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Región de Los LagosRegión de Los Lagos

Compare Los Lagos with another place
Census population
890,284
7th of 16
Population density
18.4/km²
10th of 16
Average years of schooling
9.8 yrs
12th of 16
Foreign-born share
4.0%
10th of 16

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 16 · Chile 100.0%100.0%
Critically overcrowded15th of 16 · Chile 0.57%0.29%
Households lacking health access2nd of 16 · Chile 6.0%7.1%
Households lacking schooling2nd of 16 · Chile 15.1%21.9%
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer2nd of 16 · Chile 5.9%7.1%
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents2nd of 16 · Chile 48.660.6
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF25.3 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF25.3 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 · 11,277 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
61.0%
6th of 16
Came from another commune of the same region
17.7%
5th of 16
Came from another region
17.4%
12th of 16
Net internal migration
-23,901
-2.6 per 100 residents
Los Lagos898,608 peopleMetropolitana61,611 peopleLos Ríos26,474 peopleAraucanía17,758 peopleBiobío13,471 peopleValparaíso9,277 peopleMagallanes8,476 peopleMaule5,310 peopleO'Higgins3,839 peopleAysén3,576 peopleÑuble2,936 peopleabroad34,484 peopleMetropolitana71,478 peopleMagallanes23,489 peopleLos Ríos19,889 peopleValparaíso13,660 peopleAraucanía12,940 peopleBiobío12,238 peopleAysén7,568 peopleO'Higgins4,772 peopleMaule4,062 peopleCoquimbo3,811 peopleAntofagasta2,648 peopleÑuble2,029 peopleTarapacá1,726 peopleAtacama1,221 peopleArica y Parinacota1,007 peopleLos Lagos903,282 people
Los Lagos898,608 peopleMetropolitana61,611 peopleLos Ríos26,474 peopleAraucanía17,758 peopleBiobío13,471 peopleValparaíso9,277 peopleMagallanes8,476 peopleMaule5,310 peopleO'Higgins3,839 peopleAysén3,576 peopleÑuble2,936 peopleabroad34,484 peopleMetropolitana71,478 peopleMagallanes23,489 peopleLos Ríos19,889 peopleValparaíso13,660 peopleAraucanía12,940 peopleBiobío12,238 peopleAysén7,568 peopleO'Higgins4,772 peopleMaule4,062 peopleCoquimbo3,811 peopleAntofagasta2,648 peopleÑuble2,029 peopleTarapacá1,726 peopleAtacama1,221 peopleArica y Parinac…1,007 peopleLos Lagos903,282 people
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Chile lengthwise, north on the left. Los Lagos is left unshaded on both maps: it is the place the flows are measured against, not one of them. Darker is a larger flow, and the two maps are scaled separately, because arrivals and departures are different distributions and putting them on one scale would hide the smaller of the two.

Population by sub-territory

Province → Commune
Llanquihue 51%Osorno 27%Chiloé 20%Puerto Montt31%Puerto Varas5.9%Calbuco4.1%Frutillar2.5%Llanquihue2.0%Los Muermos1.9%Maullín1.7%Fresia1.4%Osorno19%Purranque2.2%Río Negro1.6%Puyehue1.3%SanPablo1.2%PuertoOctay1.0%San Juan de la…Castro5.3%Ancud4.6%Quellón3.2%Chonchi1.8%Dalcahue1.7%Quemchi0.9%Quinc…0.9%Queil…0.6%Puq…Cur…deVél…HualaihuéChaiténFuta…
Llanquihue 51%Osorno 27%Chiloé 20%Puerto Montt31%PuertoVaras5.9%Calbu…4.1%Frutill…2.5%Llanqui…LosMuer…Mau…FresiaOsorno19%Purranq…2.2%Río…Puy…Pue…Oct…Castro5.3%Ancud4.6%Quellón3.2%Chon…Dalc…Quemc…Quinc…Quei…
hover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

Every tile is a census count and the areas add up exactly: this is the same sum that produces Los Lagos's own population figure, drawn instead of stated. One block per province, one tile per commune — click a tile to open its profile, or a block's band to lay it out alone.

