Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Average age1st of 16 · Chile 38.1 yrs40.0 yrs
65 and over1st of 16 · Chile 14.0%16.6%
Dependency ratio1st of 16 · Chile 46.550.8
Indigenous peoples16th of 16 · Chile 11.4%3.9%
Literacy rate16th of 16 · Chile 97.8%95.7%
Primary education only1st of 16 · Chile 24.1%31.2%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.7 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF21.7 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 · 9,342 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
63.3%
4th of 16
Came from another commune of the same region
14.6%
8th of 16
Came from another region
19.1%
9th of 16
Net internal migration
-76,453
-14.7 per 100 residents
Ñuble575,941 peopleMetropolitana34,245 peopleBiobío31,935 peopleMaule10,192 peopleAraucanía7,172 peopleValparaíso2,908 peopleO'Higgins2,396 peopleLos Lagos2,029 peopleLos Ríos1,844 peopleabroad15,497 peopleMetropolitana92,043 peopleBiobío36,062 peopleValparaíso10,663 peopleMaule10,427 peopleO'Higgins6,363 peopleAraucanía5,227 peopleLos Lagos2,936 peopleAntofagasta2,543 peopleTarapacá1,995 peopleMagallanes1,378 peopleArica y Parinacota1,069 peopleÑuble513,453 people
Ñuble575,941 peopleMetropolitana34,245 peopleBiobío31,935 peopleMaule10,192 peopleAraucanía7,172 peopleValparaíso2,908 peopleO'Higgins2,396 peopleLos Lagos2,029 peopleLos Ríos1,844 peopleabroad15,497 peopleMetropolitana92,043 peopleBiobío36,062 peopleValparaíso10,663 peopleMaule10,427 peopleO'Higgins6,363 peopleAraucanía5,227 peopleLos Lagos2,936 peopleAntofagasta2,543 peopleTarapacá1,995 peopleMagallanes1,378 peopleArica y Parinac…1,069 peopleÑuble513,453 people
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Chile lengthwise, north on the left. Ñuble 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
Diguillín 66%Punilla 23%Itata 11%Chillán37%Chillán Viejo6.4%Bulnes4.7%Quillón3.7%Yungay3.6%San Ignacio3.4%El Carmen2.6%Pinto2.4%Pemuco1.7%San Carlos11%Coihueco5.8%San Nicolás2.9%Ñiquén2.5%San FabiánCoelemu3.1%Quirihue2.3%Ránquil1.3%Trehuaco1.2%Ninhue1.1%Cobquecu…1.1%Por…
Diguillín 66%Punilla 23%Itata 11%Chillán37%ChillánViejo6.4%Bulnes4.7%Quillón3.7%Yungay3.6%San Ignacio3.4%ElCarmen2.6%Pinto2.4%San Carlos11%Coihue…5.8%SanNicolásÑiquén2.5%Coele…3.1%Quirih…2.3%Rán…Nin…
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 Ñuble'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+0.2 pts on a year ago11.0%0510152012.1% · May–Jul 2020Employment rate+0.9 pts on a year ago50.1%404550556041.1% · Apr–Jun 2020Participation+1.0 pts on a year ago56.2%455055606546.4% · Apr–Jun 2020201020122014201620182020202220242026
Unemployment+0.2 pts on a year ago11.0%0510152012.1% · May–Jul 2020Employment rate+0.9 pts on a year ago50.1%404550556041.1% · Apr–Jun 2020Participation+1.0 pts on a year ago56.2%455055606546.4% · Apr–Jun 20202012201620202024

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520241Agriculture and fishing1Agriculture and fishing2Retail and wholesale2Retail and wholesale5Education3Education▲28Health4Health▲44Construction5Construction▼13Manufacturing6Manufacturing▼310Public administration7Public administration▲36Administrative services8Administrative services▼29Transport9Transport11Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food▲17Other services11Other services▼412Professional services12Professional services
2005202411Agriculture and fishing22Retail and wholesale53Education▲284Health▲445Construction▼136Manufacturing▼3107Public administration▲368Administrative services▼299Transport1110Accommodation and food▲1711Other services▼41212Professional services

The ten branches that employ most of Ñuble

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.

