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Provincia de ValdiviaProvincia de Valdivia

Compare Valdivia with another place
Census population
299,798
20th of 56
Population density
29.7/km²
25th of 56
Average years of schooling
10.1 yrs
16th of 56
Foreign-born share
2.2%
47th of 56

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
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%
Average schooling, foreign-born2nd of 56 · Chile 12.9 yrs13.8 yrs
Cancer hospitalisation, standardised ratio2nd of 54 · Chile 100133
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents3rd of 54 · Chile 48.667.0
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF25.8 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF25.8 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 6,795 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
63.0%
20th of 54
Came from another commune of the same region
11.0%
42nd of 54
Came from another region
23.8%
13th of 54
Net internal migration
-53,671
-17.1 per 100 residents
Valdiviathis province · 360,342another region74,641 peopleelsewhere in the region7,399 peopleabroad6,912 peopleanother region128,532 peopleelsewhere in the region7,179 peopleValdiviathis province · 313,583
Valdiviathis province · 360,342another region74,641 peopleelsewhere in th…7,399 peopleabroad6,912 peopleanother region128,532 peopleelsewhere in th…7,179 peopleValdiviathis province · 313,583

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520249Public administration1Public administration▲82Construction2Construction7Health3Health▲44Retail and wholesale4Retail and wholesale1Agriculture and fishing5Agriculture and fishing▼45Education6Education▼13Manufacturing7Manufacturing▼410Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▲28Transport9Transport▼16Administrative services10Administrative services▼412Professional services11Professional services▲113Information and communications12Information and communications▲111Other services13Other services▼2
2005202491Public administration▲822Construction73Health▲444Retail and wholesale15Agriculture and fishing▼456Education▼137Manufacturing▼4108Accommodation and food▲289Transport▼1610Administrative services▼41211Professional services▲11312Information and communications▲11113Other services▼2

The ten branches that employ most of Valdivia

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.

40 k60 k80 k100 kprojection →94 k2029 · central2005201520242029
40 k60 k80 k100 kprojection →94 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.0% a year observed · 2.4% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

30 M50 M70 M90 M110 Mprojection →99 M2029 · central2005201520242029
30 M50 M70 M90 M110 Mprojection →99 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.4% a year observed · 0.7% projected

What Valdivia is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Valdivia employs more people in 121 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.

121
activities it is specialised in
83,655
formal workers
35/53
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Enseñanza superior en universidad…Terminación y acabado de edificiosOtras actividades de telecomunica…Elaboración y conservación de fru…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Extracción de maderaCultivo de trigoCultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Distribución de energía eléctricaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Elaboración y conservación de fru…Actividades de organizaciones y ó…Fabricación de recipientes de mad…Fabricación de ropa de trabajoHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Valdivia

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 perennes52744.5×
Transporte de pasajeros por vías de navegación interioresTransporte por vías de navegación interiores26035.5×
Gestión de salas de pool; gestión (explotación) de juegos electrónicosOtras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas26912.5×
Reparación de buques, embarcaciones menores y estructuras flotantesReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo25410.6×
Elaboración de cacao, chocolate y de productos de confiteríaElaboración de otros productos alimenticios46310.6×
Actividades de residenciales para turistasActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas6110.0×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción lecheraGanadería9719.0×
Administración de tarjetas de créditoActividades auxiliares de servicios financieros, excepto las de seguros y fondos de pensiones458.8×
Actividades de organizaciones y órganos extraterritorialesActividades de organizaciones y órganos extraterritoriales568.0×
Molienda de trigo: producción de harina, sémola y gránulosElaboración de productos de molinería, almidones y productos derivados del almidón2617.7×
Transporte de carga por vías de navegación interioresTransporte por vías de navegación interiores827.6×
Servicios de transporte de escolaresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre1537.1×

