, the gender distribution of the population was 48.3% male and 51.7% female. The population was made up of 752 Swiss men (44.3% of the population) and 68 (4.0%) non-Swiss men. There were 828 Swiss women (48.8%) and 49 (2.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 400 or about 24.8% were born in Oberdorf and lived there in 2000. There were 564 or 35.0% who were born in the same canton, while 441 or 27.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 170 or 10.5% were born outside of Switzerland.