050 k100 k150 k200 kprojection →181 k2029 · central2005201520242029
050 k100 k150 k200 kprojection →181 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.6% a year observed · 3.2% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0100 M200 M300 Mprojection →150 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0100 M200 M300 Mprojection →150 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.7% a year observed · 1.2% projected

What Ñuble is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Ñuble employs more people in 116 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.

116
activities it is specialised in
154,690
formal workers
14/16
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Actividades de la administración …Cultivo de trigoVenta al por mayor no especializa…Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Fundaciones y corporaciones; asoc…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Actividades de otros clubes depor…Elaboración de productos lácteosExtracción de maderaHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.83.7Venta al por mayor no especializa…Recogida de desechos no peligrososEnseñanza deportiva y recreativaVenta al por mayor de maquinaria …How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Ñuble

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
Servicios de extinción y prevención de incendios forestalesServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura1,32333.8×
Cultivo de otros frutos y nueces de árboles y arbustosCultivo de plantas perennes2,12618.5×
Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales (explotación mixta)Cultivo de productos agrícolas en combinación con la cría de animales4,75413.3×
Cultivo de trigoCultivo de plantas no perennes2,84212.9×
Fabricación de otros tipos de equipo de transporte n.c.p.Fabricación de equipo de transporte n.c.p.11511.7×
Cultivos forrajeros en praderas mejoradas o sembradas; cultivos suplementarios forrajerosCultivo de plantas no perennes63010.5×
Elaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizasElaboración y conservación de frutas, legumbres y hortalizas2,9039.7×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrataServicios de apoyo a la silvicultura5778.3×
Venta al por mayor de madera en bruto y productos primarios de la elaboración de maderaOtras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada1,0117.4×
Cultivo de frutos oleaginosos (incluye el cultivo de aceitunas)Cultivo de plantas perennes9677.1×
Otros servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura n.c.p.Servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura4,4867.0×
Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales (excepto explotación de viveros forestales)Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales2086.9×

The register files a firm at its tax address, so an activity can be over-represented here because the work happens here or because the head office does. Both are real facts about a place and they are not the same fact, and nothing in the register tells them apart: the communes where large firms keep their registered office carry activities that are physically elsewhere in Chile.

Revealed comparative advantage (Balassa, 1965) and the space of activities (Hidalgo, Klinger, Barabási and Hausmann, 2007), computed on formal employment because that is what a Chilean commune has. Built from the 500-worker activities and the communes above 1,000 formal workers; the floors are on /datos with everything else.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021
807,993
hectares in holdings
91.7%
of them under a named use
55.7%
of the crop land is irrigated
16,203
holdings with land here
Woodland 51%Pasture 20%Annual crops 14%Not farmed 12%Forest plantations29%Native woodland23%Pasture20%Cereals9.9%Foddercrops2.0%Indust…cropsVegetab…Pul…andtub…Scrub, barren ground andbuildings8.3%Untilledland3.6%Fruittrees2.3%
Woodland 51%Pasture 20%Annual c… 14%Not farm… 12%Forest plantations29%Native woodland23%Pasture20%Cereals9.9%Foddercrops2.0%Indu…Scrub,barrenground and…8.3%Untilled landFruit 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.

Foreign trade

Aduanas · January–July 2026

What export declarations name as produced in Ñuble, 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$ 982 M
exported, January–July 2026 · +41% vs January–July 2025
1.2%
of everything Chile exported
—
no customs office has its seat here

Month by month

050100150200US$ MJan2025FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan2026FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
050100150200US$ MJ2025FMAMJJASONDJ2026FMAMJJA
Exports from Ñubleshaded: the months the figures above are read over

