Commune · 09101

TemucoTemuco

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Census population
292,518
9th of 346
Population density
629.0/km²
48th of 346
Average years of schooling
11.0 yrs
21st of 346
Foreign-born share
3.6%
143rd of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
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 15 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 98.1%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%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 UF24.0 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF24.0 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 · 4,331 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
59.4%
189th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
17.3%
191st of 335
Came from another region
20.5%
80th of 335
Net internal migration
-37,188
-12.1 per 100 residents
Temucothis commune · 336,074another region62,985 peopleelsewhere in the region53,197 peopleabroad8,867 peopleanother region98,763 peopleelsewhere in the region54,607 peopleTemucothis commune · 307,753
Temucothis commune · 336,074another region62,985 peopleelsewhere in th…53,197 peopleabroad8,867 peopleanother region98,763 peopleelsewhere in th…54,607 peopleTemucothis commune · 307,753

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Construction1Construction2Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale6Health3Health▲35Education4Education▲110Administrative services5Administrative services▲53Manufacturing6Manufacturing▼37Transport7Transport8Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food4Agriculture and fishing9Agriculture and fishing▼512Other services10Other services▲214Professional services11Professional services▲315Information and communications12Information and communications▲311Real estate13Real estate▼29Public administration15Public administration▼6
2005202411Construction22Retail and wholesale63Health▲354Education▲1105Administrative services▲536Manufacturing▼377Transport88Accommodation and food49Agriculture and fishing▼51210Other services▲21411Professional services▲31512Information and communications▲31113Real estate▼2915Public administration▼6

The ten branches that employ most of Temuco

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.

70 k120 k170 k220 kprojection →166 k2029 · central2005201520242029
70 k120 k170 k220 kprojection →166 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.6% a year observed · 2.4% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

050 M100 M150 M200 Mprojection →181 M2029 · central2005201520242029
050 M100 M150 M200 Mprojection →181 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.5% a year observed · 4.7% projected

What Temuco is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Temuco employs more people in 116 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.

116
activities it is specialised in
147,366
formal workers
66/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.53.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Venta al por menor de productos f…Otras actividades de dotación de …Enseñanza superior en universidad…Enseñanza superior en universidad…Fabricación de colchones, fabrica…Cultivo de trigoOtros servicios de atención de la…Servicios de transporte de trabaj…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.53.7Otras actividades de dotación de …Cultivo de trigoCorretaje al por mayor de ganadoVenta al por menor de instrumento…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Temuco

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
Fabricación de colchones, fabricación de otros muebles n.c.p.Fabricación de muebles2,72336.2×
Servicios de transporte de escolaresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre3378.9×
Servicios personales de educaciónOtros tipos de enseñanza8038.8×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes1,5287.3×
Corretaje al por mayor de ganadoVenta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata1376.8×
Actividades de hospitales y clínicas privadasActividades de hospitales públicos y privados17,6775.7×
Venta al por menor de productos farmacéuticos y medicinales en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados6,9845.7×
Venta al por menor de carbón, leña y otros combustibles de uso doméstico en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados1175.1×
Otros tipos de corretajes o remates al por mayor n.c.p.Venta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata594.8×
Enseñanza deportiva y recreativaOtros tipos de enseñanza584.5×
Transporte de pasajeros en buses interurbanosOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre1,5744.4×
Enseñanza superior en universidades públicasEnseñanza superior3,0724.2×

