 , the gender distribution of the population was 49.4% male and 50.6% female.The population was made up of 736 Swiss citizens (82.5% of the population), and 156 non-Swiss residents (17.5%) Of the population in the municipality 195 or about 20.5% were born in Augst and lived there in 2000.There were 187 or 19.7% who were born in the same canton, while 324 or 34.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 217 or 22.8% were born outside Switzerland.