Employment survey

ENE · INE · 2010–2026
Unemployment+2.0 pts on a year ago7.7%010203011.5% · May–Jul 2020Employment rate+0.4 pts on a year ago52.2%4050607042.5% · May–Jul 2020Participation+1.6 pts on a year ago56.6%4050607045.2% · Oct–Dec 2020201020122014201620182020202220242026
Unemployment+2.0 pts on a year ago7.7%010203011.5% · May–Jul 2020Employment rate+0.4 pts on a year ago52.2%4050607042.5% · May–Jul 2020Participation+1.6 pts on a year ago56.6%4050607045.2% · Oct–Dec 20202012201620202024

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale6Administrative services3Administrative services▲35Construction4Construction▲14Manufacturing5Manufacturing▼17Transport6Transport▲19Public administration7Public administration▲28Education8Education10Health9Health▲111Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food▲112Professional services11Professional services▲13Other services12Other services▼9
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Retail and wholesale63Administrative services▲354Construction▲145Manufacturing▼176Transport▲197Public administration▲288Education109Health▲11110Accommodation and food▲11211Professional services▲1312Other services▼9

The ten branches that employ most of Los Lagos

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.

100 k200 k300 k400 k500 kprojection →422 k2029 · central2005201520242029
100 k200 k300 k400 k500 kprojection →422 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.4% a year observed · 2.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0500 M1,000 M1,500 Mprojection →1,236 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0500 M1,000 M1,500 Mprojection →1,236 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval8.0% a year observed · 2.5% projected

What Los Lagos is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Los Lagos employs more people in 124 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.

124
activities it is specialised in
368,124
formal workers
9/16
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.63.7Construcción de edificios para us…Otras actividades de dotación de …Venta al por menor de productos f…Elaboración y conservación de otr…Cría de ganado bovino para la pro…Acuicultura de agua dulceVenta al por menor de artículos d…Venta al por mayor de materias pr…Transmisión de energía eléctricaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.63.7Limpieza general de edificiosVenta al por mayor de materias pr…Venta al por mayor de vehículos a…Cultivo de plantas vivas incluida…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Los Lagos

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
Acuicultura de agua dulceAcuicultura2,88323.5×
Servicios relacionados con la acuicultura marinaAcuicultura27,67721.3×
Elaboración y conservación de salmónidosElaboración y conservación de pescado, crustáceos y moluscos6,11520.0×
Cultivo y crianza de peces marinosAcuicultura18,48018.1×
Transporte de pasajeros marítimo y de cabotajeTransporte marítimo y de cabotaje1,18418.1×
Elaboración y conservación de otros pescados, en plantas en tierra (excepto barcos factoría)Elaboración y conservación de pescado, crustáceos y moluscos4,22815.3×
Transporte de carga marítimo y de cabotajeTransporte marítimo y de cabotaje7,25515.1×
Fabricación de cuerdas, cordeles, bramantes y redesFabricación de otros productos textiles44214.4×
Elaboración y conservación de crustáceos, moluscos y otros productos acuáticos, en plantas en tierraElaboración y conservación de pescado, crustáceos y moluscos1,03913.8×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción lecheraGanadería6,18713.1×
Reproducción y cría de moluscos, crustáceos y gusanos marinosAcuicultura89812.8×
Actividades de oficinas principalesActividades de oficinas principales35612.6×

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
2,629,361
hectares in holdings
80.0%
of them under a named use
5.7%
of the crop land is irrigated
21,284
holdings with land here
Woodland 60%Not farmed 20%Pasture 17%Native woodland58%Scrub, barren ground andbuildings20%Pasture17%Fodd…cropsCere…Puls…
Woodland 60%Not farmed 20%Pasture 17%Native woodland58%Scrub, barren groundand buildings20%Pasture17%
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.

Foreign trade

Aduanas · January–July 2026

What export declarations name as produced in Los Lagos, month by month since January 2025, and what the customs offices seated in the region clear. They are different things: an import declares not where it is used, only where it is cleared.

