 A population list from about 1887 showed "El Mughar el Hazzur" to have about 1,360 inhabitants; 180 Muslims, 625 Druze and 420 Catholic Christians.In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mughar wa Mansura had a total population of 1377.Of these, 265 were Muslim, 676 Druze and 436 Christians.