 There are 47 people who speak French and 4 people who speak Romansh., the gender distribution of the population was 48.7% male and 51.3% female.The population was made up of 4,782 Swiss citizens (83.4% of the population), and 954 non-Swiss residents (16.6%) Of the population in the municipality 1,559 or about 28.5% were born in Gelterkinden and lived there in 2000.