Commune · 08207

TirúaTirúa

Compare Tirúa with another place
Census population
10,208
253rd of 346
Population density
16.3/km²
224th of 346
Average years of schooling
8.2 yrs
332nd of 346
Foreign-born share
0.4%
339th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Sought care when ill1st of 332 · Chile 92.1%100.0%
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.2 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.2 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 · 205 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
81.8%
11th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
8.8%
304th of 335
Came from another region
7.3%
318th of 335
Net internal migration
-2,351
-21.1 per 100 residents
Tirúathis commune · 13,239elsewhere in the region976 peopleanother region814 peopleabroad228 peopleelsewhere in the region2,247 peopleanother region1,894 peopleTirúathis commune · 11,116
Tirúathis commune · 13,239elsewhere in th…976 peopleanother region814 peopleabroad228 peopleelsewhere in th…2,247 peopleanother region1,894 peopleTirúathis commune · 11,116

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing4Education2Education▲22Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▼17Transport4Transport▲33Construction5Construction▼25Water and waste6Water and waste▼18Manufacturing7Manufacturing▲16Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▼2
2005202411Agriculture and fishing42Education▲223Retail and wholesale▼174Transport▲335Construction▼256Water and waste▼187Manufacturing▲168Accommodation and food▼2

The ten branches that employ most of Tirúa

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.

01 k2 k3 kprojection →3 k2029 · central2005201520242029
01 k2 k3 kprojection →3 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval12.7% a year observed · 6.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0500 k1.0 M1.5 M2.0 Mprojection →1.4 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0500 k1.0 M1.5 M2.0 Mprojection →1.4 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.5% a year observed · 6.1% projected

What Tirúa is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Tirúa employs more people in 23 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.

23
activities it is specialised in
1,907
formal workers
268/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.13.7Actividades de la administración …Extracción de maderaServicios relacionados con la pes…Elaboración de productos de panad…Otras instalaciones para obras de…Cultivo de trigoHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.13.7Actividades de la administración …Enseñanza superior en centros de …Extracción de maderaTransporte de carga por carreteraHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Tirúa

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
Servicios de forestación a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura305162.8×
Enseñanza superior en centros de formación técnicaEnseñanza superior5248.0×
Servicios de transporte de escolaresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre1326.5×
Extracción de maderaExtracción de madera2715.9×
Actividades de la administración pública en generalAdministración del estado y aplicación de la política económica y social de la comunidad1,0708.7×
Corretaje al por mayor de ganadoVenta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata27.7×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada105.9×
Servicios relacionados con la pesca marítimaPesca15.8×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura44.6×
Venta al por menor de recuerdos, artesanías y artículos religiosos en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados13.9×
Captación, tratamiento y distribución de aguaCaptación, tratamiento y distribución de agua143.2×
Venta al por menor de alimentos en comercios especializados (almacenes pequeños y minimarket)Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados313.1×

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
26,944
hectares in holdings
94.3%
of them under a named use
4.1%
of the crop land is irrigated
451
holdings with land here
Woodland 64%Not farmed 29%Pasture 5.4%Annu… 2.2%Forest plantations51%Nativewoodland12%Untilled land23%Scrub, barren ground and buildings5.7%Pasture5.4%Pul…andtub…Cereals0.8%Fodde…
Woodland 64%Not farmed 29%Forest plantations51%Nativewoodland12%Untilled land23%Scrub,barrengroun…5.7%Pasture5.4%
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
TirúaChile% of each territory's own population · 10,208 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
10,208
166,23118,480,432253rd of 346
Average age
36.1 yrs
38.3 yrs38.1 yrs313th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
58.3
75.779.0315th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
16.3/km²
30.4/km²24.7/km²224th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
3,607
59,4676,596,527260th of 346
Dwellings
4,896
70,3117,642,716263rd of 346
People per household
2.83
2.802.80110th of 345
Women
50.8%
51.4%51.5%188th of 346
Men per 100 women
96.9
94.494.3159th of 346
Under 15
20.9%
19.1%17.7%25th of 346
65 and over
12.2%
14.5%14.0%302nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
49.4
50.646.5215th of 346
One-person households
22.2%
20.5%21.8%174th of 345
Households with children
39.6%
36.3%33.2%24th of 345
Indigenous peoples
68.1%
26.9%11.4%12th of 346
Female-headed households
47.1%
47.9%49.9%202nd of 345
Land area
627 km²
5,476 km²748,041 km²175th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Tirúa22%Arrived since 202078%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Tirúa22%78%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
0.4%
0.9%8.7%339th 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.
81.8%
72.6%50.5%11th 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.
8.8%
18.1%23.9%304th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
7.3%
8.1%17.2%318th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
41
1,5371,608,650317th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
35.9 yrs
31.8 yrs33.5 yrs74th of 345
Women among foreign-born
48.8%
50.7%51.7%264th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
90.2%
80.4%83.1%9th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
22.0%
44.5%34.4%310th 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.
0.5%
1.1%10.6%336th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.7 yrs
12.2 yrs12.9 yrs38th 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.
-2,351
-38,4790205th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-21.1
-21.60.0229th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Tirúa16%Higher30%Secondary43%Primary only6.7%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Tirúa16%30%Secondary43%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
8.2 yrs
9.0 yrs10.4 yrs332nd of 346
Reached higher education
16.0%
20.1%31.1%285th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
96.7%
99.4%98.6%295th 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.
55.4%
59.3%55.6%149th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.
105.4%
102.3%99.8%33rd of 346
Literacy rate
93.2%
95.1%97.8%323rd of 346
Reached secondary education
30.2%
35.4%36.7%327th of 346
Primary education only
42.9%
34.7%24.1%18th of 346
Never attended school
6.66%
4.65%3.01%13th 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
10.3 yrs12.1 yrs320th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
9.8 yrs
10.6 yrs12.1 yrs307th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
6.84%
4.86%2.18%23rd of 345
Households lacking schooling
51.6%
29.1%15.1%6th 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.
74
2,234217,565263rd of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
58.1%
30.8%33.9%65th 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%
6.6%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
70.7%
66.6%67.2%85th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
12.2%
21.4%19.7%253rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
17.1%
11.9%13.1%148th 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.
51.2%
7.6%13.0%48th 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.
51.2%
50.6%49.7%162nd 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.

