 There are 2 people who speak Romansh., the gender distribution of the population was 50.2% male and 49.8% female.The population was made up of 2,746 Swiss citizens (87.9% of the population), and 377 non-Swiss residents (12.1%) Of the population in the municipality 492 or about 18.4% were born in Biel-Benken and lived there in 2000.