US$ 4,177 M
exported, January–July 2026 · +2.2% vs January–July 2025
5.3%
of everything Chile exported
US$ 580 M
cleared in Osorno and Puerto Montt · +10% vs January–July 2025
1.1%
of Chile's imports, cleared here

Month by month

0200400600800US$ MJan2025FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovs/dDecJan2026FebMarAprMayJunJuls/dAug
0200400600800US$ MJ2025FMAMJJASON·DJ2026FMAMJJ·A
Exports from Los LagosImports cleared in its officesshaded: the months the figures above are read over

What Los Lagos exports

Animals and animal products 81%Food, beverages and toba… 12%Vegetable prod… 2.6%Fats and oils 2.5%Fish fillets and other fish meat (whether or not minced);fresh, chil…47%Fish; frozen, excluding fish fillets andother fish meat of heading 0…20%Fish; fresh or chilled,excluding fish fillets andother fish meat of…10%Meat ofbovine…Fish,dried,salted o…Milkandcre…Crus…Moll…Crustaceans, molluscsand other aquaticinvertebrates, prepare…6.7%Flours, mealand pellets,of meat or…2.7%Prepa…of akind…Maltextr…flou…Prepared…Vegeta…sapsand…Apr…che…pea…Fats and oils andtheir fractions of…Fuelwood,in…1.3%
Animals and animal products 81%Food, beverages and tobacco 12%Fish fillets andother fish meat(whether or not…47%Fish; frozen,excluding fishfillets and…20%Fish; freshor chilled,excluding…10%Meatof…Fish…Crustaceans,molluscs and other…Flours,mealand…Vegeta…Fatsandoils…2.5%Fuelwoo…
Other sectionsMineral productsPrecision instrumentshover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

What leaves, through which office, to where

ChapterCustoms officeDestination03 Fish and crustaceans, mol…US$ 3,323 million · 80%16 Meat, fish, crustaceans, …US$ 306 million · 7.3%23 Food industries, residues…US$ 144 million · 3.5%15 Animal, vegetable or micr…US$ 103 million · 2.5%02 Meat and edible meat offalUS$ 53.5 million · 1.3%44 Wood and articles of wood…US$ 52.8 million · 1.3%Other chaptersUS$ 194 million · 4.6%MetropolitanaUS$ 1,022 million · 24%TalcahuanoUS$ 2,593 million · 62%Puerto MonttUS$ 417 million · 10.0%San AntonioUS$ 49.0 million · 1.2%ValparaísoUS$ 40.8 million · 1.0%Other officesUS$ 53.6 million · 1.3%United StatesUS$ 1,406 million · 34%MexicoUS$ 128 million · 3.1%JapanUS$ 652 million · 16%RussiaUS$ 144 million · 3.4%SpainUS$ 150 million · 3.6%ChinaUS$ 295 million · 7.1%BrazilUS$ 347 million · 8.3%OthersUS$ 1,054 million · 25%
ChapterCustoms officeDestination03 Fish an…80%16 Meat, f…7.3%23 Food in…3.5%15 Animal,…2.5%02 Meat an…1.3%44 Wood an…1.3%Other chap…4.6%Metro…24%Talca…62%Puert…10.0%San A…1.2%Valpa…1.0%Other…1.3%United Sta…34%Mexico3.1%Japan16%Russia3.4%Spain3.6%China7.1%Brazil8.3%Others25%

Where its exports go

  1. United StatesUS$ 1,406 million34%
  2. JapanUS$ 652 million16%
  3. BrazilUS$ 347 million8.3%
  4. ChinaUS$ 295 million7.1%
  5. SpainUS$ 150 million3.6%
  6. RussiaUS$ 144 million3.4%
  7. MexicoUS$ 128 million3.1%
  8. CanadaUS$ 79.4 million1.9%
  9. VietnamUS$ 75.4 million1.8%
  10. South KoreaUS$ 72.3 million1.7%
  11. ColombiaUS$ 64.4 million1.5%
  12. IsraelUS$ 59.3 million1.4%
  13. OthersUS$ 703 million17%