74left secondary school in 2024
41enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
55.4%continued immediately
71%of those, to a university
51%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%Derecho
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%Derecho
TirúaChile

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 welfareEducationNatural sciencesEngineering and industryServicesSocial sciencesBusiness and lawInformation technologyArts and humanities
0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareEducationNatural sciencesEngineering and industryServicesSocial sciencesBusiness and lawInformation technologyArts and humanities
TirúaChile

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

0204060802006201520247441
0204060802006201520247441
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 Tirúa'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 Tirúa 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

Tirúa94%Fonasa5.8%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Tirúa94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
14.1%
13.7%10.6%82nd of 346
Public health insurance
94.2%
94.6%82.6%125th 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.
71.9
93.882.5153rd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
82
105100198th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
1,440
22,8111,950,388242nd of 346
Average age, people with a disability
56.6 yrs
56.5 yrs56.4 yrs243rd of 346
Disability among 65+
41.3%
42.1%43.0%283rd of 346
Difficulty walking
7.07%
6.85%4.92%77th of 346
Difficulty seeing
7.50%
6.47%4.58%29th of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.21%
2.91%2.16%75th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.97%
3.03%2.70%144th of 346
Private health insurance
0.0%
1.8%13.2%311th of 335
No health coverage
5.85%
1.35%1.98%15th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
100.0%
95.0%92.1%1st of 332
Households lacking health access
3.1%
6.1%6.0%245th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
734
15,6001,523,716235th of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
15
35836,698260th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.04%
2.29%2.41%269th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.5 days
6.4 days6.1 days170th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
14.7
21.519.9245th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
90
113100131st of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
21
72989,723282nd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
2.9%
4.7%5.9%318th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
20.6
43.948.6293rd 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.
45
88100279th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 19%Pregnancy, birth … 16%Injuries, bones … 16%Mind, nerve… 10%Tumour… 8.6%Infec… 7.6%Digestive system17%Genit…system5.7%Respiratorysystem11%Circulatorysystem8.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth15%Injuries andpoisoning12%Musculoske…2.2%Skin1.8%Mental andbehavioural4.9%Nervoussystem3.4%Eye1.1%EarCancers andtumours4.2%Endocrineandmetabolic3.5%Contactwith healthservices3.5%Infectiousand…Ill-definedsymptoms
Digestive and urinary … 23%Heart and lungs 19%Pregnancy, birth and n… 16%Injuries, bones and sk… 16%Mind, nerves and … 10%Tumo… 8.6%Digestivesystem17%Genito…system5.7%Respirato…system11%Circulat…system8.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth15%Injuries andpoisoning12%Muscul…2.2%Skin1.8%Mentalandbehaviou…Nervoussystem3.4%EyeEarCancersandtumoursEndocri…andmetabol…Contactwith…Inf…andpar…Ill-…symp…
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

