Nearby localities include Ayn al-Sharqiyah to the west and Daliyah to the south.

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Beit Yashout had a population of 6,115 in the 2004 census.

Beit Yashout is one of the villages inhabited by the Alawite Hadadin tribal confederation, to which former first lady Aniseh Makhluf belonged.

[2] Specifically, the village was the traditional home of the Haddadin's Bani Ali clan.

[3] Beit Yashout is the hometown of Muhammad al-Khuli, a prominent military official in Baathist governments in the 1960s and throughout former president Hafez al-Assad's time in office (1970–2000).