, the gender distribution of the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 4,185 Swiss citizens (86.0% of the population), and 683 non-Swiss residents (14.0%) Of the population in the municipality 1,229 or about 25.8% were born in Ettingen and lived there in 2000. There were 885 or 18.6% who were born in the same canton, while 1,789 or 37.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 738 or 15.5% were born outside of Switzerland.