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Provincia de CauquenesProvincia de Cauquenes

Compare Cauquenes with another place
Census population
60,822
41st of 56
Population density
20.1/km²
32nd of 56
Average years of schooling
9.0 yrs
50th of 56
Foreign-born share
1.6%
51st of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Dependency ratio1st of 56 · Chile 46.557.0
Indigenous peoples56th of 56 · Chile 11.4%3.3%
Women among foreign-born56th of 56 · Chile 51.7%44.9%
Employment rate56th of 56 · Chile 54.4%42.7%
Household income per capita54th of 54 · Chile CLP 783,124CLP 427,386
Households lacking health access1st of 54 · Chile 6.0%17.5%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.3 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 · 924 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
73.2%
2nd of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
11.4%
41st of 54
Came from another region
13.4%
47th of 54
Net internal migration
-20,312
-32.7 per 100 residents
Cauquenesthis province · 81,211another region8,314 peopleelsewhere in the region3,725 peopleabroad1,258 peopleanother region23,274 peopleelsewhere in the region9,077 peopleCauquenesthis province · 62,157
Cauquenesthis province · 81,211another region8,314 peopleelsewhere in th…3,725 peopleabroad1,258 peopleanother region23,274 peopleelsewhere in th…9,077 peopleCauquenesthis province · 62,157

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Public administration1Public administration▲11Agriculture and fishing2Agriculture and fishing▼14Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale▲13Manufacturing4Manufacturing▼110Accommodation and food5Accommodation and food▲55Education6Education▼16Construction7Construction▼18Transport8Transport14Administrative services9Administrative services▲515Health10Health▲59Other services11Other services▼211Professional services12Professional services▼17Mining15Mining▼812Finance and insurance18Finance and insurance▼6
2005202421Public administration▲112Agriculture and fishing▼143Retail and wholesale▲134Manufacturing▼1105Accommodation and food▲556Education▼167Construction▼188Transport149Administrative services▲51510Health▲5911Other services▼21112Professional services▼1715Mining▼81218Finance and insurance▼6

The ten branches that employ most of Cauquenes

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.

7 k9 k11 k13 kprojection →12 k2029 · central2005201520242029
7 k9 k11 k13 kprojection →12 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.3% a year observed · 3.0% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →12 M2029 · central2005201520242029
05.0 M10 M15 Mprojection →12 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.8% a year observed · 4.0% projected

What Cauquenes is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Cauquenes employs more people in 85 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.

85
activities it is specialised in
10,291
formal workers
46/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Actividades de la administración …Elaboración de productos de panad…Venta al por menor de artículos d…Centros médicos privados (estable…Extracción de maderaCultivo de uva para mesaVenta al por mayor de productos d…Servicios de asesoramiento y repr…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Centros médicos privados (estable…Cultivo de uva para mesaCultivo de trigoCultivo de porotosHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Cauquenes

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
Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales (excepto explotación de viveros forestales)Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales10351.7×
Servicios de forestación a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura20019.8×
Cultivo de uva destinada a la producción de vinoCultivo de plantas perennes21716.3×
Fabricación de fibras de vidrioFabricación de vidrio y productos de vidrio814.9×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada12914.2×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura5612.1×
Venta al por menor mediante máquinas expendedorasVenta al por menor no realizada en comercios, puestos de venta o mercados711.9×
Cultivo de floresCultivo de plantas no perennes1711.7×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadoresOtras actividades de alojamiento3511.1×
Explotación de terminales terrestres de pasajerosActividades de apoyo al transporte159.4×
Servicio notarialActividades jurídicas467.8×
Extracción de maderaExtracción de madera697.5×

