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Provincia de PetorcaProvincia de Petorca

Compare Petorca with another place
Census population
85,032
39th of 56
Population density
18.5/km²
34th of 56
Average years of schooling
9.5 yrs
37th of 56
Foreign-born share
3.4%
40th of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Multidimensional poverty1st of 54 · Chile 17.7%35.5%
Unemployment rate1st of 54 · Chile 8.8%15.0%
School attendance, ages 6-171st of 54 · Chile 98.6%100.0%
People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 56 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service1st of 56 · Chile 99.7%100.0%
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 56 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.5 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF22.5 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 · 1,237 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
42.2%
50th of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
9.9%
47th of 54
Came from another region
46.6%
2nd of 54
Net internal migration
+21,234
+25.2 per 100 residents
Petorcathis province · 61,843another region39,229 peopleelsewhere in the region5,357 peopleabroad1,158 peopleanother region12,549 peopleelsewhere in the region10,803 peoplePetorcathis province · 84,235
Petorcathis province · 61,843another region39,229 peopleelsewhere in th…5,357 peopleabroad1,158 peopleanother region12,549 peopleelsewhere in th…10,803 peoplePetorcathis province · 84,235

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520242Public administration1Public administration▲14Construction2Construction▲23Retail and wholesale3Retail and wholesale1Agriculture and fishing4Agriculture and fishing▼39Accommodation and food5Accommodation and food▲411Mining6Mining▲514Other services7Other services▲78Education8Education5Manufacturing9Manufacturing▼47Administrative services10Administrative services▼36Transport11Transport▼513Real estate12Real estate▲112Professional services13Professional services▼110Health16Health▼6
2005202421Public administration▲142Construction▲233Retail and wholesale14Agriculture and fishing▼395Accommodation and food▲4116Mining▲5147Other services▲788Education59Manufacturing▼4710Administrative services▼3611Transport▼51312Real estate▲11213Professional services▼11016Health▼6

The ten branches that employ most of Petorca

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.

10 k15 k20 k25 kprojection →23 k2029 · central2005201520242029
10 k15 k20 k25 kprojection →23 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.7% a year observed · 3.5% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

020 M40 M60 M80 Mprojection →59 M2029 · central2005201520242029
020 M40 M60 M80 Mprojection →59 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.2% a year observed · 2.3% projected

What Petorca is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Petorca employs more people in 102 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.

102
activities it is specialised in
19,222
formal workers
31/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Actividades de la administración …Actividades de restaurantes y de …Consejo de administración de edif…Elaboración de productos de panad…Fondos y sociedades de inversión …Explotación de otras minas y cant…Venta al por menor de combustible…Otras actividades profesionales, …Otras actividades de impresión n.…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Corretaje al por mayor de product…Otras actividades de impresión n.…Cultivo de trigoActividades poscosechaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Petorca

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 floresCultivo de plantas no perennes8330.5×
Actividades de descontaminación y otros servicios de gestión de desechosActividades de descontaminación y otros servicios de gestión de desechos17629.1×
Tejedura de productos textilesHilatura, tejedura y acabado de productos textiles2315.3×
Actividades de sindicatosActividades de sindicatos1812.8×
Cría de caballos y otros equinosGanadería1410.4×
Cultivo de frutas tropicales y subtropicales (incluye el cultivo de paltas)Cultivo de plantas perennes5010.4×
Venta al por mayor de desechos metálicos (chatarra)Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada288.0×
Cultivo de plantas vivas incluida la producción en viveros (excepto viveros forestales)Propagación de plantas1197.4×
Actividades de salones de masajes, baños turcos, saunas, servicio de baños públicosOtras actividades de servicios personales66.0×
ApiculturaGanadería105.7×
Conservador de bienes raícesActividades jurídicas265.7×
Fabricación de artículos de punto y ganchilloFabricación de artículos de punto y ganchillo65.3×

