Commune · 09120

VillarricaVillarrica

Compare Villarrica with another place
Census population
67,737
78th of 346
Population density
52.5/km²
121st of 346
Average years of schooling
9.9 yrs
94th of 346
Foreign-born share
3.1%
156th of 346

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 15 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 345 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility1st of 345 · Chile 96.2%100.0%
People within 15 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 99.9%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 345 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.2 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.2 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 827 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
47.3%
259th of 335
Came from another commune of the same region
14.2%
227th of 335
Came from another region
36.8%
13th of 335
Net internal migration
+9,899
+16.4 per 100 residents
Villarricathis commune · 49,386another region22,212 peopleelsewhere in the region8,552 peopleabroad1,046 peopleanother region13,081 peopleelsewhere in the region7,784 peopleVillarricathis commune · 60,331
Villarricathis commune · 49,386another region22,212 peopleelsewhere in th…8,552 peopleabroad1,046 peopleanother region13,081 peopleelsewhere in th…7,784 peopleVillarricathis commune · 60,331

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Retail and wholesale1Retail and wholesale▲14Construction2Construction▲210Education3Education▲76Accommodation and food4Accommodation and food▲23Manufacturing5Manufacturing▼21Agriculture and fishing6Agriculture and fishing▼58Administrative services7Administrative services▲19Transport8Transport▲15Health9Health▼47Other services10Other services▼312Real estate11Real estate▲117Water and waste12Water and waste▲511Professional services13Professional services▼2
2005202421Retail and wholesale▲142Construction▲2103Education▲764Accommodation and food▲235Manufacturing▼216Agriculture and fishing▼587Administrative services▲198Transport▲159Health▼4710Other services▼31211Real estate▲11712Water and waste▲51113Professional services▼2

The ten branches that employ most of Villarrica

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.

010 k20 k30 kprojection →22 k2029 · central2005201520242029
010 k20 k30 kprojection →22 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.5% a year observed · 2.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

010 M20 M30 M40 Mprojection →32 M2029 · central2005201520242029
010 M20 M30 M40 Mprojection →32 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval9.6% a year observed · 3.7% projected

What Villarrica is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Villarrica employs more people in 107 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.

107
activities it is specialised in
18,919
formal workers
87/296
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.63.7Construcción de edificios para us…Actividades de la administración …Actividades de restaurantes y de …Servicios relacionados con la acu…Cultivo de trigoExtracción de maderaConsejo de administración de edif…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Venta al por menor de calzado en …How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.63.7Venta al por menor de vehículos a…Cultivo de trigoCultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Elaboración de bebidas malteadas …How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Villarrica

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
Tratamiento y eliminación de desechos no peligrososTratamiento y eliminación de desechos27455.3×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada30018.0×
Elaboración de té, café, mate e infusiones de hierbasElaboración de otros productos alimenticios14313.3×
Venta al por menor de alimentos en comercios especializados (almacenes pequeños y minimarket)Venta al por menor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco en comercios especializados9539.5×
Otras actividades de asistencia social sin alojamientoOtras actividades de asistencia social sin alojamiento1399.2×
Molienda de trigo: producción de harina, sémola y gránulosElaboración de productos de molinería, almidones y productos derivados del almidón648.4×
Actividades de residenciales para turistasActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas118.0×
Venta al por menor de gas licuado en bombonas (cilindros) en comercios especializadosVenta al por menor de otros productos en comercios especializados737.2×
Extracción de maderaExtracción de madera1166.9×
Cría de ovejas (ovinos)Ganadería166.5×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes1736.4×
Otras actividades de alojamiento para turistas n.c.p.Actividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas135.9×

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
55,009
hectares in holdings
96.5%
of them under a named use
11.6%
of the crop land is irrigated
1,696
holdings with land here
Woodland 47%Pasture 41%Annual… 5.8%Not fa… 4.6%Orchar… 1.8%Native woodland40%Forest plantations7.5%Pasture41%Foddercrops2.8%Cereals2.6%Scrub,barrenground and…3.5%Untilled landFruit trees
Woodland 47%Pasture 41%Native woodland40%Forest plantationsPasture41%Fodder cropsCerealsScrub, barren…Unt…landFruittrees
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
VillarricaChile% of each territory's own population · 67,737 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Census population
67,737
803,77718,480,43278th of 346
Average age
38.3 yrs
38.4 yrs38.1 yrs233rd of 346
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
74.7
81.279.0251st of 345
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
52.5/km²
43.8/km²24.7/km²121st of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Households
25,155
297,7676,596,52776th of 346
Dwellings
43,229
389,0477,642,71651st of 346
People per household
2.69
2.702.80210th of 345
Women
51.6%
51.8%51.5%80th of 346
Men per 100 women
93.9
92.994.3267th of 346
Under 15
19.5%
18.2%17.7%61st of 346
65 and over
14.5%
14.8%14.0%233rd of 346
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
51.5
49.346.5154th of 346
One-person households
22.5%
22.9%21.8%164th of 345
Households with children
34.5%
33.1%33.2%118th of 345
Indigenous peoples
26.3%
36.5%11.4%89th of 346
Female-headed households
47.4%
49.3%49.9%195th of 345
Land area
1,290 km²
18,354 km²748,041 km²112th of 346