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
708,132
hectares in holdings
89.2%
of them under a named use
13.0%
of the crop land is irrigated
Woodland 67%Pasture 15%Not farmed 12%Annu… 5.2%Native woodland45%Forest plantations22%Pasture15%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings11%Foddercrops2.4%Cereals2.1%Pulse…Ind…
Woodland 67%Pasture 15%Not farmed 12%Native woodland45%Forestplantations22%Pasture15%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings11%FoddercropsCerea…2.1%
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
ValdiviaChile% of each territory's own population · 299,798 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Census population
299,798
398,23018,480,43220th of 56
Average age
38.7 yrs
39.0 yrs38.1 yrs24th of 56
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
87.4
89.279.020th of 56
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
29.7/km²
21.8/km²24.7/km²25th of 56
See the other 13 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Households
111,278
148,6436,596,52717th of 56
Dwellings
135,774
183,4797,642,71615th of 56
People per household
2.69
2.682.8038th of 56
Women
51.7%
51.6%51.5%9th of 56
Men per 100 women
93.5
93.894.348th of 56
Under 15
17.1%
17.3%17.7%46th of 56
65 and over
15.0%
15.4%14.0%23rd of 56
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
47.2
48.546.536th of 56
One-person households
23.2%
23.3%21.8%23rd of 56
Households with children
31.4%
31.4%33.2%44th of 56
Indigenous peoples
22.1%
24.2%11.4%22nd of 56
Female-headed households
50.2%
49.7%49.9%17th of 56
Land area
10,079 km²
18,233 km²748,041 km²24th of 56

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Valdivia27%Arrived since 202073%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Valdivia27%Arrived since …73%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
2.2%
1.9%8.7%47th 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.
63.0%
64.1%50.5%20th 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.
11.0%
11.4%23.9%42nd of 54
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
23.8%
22.4%17.2%13th of 54
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Foreign-born population
6,553
7,5081,608,65030th of 56
Average age, foreign-born
35.0 yrs
35.0 yrs33.5 yrs7th of 56
Women among foreign-born
50.0%
50.0%51.7%42nd of 56
Foreign-born of working age
83.0%
82.8%83.1%12th of 56
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
27.5%
28.0%34.4%53rd 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.
2.7%
2.3%10.6%47th of 56
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.8 yrs
13.7 yrs12.9 yrs2nd 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.
-53,671
-61,961050th of 54
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-17.1
-15.10.042nd of 54

Education

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How far schooling went

Valdivia28%Higher37%Secondary27%Primary only5.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Valdivia28%Higher37%Secondary27%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.1 yrs
9.9 yrs10.4 yrs16th of 56
Reached higher education
28.4%
26.4%31.1%15th of 56
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.2%
99.3%98.6%27th 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.
56.8%
57.0%55.6%25th 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.
100.5%
100.8%99.8%33rd of 56
Literacy rate
97.2%
96.9%97.8%29th of 56
Reached secondary education
36.9%
36.7%36.7%30th of 56
Primary education only
26.7%
28.8%24.1%33rd of 56
Never attended school
2.96%
3.16%3.01%38th 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.
11.7 yrs
11.4 yrs12.1 yrs21st of 56
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.8 yrs
11.5 yrs12.1 yrs24th of 56
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
2.80%
3.11%2.18%28th of 56
Households lacking schooling
18.4%
17.9%15.1%29th 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.
3,803
5,195217,56518th of 56
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
33.6%
36.6%33.9%29th 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.
7.0%
12.3%3.1%14th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
69.3%
67.4%67.2%17th of 56
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
12.9%
14.3%19.7%42nd of 56
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
17.9%
18.3%13.1%24th 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.
16.2%
29.1%13.0%38th 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.
51.9%
51.5%49.7%15th 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.

3,803left secondary school in 2024
2,161enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
56.8%continued immediately
69%of those, to a university
16%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoEnfermeriaPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialKinesiologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizOdontologiaArquitecturaTecnologia Medica
0.0%2.5%5.0%7.5%DerechoEnfermeriaPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialKinesiologiaIngenieria Civil IndustrialTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizOdontologiaArquitecturaTecnologia Medica
ValdiviaChile

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

By field of study

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinary
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologySocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanitiesAgriculture and veterinary
ValdiviaChile

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

01,0002,0003,0004,0002006201520243,8032,161
01,0002,0003,0004,0002006201520243,8032,161
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 Valdivia'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 Valdivia 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

Valdivia90%Fonasa7.0%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Valdivia90%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.4%
11.6%10.6%24th of 56
Public health insurance
89.8%
89.7%82.6%29th 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.
93.7
93.882.511th of 52
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
104
10510019th of 52
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
People with a disability
34,215
46,1851,950,38816th of 56
Average age, people with a disability
57.5 yrs
58.2 yrs56.4 yrs21st of 56
Disability among 65+
44.3%
45.5%43.0%28th of 56
Difficulty walking
5.36%
5.51%4.92%25th of 56
Difficulty seeing
5.01%
5.10%4.58%26th of 56
Difficulty hearing
2.42%
2.51%2.16%20th of 56
Difficulty concentrating
2.81%
2.79%2.70%24th of 56
Private health insurance
7.0%
7.2%13.2%19th of 54
No health coverage
1.05%
1.09%1.98%45th of 54
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
90.9%
91.5%92.1%37th of 54
Households lacking health access
6.3%
7.0%6.0%24th of 54
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
28,077
37,3681,523,71614th of 52
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
654
90136,69817th of 52
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.33%
2.41%2.41%33rd of 52
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.1 days
6.1 days6.1 days29th of 52
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
21.8
22.619.916th of 52
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
112
11210010th of 52
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
2,008
2,41689,72312th of 54
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
7.2%
6.5%5.9%5th of 54
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
67.0
60.748.63rd 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.
133
1191002nd of 54