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
167,578
hectares in holdings
56.3%
of them under a named use
84.9%
of the crop land is irrigated
Not farmed 59%Pasture 29%Woodland 7.8%Orchards a… 4.1%Scrub, barren ground and buildings44%Untilled land15%Pasture29%Native woodland7.2%Fruit trees4.1%
Not farmed 59%Pasture 29%Woodland 7.8%Orcha… 4.1%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings44%Untilledland15%Pasture29%Nativewoodland7.2%Fruit trees
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
PetorcaChile% of each territory's own population · 85,032 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
85,032
1,896,05318,480,43239th of 56
Average age
39.9 yrs
39.5 yrs38.1 yrs9th of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
96.5
98.679.010th of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
18.5/km²
116.8/km²24.7/km²34th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
30,404
701,0726,596,52739th of 56
Dwellings
52,567
914,0757,642,71635th of 56
People per household
2.80
2.702.8019th of 56
Women
50.9%
51.8%51.5%32nd of 56
Men per 100 women
96.4
93.094.325th of 56
Under 15
17.6%
16.8%17.7%40th of 56
65 and over
16.9%
16.6%14.0%8th of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
52.7
50.146.510th of 56
One-person households
21.2%
23.0%21.8%34th of 56
Households with children
33.1%
30.9%33.2%32nd of 56
Indigenous peoples
6.7%
5.5%11.4%40th of 56
Female-headed households
47.6%
51.5%49.9%43rd of 56
Land area
4,592 km²
16,234 km²748,041 km²39th of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Petorca44%Arrived since 202056%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Petorca44%Arrived since 202056%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
3.4%
5.3%8.7%40th 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.
42.2%
54.7%50.5%50th 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.
9.9%
19.5%23.9%47th of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
46.6%
20.6%17.2%2nd of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
2,916
100,6551,608,65038th of 56
Average age, foreign-born
32.6 yrs
33.1 yrs33.5 yrs34th of 56
Women among foreign-born
50.9%
50.6%51.7%32nd of 56
Foreign-born of working age
79.5%
81.3%83.1%48th of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
44.4%
37.1%34.4%10th 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.
4.2%
6.5%10.6%40th of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
12.3 yrs
13.0 yrs12.9 yrs39th 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.
21,234
125,016010th of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
25.2
6.20.06th of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Petorca23%Higher39%Secondary30%Primary only5.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Petorca23%39%Secondary30%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.5 yrs
10.6 yrs10.4 yrs37th of 56
Reached higher education
22.8%
33.0%31.1%39th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
100.0%
98.6%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.
59.3%
59.7%55.6%18th 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.
103.0%
99.6%99.8%13th of 56
Literacy rate
96.9%
98.3%97.8%34th of 56
Reached secondary education
38.5%
37.9%36.7%19th of 56
Primary education only
30.2%
21.7%24.1%19th of 56
Never attended school
3.53%
2.56%3.01%24th 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.
10.9 yrs
12.4 yrs12.1 yrs41st of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.2 yrs
12.3 yrs12.1 yrs38th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.12%
1.67%2.18%23rd of 56
Households lacking schooling
27.7%
12.4%15.1%5th 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.
1,093
21,739217,56539th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
32.2%
27.7%33.9%33rd 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.
4.3%
0.5%3.1%26th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
59.3%
71.0%67.2%47th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
20.7%
20.5%19.7%16th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
20.1%
8.5%13.1%14th 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.
12.2%
10.1%13.0%42nd 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.
50.8%
50.6%49.7%26th 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.

1,093left secondary school in 2024
648enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
59.3%continued immediately
59%of those, to a university
12%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria Civil IndustrialTecnico de Nivel Superior en Operaciones MinerasTecnico de Nivel Superior en Estetica, Cosmetologia y Terapias ComplementariasPsicologiaDerechoEnfermeriaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en InformaticaKinesiologiaArquitectura
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Ingenieria Civil IndustrialTecnico de Nivel Superior en Operaciones MinerasTecnico de Nivel Superior en Estetica, Cosmetologia y Terapias ComplementariasPsicologiaDerechoEnfermeriaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria en InformaticaKinesiologiaArquitectura
PetorcaChile

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 welfareBusiness and lawServicesEducationInformation technologyArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesNatural sciences
0.0%20.0%40.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawServicesEducationInformation technologyArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesNatural sciences
PetorcaChile

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

05001,0001,5002006201520241,093648
05001,0001,5002006201520241,093648
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 Petorca'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 Petorca 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

