Commune · 08312

TucapelTucapel

Compare Tucapel with another place
Census population
15,729
201st of 346
Population density
17.3/km²
220th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.3 yrs
170th of 346
Foreign-born share
0.8%
311th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 333 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary1st of 345 · Chile 99.8%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

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

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 279 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
62.4%
147th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
13.3%
241st of 335
Came from another region
23.9%
50th of 335
Net internal migration
-354
-2.3 per 100 residents
Tucapelthis commune · 15,746another region3,687 peopleelsewhere in the region2,063 peopleabroad63 peopleanother region4,211 peopleelsewhere in the region1,893 peopleTucapelthis commune · 15,455
Tucapelthis commune · 15,746another region3,687 peopleelsewhere in th…2,063 peopleabroad63 peopleanother region4,211 peopleelsewhere in th…1,893 peopleTucapelthis commune · 15,455

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520247Retail and wholesale1Retail and wholesale▲63Education2Education▲11Manufacturing3Manufacturing▼24Agriculture and fishing4Agriculture and fishing2Construction5Construction▼36Transport6Transport9Real estate7Real estate▲211Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▲310Administrative services9Administrative services▲18Finance and insurance10Finance and insurance▼25Other services11Other services▼612Information and communications12Information and communications
2005202471Retail and wholesale▲632Education▲113Manufacturing▼244Agriculture and fishing25Construction▼366Transport97Real estate▲2118Accommodation and food▲3109Administrative services▲1810Finance and insurance▼2511Other services▼61212Information and communications

The ten branches that employ most of Tucapel

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.

1 k2 k2 k3 k3 kprojection →2 k2029 · central2005201520242029
1 k2 k2 k3 k3 kprojection →2 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.2% a year observed · -1.0% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

02.5 M5.0 M7.5 M10 Mprojection →5.9 M2029 · central2005201520242029
02.5 M5.0 M7.5 M10 Mprojection →5.9 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.3% a year observed · 5.5% projected

What Tucapel is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Tucapel employs more people in 47 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.

47
activities it is specialised in
2,511
formal workers
199/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Molienda de trigo: producción de …Cultivo de trigoTerminación y acabado de edificiosVenta al por menor de artículos d…Servicios de extinción y prevenci…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Fabricación de hojas de madera pa…Otras actividades auxiliares de l…Actividades postalesHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.93.7Enseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Cultivo de trigoOtras actividades auxiliares de l…Cultivo de maízHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Tucapel

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
Molienda de trigo: producción de harina, sémola y gránulosElaboración de productos de molinería, almidones y productos derivados del almidón268263.7×
Otras actividades de venta por menor no realizadas en comercios, puestos de venta o mercados n.c.p.Venta al por menor no realizada en comercios, puestos de venta o mercados11058.8×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes15342.9×
Servicios de extinción y prevención de incendios forestalesServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura2539.4×
Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales (excepto explotación de viveros forestales)Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales1224.7×
Extracción de piedra, arena y arcillaExtracción de piedra, arena y arcilla3820.6×
Actividades de residenciales para turistasActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas210.9×
Venta al por menor de carbón, leña y otros combustibles de uso doméstico en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados410.2×
Aserrado y acepilladura de maderaAserrado y acepilladura de madera448.8×
Instalación de maquinaria y equipos industrialesInstalación de maquinaria y equipos industriales128.4×
Venta al por menor de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas en comercios especializados (botillerías)Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados167.9×
Venta al por menor de productos farmacéuticos y medicinales en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados1627.7×

