, the gender distribution of the population was 50.9% male and 49.1% female. The population was made up of 619 Swiss men (47.3% of the population) and 47 (3.6%) non-Swiss men. There were 613 Swiss women (46.8%) and 30 (2.3%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 615 or about 47.1% were born in Matzendorf and lived there in 2000. There were 369 or 28.3% who were born in the same canton, while 234 or 17.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 74 or 5.7% were born outside of Switzerland.