Commune · 09119

VilcúnVilcún

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Census population
31,575
124th of 346
Population density
22.3/km²
200th of 346
Average years of schooling
9.2 yrs
191st of 346
Foreign-born share
1.2%
264th 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 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%
Unemployment rate9th of 335 · Chile 8.8%17.3%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.8 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF18.8 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 · 410 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
53.6%
226th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
31.2%
57th of 335
Came from another region
14.7%
186th of 335
Net internal migration
+3,934
+12.1 per 100 residents
Vilcúnthis commune · 28,511elsewhere in the region10,167 peopleanother region4,783 peopleabroad165 peopleelsewhere in the region6,096 peopleanother region4,920 peopleVilcúnthis commune · 32,610
Vilcúnthis commune · 28,511elsewhere in th…10,167 peopleanother region4,783 peopleabroad165 peopleelsewhere in th…6,096 peopleanother region4,920 peopleVilcúnthis commune · 32,610

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Retail and wholesale1Retail and wholesale▲15Construction2Construction▲31Agriculture and fishing3Agriculture and fishing▼23Transport4Transport▼14Education5Education▼16Manufacturing6Manufacturing10Professional services7Professional services▲38Administrative services8Administrative services11Accommodation and food9Accommodation and food▲27Other services10Other services▼312Water and waste11Water and waste▲113Real estate12Real estate▲19Arts and entertainment13Arts and entertainment▼4
2005202421Retail and wholesale▲152Construction▲313Agriculture and fishing▼234Transport▼145Education▼166Manufacturing107Professional services▲388Administrative services119Accommodation and food▲2710Other services▼31211Water and waste▲11312Real estate▲1913Arts and entertainment▼4

The ten branches that employ most of Vilcún

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.

05 k10 k15 kprojection →11 k2029 · central2005201520242029
05 k10 k15 kprojection →11 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval7.5% a year observed · 5.1% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →14 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →14 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval8.6% a year observed · 3.9% projected

What Vilcún is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Vilcún employs more people in 48 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.

48
activities it is specialised in
8,639
formal workers
244/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.23.7Actividades de la administración …Construcción de carreteras y líne…Terminación y acabado de edificiosCultivo de trigoEnseñanza primaria, secundaria ci…Otras instalaciones para obras de…Elaboración de productos lácteosVenta al por mayor de artículos e…Instalaciones de gasfitería, cale…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-1.23.7Actividades de la administración …Transporte de carga por carreteraCultivo de trigoVenta al por menor de artículos d…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Vilcún

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
Cultivo de semillas de cereales, legumbres y oleaginosas (excepto semillas de raps y maravilla)Cultivo de plantas no perennes6838.0×
Venta al por menor en comercios de alimentos, bebidas o tabaco (supermercados e hipermercados)Venta al por menor en comercios no especializados2,89128.2×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes19916.2×
Servicios de transporte de escolaresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre3515.8×
Molienda de trigo: producción de harina, sémola y gránulosElaboración de productos de molinería, almidones y productos derivados del almidón5114.6×
Fabricación de artículos de cuchillería, herramientas de mano y artículos de ferreteríaFabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal; actividades de servicios de trabajo de metales1014.0×
Venta al por menor de flores, plantas, árboles, semillas y abonos en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados4213.1×
Reparación de aparatos de uso doméstico, equipo doméstico y de jardineríaReparación de efectos personales y enseres domésticos1012.2×
Cultivo de maízCultivo de plantas no perennes2811.6×
Cría de otros animales n.c.p.Ganadería810.8×
Servicios de transporte a turistasOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre116.9×
Corretaje al por mayor de productos agrícolasVenta al por mayor a cambio de una retribución o por contrata1776.9×

