Russikon has a population (as of ) of . , 10.0% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 4.2%. Most of the population () speaks German (93.0%), with Albanian being second most common (1.3%) and Italian being third (1.1%). In the 2007 election, the most popular party was the
SVP which received 45.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the
FDP (13.6%), the
SPS (12.5%) and the
CSP (11.8%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11.6%. In Russikon about 83.7% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory
upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ). There are 1,483 households in Russikon. , 48.2% of the working population were employed full-time, and 51.8% were employed part-time. , there were 878
Catholics and 2108
Protestants in Russikon. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 60.2% were some type of Protestant, with 55.1% belonging to the
Swiss Reformed Church and 5.1% belonging to other Protestant churches. 21% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 4.5% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.6% did not give a religion, and 11.4% were atheist or agnostic. ==References==