 In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 537 Muslims, increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 642 Muslims, with 137 houses.In the 1944/5 statistics, the population was 880 Muslims, with a total of 4,740 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Of this, 958 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,110 dunams for cereals, while 16 dunams were built-up (urban) land.