, the gender distribution of the population was 47.9% male and 52.1% female. The population was made up of 824 Swiss citizens (93.0% of the population), and 62 non-Swiss residents (7.0%) Of the population in the municipality 271 or about 30.1% were born in Tenniken and lived there in 2000. There were 328 or 36.4% who were born in the same canton, while 229 or 25.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 69 or 7.7% were born outside of Switzerland.