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
75,747
hectares in holdings
95.7%
of them under a named use
20.5%
of the crop land is irrigated
2,140
holdings with land here
Woodland 35%Annual crops 31%Pasture 27%Not farmed 6.7%Native woodland23%Forest plantations12%Cereals22%Foddercrops3.0%Pulses andtubers2.9%Industr…crops1.4%Vegeta…0.7%Pasture27%Scrub, barren groundand buildings4.3%Untilledland2.4%
Woodland 35%Annual crops 31%Pasture 27%Not… 6.7%Native woodland23%Forest plantations12%Cereals22%Foddercrops3.0%PulsesandtubersIndus…cropsVeg…Pasture27%Scrub,barrenground…Untilled…
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
VilcúnChile% of each territory's own population · 31,575 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
31,575
803,77718,480,432124th of 346
Average age
37.6 yrs
38.4 yrs38.1 yrs267th of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
70.7
81.279.0269th of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
22.3/km²
43.8/km²24.7/km²200th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
11,229
297,7676,596,527125th of 346
Dwellings
13,928
389,0477,642,716133rd of 346
People per household
2.81
2.702.80124th of 345
Women
51.3%
51.8%51.5%120th of 346
Men per 100 women
95.0
92.994.3227th of 346
Under 15
19.4%
18.2%17.7%66th of 346
65 and over
13.7%
14.8%14.0%262nd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
49.4
49.346.5214th of 346
One-person households
20.5%
22.9%21.8%228th of 345
Households with children
36.3%
33.1%33.2%65th of 345
Indigenous peoples
36.7%
36.5%11.4%45th of 346
Female-headed households
45.5%
49.3%49.9%248th of 345
Land area
1,415 km²
18,354 km²748,041 km²102nd of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Vilcún25%Arrived since 202075%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Vilcún25%Arrived sinc…75%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
1.2%
2.4%8.7%264th 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.
53.6%
57.2%50.5%226th 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.
31.2%
21.3%23.9%57th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
14.7%
19.8%17.2%186th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
386
18,9301,608,650181st of 346
Average age, foreign-born
37.4 yrs
35.0 yrs33.5 yrs48th of 345
Women among foreign-born
56.0%
50.9%51.7%31st of 345
Foreign-born of working age
80.3%
82.3%83.1%207th of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
24.9%
28.8%34.4%292nd 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.
1.5%
2.9%10.6%265th of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.1 yrs
13.5 yrs12.9 yrs86th 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.
3,934
-31,178073rd of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
12.1
-3.80.0101st of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Vilcún20%Higher38%Secondary34%Primary only5.2%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Vilcún20%38%Secondary34%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.2 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs191st of 346
Reached higher education
19.8%
26.3%31.1%196th 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.
49.5%
50.9%55.6%241st 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%
101.3%99.8%163rd of 346
Literacy rate
96.0%
96.8%97.8%204th of 346
Reached secondary education
37.9%
36.6%36.7%148th of 346
Primary education only
33.6%
28.7%24.1%142nd of 346
Never attended school
3.61%
3.41%3.01%169th 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.
10.6 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs182nd of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.8 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs178th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.01%
3.16%2.18%141st of 345
Households lacking schooling
26.6%
20.5%15.1%128th 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.
285
10,404217,565149th of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
52.3%
36.9%33.9%83rd 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.
3.5%
5.0%3.1%97th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
63.8%
71.6%67.2%153rd of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
16.3%
15.2%19.7%198th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
19.9%
13.3%13.1%128th 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.
5.7%
10.1%13.0%226th 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.
54.6%
51.2%49.7%91st 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.

285left secondary school in 2024
141enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
49.5%continued immediately
64%of those, to a university
6%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizTerapia OcupacionalBachiller en Ciencias y HumanidadesIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizPlan Comun Ingenieria CivilTecnico en Administracion de EmpresasTecnico en Electricidad IndustrialDerechoEducacion de ParvulosGestion Turistica
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizTerapia OcupacionalBachiller en Ciencias y HumanidadesIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizPlan Comun Ingenieria CivilTecnico en Administracion de EmpresasTecnico en Electricidad IndustrialDerechoEducacion de ParvulosGestion Turistica
VilcúnChile

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%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareEducationBusiness and lawNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesArts and humanities
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareEducationBusiness and lawNatural sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technologyServicesSocial sciencesArts and humanities
VilcúnChile

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

0100200300200620152024285141
0100200300200620152024285141
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 Vilcún'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 Vilcún 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