What Ñuble exports

Vegetable products 37%Pulp and paper 35%Wood and cork 20%Reserved for national use 6.6%Fruit and nuts; uncookedor cooked by steaming orboiling in water, f…22%Fruit, fresh;n.e.c. in chapter086.3%Vegetables(uncookedor cooked…1.9%Apricots,cherries,peaches…1.4%Seeds,fruit andspores;…Sunflowerseeds;…Cerealgrains…Rapeor…Locu…bean…seaw…Apple…pearsand…Fruit,dried,other…Nuts…Mai…Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate,other than dissolving grades34%Wood sawn or chippedlengthwise, sliced orpeeled, whether or no…8.4%Plywood, veneered panelsand similar laminatedwood5.7%Fibreboardof wood orother…4.7%Wood(inclu…Commodities not specifiedaccording to kind6.6%Resid…ofstarc…
Vegetable products 37%Pulp and paper 35%Wood and cork 20%Reserv… 6.6%Fruit and nuts;uncooked or cookedby steaming or…22%Fruit,fresh;n.e.c. i…6.3%Vege…(unc…or…Apri…cher…Seed…Sun…Cere…Rap…Chemical woodpulp, soda orsulphate, other…34%Wood sawn orchippedlengthwise,…Plywood,veneeredpanels…5.7%Fibreboa…of woodor other…Commoditiesnot specifiedaccording to…
Reserved for national useHides and leatherTextilesTransport equipmentBase metalshover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

What leaves, through which office, to where

ChapterCustoms officeDestination47 Pulp of wood or other fib…US$ 336 million · 34%08 Fruit and nuts, edible; p…US$ 301 million · 31%44 Wood and articles of wood…US$ 196 million · 20%99 Commodities not specified…US$ 64.4 million · 6.6%12 Oil seeds and oleaginous …US$ 28.4 million · 2.9%07 Vegetables and certain ro…US$ 22.1 million · 2.3%Other chaptersUS$ 34.0 million · 3.5%TalcahuanoUS$ 834 million · 85%ValparaísoUS$ 69.6 million · 7.1%San AntonioUS$ 51.5 million · 5.2%MetropolitanaUS$ 7.1 million · 0.7%Los AndesUS$ 18.9 million · 1.9%Other officesUS$ 770 thousand · 0.1%MexicoUS$ 26.3 million · 2.7%AustraliaUS$ 31.4 million · 3.2%ChinaUS$ 348 million · 35%CanadaUS$ 35.0 million · 3.6%JapanUS$ 33.6 million · 3.4%South KoreaUS$ 24.9 million · 2.5%United StatesUS$ 265 million · 27%OthersUS$ 217 million · 22%
ChapterCustoms officeDestination47 Pulp of…34%08 Fruit a…31%44 Wood an…20%99 Commodi…6.6%12 Oil see…2.9%07 Vegetab…2.3%Other chap…3.5%Talca…85%Valpa…7.1%San A…5.2%Metro…0.7%Los A…1.9%Other…0.1%Mexico2.7%Australia3.2%China35%Canada3.6%Japan3.4%South Korea2.5%United Sta…27%Others22%

Where its exports go

  1. ChinaUS$ 348 million35%
  2. United StatesUS$ 265 million27%
  3. CanadaUS$ 35.0 million3.6%
  4. JapanUS$ 33.6 million3.4%
  5. AustraliaUS$ 31.4 million3.2%
  6. MexicoUS$ 26.3 million2.7%
  7. South KoreaUS$ 24.9 million2.5%
  8. NetherlandsUS$ 19.6 million2.0%
  9. GermanyUS$ 18.0 million1.8%
  10. TaiwanUS$ 14.3 million1.5%
  11. New ZealandUS$ 13.1 million1.3%
  12. ArgentinaUS$ 12.7 million1.3%
  13. OthersUS$ 140 million14%

Through which office

Customs officeRegion of its seatExports%
TalcahuanoBiobíoUS$ 834 million85%
ValparaísoValparaísoUS$ 69.6 million7.1%
San AntonioValparaísoUS$ 51.5 million5.2%
Los AndesValparaísoUS$ 18.9 million1.9%
MetropolitanaMetropolitanaUS$ 7.1 million0.7%
OsornoLos LagosUS$ 396 thousand<0.1%
AraucaníaAraucaníaUS$ 348 thousand<0.1%
AricaArica y ParinacotaUS$ 26 thousand<0.1%

Its ports and crossings

Port or crossingComunaUnloaded (imports)%
Estación de Medición RecintoPintoUS$ 6.1 million100%

