6%	22.2%	11.4%	110th of 346
Female-headed households	14.3%	48.7%	49.9%	345th of 345
Land area	9,004 km²	36,148 km²	748,041 km²	19th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	3.9%	6.0%	8.7%	133rd 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.	23.8%	57.8%	50.5%	321st 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.	9.5%	2.9%	23.9%	290th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	66.7%	33.3%	17.2%	4th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	4	8,019	1,608,650	344th of 346
Average age, foreign-born	47.5 yrs	33.7 yrs	33.5 yrs	2nd of 345
Women among foreign-born	50.0%	54.8%	51.7%	211th of 345
Foreign-born of working age	75.0%	82.6%	83.1%	314th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	25.0%	35.5%	34.4%	288th 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.	3.8%	7.2%	10.6%	155th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	9.3 yrs	12.8 yrs	12.9 yrs	342nd 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.	160	5,930	0	148th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	76.2	4.0	0.0	4th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	9.4 yrs	10.8 yrs	10.4 yrs	153rd of 346
Reached higher education	23.5%	34.0%	31.1%	130th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	100.0%	99.0%	98.6%	1st of 333

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
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.	121.5%	99.3%	99.8%	1st of 346
Literacy rate	90.6%	98.8%	97.8%	340th of 346
Reached secondary education	27.5%	37.9%	36.7%	335th of 346
Primary education only	42.2%	21.1%	24.1%	21st of 346
Never attended school	5.88%	1.66%	3.01%	22nd of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.	9.3 yrs	12.6 yrs	12.1 yrs	320th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	11.3 yrs	12.5 yrs	12.1 yrs	133rd of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	9.38%	1.17%	2.18%	6th of 345
Households lacking schooling	25.0%	9.4%	15.1%	144th of 335

Health

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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 Verde 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.

This region's own series says it stopped reporting in 2019, 2024 and 2025: 21,838 discharges in 2019 against a median of 14,183 in its other years, 54%; 7,768 discharges in 2024 against a median of 14,958 in its other years, -48%; 9,770 discharges in 2025 against a median of 14,958 in its other years, -35%. The rule withholds any year that departs more than 25% from that median, and no other region crosses it in any year. A register that loses records is not a place whose health changed, so those years are not published here. The counts are still in the published data, and /datos carries the check.

Which health system

FonasaIsapre% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Against its peers	Province	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	6.9%		8.7%	10.6%	332nd of 346
Public health insurance	71.4%		79.4%	82.6%	322nd of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	7	11,631	1,950,388	344th of 346
Average age, people with a disability	64.6 yrs	56.8 yrs	56.4 yrs	6th of 346
Disability among 65+	57.1%	44.9%	43.0%	12th of 346
Difficulty walking	1.96%	4.15%	4.92%	340th of 346
Difficulty seeing	2.94%	3.37%	4.58%	329th of 346
Difficulty hearing	0.00%	1.84%	2.16%	345th of 346
Difficulty concentrating	1.96%	2.13%	2.70%	315th of 346
Private health insurance	28.6%	12.6%	13.2%	10th of 335
No health coverage	0.00%	0.94%	1.98%	279th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	100.0%	95.9%	92.1%	1st of 332
Households lacking health access	0.0%	6.0%	6.0%	310th of 335

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	0.0%	10.4%	17.3%	332nd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	34.1 UF	21.1 UF	32.0 UF	18th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	123.9%	92.2%	78.9%	14th 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.	205.9	95.3	85.6	8th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	86.5%	59.4%	54.4%	2nd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	1.2%	6.8%	8.6%	340th of 345
Self-employed	8.4%	27.9%	33.8%	345th of 345
Extreme poverty	0.0%	4.8%	6.9%	326th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	0.0%	6.4%	17.7%	328th of 335
Unemployment rate	0.0%	5.9%	8.8%	325th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 1,447,582	CLP 907,446	CLP 783,124	8th of 335
Registered firms	21	12,669	1,582,390	344th of 346
Annual sales	23,336 UF	93,747,642 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	342nd 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.	87	63,416	9,699,164	343rd of 346
Sales per firm	1,111 UF	7,400 UF	21,706 UF	329th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	3.0	3.2	3.9	69th of 346
Women among employees	33.3%	40.8%	40.6%	292nd of 345
Independent contractors	46	22,775	3,958,269	345th of 346
Contractors as share of workers	34.6%	26.4%	29.0%	80th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resourcesOther serviceshover 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