Vilcún96%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Vilcún96%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.3%
12.2%10.6%208th of 346
Public health insurance
96.4%
91.4%82.6%58th 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.
69.7
77.682.5170th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
87
93100180th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
3,581
98,0291,950,388133rd of 346
Average age, people with a disability
56.9 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs223rd of 346
Disability among 65+
42.1%
44.9%43.0%264th of 346
Difficulty walking
5.17%
5.65%4.92%225th of 346
Difficulty seeing
5.05%
5.70%4.58%203rd of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.58%
2.78%2.16%166th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.64%
3.02%2.70%213th of 346
Private health insurance
1.6%
5.3%13.2%244th of 335
No health coverage
0.93%
1.11%1.98%211th of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
96.9%
92.0%92.1%91st of 332
Households lacking health access
2.1%
5.0%6.0%275th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
2,201
62,4061,523,716133rd of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
54
1,57136,698149th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.45%
2.52%2.41%219th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
7.1 days
7.2 days6.1 days100th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
17.1
19.519.9203rd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
85
93100157th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
128
3,84589,723127th of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.8%
6.2%5.9%147th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
40.5
47.848.6162nd 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.
83
96100130th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, bones an… 17%Pregnancy, birt… 15%Tumours, blood and me… 15%Mind, nerve… 6.5%Infections … 3.9%Digestivesystem16%Genitour…system7.2%Respiratorysystem9.9%Circulatorysystem9.2%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskele…3.8%Skin2.2%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Cancers andtumours8.6%Endocrineandmetabolic5.9%Mentalandbehaviou…4.2%Nervo…system1.8%Contactwith…Ill…sym…Inf…and…
Digestive and urinary … 23%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, bones and skin 17%Pregnancy, birth and ne… 15%Tumours, blood a… 15%Mind, … 6.5%Digestivesystem16%Genito…system7.2%Respirat…system9.9%Circula…system9.2%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculo…3.8%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth14%Cancersandtumours8.6%Endocri…andmetabol…5.9%Mentalandbehavi…Ner…sys…Contactwith…
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 digestivos30%Mama12%Genitalesfemeninos10%Genitalesmasculinos10%Sangre ysistemalinfático7.0%Víasurinarias6.3%Encéfalo ysistemanervioso5.5%Tiroides yendocrinas5.5%Piel ymelanoma4.7%Sitiosreservados4.7%Boca y faringe3.9%
Órganos digestivos30%Mama12%Genitalesfemeninos10%Genitalesmasculinos10%Sangre ysistemalinfático7.0%Víasurinarias6.3%Encéfaloy sistemanervioso5.5%Tiroidesyendocrin…5.5%Piel ymelanomaSitiosreservadosBoca yfarin…3.9%
Órganos digestivosMamaGenitales femeninosGenitales masculinosSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariashover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
36.4%
30.0%17.3%20th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
18.8 UF
22.9 UF32.0 UF311th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
91.0%
101.1%78.9%241st 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.
60.6
77.785.6283rd of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
44.7%
48.4%54.4%271st of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
11.5%
10.2%8.6%45th of 345
Self-employed
30.8%
35.8%33.8%266th of 345
Extreme poverty
13.9%
13.8%6.9%40th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
16.2%
18.6%17.7%192nd of 335
Unemployment rate
17.3%
11.3%8.8%9th of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 443,299
CLP 533,802CLP 783,124280th 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.
0.456
0.4950.488106th of 321
Registered firms
1,913
62,4281,582,390149th of 346
Annual sales
11,406,512 UF
267,044,738 UF34,347,683,688 UF130th 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.
8,639
254,9539,699,164131st of 346
Sales per firm
5,963 UF
4,278 UF21,706 UF101st of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.9
2.73.989th of 346
Women among employees
42.1%
41.9%40.6%143rd of 345
Independent contractors
1,968
104,1373,958,269156th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
18.6%
29.0%29.0%295th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 25%State and social services 23%Industry and construction 22%Natural resources 17%Advanced … 7.2%Other ser… 5.4%Retail andwholesale16%Transport6.9%Accommodationand foodEducation11%Health6.5%Publicadministration5.6%Construction11%Manufacturing8.7%Water and…Electrici…Agriculture andfishing16%Administra…services3.1%ProfessionalservicesDomesticwork3.3%Otherservi…1.5%Arts…
Trade and logistics 25%State and social se… 23%Industry and co… 22%Natural re… 17%Adva… 7.2%Othe… 5.4%Retail andwholesale16%Transpo…6.9%Accommod…and foodEducation11%Health6.5%Publicadministra…5.6%Construction11%Manufacturing8.7%Agricultureand fishing16%Admin…servi…3.1%Pro…ser…Info…Domes…work3.3%Oth…ser…Art…
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 61%Managers and professionals 23%Elementary occupations 15%Service and sales19%Craft and trades16%Plant andmachineoperators12%Skilledagricultural9.0%Clericalsupport5.3%Professionals11%Technicians9.6%Manag…2.6%Elementary occupations15%
Skilled occupations 61%Managers and professionals 23%Elementary occ… 15%Service andsales19%Craft and trades16%Plant and machineoperators12%Skilledagricult…9.0%Clericalsupport5.3%Profession…11%Technicians9.6%Elementaryoccupations15%
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

