 There are 39 people who speak French and 1 person who speaks Romansh., the gender distribution of the population was 50.6% male and 49.4% female.The population was made up of 1,779 Swiss citizens (83.1% of the population), and 361 non-Swiss residents (16.9%) Of the population in the municipality 595 or about 29.5% were born in Zwingen and lived there in 2000.