Torres del Paine — PuroChile

Where it stands out

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

Electricity access1st of 345 · Chile 99.6%100.0%

Census unemployment345th of 345 · Chile 8.6%0.0%

School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%

Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer1st of 330 · Chile 5.9%50.0%

Difficulty concentrating345th of 346 · Chile 2.70%0.49%

Came from another commune of the same region2nd of 335 · Chile 23.9%47.9%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 21 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

15.9%

330th of 335

Came from another commune of the same region

47.9%

2nd of 335

Came from another region

27.5%

33rd of 335

Net internal migration

+789

+73.1 per 100 residents

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Torres del Paine

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

01Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics15055.1%—02Public administrationState and social services5419.9%—03Agriculture and fishingNatural resources4416.2%−20%04TransportTrade and logistics103.7%+25%05Other servicesOther services82.9%—06Arts and entertainmentOther services62.2%—07Administrative servicesAdvanced services00.0%−100%08Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics00.0%−100%09ManufacturingIndustry and construction00.0%—10Information and communicationsAdvanced services00.0%—

What Torres del Paine is specialised in

2024 · SII

PuroChile does not compute this for Torres del Paine. A specialisation is a share of this place's formal employment divided by the country's share, and with 272 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

497,404

hectares in holdings

52.2%

of them under a named use

0.0%

of the crop land is irrigated

28

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 497,404 hectares of holdings in Torres del Paine 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 0.0% above is a share of the 2,386 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 28 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

Torres del PaineChile% of each territory's own population · 203 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Census population	203	24,355	18,480,432	343rd of 346
Average age	42.5 yrs	38.4 yrs	38.1 yrs	26th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	108.7	84.2	79.0	76th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	0.0/km²	0.5/km²	24.7/km²	343rd of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Households	100	9,590	6,596,527	342nd of 346
Dwellings	304	11,527	7,642,716	342nd of 346
People per household	2.03	2.54	2.80	343rd of 345
Women	41.9%	50.0%	51.5%	341st of 346
Men per 100 women	138.8	100.1	94.3	6th of 346
Under 15	11.3%	17.0%	17.7%	342nd of 346
65 and over	12.3%	14.3%	14.0%	299th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	31.0	45.7	46.5	342nd of 346
One-person households	45.0%	25.2%	21.8%	6th of 345
Households with children	18.0%	30.7%	33.2%	340th of 345
Indigenous peoples	13.8%	27.9%	11.4%	132nd of 346
Female-headed households	31.0%	52.2%	49.9%	343rd of 345
Land area	6,517 km²	53,540 km²	748,041 km²	29th 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	8.4%	9.7%	8.7%	54th 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.	15.9%	49.0%	50.5%	330th 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.	47.9%	12.5%	23.9%	2nd of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	27.5%	29.1%	17.2%	33rd of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	17	2,355	1,608,650	339th of 346
Average age, foreign-born	31.4 yrs	32.7 yrs	33.5 yrs	275th of 345
Women among foreign-born	58.8%	52.0%	51.7%	10th of 345
Foreign-born of working age	82.4%	83.1%	83.1%	114th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	47.1%	34.0%	34.4%	69th 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.	9.0%	11.7%	10.6%	61st of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born	14.9 yrs	12.5 yrs	12.9 yrs	6th 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.	789	6,351	0	130th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	73.1	24.6	0.0	5th 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	11.1 yrs	10.1 yrs	10.4 yrs	19th of 346
Reached higher education	37.4%	28.0%	31.1%	27th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17	100.0%	99.4%	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.	117.4%	102.7%	99.8%	4th of 346
Literacy rate	97.8%	98.2%	97.8%	101st of 346
Reached secondary education	35.5%	38.5%	36.7%	242nd of 346
Primary education only	20.7%	26.1%	24.1%	314th of 346
Never attended school	2.96%	2.11%	3.01%	253rd 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.	11.5 yrs	11.6 yrs	12.1 yrs	100th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	13.5 yrs	11.9 yrs	12.1 yrs	13th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	2.22%	1.76%	2.18%	243rd of 345
Households lacking schooling	21.3%	13.5%	15.1%	192nd 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 Torres del Paine 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	9.4%		9.9%	10.6%	291st of 346
Public health insurance	79.8%		90.2%	82.6%	299th of 335