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 →

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
ÑubleChile% of each territory's own population · 512,289 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Census population
512,289
18,480,43210th of 16
Average age
40.0 yrs
38.1 yrs1st of 16
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
97.6
79.02nd of 16
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
39.1/km²
24.7/km²5th of 16
See the other 13 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Households
190,402
6,596,52710th of 16
Dwellings
234,845
7,642,7169th of 16
People per household
2.69
2.8012th of 16
Women
51.9%
51.5%2nd of 16
Men per 100 women
92.7
94.315th of 16
Under 15
17.0%
17.7%14th of 16
65 and over
16.6%
14.0%1st of 16
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
50.8
46.51st of 16
One-person households
22.3%
21.8%7th of 16
Households with children
31.5%
33.2%13th of 16
Indigenous peoples
3.9%
11.4%16th of 16
Female-headed households
48.5%
49.9%12th of 16
Land area
13,092 km²
748,041 km²16th of 16

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Ñuble38%Arrived since 202062%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Ñuble38%Arrived since 202062%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
2.1%
8.7%14th 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.
63.3%
50.5%4th 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.
14.6%
23.9%8th of 16
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
19.1%
17.2%9th of 16
See the other 9 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Foreign-born population
10,934
1,608,65014th of 16
Average age, foreign-born
33.6 yrs
33.5 yrs6th of 16
Women among foreign-born
51.0%
51.7%9th of 16
Foreign-born of working age
80.4%
83.1%14th of 16
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
38.3%
34.4%7th 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.
2.6%
10.6%14th of 16
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.3 yrs
12.9 yrs4th 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.
-76,453
013th of 16
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-14.7
0.015th of 16

Education

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How far schooling went

Ñuble24%Higher36%Secondary31%Primary only4.9%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Ñuble24%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
9.6 yrs
10.4 yrs15th of 16
Reached higher education
24.1%
31.1%15th of 16
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.1%
98.6%6th 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.
56.5%
55.6%10th 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.
102.6%
99.8%2nd of 16
Literacy rate
95.7%
97.8%16th of 16
Reached secondary education
36.2%
36.7%12th of 16
Primary education only
31.2%
24.1%1st of 16
Never attended school
3.65%
3.01%2nd 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.
10.9 yrs
12.1 yrs16th of 16
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.2 yrs
12.1 yrs16th of 16
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
4.34%
2.18%1st of 16
Households lacking schooling
21.6%
15.1%3rd 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.
6,432
217,56510th of 16
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
32.5%
33.9%10th 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.
6.5%
3.1%5th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
63.5%
67.2%13th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
18.6%
19.7%6th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
17.9%
13.1%9th 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.
31.5%
13.0%4th 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.
51.1%
49.7%4th 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.

6,432left secondary school in 2024
3,635enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
56.5%continued immediately
64%of those, to a university
32%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico en EnfermeriaIngenieria ComercialEnfermeriaDerechoPsicologiaIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizGastronomiaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizKinesiologiaQuimica y Farmacia
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%Tecnico en EnfermeriaIngenieria ComercialEnfermeriaDerechoPsicologiaIngenieria en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizGastronomiaTecnico en Mecanica y Electromovilidad AutomotrizKinesiologiaQuimica y Farmacia
ÑubleChile

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 technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesArts and humanitiesNatural sciences
ÑubleChile

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

02,0004,0006,0008,0002006201520246,4323,635
02,0004,0006,0008,0002006201520246,4323,635
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 Ñuble'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 Ñuble 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

Ñuble91%Fonasa4.8%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Ñuble91%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Disability prevalence
14.6%
10.6%1st of 16
Public health insurance
90.8%
82.6%3rd 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.
79.4
82.510th of 15
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
110
1002nd of 15
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
People with a disability
74,711
1,950,3889th of 16
Average age, people with a disability
58.2 yrs
56.4 yrs1st of 16
Disability among 65+
45.3%
43.0%3rd of 16
Difficulty walking
7.23%
4.92%1st of 16
Difficulty seeing
6.70%
4.58%1st of 16
Difficulty hearing
2.98%
2.16%1st of 16
Difficulty concentrating
3.67%
2.70%1st of 16
Private health insurance
4.8%
13.2%15th of 16
No health coverage
2.25%
1.98%6th of 16
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
93.5%
92.1%6th of 16
Households lacking health access
6.2%
6.0%7th of 16
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
40,656
1,523,71610th of 15
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
1,294
36,6989th of 15
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
3.18%
2.41%1st of 15
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.3 days
6.1 days5th of 15
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
25.3
19.91st of 15
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
93
10011th of 15
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
2,264
89,72311th of 16
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
5.6%
5.9%10th of 16
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
44.2
48.610th 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.
82
10011th of 16