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
148,207
hectares in holdings
87.0%
of them under a named use
56.7%
of the crop land is irrigated
Woodland 53%Not farmed 21%Pasture 18%Orchards… 4.6%Annual c… 2.8%Forest plantations44%Nativewoodland8.7%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings13%Untilled land8.3%Pasture18%Vines3.2%Fruit treesCereals1.3%Foddercrops
Woodland 53%Not farmed 21%Pasture 18%Forest plantations44%Nativewoodla…8.7%Scrub,barrenground and…13%Untill…land8.3%Pasture18%Vines3.2%Fruit…CerealsFod…cro…
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
CauquenesChile% of each territory's own population · 60,822 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
60,822
1,123,00818,480,43241st of 56
Average age
41.1 yrs
38.8 yrs38.1 yrs3rd of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
108.2
83.979.05th of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
20.1/km²
37.1/km²24.7/km²32nd of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
23,159
406,9646,596,52741st of 56
Dwellings
32,423
486,6507,642,71642nd of 56
People per household
2.63
2.762.8043rd of 56
Women
52.1%
51.4%51.5%4th of 56
Men per 100 women
92.0
94.494.353rd of 56
Under 15
17.4%
18.1%17.7%41st of 56
65 and over
18.9%
15.2%14.0%4th of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
57.0
50.146.51st of 56
One-person households
24.9%
21.3%21.8%14th of 56
Households with children
30.7%
33.6%33.2%48th of 56
Indigenous peoples
3.3%
4.3%11.4%56th of 56
Female-headed households
49.2%
47.8%49.9%28th of 56
Land area
3,021 km²
30,302 km²748,041 km²44th of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Cauquenes46%Arrived since 202054%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Cauquenes46%Arrived since 202054%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born share
1.6%
3.8%8.7%51st of 56
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.
73.2%
64.1%50.5%2nd of 54
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.
11.4%
17.0%23.9%41st of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
13.4%
14.3%17.2%47th of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
985
42,3491,608,65046th of 56
Average age, foreign-born
33.3 yrs
32.6 yrs33.5 yrs28th of 56
Women among foreign-born
44.9%
49.6%51.7%56th of 56
Foreign-born of working age
82.0%
81.0%83.1%24th of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
46.5%
41.5%34.4%6th of 56
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna.
2.1%
4.6%10.6%51st of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.4 yrs
12.9 yrs12.9 yrs35th of 56
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.
-20,312
-107,320035th of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-32.7
-9.20.049th of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Cauquenes20%Higher35%Secondary36%Primary only4.6%4.8%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Cauquenes20%35%Secondary36%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.0 yrs
9.5 yrs10.4 yrs50th of 56
Reached higher education
19.9%
23.5%31.1%46th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
99.0%98.6%1st of 54
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.
56.1%
51.6%55.6%26th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling.
105.4%
103.1%99.8%4th of 56
Literacy rate
94.8%
96.0%97.8%52nd of 56
Reached secondary education
35.0%
36.4%36.7%47th of 56
Primary education only
35.8%
31.1%24.1%5th of 56
Never attended school
4.59%
3.69%3.01%6th of 56
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.
10.0 yrs
10.9 yrs12.1 yrs54th of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
10.6 yrs
11.2 yrs12.1 yrs50th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
5.22%
4.00%2.18%4th of 56
Households lacking schooling
33.7%
22.9%15.1%2nd of 54
Secondary school leavers · Secondary education for children and young people, by the comuna of the school where they took it. Adults are counted apart.
809
13,908217,56542nd of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
28.3%
40.8%33.9%42nd of 56
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%
4.2%3.1%41st of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
52.0%
63.8%67.2%52nd of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
6.8%
10.2%19.7%54th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
41.2%
26.0%13.1%3rd of 56
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.
25.3%
16.1%13.0%27th of 56
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.
57.7%
50.4%49.7%4th of 56

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.

809left secondary school in 2024
454enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
56.1%continued immediately
52%of those, to a university
25%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%5.0%10.0%Tecnico en EnfermeriaTecnico en Parvulos y BasicaDerechoTecnico AgricolaKinesiologiaIngenieria ComercialPsicologiaTecnico en Obras CivilesTecnico en Trabajo SocialEnfermeria
0.0%5.0%10.0%Tecnico en EnfermeriaTecnico en Parvulos y BasicaDerechoTecnico AgricolaKinesiologiaIngenieria ComercialPsicologiaTecnico en Obras CivilesTecnico en Trabajo SocialEnfermeria
CauquenesChile

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

By field of study

0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryServicesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%20.0%40.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinaryServicesSocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
CauquenesChile

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

02505007501,000200620152024809454
02505007501,000200620152024809454
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 Cauquenes'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 Cauquenes 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

