 , the gender distribution of the population was 48.1% male and 51.9% female.The population was made up of 4,902 Swiss citizens (80.2% of the population), and 1,211 non-Swiss residents (19.8%) Of the population in the municipality 829 or about 15.1% were born in Bottmingen and lived there in 2000.There were 854 or 15.5% who were born in the same canton, while 2,400 or 43.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1,293 or 23.5% were born outside of Switzerland.