Petorca93%FonasaChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Petorca93%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.6%
11.1%10.6%20th of 56
Public health insurance
93.3%
85.5%82.6%11th 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.
61.9
81.682.544th of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
98
9710027th of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
9,842
210,2181,950,38840th of 56
Average age, people with a disability
59.4 yrs
57.7 yrs56.4 yrs8th of 56
Disability among 65+
48.4%
46.2%43.0%8th of 56
Difficulty walking
5.86%
5.35%4.92%15th of 56
Difficulty seeing
5.01%
4.56%4.58%25th of 56
Difficulty hearing
2.36%
2.24%2.16%25th of 56
Difficulty concentrating
2.57%
2.89%2.70%31st of 56
Private health insurance
1.7%
8.6%13.2%49th of 54
No health coverage
3.65%
2.16%1.98%9th of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
90.2%
91.2%92.1%43rd of 54
Households lacking health access
8.4%
6.3%6.0%6th of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
5,261
154,6241,523,71641st of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
195
4,16336,69838th of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.71%
2.69%2.41%4th of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
8.5 days
6.8 days6.1 days4th of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
22.9
22.019.911th of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
72
9610045th of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
296
10,68789,72338th of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.6%
6.9%5.9%24th of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
34.8
56.448.638th 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.
65
10810042nd of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries, bones and… 18%Tumours, blo… 13%Pregnancy, birt… 12%Mind, nerves an… 6.4%Infections and … 6.0%Digestive system14%Genitourin…system9.0%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem10%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskele…4.6%Skin2.3%Cancers andtumours7.9%EndocrineandmetabolicPregnancy andchildbirth10%Mental andbehavioural3.6%NervoussystemEyeConta…withhealt…Ill-d…sympt…2.0%Infect…andparasi…
Digestive and urinar… 23%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries,… 18%Tumours, blood an… 13%Pregnancy, birth … 12%Min… 6.4%Inf… 6.0%Digestivesystem14%Genitour…system9.0%Circulato…system11%Respirat…system10%Injuriesandpoisoning11%Musculos…4.6%SkinCancers andtumours7.9%Endocr…andmetabo…4.6%Pregnancy andchildbirth10%Mental andbehaviour…Nervo…systemCont…withheal…Ill…sym…Infectiou…
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

Sitios reservados42%Órganos digestivos31%Genitalesfemeninos8.1%Vías urinarias5.4%Sitios maldefinidos5.1%Víasrespirator…4.7%Piel ymelanoma3.0%
Sitios reservados42%Órganosdigestivos31%Genitalesfemeninos8.1%Víasurinarias5.4%Sitiosmaldefinid…5.1%Víasrespira…4.7%Pielymela…
Sitios reservadosÓrganos digestivosGenitales femeninosVías urinariasSitios mal definidosVías respiratoriashover 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.
25.2%
17.8%17.3%10th of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
22.5 UF
26.6 UF32.0 UF32nd of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
102.8%
85.9%78.9%8th 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.
106.7
81.085.611th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
50.1%
52.2%54.4%43rd of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.0%
8.7%8.6%21st of 56
Self-employed
39.2%
36.0%33.8%10th of 56
Extreme poverty
4.0%
6.8%6.9%50th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
35.5%
15.9%17.7%1st of 54
Unemployment rate
15.0%
9.4%8.8%1st of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 501,138
CLP 676,485CLP 783,12449th 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.
0.470
0.4650.48816th of 53
Registered firms
9,074
153,5611,582,39036th of 56
Annual sales
52,419,048 UF
1,504,507,848 UF34,347,683,688 UF34th 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.
19,311
675,8869,699,16440th of 56
Sales per firm
5,777 UF
9,797 UF21,706 UF26th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
1.5
3.03.948th of 56
Women among employees
40.9%
39.4%40.6%22nd of 56
Independent contractors
9,678
241,0723,958,26938th of 56
Contractors as share of workers
33.4%
26.3%29.0%11th of 56

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 24%State and social services 20%Natural resourc… 19%Industry and co… 19%Advanced servic… 8.8%Other services 8.2%Retail andwholesale15%Transport4.6%Accommoda…and food4.5%Education9.0%Publicadministration5.6%Health5.6%Agriculture andfishing9.8%Mining9.6%Construction11%Manufacturi…5.9%WaterandwasteElec…andgasAdminist…services4.4%Professio…servicesDomesticwork4.0%Otherservices3.2%
Trade and logistics 24%State and social … 20%Natural res… 19%Industry an… 19%Advanced… 8.8%Other se… 8.2%Retail andwholesale15%Transport4.6%Accommod…and food4.5%Education9.0%Publicadministra…5.6%Health5.6%Agricultureand fishing9.8%Mining9.6%Construction11%Manufactu…5.9%Wat…and…Ele…and…Admin…servi…4.4%Profes…servic…Real…Info…Domes…work4.0%Otherservic…3.2%
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 59%Managers and professionals 24%Elementary occupations 17%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades16%Plant and machineoperators11%Skilledagricultural6.9%Cleric…support4.3%Professiona…11%Technicians9.4%ManagersElementary occupations17%
Skilled occupations 59%Managers and professiona… 24%Elementary occu… 17%Service andsales20%Craft andtrades16%Plant andmachineoperators11%Skilledagricult…6.9%Cleri…suppo…4.3%Profession…11%Technicians9.4%ManagersElementaryoccupations17%
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