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones an… 17%Pregnancy, bir… 14%Tumours, blood an… 14%Infections and… 8.1%Mind, nerves a… 4.8%Digestive system14%Genitour…system8.1%Circulatorysystem10%Respiratorysystem9.4%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskeletal5.1%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth11%PerinatalconditionsCongeni…malform…Cancers andtumours9.5%Endocrine andmetabolicBlo…andimm…Contactwithhealth…4.0%Infectiousand…Ill-defin…symptomsMental andbehaviouralNervoussystem
Digestive and urinary… 23%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones and sk… 17%Pregnancy, birth and n… 14%Tumours, blood and… 14%Infecti… 8.1%Digestivesystem14%Genitou…system8.1%Circulato…system10%Respirat…system9.4%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculos…5.1%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Peri…cond…Cong…malf…Cancers andtumours9.5%Endoc…andmetab…3.5%Conta…withhealt…4.0%Infect…and…Ill-d…sympt…Mentaland…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 digestivos27%Sangre y sistema linfático19%Mama10%Vías urinarias8.4%Genitalesfemeninos7.5%Genitalesmasculinos6.2%Sitios maldefinidos5.5%Sitiosreservados4.9%Tiroides yendocrinas3.5%VíasrespiratoriasEncéfalo ysistemanerviosoHuesos1.4%Bocayfar…
Órganos digestivos27%Sangre y sistemalinfático19%Mama10%Vías urinarias8.4%Genitalesfemeninos7.5%Genitalesmasculinos6.2%Sitiosmaldefinidos5.5%Sitiosreserva…4.9%Tiroides yendocrinas3.5%Víasrespirator…Encéfaloy…Hues…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaVías urinariasGenitales femeninosGenitales masculinoshover 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.
23.4%
22.3%17.3%13th of 54
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
25.8 UF
25.4 UF32.0 UF16th of 54
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
97.1%
97.3%78.9%21st 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.
83.3
85.185.627th of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
50.8%
49.9%54.4%41st of 56
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.3%
9.2%8.6%16th of 56
Self-employed
34.6%
34.9%33.8%31st of 56
Extreme poverty
9.3%
8.5%6.9%16th of 54
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
14.7%
14.4%17.7%39th of 54
Unemployment rate
10.1%
9.2%8.8%15th of 54
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 620,972
CLP 626,303CLP 783,12424th 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.
0.493
0.4750.4886th of 53
Registered firms
24,973
33,9081,582,39016th of 56
Annual sales
95,843,692 UF
169,832,212 UF34,347,683,688 UF25th 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.
83,682
107,2379,699,16419th of 56
Sales per firm
3,838 UF
5,009 UF21,706 UF38th of 54
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.3
2.23.930th of 56
Women among employees
43.8%
43.2%40.6%12th of 56
Independent contractors
46,390
55,0253,958,26911th of 56
Contractors as share of workers
35.7%
33.9%29.0%9th of 56

Employment by industry

State and social services 27%Trade and logistics 26%Industry and construction 20%Advanced services 10%Natural resources 9.5%Education12%Health9.5%Public administration6.3%Retail andwholesale15%Accommodationand food5.7%Transport5.6%Manufacturi…9.3%Construction9.2%Electricit…Water…Profes…servic…3.4%Admini…servic…3.3%Inform…and…Fina…and…Agriculture andfishing8.9%Domes…work2.9%Otherservi…2.1%Artsand…
State and social ser… 27%Trade and logistics 26%Industry and con… 20%Advanced servic… 10%Natural resour… 9.5%Education12%Health9.5%Public administrationRetail and wholesale15%Accommoda…and food5.7%Transport5.6%Manufacturing9.3%Construction9.2%Profe…servi…3.4%Admin…servi…3.3%Inform…and…Fin…Agriculture andfishingDomes…work2.9%Otherservi…2.1%Artsand…
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 55%Managers and professionals 32%Elementary occupations 13%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades15%Plant and machineoperators8.3%Clericalsupport5.8%Skilledagricult…5.1%Professionals18%Technicians10%Managers3.9%Elementary occupations13%
Skilled occupations 55%Managers and professionals 32%Elementa… 13%Service andsales21%Craft andtrades15%Plant andmachineoperatorsClericalsupport5.8%Skilledagricu…5.1%Professionals18%Technicians10%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