Where what is cleared here comes from

  1. NorwayUS$ 161 million28%
  2. ArgentinaUS$ 128 million22%
  3. United StatesUS$ 88.0 million15%
  4. ChinaUS$ 66.4 million11%
  5. BrazilUS$ 44.0 million7.6%
  6. NetherlandsUS$ 28.9 million5.0%
  7. UruguayUS$ 15.0 million2.6%
  8. CanadaUS$ 11.8 million2.0%
  9. BruneiUS$ 9.9 million1.7%
  10. FinlandUS$ 9.3 million1.6%
  11. OthersUS$ 17.0 million2.9%

Through which office

Customs officeRegion of its seatExports%Imports%
TalcahuanoBiobíoUS$ 2,593 million62%——
MetropolitanaMetropolitanaUS$ 1,022 million24%——
Puerto MonttLos LagosUS$ 417 million10.0%US$ 502 million87%
OsornoLos LagosUS$ 26.0 million0.6%US$ 77.2 million13%
San AntonioValparaísoUS$ 49.0 million1.2%——
ValparaísoValparaísoUS$ 40.8 million1.0%——
Los AndesValparaísoUS$ 13.7 million0.3%——
Puerto AysenAysénUS$ 11.5 million0.3%——
AraucaníaAraucaníaUS$ 954 thousand<0.1%——
AricaArica y ParinacotaUS$ 700 thousand<0.1%——
Punta ArenasMagallanesUS$ 346 thousand<0.1%——
IquiqueTarapacáUS$ 260 thousand<0.1%——
AntofagastaAntofagastaUS$ 207 thousand<0.1%——

Its ports and crossings

Port or crossingComunaLoaded (exports)%Unloaded (imports)%
Puerto MonttPuerto MonttUS$ 6.9 million8.8%US$ 351 million67%
CalbucoCalbucoUS$ 36.3 million46%US$ 98.6 million19%
Cardenal SamorePuyehueUS$ 34.7 million44%US$ 76.8 million15%
Aeropuerto El TepualPuerto MonttUS$ 341 thousand0.4%US$ 8 thousand<0.1%
FutaleufuFutaleufú——US$ 1 thousand<0.1%

What was loaded or unloaded at the region's ports, airports and crossings, wherever it came from: a port serves regions other than its own. Shares are of what crosses the region's ports. Every port →

What its offices clear most

  1. Cruise ships, excursion boats, ferry-boats, cargo ships, barges and similar ves…US$ 105 million18%
  2. Rape, colza or mustard oil and their fractions; whether or not refined, but not…US$ 75.4 million13%
  3. Human blood; animal blood for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; ant…US$ 53.0 million9.1%
  4. Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pell…US$ 49.3 million8.5%
  5. Residues of starch manufacture, similar residues; beet-pulp, bagasse and other…US$ 43.3 million7.5%
  6. Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, containing 2 or 3 of the elements nitrogen, p…US$ 42.3 million7.3%
  7. Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, nitrogenousUS$ 25.1 million4.3%
  8. Food preparations not elsewhere specified or includedUS$ 23.8 million4.1%
  9. Maize (corn)US$ 19.6 million3.4%
  10. Quaternary ammonium salts and hydroxides; lecithins and other phosphoaminolipid…US$ 18.9 million3.3%
  11. Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c…US$ 17.7 million3.0%
  12. Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbonsUS$ 15.8 million2.7%
  13. Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, phosphaticUS$ 14.0 million2.4%
  14. Fish; fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0…US$ 11.7 million2.0%
  15. Electric generating sets and rotary convertersUS$ 11.6 million2.0%
  16. Other headingsUS$ 52.8 million9.1%

An export is assigned to the region its declaration names as the origin of the goods; an import to the office that clears it, and the office to the region of its seat. The office an export leaves through is not its region of origin: much of what one region produces leaves through another's office. Customs agents do not appear because the open databases leave them out. A change is shown only where the same months of the year before added up to at least US$ 1.0 million. All of Chile's foreign trade →

