, the gender distribution of the population was 50.2% male and 49.8% female. The population was made up of 783 Swiss men (46.4% of the population) and 65 (3.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 788 Swiss women (46.7%) and 53 (3.1%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 743 or about 45.9% were born in Kestenholz and lived there in 2000. There were 420 or 26.0% who were born in the same canton, while 324 or 20.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 118 or 7.3% were born outside of Switzerland.