Cauquenes94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Cauquenes94%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
12.8%
12.4%10.6%12th of 56
Public health insurance
94.4%
91.0%82.6%5th of 54
Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents · Not age-adjusted. It mixes how much illness there is with how much hospital there is nearby.
99.1
74.682.58th of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
138
1041001st of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
7,768
139,7051,950,38843rd of 56
Average age, people with a disability
61.8 yrs
57.4 yrs56.4 yrs2nd of 56
Disability among 65+
52.7%
44.5%43.0%2nd of 56
Difficulty walking
6.94%
6.12%4.92%5th of 56
Difficulty seeing
5.46%
5.63%4.58%18th of 56
Difficulty hearing
2.95%
2.52%2.16%5th of 56
Difficulty concentrating
2.64%
2.96%2.70%28th of 56
Private health insurance
1.6%
4.3%13.2%50th of 54
No health coverage
1.11%
2.48%1.98%42nd of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
95.3%
94.0%92.1%15th of 54
Households lacking health access
17.5%
5.2%6.0%1st of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
6,029
83,8191,523,71639th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
222
2,46236,69837th of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.68%
2.94%2.41%5th of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.9 days
6.2 days6.1 days11th of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
36.5
21.919.91st of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
112
891009th of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
316
5,18689,72337th of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.2%
6.2%5.9%31st of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
52.0
46.248.610th of 54
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.
92
9010020th of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Heart and lungs 24%Digestive and urinary tract 24%Injuries, bones an… 18%Tumours, b… 12%Pregnanc… 8.9%Infect… 7.7%Respiratorysystem14%Circulatorysystem9.8%Digestivesystem14%Genitourin…system9.4%Injuries andpoisoning12%Musculoskelet…3.8%Skin2.0%Cancers andtumours6.9%Endocri…andmetabol…3.3%Bloodandimmun…2.1%Pregnancyandchildbirth8.3%Ill-definedsymptoms3.3%Infecti…andparasit…3.0%Con…withhea…Mentalandbehavio…2.8%Nervoussystem2.3%
Heart and lungs 24%Digestive and urina… 24%Injuries, b… 18%Tumours, blood… 12%Pregnancy, bi… 8.9%Infec… 7.7%Mind,… 5.7%Respiratorysystem14%Circulat…system9.8%Digestivesystem14%Genitou…system9.4%Injuries andpoisoning12%Musculosk…3.8%SkinCancersandtumours6.9%Endocr…andmetabo…Blood…Pregnancy andchildbirthIll-d…sympt…3.3%Infe…andpara…Mentalandbehav…2.8%Nervo…system
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 digestivos26%Sangre y sistema linfático23%Vías urinarias8.9%Mama8.5%Tiroides yendocrinas6.3%Genitalesfemeninos5.4%Víasrespirator…4.4%Genitalesmasculinos4.1%Sitiosreservados3.8%Sitios maldefinidos3.2%Piel ymelanoma2.5%Encéfalo ysistemanerviosoBoca yfaringe
Órganos digestivos26%Sangre y sistemalinfático23%Vías urinarias8.9%Mama8.5%Tiroidesyendocrin…6.3%Genitalesfemeninos5.4%Víasrespirato…4.4%Genitalesmasculin…4.1%Sitiosreservados3.8%Sitios maldefinidosPiel ymelanomaEncéf…ysiste…2.2%
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariasMamaTiroides y endocrinasGenitales femeninoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
35.3%
24.3%17.3%2nd of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.3 UF
21.6 UF32.0 UF41st of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
123.0%
100.8%78.9%1st of 54
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.
88.7
90.885.622nd of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
42.7%
49.8%54.4%56th of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
10.0%
9.5%8.6%10th of 56
Self-employed
38.6%
32.8%33.8%11th of 56
Extreme poverty
12.2%
10.1%6.9%5th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
23.9%
13.7%17.7%6th of 54
Unemployment rate
12.1%
8.2%8.8%6th of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 427,386
CLP 527,732CLP 783,12454th of 54
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.
0.439
0.4420.48837th of 53
Registered firms
5,395
102,0201,582,39043rd of 56
Annual sales
9,467,695 UF
538,303,187 UF34,347,683,688 UF47th of 54
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.
10,291
479,3629,699,16444th of 56
Sales per firm
1,755 UF
5,276 UF21,706 UF51st of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.4
2.43.950th of 56
Women among employees
48.1%
40.2%40.6%3rd of 56
Independent contractors
3,470
114,3493,958,26947th of 56
Contractors as share of workers
25.2%
19.3%29.0%32nd of 56

Employment by industry

State and social services 28%Trade and logistics 23%Natural resources 23%Industry and const… 17%Advanc… 5.0%Other … 5.0%Education11%Publicadministration8.9%Health7.6%Retail andwholesale14%Transport4.5%Accommodat…and food4.2%Agriculture and fishing21%Construction8.6%Manufacturing6.7%Ele…andgasWat…and…Administ…servicesProfessi…servicesDomes…work2.7%Otherservi…1.7%Arts…
State and social servi… 28%Trade and logisti… 23%Natural resources 23%Industry a… 17%Education11%Publicadministration8.9%Health7.6%Retail and wholesale14%Transport4.5%Accommoda…and food4.2%Agriculture andfishing21%Construction8.6%Manufactur…6.7%Adm…ser…Pro…ser…Fin…Domestic…Other…
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 56%Managers and professionals 22%Elementary occupations 21%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades13%Skilledagricultural9.0%Plant andmachineoperators8.5%Cleric…support4.4%Professionals12%Technicians8.2%ManagersElementary occupations21%
Skilled occupations 56%Managers and profess… 22%Elementary occupati… 21%Service andsales21%Craft andtrades13%Skilledagricultural9.0%Plant andmachineoperators8.5%Clericalsupport4.4%Profession…12%Technicia…8.2%ManagersElementaryoccupations21%
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