Petorca95%House5.4%Chile79%House20%Flat
Petorca95%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlat% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.6%
4.6%5.7%42nd of 56
Internet access
91.3%
94.0%93.2%29th 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.
4.1
1.82.319th 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.
4.6
1.31.612th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
29,802
685,2356,408,17239th of 56
Critically overcrowded
0.28%
0.46%0.57%44th of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
0.88%
1.36%1.13%45th of 56
Public water network
84.5%
92.8%92.3%36th of 56
Electricity access
99.4%
99.6%99.6%34th of 56
Detached houses
94.0%
78.1%78.7%31st of 56
Apartments
5.4%
20.8%19.9%24th of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.18%
0.30%0.23%46th of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
40.8%
20.2%11.9%5th of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
1,586
42,497491,90440th of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
5.2%
6.1%7.5%34th of 56
Renting households
14.6%
24.5%26.2%48th of 56
Owner-occupiers
70.9%
60.9%61.1%9th of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
24.5%
15.0%24.4%30th of 56
Commute by public transport
26.9%
41.8%42.1%30th of 56
Walks to work
19.1%
10.1%10.2%16th of 56
Households with a computer
45.4%
54.6%54.9%38th 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.
1.9
1.01.115th 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.
90.0%
97.7%97.0%43rd 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.
99.6%
100.0%99.9%39th 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.
68.1%
93.2%89.4%43rd 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.
96.8%
99.5%98.1%29th 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.
100.0%
100.0%99.7%1st 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.
14.4
12.25.914th 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.
30.9%
81.0%80.3%49th 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.
51.9%
91.2%90.0%47th 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.
89.8%
99.2%96.2%37th 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
0.60.617th 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.
95.8%
99.1%99.0%42nd 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.
99.7%
100.0%99.9%39th 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.
72.7%
94.4%91.6%44th 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.
90.2%
99.4%98.5%48th 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.
99.1%
99.9%99.8%39th of 56

How people commute

Private vehicle 42%Public transport 27%On foot or by bicycle 22%Other m… 10%Car41%Public transport27%Walking19%Other10.0%
Private vehicle 42%Public transpo… 27%On foot or by bicycle 22%Other mea… 10%Car41%Publictransport27%Walking19%Other10.0%
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 71%Rented 15%Provided rent-fr… 11%Owned outright66%Rented, withcontract8.2%Rented, no contract6.4%Provided byfamily9.9%Other arrangement
Owned 71%Rented 15%Provided rent… 11%Owned outright66%Rented, withcontract8.2%Rented,nocontract6.4%Provided byfamily9.9%Oth…arr…
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

No heating 35%Fossil fuels 27%Wood and biomass 25%Electri… 12%No heating35%Gas23%Paraff…3.4%Firewood25%Electricity12%
No heating 35%Fossil fuels 27%Wood and biomass 25%Electricity 12%No heating35%Gas23%Firewood25%Electricity12%
No heatingElectricityOther 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
90.1%
of the registered voted in the first round
90.0%
voted in the runoff
78,135
registered voters on the roll
7.2%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman45.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist54.8%58.3%
PetorcaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez22.6%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman29.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen12.8%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist21.5%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet11.2%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%
PetorcaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile34.4%30.6%
KCambio por Chile21.0%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido23.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente15.3%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.0%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%
PetorcaChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile35.7%
KCambio por Chile15.7%
JChile Grande y Unido32.4%
IPartido de la Gente12.3%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.9%
Petorcashare of the valid vote

Territories within

5
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
La Ligua39,2704.2%9.6 yrs29.7%
Cabildo20,0152.3%9.2 yrs21.1%
Papudo7,5615.0%9.9 yrs7.7%
Petorca10,2061.9%9.3 yrs16.8%
Zapallar7,9802.9%10.0 yrs10.1%
Petorca85,0323.4%9.5 yrs25.2%