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
31,048
hectares in holdings
90.2%
of them under a named use
8.3%
of the crop land is irrigated
2,549
holdings with land here
Woodland 40%Pasture 26%Annual crops 18%Not farmed 15%Forest plantations30%Native woodland10%Pasture26%Cereals13%Foddercrops1.8%IndustrialcropsPulses andtubersVegetabl…Scrub, barrenground andbuildings9.8%Untilledland5.1%
Woodland 40%Pasture 26%Annual crops 18%Not farmed 15%Forest plantations30%Native woodland10%Pasture26%Cereals13%FoddercropsVegeta…Scrub,barrenground and…9.8%Untill…land5.1%
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
TemucoChile% of each territory's own population · 292,518 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
292,518
803,77718,480,4329th of 346
Average age
37.5 yrs
38.4 yrs38.1 yrs272nd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
76.4
81.279.0241st of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
629.0/km²
43.8/km²24.7/km²48th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
110,496
297,7676,596,5278th of 346
Dwellings
129,071
389,0477,642,7168th of 346
People per household
2.65
2.702.80236th of 345
Women
52.8%
51.8%51.5%10th of 346
Men per 100 women
89.5
92.994.3337th of 346
Under 15
17.4%
18.2%17.7%210th of 346
65 and over
13.3%
14.8%14.0%273rd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
44.2
49.346.5311th of 346
One-person households
23.9%
22.9%21.8%118th of 345
Households with children
31.6%
33.1%33.2%223rd of 345
Indigenous peoples
24.4%
36.5%11.4%97th of 346
Female-headed households
51.4%
49.3%49.9%58th of 345
Land area
465 km²
18,354 km²748,041 km²211th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Temuco32%Arrived since 202068%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Temuco32%Arrived since 202068%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
3.6%
2.4%8.7%143rd 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.
59.4%
57.2%50.5%189th 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.
17.3%
21.3%23.9%191st of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
20.5%
19.8%17.2%80th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
10,660
18,9301,608,65044th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
34.0 yrs
35.0 yrs33.5 yrs138th of 345
Women among foreign-born
50.8%
50.9%51.7%179th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
82.1%
82.3%83.1%126th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
32.2%
28.8%34.4%239th 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.
4.3%
2.9%10.6%144th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.8 yrs
13.5 yrs12.9 yrs31st 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.
-37,188
-31,1780321st of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-12.1
-3.80.0201st of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Temuco38%Higher34%Secondary20%Primary only5.1%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Temuco38%Higher34%Secondary20%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
11.0 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs21st of 346
Reached higher education
37.6%
26.3%31.1%26th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.6%
99.5%98.6%193rd 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.
53.7%
50.9%55.6%176th 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%
101.3%99.8%263rd of 346
Literacy rate
98.3%
96.8%97.8%57th of 346
Reached secondary education
34.4%
36.6%36.7%272nd of 346
Primary education only
20.5%
28.7%24.1%317th of 346
Never attended school
2.51%
3.41%3.01%307th 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.
12.9 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs25th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.9 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs21st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.66%
3.16%2.18%289th of 345
Households lacking schooling
11.3%
20.5%15.1%295th 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.
4,740
10,404217,5655th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
26.1%
36.9%33.9%232nd 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.
1.7%
5.0%3.1%107th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
76.4%
71.6%67.2%46th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
13.5%
15.2%19.7%237th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
10.1%
13.3%13.1%240th 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.
7.9%
10.1%13.0%202nd 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.
49.4%
51.2%49.7%205th 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.

4,740left secondary school in 2024
2,547enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
53.7%continued immediately
76%of those, to a university
8%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria ComercialPsicologiaIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizBachiller en Ciencias y HumanidadesKinesiologiaArquitecturaNutricion y DieteticaMedicina
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria ComercialPsicologiaIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizBachiller en Ciencias y HumanidadesKinesiologiaArquitecturaNutricion y DieteticaMedicina
TemucoChile

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

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationSocial sciencesNatural sciencesInformation technologyServicesArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationSocial sciencesNatural sciencesInformation technologyServicesArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinary
TemucoChile

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

02,0004,0006,0002006201520244,7402,547
02,0004,0006,0002006201520244,7402,547
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 Temuco'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 Temuco 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

