 There are 9 people who speak Romansh., the gender distribution of the population was 48.7% male and 51.3% female.The population was made up of 7,780 Swiss citizens (74.6% of the population), and 2,653 non-Swiss residents (25.4%) Of the population in the municipality 2,397 or about 23.0% were born in Birsfelden and lived there in 2000.