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	19	2,412	1,950,388	341st of 346
Average age, people with a disability	56.4 yrs	56.8 yrs	56.4 yrs	252nd of 346
Disability among 65+	36.8%	45.9%	43.0%	315th of 346
Difficulty walking	1.97%	4.34%	4.92%	339th of 346
Difficulty seeing	5.42%	4.61%	4.58%	170th of 346
Difficulty hearing	2.46%	2.07%	2.16%	188th of 346
Difficulty concentrating	0.49%	2.00%	2.70%	345th of 346
Private health insurance	20.2%	7.6%	13.2%	19th of 335
No health coverage	0.00%	1.20%	1.98%	279th of 335
Households lacking health access	0.0%	5.6%	6.0%	310th of 335
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	1	39	89,723	327th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	50.0%	2.1%	5.9%	1st of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	49.3	16.0	48.6	83rd 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.	91	33	100	101st of 330

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%	13.1%	17.3%	332nd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	22.9 UF	15.5 UF	32.0 UF	161st of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	132.5%	81.2%	78.9%	5th 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.	202.0	137.8	85.6	9th of 346

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	86.1%	63.3%	54.4%	3rd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	0.0%	5.3%	8.6%	345th of 345
Self-employed	25.8%	31.1%	33.8%	324th of 345
Extreme poverty	0.0%	3.3%	6.9%	326th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	26.4%	3.8%	17.7%	51st of 335
Unemployment rate	0.0%	6.3%	8.8%	325th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 1,333,404	CLP 873,299	CLP 783,124	9th of 335
Registered firms	41	3,357	1,582,390	339th of 346
Annual sales	176,619 UF	20,314,726 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	332nd 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.	272	10,189	9,699,164	331st of 346
Sales per firm	4,308 UF	6,051 UF	21,706 UF	142nd of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	3.4	1.7	3.9	50th of 346
Women among employees	46.3%	42.9%	40.6%	87th of 345
Independent contractors	100	5,043	3,958,269	342nd of 346
Contractors as share of workers	26.9%	33.1%	29.0%	180th of 346

Employment by industry

Natural resourceshover 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 occupationshover 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	3.1%	4.7%	5.7%	334th of 345
Internet access	93.0%	93.9%	93.2%	95th 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.	68.9	3.6	2.3	10th 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.	68.4	2.8	1.6	7th of 345

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Indicator	Value	Province	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	98	9,450	6,408,172	341st of 346
Critically overcrowded	0.00%	0.35%	0.57%	337th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings	5.10%	0.67%	1.13%	23rd of 345
Public water network	34.7%	93.0%	92.3%	337th of 345
Electricity access	100.0%	99.9%	99.6%	1st of 345
Detached houses	94.9%	99.3%	78.7%	236th of 345
Apartments	0.0%	0.1%	19.9%	281st of 345
Precarious wall materials	0.00%	0.20%	0.23%	324th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings	67.0%	11.6%	11.9%	6th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit	9	442	491,904	340th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households	9.0%	4.6%	7.5%	54th of 345
Renting households	29.0%	25.9%	26.2%	35th of 345
Owner-occupiers	25.0%	64.1%	61.1%	339th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	84.0%	5.7%	24.4%	101st of 345
Commute by public transport	2.3%	17.4%	42.1%	342nd of 345
Walks to work	54.5%	17.9%	10.2%	6th of 345
Households with a computer	51.0%	54.8%	54.9%	83rd 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.	26.5	1.6	1.1	4th 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.	33.5%	96.3%	97.0%	341st 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.	36.0%	98.4%	99.9%	343rd 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.	36.0%	98.6%	100.0%	343rd 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%	95.6%	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%	97.6%	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%	98.3%	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.	68.6	3.5	5.9	27th 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%	95.6%	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%	97.6%	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%	98.3%	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.	15.7	1.3	0.6	4th 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.	48.2%	96.5%	99.0%	341st 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.	50.8%	98.7%	99.9%	343rd 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.	82.2%	99.2%	100.0%	342nd 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%	95.6%	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%	97.6%	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%	98.3%	99.8%	338th of 345

How people commute

Private vehiclePublic transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

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

Fossil fuelsElectricityNo heatinghover 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

73.4%

of the registered voted in the first round

72.5%

voted in the runoff

1,227

registered voters on the roll

4.6%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman37.3%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist62.7%58.3%

Torres del PaineChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez13.1%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman26.1%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen19.9%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist29.0%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.2%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.2%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.5%1.3%

Torres del PaineChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile17.1%30.6%

KCambio por Chile21.3%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido9.4%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente5.7%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas13.5%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 pact33.0%0.7%

Torres del PaineChileshare of the valid vote

No sister communes

How this is computed

No commune in Chile resembles Torres del Paine 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.

San Gregorio1.41Magallanes · 241 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Health.Laguna Blanca1.46Magallanes · 269 peopleAlike in Scale; apart in Migration.Primavera1.59Magallanes · 431 peopleAlike in Migration; apart in Education.Timaukel1.63Magallanes · 157 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 Torres del Paine

What Torres del Paine 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