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Villarrica24%Arrived since 202076%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Villarrica24%76%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born share
3.1%
2.4%8.7%156th 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.
47.3%
57.2%50.5%259th 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.
14.2%
21.3%23.9%227th of 335
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
36.8%
19.8%17.2%13th of 335
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Foreign-born population
2,126
18,9301,608,65094th of 346
Average age, foreign-born
36.5 yrs
35.0 yrs33.5 yrs62nd of 345
Women among foreign-born
50.9%
50.9%51.7%174th of 345
Foreign-born of working age
82.7%
82.3%83.1%103rd of 345
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
23.9%
28.8%34.4%297th 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.
3.9%
2.9%10.6%151st of 346
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.2 yrs
13.5 yrs12.9 yrs59th 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.
9,899
-31,178046th of 335
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
16.4
-3.80.080th of 335

Education

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How far schooling went

Villarrica26%Higher37%Secondary28%Primary only5.3%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Villarrica26%Higher37%Secondary28%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.9 yrs
9.8 yrs10.4 yrs94th of 346
Reached higher education
26.3%
26.3%31.1%97th of 346
School attendance, ages 6-17
97.3%
99.5%98.6%282nd 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.
44.1%
50.9%55.6%295th 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.
101.7%
101.3%99.8%177th of 346
Literacy rate
97.9%
96.8%97.8%92nd of 346
Reached secondary education
37.4%
36.6%36.7%164th of 346
Primary education only
27.8%
28.7%24.1%230th of 346
Never attended school
3.21%
3.41%3.01%222nd 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.
11.6 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs99th of 346
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.8 yrs
11.6 yrs12.1 yrs84th of 346
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
2.07%
3.16%2.18%253rd of 345
Households lacking schooling
13.2%
20.5%15.1%278th 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.
1,125
10,404217,56561st of 331
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
28.4%
36.9%33.9%217th 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.
13.2%
5.0%3.1%74th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
71.8%
71.6%67.2%78th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
21.6%
15.2%19.7%127th of 331
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
6.7%
13.3%13.1%286th 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.
28.6%
10.1%13.0%93rd of 331
Of those continuing, women · The graduates module does not publish sex, so there is no continuation rate by sex: only the make-up of those who do continue.
49.0%
51.2%49.7%215th 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.

1,125left secondary school in 2024
496enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
44.1%continued immediately
72%of those, to a university
29%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria ComercialTecnico en Mecanica Automotriz y AutotronicaPsicologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialAdministracion en Turismo y HospitalidadTecnico en AdministracionArquitecturaMedicina VeterinariaOdontologia
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoIngenieria ComercialTecnico en Mecanica Automotriz y AutotronicaPsicologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialAdministracion en Turismo y HospitalidadTecnico en AdministracionArquitecturaMedicina VeterinariaOdontologia
VillarricaChile

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

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesSocial sciencesInformation technologyArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawEducationServicesSocial sciencesInformation technologyArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
VillarricaChile

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

05001,0001,5002006201520241,125496
05001,0001,5002006201520241,125496
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 Villarrica'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 Villarrica 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