Sitios reservados57%Sangre y sistemalinfático43%
Sitios reservados57%Sangre y sistema linfático43%
Sitios reservadosSangre y sistema linfáticohover 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.
32.0%
25.6%17.3%34th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.2 UF
25.1 UF32.0 UF227th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
93.3%
84.6%78.9%220th 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.
53.2
63.185.6312th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
41.2%
45.2%54.4%317th of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
11.4%
11.7%8.6%47th of 345
Self-employed
52.6%
36.0%33.8%10th of 345
Extreme poverty
15.8%
9.5%6.9%26th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
33.9%
22.4%17.7%18th of 335
Unemployment rate
22.1%
12.6%8.8%2nd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 333,806
CLP 504,984CLP 783,124334th 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.
0.451
0.4560.488116th of 321
Registered firms
543
10,4821,582,390286th of 346
Annual sales
1,059,326 UF
155,593,136 UF34,347,683,688 UF293rd 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.
1,907
41,3159,699,164259th of 346
Sales per firm
1,951 UF
14,844 UF21,706 UF274th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.8
3.03.999th of 346
Women among employees
60.3%
45.7%40.6%4th of 345
Independent contractors
974
12,7273,958,269243rd of 346
Contractors as share of workers
33.8%
23.6%29.0%87th of 346

Employment by industry

State and social services 32%Natural resources 29%Trade and logistics 18%Industry and… 12%Adv… 4.7%Oth… 3.2%Education13%Publicadministrat…11%Health8.2%Agriculture and fishing28%Retail andwholesale12%Transpo…4.4%Accommod…and foodConstruction6.3%Manufactur…4.9%Administ…services3.5%Profess…Dome…workOtherserv…Arts…
State and social serv… 32%Natural resources 29%Trade and logistics 18%Industry … 12%Education13%Publicadministr…11%Health8.2%Agriculture andfishing28%Retail andwholesale12%Transp…4.4%Accommo…and foodConstruction6.3%Manufactur…4.9%Admin…servi…3.5%Dom…workOthe…
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 62%Managers and professionals 20%Elementary occupations 18%Skilledagricultural21%Service and sales18%Craft and trades11%Plant andmachineoperators7.7%Cleric…support4.0%Professiona…10%Technicians7.5%ManagersElementaryoccupations18%
Skilled occupations 62%Managers and professi… 20%Elementary occupat… 18%Skilledagricultural21%Service and sales18%Craft and trades11%Plantandmachine…7.7%Clericalsupport4.0%Profession…10%Technicia…7.5%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

Tirúa100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Tirúa100%HouseChile79%House20%
House% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.5%
4.9%5.7%61st of 345
Internet access
79.0%
87.5%93.2%317th of 345
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
7.9
3.52.354th 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.
9.8
3.31.632nd of 345
See the other 35 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
3,579
58,8566,408,172260th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.20%
0.25%0.57%301st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.61%
1.14%1.13%290th of 345
Public water network
47.5%
78.8%92.3%328th of 345
Electricity access
98.4%
98.8%99.6%286th of 345
Detached houses
99.6%
98.9%78.7%31st of 345
Apartments
0.0%
0.2%19.9%281st of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.22%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
26.1%
14.6%11.9%79th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
110
2,352491,904303rd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.0%
4.0%7.5%330th of 345
Renting households
11.1%
11.3%26.2%267th of 345
Owner-occupiers
77.9%
75.6%61.1%17th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
93.2%
88.2%24.4%26th of 345
Commute by public transport
22.1%
25.6%42.1%214th of 345
Walks to work
37.5%
26.3%10.2%20th of 345
Households with a computer
30.6%
40.2%54.9%321st 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.
2.7
1.41.165th 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.
80.4%
95.1%97.0%295th 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%
99.9%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.
35.3%
76.9%89.4%307th 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%
97.5%98.1%233rd 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.
52.7
9.75.936th 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%
57.2%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%
75.0%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%
92.5%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.
1.3
0.90.6130th 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.
95.7%
98.8%99.0%250th 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.
33.3%
78.7%91.6%324th 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.
71.2%
95.1%98.5%320th of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
99.7%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

On foot or by bicycle 38%Private vehicle 37%Public transport 22%Walking38%Car36%Public transport22%Other
On foot or by bicycle 38%Private vehicle 37%Public transport 22%Walking38%Car36%Public transport22%Other3.3%
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 78%Rented 11%Provided … 9.0%Owned outright77%Rented, nocontract8.2%Rented, withcontractProvided byfamily8.3%Other arrangement
Owned 78%Rented 11%Provided rent… 9.0%Owned outright77%Rented, nocontractRente…withcontr…Provided byfamily
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 94%Firewood93%Elect…2.5%Gas1.6%Noheati…1.7%
Wood and biomass 94%Firewood93%
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
86.3%
of the registered voted in the first round
85.6%
voted in the runoff
9,267
registered voters on the roll
5.7%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman30.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist69.9%58.3%
TirúaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez23.4%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman20.0%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen8.3%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist40.8%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet5.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.4%1.3%
TirúaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile48.9%30.6%
KCambio por Chile9.6%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido29.7%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente5.5%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.9%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista1.3%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde2.1%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%
TirúaChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Tirúa 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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