Hebron - Demographics

Demographics

In 1820 it was reported that there were about 1,000 Jews in Hebron, In 1838, Hebron had an estimated 1,500 taxable Muslim households, in addition to 41 Jewish tax-payers. Taxpayers consisted here of male heads of households who owned even a very small shop or piece of land. 200 Jews and one Christian household were under 'European protections'. The total population was estimated at 10,000. In 1842 it was estimated that about 400 Arab and 120 Jewish families lived in Hebron, the latter having been diminished in number following the destruction of 1834.

Year Muslims Christians Jews Total Notes
1538 749 h 7 h 20 h 776 h (h = households) Source: Cohen & Lewis
1774 300 Source: Azulai.
1817 500 Source: Israel Foreign Ministry.
1820 1,000 Source: William Turner.
1824 60 h (40 h Sephardim, 20 h Ashkenasim) Source: The Missionary Herald.
1832 400 h 100 h 500 h (h = households) Source: Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Robinson
1837 423 Montefiore census
1838 700 Source: Israel Foreign Ministry.
1839 1295 f 1 f 241 (f = families) Source: David Roberts
1840 700-800 Source: James A. Huie.
1851 400 Source: Clorinda Minor.
1866 497 Montefiore census
1881 800 5,000 Source: The Friend.
1890 1,490 Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
1895 1,400 The encyclopedia of Hasidism
1906 1,100 14,000 (690 Sephardim, 410 Ashkenasim) Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
1922 16,074 73 430 16,577 British Mandate Census
1922 1,500 17,000 Source: First Encyclopaedia of Islam.
1929 700 Source: Israel Foreign Ministry.
1930 0 Source:Israel Foreign Ministry.
1931 17,277 109 134 17,532 Source: British Mandate Census
1944 24,400 150 0 24,560 Estimate
1967 38,203 106 38,309 Census
1997 n/a n/a 530 119,093 Census 1997
2007 n/a n/a 500 163,146 Census 2007

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