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 24%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries, bones a… 16%Pregnancy, bi… 14%Tumours, blood a… 13%Mind, nerves … 6.0%Infections an… 5.7%Digestive system14%Genitourin…system9.8%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem11%Injuries andpoisoning9.7%Musculoskele…4.7%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth12%Perinatal…Congenita…Cancers andtumours7.9%Endocrine andmetabolicBlo…andimm…Mentalandbehavio…NervoussystemIll-d…sympt…2.4%Infec…andparas…1.8%Con…withhea…
Digestive and urinary… 24%Heart and lungs 22%Injuries… 16%Pregnancy, birth an… 14%Tumours, blood and … 13%Digestivesystem14%Genitour…system9.8%Circulato…system11%Respirato…system11%Injuriesandpoisoning9.7%Musculos…4.7%Pregnancy andchildbirth12%Cancers andtumours7.9%Endocri…andmetabol…Mental andbehaviour…NervoussystemIll-…symp…Inf…andpar…
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 digestivos28%Mama14%Sangre y sistemalinfático13%Genitalesmasculinos9.1%Genitalesfemeninos8.7%Vías urinarias7.9%Tiroides yendocrinas5.1%Víasrespira…3.3%Sitiosmaldefinid…2.2%Boca yfaringe2.1%Encéf…ysiste…2.0%Piel ymelan…1.7%Huesos1.5%Sitiosreser…1.4%
Órganos digestivos28%Mama14%Sangre ysistemalinfático13%Genitalesmasculinos9.1%Genitalesfemeninos8.7%Víasurinarias7.9%Tiroidesyendocrin…5.1%Víasrespi…3.3%Sitiosmal…Boca yfaringeEncéfaloy sistem…Piel y…Huesos1.5%Sitiosreserva…
Órganos digestivosMamaSangre y sistema linfáticoGenitales masculinosGenitales femeninosVías urinariashover 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.
23.9%
17.3%3rd of 16
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
21.7 UF
32.0 UF13th of 16
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
105.5%
78.9%1st 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.
78.8
85.69th of 16
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
46.1%
54.4%16th of 16
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
10.2%
8.6%3rd of 16
Self-employed
34.7%
33.8%10th of 16
Extreme poverty
10.3%
6.9%2nd of 16
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
17.0%
17.7%8th of 16
Unemployment rate
9.5%
8.8%3rd of 16
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 551,152
CLP 783,12415th 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.
0.476
0.4885th of 16
Registered firms
40,386
1,582,39010th of 16
Annual sales
141,760,752 UF
34,347,683,688 UF13th 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.
154,770
9,699,16410th of 16
Sales per firm
3,510 UF
21,706 UF15th of 16
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.3
3.913th of 16
Women among employees
44.2%
40.6%2nd of 16
Independent contractors
46,632
3,958,26911th of 16
Contractors as share of workers
23.2%
29.0%14th of 16

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 26%State and social services 25%Industry and construction 20%Natural resour… 16%Advanced s… 7.3%Other serv… 5.9%Retail andwholesale16%Transport5.9%Accommodationand food4.1%Education11%Health8.5%Public administration5.5%Construction9.8%Manufacturing8.2%Electricity…Water an…Agriculture andfishing14%Administra…servicesProfession…servicesInf…andcom…Fin…and…Real…Domest…work3.1%Otherservi…Arts an…
Trade and logistics 26%State and social se… 25%Industry and c… 20%Natural r… 16%Advan… 7.3%Other… 5.9%Retail andwholesale16%Transpo…5.9%Accommo…and food4.1%Education11%Health8.5%Publ…admi…Construction9.8%Manufacturing8.2%Agricultureand fishing14%Administ…servicesProfessi…Domest…work3.1%Otherservi…
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 54%Managers and professionals 28%Elementary occupations 18%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades14%Plant andmachineoperators9.5%Skilledagricult…5.6%Clericalsupport5.2%Professionals16%Technicians9.1%Managers3.3%Elementary occupations18%
Skilled occupations 54%Managers and professionals 28%Elementary oc… 18%Service andsales20%Craft andtrades14%Plant andmachineoperators9.5%Skilledagricul…5.6%Clericalsupport5.2%Professionals16%Technicians9.1%ManagersElementaryoccupations18%
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

