 There were 172 Swiss women (50.1%) and 7 (2.0%) non-Swiss women.Of the population in the municipality 269 or about 70.4% were born in Eggerberg and lived there in 2000.There were 83 or 21.7% who were born in the same canton, while 16 or 4.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 5 or 1.3% were born outside of Switzerland.