Villarrica88%Fonasa7.4%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Villarrica88%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.0%
12.2%10.6%223rd of 346
Public health insurance
88.3%
91.4%82.6%244th 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.
77.9
77.682.5118th of 331
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
76
93100224th of 331
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
People with a disability
7,449
98,0291,950,38876th of 346
Average age, people with a disability
57.1 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs216th of 346
Disability among 65+
44.0%
44.9%43.0%221st of 346
Difficulty walking
4.99%
5.65%4.92%232nd of 346
Difficulty seeing
4.90%
5.70%4.58%217th of 346
Difficulty hearing
2.49%
2.78%2.16%178th of 346
Difficulty concentrating
2.98%
3.02%2.70%135th of 346
Private health insurance
7.4%
5.3%13.2%82nd of 335
No health coverage
1.68%
1.11%1.98%151st of 335
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
93.4%
92.0%92.1%166th of 332
Households lacking health access
4.6%
5.0%6.0%199th of 335
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
5,279
62,4061,523,71681st of 331
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
105
1,57136,69896th of 331
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
1.99%
2.52%2.41%275th of 331
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.1 days
7.2 days6.1 days211th of 331
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
15.5
19.519.9233rd of 331
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
94
93100111th of 331
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
283
3,84589,72382nd of 330
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.4%
6.2%5.9%185th of 330
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
41.8
47.848.6145th 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.
84
96100129th of 330

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 22%Heart and lungs 19%Pregnancy, birth a… 17%Injuries, bones… 15%Tumours, blood… 12%Mind, nerves and s… 9.5%Infections and oth… 5.0%Digestive system15%Genitou…system7.7%Circulatorysystem10%Respiratorysystem9.1%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Perinatal…Congen…malfor…Injuries andpoisoning10.0%Musculoskeletal4.1%SkinCancers andtumours8.4%Endocrine andmetabolicMental andbehavioural6.6%Nervo…system2.2%Contactwith healt…Infec…and…Ill-d…sympt…
Digestive and urinary … 22%Heart and lungs 19%Pregnancy, birth and n… 17%Injuries, bones and sk… 15%Tumours, blood an… 12%Mind, n… 9.5%Digestivesystem15%Genitou…system7.7%Circulato…system10%Respira…system9.1%Pregnancy andchildbirth14%Per…con…Con…Injuries andpoisoning10.0%Musculo…4.1%Cancers andtumours8.4%Endoc…andmetab…3.2%Mentalandbehaviou…6.6%Ner…sys…Conta…withhealt…Infect…Ill-d…sympt…
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 digestivos31%Sangre y sistema linfático20%Mama10%Genitalesfemeninos9.9%Genitalesmasculinos8.5%Vías urinarias4.6%Tiroidesyendocrin…3.5%Víasrespira…2.8%Piel ymelanoma2.8%Sitios maldefinidos2.5%Sitiosreserva…2.5%Encéfaloysistema…
Órganos digestivos31%Sangre ysistemalinfático20%Mama10%Genitalesfemeninos9.9%Genitalesmasculinos8.5%Víasurinarias4.6%Tiroidesyendocri…3.5%Víasrespir…2.8%Piel ymelano…2.8%Sitiosmal…Sitiosreser…2.5%Encéf…y…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaGenitales femeninosGenitales masculinosVías 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.
24.0%
30.0%17.3%113th of 335
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.2 UF
22.9 UF32.0 UF226th of 342
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
98.2%
101.1%78.9%184th 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.
98.0
77.785.676th of 346
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
51.4%
48.4%54.4%163rd of 345
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.7%
10.2%8.6%111th of 345
Self-employed
40.4%
35.8%33.8%82nd of 345
Extreme poverty
10.2%
13.8%6.9%96th of 335
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
11.8%
18.6%17.7%271st of 335
Unemployment rate
11.0%
11.3%8.8%93rd of 335
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 658,444
CLP 533,802CLP 783,12472nd 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.
0.486
0.4950.48852nd of 321
Registered firms
6,637
62,4281,582,39060th of 346
Annual sales
27,075,490 UF
267,044,738 UF34,347,683,688 UF80th 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.
18,933
254,9539,699,16479th of 346
Sales per firm
4,079 UF
4,278 UF21,706 UF155th of 342
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.8
2.73.9233rd of 346
Women among employees
41.1%
41.9%40.6%168th of 345
Independent contractors
7,964
104,1373,958,26966th of 346
Contractors as share of workers
29.6%
29.0%29.0%135th of 346