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
50,683
hectares in holdings
96.4%
of them under a named use
8.4%
of the crop land is irrigated
462
holdings with land here
Woodland 68%Not farmed 14%Annual cro… 8.6%Pasture 8.5%Forest plantations53%Nativewoodland15%Untilled land11%Scrub,barrenground…3.6%Cereals7.3%Fodder cropsInd…Pasture8.5%
Woodland 68%Not farmed 14%Annual… 8.6%Pasture 8.5%Forest plantations53%Nativewoodland15%Untilled land11%Scru…barr…grou…Cereals7.3%Pasture8.5%
Pasturehover 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
TucapelChile% of each territory's own population · 15,729 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
15,729
421,38018,480,432201st of 346
Average age
40.8 yrs
38.7 yrs38.1 yrs77th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
110.4
81.879.069th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
17.3/km²
28.0/km²24.7/km²220th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
6,176
152,2156,596,527196th of 346
Dwellings
7,795
186,0887,642,716196th of 346
People per household
2.55
2.772.80288th of 345
Women
51.9%
51.6%51.5%51st of 346
Men per 100 women
92.7
93.894.3296th of 346
Under 15
16.9%
18.4%17.7%238th of 346
65 and over
18.7%
15.1%14.0%54th of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
55.4
50.346.558th of 346
One-person households
25.4%
20.9%21.8%76th of 345
Households with children
29.9%
34.5%33.2%268th of 345
Indigenous peoples
4.2%
7.4%11.4%299th of 346
Female-headed households
52.2%
47.5%49.9%42nd of 345
Land area
910 km²
15,039 km²748,041 km²142nd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Tucapel41%Arrived since 202059%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Tucapel41%Arrived since 202059%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born share
0.8%
2.0%8.7%311th 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.
62.4%
68.5%50.5%147th 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.
13.3%
14.8%23.9%241st of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
23.9%
15.0%17.2%50th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
120
8,4311,608,650272nd of 346
Average age, foreign-born
34.6 yrs
32.6 yrs33.5 yrs109th of 345
Women among foreign-born
55.0%
50.8%51.7%42nd of 345
Foreign-born of working age
75.0%
80.0%83.1%314th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
40.8%
39.6%34.4%134th 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.
0.9%
2.4%10.6%313th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.1 yrs
13.2 yrs12.9 yrs211th 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.
-354
-50,9470161st of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-2.3
-11.90.0163rd of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Tucapel19%Higher39%Secondary33%Primary only5.1%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Tucapel19%39%Secondary33%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.3 yrs
9.5 yrs10.4 yrs170th of 346
Reached higher education
19.1%
23.2%31.1%215th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.5%98.6%1st of 333
Continues to higher education · Of young secondary-school graduates, those enrolled in first-year undergraduate studies the following March. By the comuna of the school where they finished secondary school, which is the approximation to origin that Mineduc publishes.
47.5%
54.9%55.6%273rd 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.
101.9%
101.2%99.8%159th of 346
Literacy rate
96.0%
95.7%97.8%204th of 346
Reached secondary education
39.4%
37.6%36.7%89th of 346
Primary education only
33.4%
30.0%24.1%147th of 346
Never attended school
2.96%
4.16%3.01%252nd of 346
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.
10.5 yrs
11.0 yrs12.1 yrs187th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.7 yrs
11.1 yrs12.1 yrs191st of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.02%
4.31%2.18%140th of 345
Households lacking schooling
20.8%
24.9%15.1%196th 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.
158
5,665217,565194th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
12.7%
36.2%33.9%286th 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%
8.7%3.1%114th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
73.3%
55.1%67.2%63rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
20.0%
26.2%19.7%143rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
6.7%
18.7%13.1%285th 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.
10.7%
9.3%13.0%176th of 331
Of those continuing, women · The graduates module does not publish sex, so there is no continuation rate by sex: only the make-up of those who do continue.
58.7%
47.1%49.7%41st 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.