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
Los LagosChile% of each territory's own population · 890,284 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Census population
890,284
18,480,4327th of 16
Average age
38.2 yrs
38.1 yrs9th of 16
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
75.8
79.011th of 16
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
18.4/km²
24.7/km²10th of 16
See the other 13 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Households
332,395
6,596,5277th of 16
Dwellings
404,142
7,642,7167th of 16
People per household
2.68
2.8014th of 16
Women
50.9%
51.5%10th of 16
Men per 100 women
96.5
94.37th of 16
Under 15
17.7%
17.7%10th of 16
65 and over
13.4%
14.0%10th of 16
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
45.3
46.514th of 16
One-person households
22.7%
21.8%5th of 16
Households with children
32.9%
33.2%11th of 16
Indigenous peoples
26.6%
11.4%4th of 16
Female-headed households
49.3%
49.9%8th of 16
Land area
48,307 km²
748,041 km²5th of 16

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Los Lagos40%Arrived since 202060%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Los Lagos40%Arrived since 202060%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Foreign-born share
4.0%
8.7%10th of 16
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.
61.0%
50.5%6th of 16
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.
17.7%
23.9%5th of 16
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
17.4%
17.2%12th of 16
See the other 9 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Foreign-born population
35,285
1,608,65010th of 16
Average age, foreign-born
33.0 yrs
33.5 yrs9th of 16
Women among foreign-born
50.0%
51.7%14th of 16
Foreign-born of working age
81.6%
83.1%8th of 16
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
40.3%
34.4%6th of 16
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna.
4.7%
10.6%11th of 16
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.1 yrs
12.9 yrs6th of 16
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.
-23,901
09th of 16
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-2.6
0.09th of 16

Education

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How far schooling went

Los Lagos25%Higher36%Secondary31%Primary only5.0%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Los Lagos25%Higher36%Secondary31%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.8 yrs
10.4 yrs12th of 16
Reached higher education
25.3%
31.1%12th of 16
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.0%
98.6%7th of 16
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.
56.6%
55.6%9th of 16
See the other 17 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
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%
99.8%7th of 16
Literacy rate
97.0%
97.8%11th of 16
Reached secondary education
35.9%
36.7%13th of 16
Primary education only
30.6%
24.1%3rd of 16
Never attended school
3.10%
3.01%10th of 16
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.
11.3 yrs
12.1 yrs12th of 16
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.4 yrs
12.1 yrs13th of 16
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
2.97%
2.18%6th of 16
Households lacking schooling
21.9%
15.1%2nd of 16
Secondary school leavers · Secondary education for children and young people, by the comuna of the school where they took it. Adults are counted apart.
11,158
217,5657th of 16
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
39.5%
33.9%5th of 16
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.
7.5%
3.1%4th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
67.4%
67.2%8th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
18.2%
19.7%8th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
14.4%
13.1%12th of 16
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.
24.6%
13.0%6th of 16
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.
51.3%
49.7%3rd of 16

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.

11,158left secondary school in 2024
6,319enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
56.6%continued immediately
67%of those, to a university
25%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoPsicologiaEnfermeriaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria ComercialKinesiologiaTecnologia MedicaQuimica y FarmaciaMedicina VeterinariaArquitectura
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoPsicologiaEnfermeriaIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria ComercialKinesiologiaTecnologia MedicaQuimica y FarmaciaMedicina VeterinariaArquitectura
Los LagosChile

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 lawEducationServicesAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technologySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationServicesAgriculture and veterinaryInformation technologySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
Los LagosChile

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

05,00010,00015,00020062015202411,1586,319
05,00010,00015,00020062015202411,1586,319
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 Los Lagos'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 Los Lagos 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

Los Lagos89%Fonasa7.1%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Los Lagos89%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Disability prevalence
10.5%
10.6%8th of 16
Public health insurance
88.6%
82.6%7th of 16
Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents · Not age-adjusted. It mixes how much illness there is with how much hospital there is nearby.
86.0
82.55th of 15
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
95
10011th of 15
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
People with a disability
93,441
1,950,3887th of 16
Average age, people with a disability
56.7 yrs
56.4 yrs7th of 16
Disability among 65+
43.0%
43.0%10th of 16
Difficulty walking
4.76%
4.92%8th of 16
Difficulty seeing
4.78%
4.58%8th of 16
Difficulty hearing
2.26%
2.16%7th of 16
Difficulty concentrating
2.46%
2.70%11th of 16
Private health insurance
7.1%
13.2%10th of 16
No health coverage
2.24%
1.98%8th of 16
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
89.4%
92.1%13th of 16
Households lacking health access
7.1%
6.0%2nd of 16
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
76,521
1,523,7166th of 15
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
1,664
36,6987th of 15
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.17%
2.41%12th of 15
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.2 days
6.1 days7th of 15
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
18.7
19.910th of 15
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
105
1005th of 15
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
5,396
89,7234th of 16
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
7.1%
5.9%2nd of 16
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
60.6
48.62nd of 16
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.
125
1002nd of 16

