According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Karak had a population of 10,510 in the 2004 census.

[1] In 1596, Al-Karak appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as 'Karak al-Bathaniyya'; part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Malik al-Ashraf in the Hauran Sanjak.

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 45 households and 71 bachelors.

The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (10800 akçe), barley (1800), summer crops (4200), goats and beehives (1700), in addition to "occasional revenues"(1500); a total of 20,000 akçe.

[2] In 1838, it was noted as a Sunni Muslim village, situated "In the Nukrah, South of Eshmiskin",[3] the Nukrah being the southern Hauran plain.