158left secondary school in 2024
75enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
47.5%continued immediately
73%of those, to a university
11%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%EnfermeriaEducacion DiferencialKinesiologiaNutricion y DieteticaPsicologia
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%EnfermeriaEducacion DiferencialKinesiologiaNutricion y DieteticaPsicologia
TucapelChile

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%Health and welfareEngineering and industryEducationBusiness and lawArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesInformation technologyNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryServices
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryEducationBusiness and lawArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesInformation technologyNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryServices
TucapelChile

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

05010015020020062015202415875
05010015020020062015202415875
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 Tucapel'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 Tucapel 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

Tucapel98%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Tucapel98%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo cover% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
15.8%
12.9%10.6%29th of 346
Public health insurance
97.5%
95.0%82.6%27th 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.
65.2
86.982.5192nd of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
148
9910016th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
2,492
54,1671,950,388173rd of 346
Average age, people with a disability
58.7 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs140th of 346
Disability among 65+
47.9%
44.7%43.0%117th of 346
Difficulty walking
7.62%
6.22%4.92%44th of 346
Difficulty seeing
8.02%
6.04%4.58%23rd of 346
Difficulty hearing
3.34%
2.82%2.16%63rd of 346
Difficulty concentrating
3.67%
3.10%2.70%30th of 346
Private health insurance
1.5%
2.8%13.2%247th of 335
No health coverage
0.80%
0.71%1.98%227th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
96.3%
96.5%92.1%108th of 332
Households lacking health access
10.9%
7.6%6.0%31st of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
1,026
36,6081,523,716202nd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
59
89336,698139th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
5.75%
2.44%2.41%12th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.3 days
6.6 days6.1 days85th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
37.5
21.219.910th of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
74
104100201st of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
36
1,73889,723250th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
3.5%
4.7%5.9%307th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
22.9
41.248.6284th 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.
41
81100290th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 26%Digestive and urinary tract 23%Injuries, bones and skin 19%Tumours, blood a… 10%Mind, nerves an… 8.0%Pregnancy… 7.1%Infection… 6.2%Respiratorysystem15%Circulatorysystem12%Genitourinarysystem12%Digestivesystem12%Injuries andpoisoning11%Skin4.7%Musculoskeletal3.8%Cancersandtumours5.5%Endocrineandmetabolic4.2%Mental andbehavioural5.0%NervoussystemEyePregnancyandchildbirth6.6%Infectiousand…Ill-definedsymptoms
Heart and lungs 26%Digestive and urin… 23%Injuries, bon… 19%Tumours, blo… 10%Mind, nerve… 8.0%Pregn… 7.1%Infec… 6.2%Respiratorysystem15%Circulat…system12%Genitourinary system12%Digestive system12%Injuries andpoisoning11%Skin4.7%Muscul…3.8%Cancersandtumours5.5%Endoc…andmetab…4.2%Mental andbehaviour…5.0%Nervo…systemEyePregnancyandchildbirthInf…andpar…Ill-de…sympto…
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 digestivos53%Sitios reservados47%
Órganos digestivos53%Sitios reservados47%
Órganos digestivosSitios reservadoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
18.6%
20.9%17.3%203rd of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.1 UF
23.2 UF32.0 UF230th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
115.1%
99.6%78.9%49th 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.
67.2
74.685.6243rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
43.9%
46.6%54.4%283rd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
12.6%
11.0%8.6%17th of 345
Self-employed
30.4%
30.7%33.8%275th of 345
Extreme poverty
9.3%
8.0%6.9%127th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
15.8%
16.6%17.7%203rd of 335
Unemployment rate
6.6%
9.6%8.8%255th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 530,308
CLP 539,944CLP 783,124171st 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.
0.470
0.4540.48872nd of 321
Registered firms
1,057
31,4251,582,390225th of 346
Annual sales
4,518,063 UF
209,215,971 UF34,347,683,688 UF208th 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.
2,530
135,7519,699,164244th of 346
Sales per firm
4,274 UF
6,658 UF21,706 UF145th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.8
2.73.9235th of 346
Women among employees
37.6%
36.7%40.6%228th of 345
Independent contractors
913
36,4543,958,269253rd of 346
Contractors as share of workers
26.5%
21.2%29.0%187th of 346