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 29%State and social services 23%Industry and construction 23%Advanced … 11%Other services 8.1%Natural resour… 6.4%Retail andwholesale17%Accommodat…and food6.9%Transport4.4%Education11%Health7.5%PublicadministrationConstruction13%Manufacturi…8.2%Electricit…Wat…and…Professionalservices3.7%AdministrativeservicesInfor…andcommu…1.4%Realest…Fin…andins…Domesticwork3.9%Otherservices3.0%Arts and…Agriculture andfishing5.6%
Trade and logistics 29%State and social … 23%Industry and const… 23%Advanced serv… 11%Other servic… 8.1%Retail andwholesale17%Accommo…and food6.9%Transport4.4%Education11%Health7.5%Publicadmini…4.5%Constructi…13%Manufact…8.2%Electr…Profe…servi…3.7%Admin…servi…3.5%Infor…Real…Financ…DomesticworkOtherservi…3.0%Agric…andfishi…5.6%Mining
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 57%Managers and professionals 30%Elementary occupations 13%Service andsales22%Craft andtrades19%Plant andmachineoperators6.4%Clericalsupport5.2%Skilledagricultu…4.4%Professionals17%Technicians9.0%Managers4.0%Elementary occupations13%
Skilled occupations 57%Managers and professionals 30%Elementar… 13%Service andsales22%Craft andtrades19%Plant andmachineoperatorsClericalsupportSkilledagriculturalProfessionals17%Technicians9.0%ManagersElementaryoccupations13%
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

Villarrica95%House5.4%Chile79%House20%Flat
Villarrica95%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.8%
5.3%5.7%106th of 345
Internet access
91.1%
88.1%93.2%134th 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.
4.0
3.52.3164th 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.
3.1
2.91.6180th of 345
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersProvinceChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
24,839
294,5656,408,17276th of 346
Critically overcrowded
0.44%
0.38%0.57%81st of 345
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.99%
1.00%1.13%195th of 345
Public water network
65.8%
80.7%92.3%283rd of 345
Electricity access
99.2%
98.6%99.6%207th of 345
Detached houses
94.0%
91.1%78.7%244th of 345
Apartments
5.4%
8.2%19.9%88th of 345
Precarious wall materials
0.40%
0.30%0.23%56th of 345
Unoccupied private dwellings
34.9%
19.6%11.9%49th of 345
Quantitative housing deficit
1,201
12,914491,90480th of 345
Housing deficit as share of households
4.8%
4.3%7.5%215th of 345
Renting households
19.8%
18.7%26.2%102nd of 345
Owner-occupiers
65.3%
68.3%61.1%235th of 345
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
77.0%
68.1%24.4%118th of 345
Commute by public transport
28.0%
35.3%42.1%139th of 345
Walks to work
15.5%
13.5%10.2%169th of 345
Households with a computer
47.2%
46.7%54.9%119th of 345
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
2.6
1.71.171st 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.
81.4%
92.6%97.0%287th of 345
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%99.9%1st of 345
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
100.0%100.0%1st of 345
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
65.1%
75.6%89.4%219th 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.
98.9%
96.8%98.1%145th 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.
6.2
10.55.9199th 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.
58.2%
50.5%80.3%145th 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.
85.4%
72.5%90.0%164th of 345
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.
100.0%
90.7%96.2%1st of 345
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
1.2
0.90.6145th 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.
98.5%
98.7%99.0%177th 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.
71.3%
78.2%91.6%208th of 345
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
98.3%98.5%1st of 345
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
100.0%
100.0%99.8%1st of 345

How people commute

Private vehicle 49%Public transport 28%On foot or by bicycle 18%Car49%Public transport28%Walking16%Other5.0%
Private vehicle 49%Public transport 28%On foot or by bic… 18%Car49%Public transport28%Walking16%Other
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 65%Rented 20%Provided rent-f… 12%Owned outright55%Owned, still paying10%Rented, with contract12%Rented, no contract8.0%Provided byfamily9.0%Provided by employerOtherarra…
Owned 65%Rented 20%Provided r… 12%Owned outright55%Owned,stillpaying10%Rented, withcontract12%Rented,nocontract8.0%Providedby family9.0%
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 82%Fossil fuels 9.4%Electricity 6.6%Firewood77%Pelle…5.4%Gas4.9%Paraffin4.5%Electricity6.6%No heating
Wood and biomass 82%Fossil fuels 9.4%Electricity 6.6%Firewood77%Gas4.9%Paraffin4.5%Electricity
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
82.3%
of the registered voted in the first round
82.0%
voted in the runoff
64,065
registered voters on the roll
6.8%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman33.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist66.9%58.3%
VillarricaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez17.4%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman21.5%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen21.0%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist27.5%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.9%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.2%1.3%
VillarricaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile22.4%30.6%
KCambio por Chile22.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido34.0%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente10.6%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.2%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.7%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile4.3%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
VillarricaChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile26.7%
KCambio por Chile37.0%
JChile Grande y Unido18.5%
IPartido de la Gente9.8%
APartido Ecologista Verde4.2%
Independents outside a pact3.8%
Villarricashare of the valid vote

Sister communes

How this is computed

The four communes that most resemble Villarrica 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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