 Most of the population () speaks German (1,178 or 94.6%), with French being second most common (22 or 1.8%) and English being third (17 or 1.4%)., the gender distribution of the population was 49.4% male and 50.6% female.The population was made up of 1,298 Swiss citizens (89.8% of the population), and 148 non-Swiss residents (10.2%) Of the population in the municipality 287 or about 23.1% were born in Schönenbuch and lived there in 2000.