Cauquenes99%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Cauquenes99%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
5.3%
5.4%5.7%25th of 56
Internet access
81.3%
89.4%93.2%54th of 56
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.
4.8
3.32.314th of 56
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.
4.7
2.81.610th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
22,916
399,8806,408,17241st of 56
Critically overcrowded
0.28%
0.31%0.57%42nd of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.61%
0.86%1.13%21st of 56
Public water network
75.0%
90.2%92.3%51st of 56
Electricity access
99.3%
99.6%99.6%35th of 56
Detached houses
98.3%
94.6%78.7%12th of 56
Apartments
0.9%
4.9%19.9%39th of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.25%
0.14%0.23%27th of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
24.5%
14.2%11.9%12th of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
1,165
20,814491,90444th of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
5.0%
5.1%7.5%40th of 56
Renting households
14.6%
17.1%26.2%49th of 56
Owner-occupiers
71.7%
70.3%61.1%7th of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
61.0%
48.6%24.4%18th of 56
Commute by public transport
24.1%
24.8%42.1%37th of 56
Walks to work
17.7%
10.5%10.2%21st of 56
Households with a computer
37.6%
47.1%54.9%52nd of 56
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.
1.5
1.31.131st of 56
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.
92.1%
96.5%97.0%36th of 56
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 56
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 56
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.
70.9%
79.2%89.4%40th of 56
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.
91.5%
96.7%98.1%45th of 56
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.
99.8%
99.9%99.7%27th of 56
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.
11.2
7.35.920th of 56
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.
58.9%
62.6%80.3%32nd of 56
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.
65.0%
84.2%90.0%42nd of 56
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.
89.2%
95.2%96.2%38th of 56
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
0.90.616th of 56
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
95.4%
98.7%99.0%45th of 56
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 56
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 56
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.
72.9%
81.6%91.6%43rd of 56
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.
91.1%
97.0%98.5%46th of 56
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%
99.9%99.8%1st of 56

How people commute

Private vehicle 46%Public transport 24%On foot or by bicycle 21%Oth… 8.4%Car45%Public transport24%Walking18%Bic…Other8.4%
Private vehicle 46%Public transport 24%On foot or by bicycle 21%Other means 8.4%Car45%Publictransport24%Walking18%Bic…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 72%Rented 15%Provided rent-f… 8.9%Other 4.8%Owned outright68%Rented, withcontract8.0%Rented, nocontract6.6%Provided byfamily7.2%Other arrangement
Owned 72%Rented 15%Provided… 8.9%Owned outright68%Rented, withcontract8.0%Rented,nocontract6.6%Providedby family7.2%Otherarran…4.8%
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 66%Fossil fuels 19%Electricity 8.1%No heating 6.5%Firewood61%CoalPell…Gas14%Paraffin4.9%Electricity8.1%No heating6.5%
Wood and biomass 66%Fossil fuels 19%Elec… 8.1%Firewood61%Gas14%Paraf…4.9%Electric…8.1%Noheating6.5%
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
89.2%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.1%
voted in the runoff
55,850
registered voters on the roll
5.0%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman23.3%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist76.7%58.3%
CauquenesChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez18.5%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman15.9%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio0.9%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.7%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist39.8%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.4%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet8.3%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.6%1.3%
CauquenesChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile34.3%30.6%
KCambio por Chile37.5%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido14.6%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente8.8%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.8%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
CauquenesChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile19.1%
KCambio por Chile31.3%
JChile Grande y Unido31.0%
IPartido de la Gente7.6%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas7.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.6%
Independents outside a pact1.6%
Cauquenesshare of the valid vote

Territories within

3
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Cauquenes42,7981.4%9.1 yrs33.2%
Chanco9,4461.9%8.4 yrs38.5%
Pelluhue8,5782.5%9.3 yrs40.8%
Cauquenes60,8221.6%9.0 yrs35.3%