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 22%Heart and lungs 21%Injuries, bones an… 17%Tumours, blood… 14%Pregnancy, birth a… 14%Infections an… 6.4%Mind, nerves … 5.8%Digestive system14%Genitour…system7.5%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem9.6%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculoskeletal4.5%SkinCancers andtumours9.1%Endocrine andmetabolic4.3%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Contactwithhealth…2.7%Infec…andparas…2.2%Ill…sym…Mentalandbehavi…Nervoussystem2.0%Eye
Digestive and urinar… 22%Heart and lungs 21%Injuries, bones and sk… 17%Tumours, blood and met… 14%Pregnancy, birth … 14%Infe… 6.4%Min… 5.8%Digestivesystem14%Genito…system7.5%Circulatorysystem11%Respirat…system9.6%Injuries andpoisoning11%Musculo…4.5%Cancers andtumours9.1%Endocri…andmetabol…Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Contactwith…Infecti…Ment…andbeha…Ner…sys…
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 digestivos41%Sangre y sistemalinfático12%Genitalesfemeninos7.5%Mama7.2%Víasurinarias7.1%Genitalesmasculinos5.7%Sitios maldefinidos4.9%Tiroides yendocrinas4.2%Víasrespiratorias3.7%Encéfa…ysistem…1.7%Pielymela…Boca yfaringeTejidosblandos
Órganos digestivos41%Sangre ysistemalinfático12%Genitalesfemeninos7.5%Mama7.2%Víasurinarias7.1%Genitalesmasculin…5.7%Sitiosmaldefinid…4.9%Tiroides yendocrinas4.2%Víasrespirator…3.7%Encéfalo…Pielymela…Bocayfar…Teji…blan…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales femeninosMamaVías urinariasGenitales masculinoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
16.5%
17.3%12th of 16
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
25.3 UF
32.0 UF8th of 16
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
88.1%
78.9%11th of 16
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.
93.9
85.63rd of 16
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
54.6%
54.4%6th of 16
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
7.9%
8.6%13th of 16
Self-employed
36.1%
33.8%4th of 16
Extreme poverty
6.4%
6.9%13th of 16
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
16.3%
17.7%9th of 16
Unemployment rate
8.4%
8.8%11th of 16
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 668,107
CLP 783,1248th of 16
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.
0.445
0.4889th of 16
Registered firms
83,590
1,582,3905th of 16
Annual sales
1,090,755,799 UF
34,347,683,688 UF3rd of 16
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.
368,476
9,699,1646th of 16
Sales per firm
13,049 UF
21,706 UF3rd of 16
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.9
3.96th of 16
Women among employees
38.3%
40.6%13th of 16
Independent contractors
118,190
3,958,2695th of 16
Contractors as share of workers
24.3%
29.0%13th of 16

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 28%State and social services 22%Industry and construction 21%Natural resour… 15%Advanced se… 8.9%Other servi… 5.2%Retail andwholesale16%Transport7.5%Accommodationand food4.9%Education9.0%Health7.9%Publicadmin…4.6%Manufacturing10%Construction8.9%Electricity…Water…Agriculture andfishing15%Administrat…services3.3%Professionalservices3.1%Inf…andcom…Fin…andins…Real…Domest…work2.5%Otherservi…1.9%
Trade and logistics 28%State and social… 22%Industry and co… 21%Natural … 15%Advanc… 8.9%Other … 5.2%Retail andwholesale16%Transport7.5%Accommodat…and food4.9%Education9.0%Health7.9%Public administrationManufacturing10%Construction8.9%Agricultureand fishing15%Admin…servi…3.3%Profe…servi…3.1%Info…Fina…Domes…workOth…ser…
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 29%Elementary occupations 15%Service andsales19%Craft andtrades16%Plant andmachineoperators8.5%Skilledagricultu…6.1%Clericalsupport5.8%Professionals15%Technicians10%Managers4.0%Elementary occupations15%
Skilled occupations 56%Managers and professionals 29%Elementary… 15%Service andsales19%Craft andtrades16%Plant andmachineoperatorsSkilledagricul…6.1%Cleric…support5.8%Professionals15%Technicians10%ManagersElementaryoccupations15%
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