Temuco86%Fonasa9.9%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Temuco86%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.8%
12.2%10.6%230th of 346
Public health insurance
86.0%
91.4%82.6%270th 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.
82.1
77.682.591st of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
89
93100169th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
31,726
98,0291,950,3887th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
55.4 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs284th of 346
Disability among 65+
41.7%
44.9%43.0%274th of 346
Difficulty walking
4.75%
5.65%4.92%243rd of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.89%
5.70%4.58%219th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.35%
2.78%2.16%213th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.97%
3.02%2.70%139th of 346
Private health insurance
9.9%
5.3%13.2%58th of 335
No health coverage
1.40%
1.11%1.98%170th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
91.5%
92.0%92.1%212th of 332
Households lacking health access
5.0%
5.0%6.0%183rd of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
24,017
62,4061,523,71611th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
498
1,57136,69812th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.07%
2.52%2.41%266th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.9 days
7.2 days6.1 days128th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
17.0
19.519.9206th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
100
9310082nd of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
1,641
3,84589,72311th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.8%
6.2%5.9%78th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
56.1
47.848.644th 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.
120
9610031st of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 22%Injuries, bones and skin 18%Heart and lungs 17%Pregnancy, birth … 17%Tumours, blood and me… 15%Mind, nerves … 5.8%Infections an… 5.4%Digestivesystem13%Genitouri…system9.1%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculos…5.9%SkinCirculatory system9.4%Respiratory system7.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Congenital…Perinata…Cancers andtumours10%Endoc…andmetab…4.0%Mentalandbehaviou…NervoussystemContactwithhealth…Infe…andpara…
Digestive and urinary t… 22%Injuries, bones a… 18%Heart and lungs 17%Pregnancy, birth and ne… 17%Tumours, blood a… 15%Min… 5.8%Digestivesystem13%Genitour…system9.1%Injuriesandpoisoning11%Muscul…5.9%Circulatorysystem9.4%Respirato…system7.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Cancers andtumours10%Endoc…andmetab…4.0%Ment…andbeha…Ner…sys…Contactwith…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 digestivos28%Sangre y sistema linfático14%Mama13%Genitalesmasculinos8.3%Genitalesfemeninos8.0%Vías urinarias7.2%Tiroides yendocrinas4.9%Piel ymelanoma3.2%Víasrespirat…3.0%SitiosmaldefinidosBoca yfaringeHuesos1.8%Encéf…ysiste…1.5%Tejidos blandos
Órganos digestivos28%Sangre ysistemalinfático14%Mama13%Genitalesmasculinos8.3%Genitalesfemeninos8.0%Víasurinarias7.2%Tiroidesyendocrin…4.9%Piel ymelan…3.2%Víasrespira…3.0%Sitiosmaldefini…Boca yfarin…2.6%HuesosEncéfal…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaGenitales masculinosGenitales femeninosVías urinariashover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
26.2%
30.0%17.3%84th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
24.0 UF
22.9 UF32.0 UF130th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
98.1%
101.1%78.9%185th 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.
92.7
77.785.693rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
53.8%
48.4%54.4%113th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.4%
10.2%8.6%126th of 345
Self-employed
31.8%
35.8%33.8%244th of 345
Extreme poverty
11.9%
13.8%6.9%63rd of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
14.1%
18.6%17.7%232nd of 335
Unemployment rate
9.9%
11.3%8.8%131st of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 643,297
CLP 533,802CLP 783,12486th 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.
0.490
0.4950.48847th of 321
Registered firms
27,128
62,4281,582,3909th of 346
Annual sales
144,324,386 UF
267,044,738 UF34,347,683,688 UF25th 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.
147,509
254,9539,699,16412th of 346
Sales per firm
5,320 UF
4,278 UF21,706 UF116th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
3.5
2.73.945th of 346
Women among employees
41.5%
41.9%40.6%164th of 345
Independent contractors
64,415
104,1373,958,2699th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
30.4%
29.0%29.0%119th of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 32%Trade and logistics 29%Industry and construction 18%Advanced services 12%Other services 6.7%Education14%Health12%Publicadmini…5.8%Retail and wholesale19%Transport5.8%Accommodationand food4.5%Constructi…9.5%Manufactur…6.6%Electr…Waterand…Professi…services4.2%Admin…servi…3.1%Informationand…Financeandinsura…Realest…Otherservic…2.8%Domest…work2.7%Agricu…andfishing2.0%Mining
State and social serv… 32%Trade and logistics 29%Industry and cons… 18%Advanced… 12%Othe… 6.7%Education14%Health12%Public administrationRetail andwholesale19%Transport5.8%Accommod…and food4.5%Construct…9.5%Manufact…6.6%Elect…Wat…Profes…servic…4.2%Admin…servi…3.1%Infor…andcommu…Fina…andinsu…Otherserv…Dome…workAgricul…
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 47%Managers and professionals 42%Elementary occupations 10%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades12%Plant andmachineoperators6.5%Clericalsupport6.4%Professionals26%Technicians11%Managers4.9%Elementary occupations10%
Skilled occupations 47%Managers and profe… 42%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades12%Plant andmachineoperatorsClericalsupport6.4%Professionals26%Technicians11%Manag…4.9%Elementary occupations
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

