 There are 16 people who speak Romansh., the gender distribution of the population was 46.5% male and 53.5% female.The population was made up of 7,232 Swiss citizens (80.8% of the population), and 1,722 non-Swiss residents (19.2%) Of the population in the municipality 1,686 or about 19.5% were born in Arlesheim and lived there in 2000.