Los Lagos94%House4.7%Chile79%House20%Flat
Los Lagos94%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.7%
5.7%11th of 16
Internet access
90.8%
93.2%12th of 16
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.
4.5
2.32nd of 16
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.
3.2
1.63rd of 16
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
328,747
6,408,1727th of 16
Critically overcrowded
0.29%
0.57%15th of 16
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.55%
1.13%6th of 16
Public water network
81.1%
92.3%14th of 16
Electricity access
99.3%
99.6%10th of 16
Detached houses
94.1%
78.7%5th of 16
Apartments
4.7%
19.9%13th of 16
Precarious wall materials
0.40%
0.23%5th of 16
Unoccupied private dwellings
13.7%
11.9%10th of 16
Quantitative housing deficit
16,302
491,90410th of 16
Housing deficit as share of households
4.9%
7.5%11th of 16
Renting households
21.1%
26.2%9th of 16
Owner-occupiers
66.4%
61.1%5th of 16
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
72.5%
24.4%3rd of 16
Commute by public transport
31.4%
42.1%10th of 16
Walks to work
13.4%
10.2%8th of 16
Households with a computer
47.3%
54.9%13th of 16
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.
1.6
1.15th of 16
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%
97.0%13th of 16
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%
99.9%8th of 16
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%8th of 16
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.
76.4%
89.4%12th of 16
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.
92.0%
98.1%15th of 16
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.
98.1%
99.7%14th of 16
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.
9.6
5.95th of 16
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.
66.4%
80.3%11th of 16
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.
78.5%
90.0%12th of 16
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.
89.3%
96.2%12th of 16
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.
1.0
0.66th of 16
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.
97.3%
99.0%12th of 16
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%9th of 16
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%1st of 16
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.
80.0%
91.6%13th of 16
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.
95.0%
98.5%13th of 16
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.
99.7%
99.8%9th of 16

How people commute

Private vehicle 43%Public transport 31%On foot or by bicyc… 15%Other means 11%Car43%Public transport31%Walking13%Other9.8%
Private vehicle 43%Public transport 31%On foot or by bicycle 15%Other means 11%Car43%Public transport31%Walking13%Other9.8%
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 66%Rented 21%Provided rent… 9.9%Owned outright56%Owned, still paying10%Rented, withcontract12%Rented, no contract9.0%Provided byfamily7.4%Pro…byemp…Oth…arr…
Owned 66%Rented 21%Provide… 9.9%Owned outright56%Owned,stillpaying10%Rented, withcontract12%Rented, nocontract9.0%Provided byfamily7.4%
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 81%Fossil fuels 11%Electricity 6.6%Firewood73%Pellets8.6%Paraffin5.5%Gas5.2%Electricity6.6%No heating
Wood and biomass 81%Fossil fuels 11%Electricity 6.6%Firewood73%Pell…Paraffin5.5%Gas5.2%Electricity6.6%
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
85.3%
of the registered voted in the first round
85.2%
voted in the runoff
789,065
registered voters on the roll
7.3%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman34.7%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist65.3%58.3%
Los LagosChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez21.8%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman22.1%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen16.2%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist27.1%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet10.0%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%
Los LagosChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile32.7%30.6%
KCambio por Chile21.5%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido23.8%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente14.2%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas7.8%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%
Los LagosChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

4
ProvinceCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Llanquihue455,8425.3%10.0 yrs15.7%
Chiloé176,8653.3%9.3 yrs19.4%
Osorno239,1071.9%9.8 yrs18.3%
Palena18,4703.7%9.0 yrs—
Los Lagos890,2844.0%9.8 yrs16.5%