Temuco81%House19%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Temuco81%House19%Chile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.4%
5.3%5.7%278th of 345
Internet access
94.7%
88.1%93.2%58th 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.
1.5
3.52.3290th 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.
1.0
2.91.6290th of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
108,912
294,5656,408,1728th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.36%
0.38%0.57%135th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.98%
1.00%1.13%199th of 345
Public water network
95.8%
80.7%92.3%69th of 345
Electricity access
99.6%
98.6%99.6%118th of 345
Detached houses
80.5%
91.1%78.7%307th of 345
Apartments
18.6%
8.2%19.9%35th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.30%
0.30%0.23%100th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
12.5%
19.6%11.9%211th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
5,210
12,914491,90428th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.7%
4.3%7.5%220th of 345
Renting households
26.9%
18.7%26.2%45th of 345
Owner-occupiers
62.7%
68.3%61.1%264th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
42.1%
68.1%24.4%196th of 345
Commute by public transport
39.0%
35.3%42.1%59th of 345
Walks to work
10.3%
13.5%10.2%240th of 345
Households with a computer
60.5%
46.7%54.9%31st 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.
1.0
1.71.1268th 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.
98.9%
92.6%97.0%82nd 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.
98.2%
75.6%89.4%48th 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.
100.0%
96.8%98.1%1st 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.
3.3
10.55.9254th 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.
80.2%
50.5%80.3%98th 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.
99.6%
72.5%90.0%83rd 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.
100.0%
90.7%96.2%1st 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.
0.5
0.90.6291st 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.
100.0%
98.7%99.0%79th 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.
97.3%
78.2%91.6%69th 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.
100.0%
98.3%98.5%1st 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%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 43%Public transport 39%On foot or by bicycle 14%Car42%Public transport39%Walking10%Bicycle3.8%Other3.8%
Private vehicle 43%Public transport 39%On foot or by bicycle 14%Car42%Public transport39%WalkingBicycle3.8%Other3.8%
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 63%Rented 27%Provided ren… 7.1%Owned outright44%Owned, still paying19%Rented, withcontract20%Rented, no contract6.9%Provided byfamily6.5%Otherarrang…3.3%
Owned 63%Rented 27%Provid… 7.1%Owned outright44%Owned, stillpaying19%Rented, with contract20%Rented,nocontract6.9%Provided byfamily6.5%Otherarrangement
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 57%Fossil fuels 23%Electricity 16%Firewood42%Pellets15%Paraffin12%Gas11%Electricity16%Noheati…2.8%Other
Wood and biomass 57%Fossil fuels 23%Electricity 16%Firewood42%Pellets15%Paraffin12%Gas11%Electricity16%
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
85.1%
of the registered voted in the first round
84.9%
voted in the runoff
249,546
registered voters on the roll
6.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman34.9%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist65.1%58.3%
TemucoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez18.0%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman22.1%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.7%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist29.4%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.8%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet11.8%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.4%1.3%
TemucoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile26.0%30.6%
KCambio por Chile25.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido23.5%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente9.2%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas5.1%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde2.9%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile7.5%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
TemucoChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile32.6%
KCambio por Chile29.6%
JChile Grande y Unido25.1%
IPartido de la Gente7.4%
APartido Ecologista Verde2.1%
Independents outside a pact3.2%
Temucoshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Temuco across the 28 figures PuroChile publishes for the 345 communes with complete data, grouped into seven dimensions of equal weight. This is not proximity: nothing in the computation knows where any commune is.

ScalePopulation structureMigrationEducationHealthEconomyHousing and services

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

Inside the commune

Census districts
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