Valdivia94%House4.7%Chile79%House20%Flat
Valdivia94%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.6%
4.8%5.7%44th of 56
Internet access
91.2%
89.9%93.2%30th 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.
3.1
3.92.331st 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.
2.7
3.21.632nd of 56
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersRegionChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
109,306
146,3926,408,17216th of 56
Critically overcrowded
0.33%
0.31%0.57%31st of 56
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.13%
1.17%1.13%35th of 56
Public water network
81.6%
80.1%92.3%44th of 56
Electricity access
99.3%
99.2%99.6%39th of 56
Detached houses
94.4%
95.4%78.7%30th of 56
Apartments
4.7%
3.7%19.9%28th of 56
Precarious wall materials
0.33%
0.38%0.23%20th of 56
Unoccupied private dwellings
14.7%
15.4%11.9%29th of 56
Quantitative housing deficit
5,530
7,099491,90422nd of 56
Housing deficit as share of households
5.0%
4.8%7.5%42nd of 56
Renting households
21.9%
19.7%26.2%24th of 56
Owner-occupiers
63.5%
64.5%61.1%40th of 56
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
72.4%
76.2%24.4%13th of 56
Commute by public transport
32.2%
30.2%42.1%21st of 56
Walks to work
14.8%
16.1%10.2%24th of 56
Households with a computer
51.4%
48.7%54.9%23rd 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
1.71.129th 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.
91.2%
89.5%97.0%39th 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.
99.9%
99.8%99.9%32nd 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.
80.2%
75.3%89.4%33rd 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.
97.7%
94.2%98.1%22nd 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%
99.7%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.
6.0
9.15.935th 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.
69.4%
64.2%80.3%26th 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.
84.9%
77.6%90.0%25th 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.
97.1%
90.5%96.2%22nd 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.
0.9
1.00.630th 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.
98.1%
97.3%99.0%30th 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.
99.9%
99.9%99.9%36th 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.
80.9%
77.5%91.6%35th 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.
97.4%
96.3%98.5%28th 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%17th of 56

How people commute

Private vehicle 43%Public transport 32%On foot or by bicycle 18%Othe… 7.1%Car42%Public transport32%Walking15%Bicy…Other6.8%
Private vehicle 43%Public transport 32%On foot or by bicycle 18%Other … 7.1%Car42%Public transport32%Walking15%Bicyc…3.4%Other6.8%
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 63%Rented 22%Provided rent-f… 11%Owned outright53%Owned, still paying10%Rented, with contract13%Rented, no contract8.7%Provided byfamily8.6%Pro…byemp…Otherarran…3.6%
Owned 63%Rented 22%Provided… 11%Owned outright53%Owned,stillpaying10%Rented, withcontract13%Rented,nocontract8.7%Provided byfamily8.6%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

Wood and biomass 80%Fossil fuels 11%Electricity 6.7%Firewood72%Pellets7.9%Paraffin6.0%Gas5.3%Electricity6.7%No heating
Wood and biomass 80%Fossil fuels 11%Electricity 6.7%Firewood72%Pel…ParaffinGas5.3%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
84.4%
of the registered voted in the first round
84.1%
voted in the runoff
276,632
registered voters on the roll
6.6%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman39.7%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist60.3%58.3%
ValdiviaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez20.0%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman26.2%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.1%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist25.6%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.1%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.2%1.3%
ValdiviaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile35.5%30.6%
KCambio por Chile18.4%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido24.2%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente9.6%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.4%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 pact8.8%0.7%
ValdiviaChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

8
CommuneCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Valdivia170,0433.0%11.0 yrs18.0%
Corral5,5010.9%9.0 yrs19.8%
Lanco16,8760.8%9.3 yrs34.1%
Los Lagos21,4311.2%8.9 yrs28.4%
Máfil8,0741.0%9.3 yrs26.4%
Mariquina22,9730.9%9.0 yrs25.3%
Paillaco19,8021.1%9.0 yrs28.4%
Panguipulli35,0981.4%8.8 yrs38.7%
Valdivia299,7982.2%10.1 yrs23.4%