Ñuble96%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Ñuble96%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.4%
5.7%15th of 16
Internet access
87.3%
93.2%16th 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.
3.8
2.34th 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.
3.0
1.66th of 16
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
187,513
6,408,17210th of 16
Critically overcrowded
0.26%
0.57%16th of 16
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.16%
1.13%10th of 16
Public water network
81.5%
92.3%13th of 16
Electricity access
99.4%
99.6%8th of 16
Detached houses
95.8%
78.7%2nd of 16
Apartments
3.4%
19.9%15th of 16
Precarious wall materials
0.24%
0.23%10th of 16
Unoccupied private dwellings
16.4%
11.9%6th of 16
Quantitative housing deficit
8,879
491,90412th of 16
Housing deficit as share of households
4.7%
7.5%14th of 16
Renting households
16.4%
26.2%16th of 16
Owner-occupiers
69.4%
61.1%2nd of 16
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
60.6%
24.4%5th of 16
Commute by public transport
27.6%
42.1%12th of 16
Walks to work
13.5%
10.2%6th of 16
Households with a computer
43.8%
54.9%16th 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.
1.8
1.12nd 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.
90.8%
97.0%15th 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%7th 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%1st 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.
72.9%
89.4%16th 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.
96.4%
98.1%9th 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.
99.8%
99.7%7th 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.
13.2
5.92nd 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.
47.2%
80.3%16th 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.
60.4%
90.0%16th 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.
84.9%
96.2%15th 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
0.63rd 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.
98.6%
99.0%7th 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.
100.0%
99.9%3rd 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.
78.5%
91.6%14th 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.
97.6%
98.5%8th 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.
99.8%
99.8%7th of 16

How people commute

Private vehicle 43%Public transport 28%On foot or by bicycle 21%Other… 8.6%Car42%Public transport28%Walking13%Bicycle7.3%Other8.6%
Private vehicle 43%Public transp… 28%On foot or by bicycle 21%Other m… 8.6%Car42%Publictransport28%Walking13%Bicycle7.3%Other8.6%
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 69%Rented 16%Provided rent-free 11%Owned outright62%Owned, still payingRented, withcontract11%Rented, no contract5.9%Provided byfamily8.8%Other arrangement
Owned 69%Rented 16%Provided re… 11%Owned outright62%Owne…stillpayi…Rented, withcontract11%Rented,nocontract5.9%Provided byfamily8.8%Otherarra…
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 67%Fossil fuels 19%Electricity 10%Firewood61%Pelle…5.5%Coal0.5%Gas11%Paraffin8.5%Electricity10%Noheating3.5%
Wood and biomass 67%Fossil fuels 19%Electrici… 10%Firewood61%Pel…CoalGas11%Paraffin8.5%Electricity10%Nohea…
ElectricityNo heatingOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result
89.9%
of the registered voted in the first round
89.7%
voted in the runoff
451,851
registered voters on the roll
6.2%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman30.1%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist69.9%58.3%
ÑubleChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez22.1%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman19.0%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.1%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist31.6%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.7%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul0.9%1.3%
ÑubleChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile24.4%30.6%
KCambio por Chile19.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido33.6%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente8.0%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.4%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista5.2%2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde3.3%0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile2.5%0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular1.5%0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
ÑubleChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

3
ProvinceCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Diguillín336,8012.7%10.0 yrs23.2%
Itata56,7340.7%8.8 yrs26.4%
Punilla118,7541.2%8.9 yrs28.4%
Ñuble512,2892.1%9.6 yrs23.9%