, the gender distribution of the population was 47.9% male and 52.1% female. The population was made up of 701 Swiss citizens (91.5% of the population), and 65 non-Swiss residents (8.5%) Of the population in the municipality 297 or about 42.9% were born in Rothenfluh and lived there in 2000. There were 147 or 21.2% who were born in the same canton, while 163 or 23.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 67 or 9.7% were born outside of Switzerland.