Employment by industry

Industry and construction 28%State and social services 22%Trade and logistics 21%Natural resources 17%Other s… 6.4%Advance… 5.2%Manufacturing13%Construction13%Electricity…Water…Education9.8%Health7.4%Public administration5.3%Retail and wholesale14%Transport4.4%Accommodati…and foodAgriculture andfishing15%MiningDomestic work4.3%Other…Admin…servi…2.6%Profe…servi…Inf…
Industry and constructi… 28%State and social … 22%Trade and logis… 21%Natural res… 17%Oth… 6.4%Adv… 5.2%Manufactu…13%Construction13%Electricit…Wat…Education9.8%Health7.4%Public administrationRetail andwholesale14%Transport4.4%Accomm…andfoodAgricultureand fishing15%DomesticworkOther…Admi…serv…Prof…serv…
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 60%Managers and professionals 23%Elementary occupations 16%Service and sales20%Craft and trades19%Plant and machineoperators12%Skilledagricultur…6.3%Cleric…support3.9%Professiona…11%Technicians9.7%Elementary occupations16%
Skilled occupations 60%Managers and professiona… 23%Elementary occu… 16%Service andsales20%Craft andtrades19%Plant andmachineoperators12%Skilledagricult…6.3%Cleri…suppo…3.9%Profession…11%Technicians9.7%Elementaryoccupations16%
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

Tucapel100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Tucapel100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
3.8%
4.9%5.7%311th of 345
Internet access
85.8%
88.0%93.2%236th 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.
2.2
3.72.3255th 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.
2.1
2.81.6232nd of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
6,142
150,3556,408,172195th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.15%
0.24%0.57%321st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.52%
1.01%1.13%308th of 345
Public water network
87.1%
79.3%92.3%147th of 345
Electricity access
99.5%
99.4%99.6%140th of 345
Detached houses
99.7%
95.5%78.7%11th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
3.8%19.9%256th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.20%
0.25%0.23%140th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
17.8%
16.7%11.9%135th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
166
6,860491,904271st of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
2.7%
4.5%7.5%336th of 345
Renting households
13.8%
16.9%26.2%206th of 345
Owner-occupiers
71.8%
69.7%61.1%98th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
85.2%
72.5%24.4%92nd of 345
Commute by public transport
23.1%
29.1%42.1%206th of 345
Walks to work
20.9%
13.2%10.2%97th of 345
Households with a computer
39.7%
45.4%54.9%220th 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.
0.9
1.51.1282nd 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.
98.1%
93.0%97.0%95th of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
99.9%
99.9%99.9%252nd 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.
82.1%
75.2%89.4%134th 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.
99.9%
95.5%98.1%113th 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%
99.5%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.
43.6
12.55.951st 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%
51.4%80.3%194th of 345
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
0.0%
68.5%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%
87.2%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.
0.8
1.00.6231st 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.
98.8%
97.4%99.0%161st 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.
82.1%
80.1%91.6%157th 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.
99.9%
98.4%98.5%132nd 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%
99.5%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 38%On foot or by bicycle 28%Public transport 23%Other mea… 12%Car37%Walking21%Bicycle6.8%Public transport23%Other12%
Private vehicle 38%On foot or by b… 28%Public transport 23%Other means 12%Car37%Walking21%Bicycle6.8%Public transport23%Other12%
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 72%Rented 14%Provided rent-fr… 11%Other 3.4%Owned outright71%Rented, withcontract7.1%Rented, nocontract6.6%Provided byfamily9.3%
Owned 72%Rented 14%Provided rent… 11%Owned outright71%Rented,withcontract7.1%Rented,nocontract6.6%Provided byfamily9.3%Otherarra…
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 87%Fossil … 6.4%Electri… 4.6%No hea… 2.2%Firewood85%Gas4.9%ParaffinElectricity4.6%No heating2.2%
Wood and biomass 87%Fossil fuels 6.4%Electricity 4.6%Firewood85%Para…Noheating
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
88.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
88.5%
voted in the runoff
14,103
registered voters on the roll
8.4%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman30.6%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist69.4%58.3%
TucapelChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez30.4%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman18.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen11.9%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist29.8%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.7%1.3%
TucapelChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile28.4%30.6%
KCambio por Chile26.8%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido16.9%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente17.1%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas1.8%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.6%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde5.4%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%
TucapelChileshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Tucapel 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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