 According to a 1998 fact-finding mission of the Danish Immigration Service, the camp covers an area of 248,426 square meters.A 2017 census found that there were 1,510 buildings with 2,417 households in Rashidieh.According to Ali Badawi, the long-time chief-archaeologist for Southern Lebanon at the Directorate-General of Antiquities, it can be generally assumed that all villages around Tyre were established already during prehistoric times of the neolithic age (5.000 BCE), especially in the fertile area of Ras al-Ain, next to the Tell El-Rashdiyeh (the Hill of Rashidieh).