Vilcún100%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Vilcún100%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
6.3%
5.3%5.7%67th of 345
Internet access
83.9%
88.1%93.2%271st 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.
6.1
3.52.382nd 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.
4.8
2.91.6107th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
11,166
294,5656,408,172125th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.48%
0.38%0.57%70th of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.59%
1.00%1.13%294th of 345
Public water network
74.3%
80.7%92.3%256th of 345
Electricity access
98.3%
98.6%99.6%294th of 345
Detached houses
99.7%
91.1%78.7%17th of 345
Apartments
0.0%
8.2%19.9%259th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.30%
0.30%0.23%100th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
15.4%
19.6%11.9%167th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
387
12,914491,904173rd of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
3.4%
4.3%7.5%320th of 345
Renting households
11.5%
18.7%26.2%259th of 345
Owner-occupiers
75.5%
68.3%61.1%39th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
88.4%
68.1%24.4%65th of 345
Commute by public transport
33.5%
35.3%42.1%86th of 345
Walks to work
13.7%
13.5%10.2%182nd of 345
Households with a computer
42.4%
46.7%54.9%177th of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.9
1.71.1139th 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.
90.7%
92.6%97.0%222nd of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%234th 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.
50.3%
75.6%89.4%271st 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.
91.4%
96.8%98.1%260th of 345
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st of 345
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
17.9
10.55.9131st 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%
50.5%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.
37.9%
72.5%90.0%211th 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.
98.0%
90.7%96.2%205th 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.
1.2
0.90.6152nd 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.
96.8%
98.7%99.0%226th 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%258th 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.
63.7%
78.2%91.6%240th 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.
91.6%
98.3%98.5%269th of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 42%Public transport 34%On foot or by bicycle 17%Othe… 6.9%Car40%Public transport34%Walking14%Bicycle3.7%Other6.8%
Private vehicle 42%Public transport 34%On foot or by bicycle 17%Other … 6.9%Car40%Publictransport34%Walking14%Bicyc…3.7%Other6.8%
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 76%Rented 12%Provided ren… 10%Other 3.0%Owned outright67%Owned,stillpaying8.9%Rented, nocontract5.8%Rented, withcontract5.7%Provided byfamily7.5%Provided by…
Owned 76%Rented 12%Provided rent-… 10%Owned outright67%Owne…stillpayi…Rented, nocontract5.8%Rented,withcontractProvided byfamily7.5%Pro…byemp…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 91%Firewood88%Gas2.6%Paraffin2.3%Electri…2.7%No…
Wood and biomass 91%Firewood88%ParaffinNo…
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
86.1%
of the registered voted in the first round
85.5%
voted in the runoff
26,619
registered voters on the roll
6.2%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman27.5%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist72.5%58.3%
VilcúnChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez21.9%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman16.7%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist34.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.9%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.8%1.3%
VilcúnChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile23.5%30.6%
KCambio por Chile20.4%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido33.5%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente12.2%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.3%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.4%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile3.7%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
VilcúnChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile27.3%
KCambio por Chile29.3%
JChile Grande y Unido26.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.4%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.6%
Independents outside a pact3.2%
Vilcúnshare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Vilcún 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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