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

HouseOther dwelling type% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	0.0%	3.9%	5.7%	345th of 345
Internet access	90.5%	95.7%	93.2%	142nd 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.	69.5	1.7	2.3	9th 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.	69.2	1.7	1.6	6th of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	63	49,100	6,408,172	344th of 346
Critically overcrowded	0.00%	0.27%	0.57%	337th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	7.94%	0.56%	1.13%	11th of 345
Public water network	4.8%	96.4%	92.3%	345th of 345
Electricity access	98.4%	99.8%	99.6%	286th of 345
Detached houses	96.8%	91.4%	78.7%	211th of 345
Apartments	0.0%	8.1%	19.9%	281st of 345
Precarious wall materials	6.30%	0.21%	0.23%	1st of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	66.0%	11.3%	11.9%	8th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	5	2,173	491,904	341st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	7.9%	4.4%	7.5%	71st of 345
Renting households	1.6%	23.4%	26.2%	345th of 345
Owner-occupiers	7.9%	63.8%	61.1%	344th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	96.8%	2.8%	24.4%	4th of 345
Commute by public transport	60.0%	26.9%	42.1%	14th of 345
Walks to work	0.0%	7.3%	10.2%	345th of 345
Households with a computer	22.2%	61.2%	54.9%	340th 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.	22.0	0.9	1.1	5th 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.	11.8%	99.1%	97.0%	343rd 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.	53.8%	99.6%	99.9%	338th 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.	80.6%	99.8%	100.0%	338th 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.	0.0%	96.4%	89.4%	329th 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.	0.0%	99.0%	98.1%	330th 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.	0.0%	99.4%	99.7%	333rd 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.	69.6	2.1	5.9	26th 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%	96.4%	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%	99.0%	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.	0.0%	99.4%	96.2%	306th 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.	19.4	0.7	0.6	2nd 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.	11.8%	99.1%	99.0%	343rd 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.	53.8%	99.4%	99.9%	342nd 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.	80.6%	99.9%	100.0%	343rd 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.	0.0%	96.4%	91.6%	335th 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.	0.0%	99.0%	98.5%	336th 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.	0.0%	99.4%	99.8%	338th of 345

How people commute

Public transportPrivate vehicleOther meanshover a tile for its count and its distance from ChileFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

OwnedRentedOtherhover 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 biomassFossil fuelshover a tile for its count and its distance from ChileFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result

69.8%

of the registered voted in the first round

68.0%

voted in the runoff

650

registered voters on the roll

5.9%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman27.6%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist72.4%58.3%

Río VerdeChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez11.7%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman17.9%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.4%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen24.1%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist34.2%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.4%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.9%1.3%

Río VerdeChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile14.2%30.6%

KCambio por Chile31.4%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido20.6%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente5.5%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 pact25.3%0.7%

Río VerdeChileshare of the valid vote

No sister communes

How this is computed

No commune in Chile resembles Río Verde closely enough: its best match sits further away than the best match of nine out of ten communes in the country. These four are the least unlike it, which is not the same thing as sisters. In fact, the commune that most resembles it is further from it than any two Chilean communes typically are.

Lago Verde1.59Aysén · 779 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Economy.San Gregorio1.63Magallanes · 241 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Migration.Palena1.98Los Lagos · 1,903 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Economy.Torres del Paine2.03Magallanes · 203 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Health.

ScalePopulation structureMigrationEducationHealthEconomyHousing and services

The figure beside each name is the distance between the two communes: 0 would be identical, and 1.48 is what separates any two communes in the country. Each bar is one of the seven dimensions, and reaches the end when the two differ on it by twice what two communes picked at random do. Location is not part of the computation: 52% of these pairings cross into another region.

Inside the commune

Census districts

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Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of Río Verde

What Río Verde is specialised in

The land and who works it

Population and territory

Population pyramid

Migration

When the migrant population arrived

Education

How far schooling went

Health

Which health system

Economy and poverty

Employment by industry

Employment by occupation

Housing and services

House or flat

How people commute

Housing tenure

Home heating fuel

How it voted in 2025

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

No sister communes

Inside the commune