Of the rest of the land, 10.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

It consists of the village of Waldstatt and a number of hamlets and farm houses.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (90.9%), with Turkish being second most common ( 2.8%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 1.6%).

[6] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Waldstatt is; 157 people or 9.2% of the population are between 0–6 years old.

[4] The historical population is given in the following table:[3][6] The municipality has a railway station, Waldstatt, on the Gossau–Wasserauen line.