Most of the remaining land is either grown with olive and almond orchards or open for continued expansion of the village.

However, the Israeli West Bank barrier will separate 59% of Lubban al-Gharbi's land from the village's urban area.

It is bordered by Bani Zeid and 'Abud to the east, Deir Ballut to the north, Rantis and Israel to the west, and 'Abud to the south.

[7] Al-Lubban al-Gharbi has also been identified with the Crusader Luban, or Oliban, mentioned in connection with nearby Casale St.

The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on various agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, goats and beehives in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 6,954 akçe.

[12] In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village with a population of 37 households in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Awwal, subordinate to Nablus.

[13] In 1882 PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP), the village, (called "Lubban Rentis"), was described a being small, and situated on a knoll beside a Roman road.