[2] In 2007, 70% of the families in Kafr ad-Dik engaged in agriculture as their main source of income, while the remaining 30% worked in the private and public sectors.

The Israeli settlements of Peduel and Alei Zahav were established on 1,448 dunams of land claimed by Kafr ad-Dik.

It is bordered by Bruqin to the east, Bani Zaid to the south, Rafat and Deir Ballut to the west, and Biddya and Sarta to the north.

Situated between Dayr Ghassāna in the south and the present Route 5 in the north, and between Majdal Yābā in the west and Jammā‘īn, Mardā and Kifl Ḥāris in the east, this area served, according to historian Roy Marom, "as a buffer zone between the political-economic-social units of the Jerusalem and the Nablus regions.

On the political level, it suffered from instability due to the migration of the Bedouin tribes and constant competition among local clans for the right to collect taxes on behalf of the Ottoman authorities.

[13] In 1870 Victor Guérin found two birkets cut in the rock, one 15 paces long by 12 broad, the other not quite so large; about 30 cisterns and 20 tombs cut in the rock, some with sepulchral chambers, their walls pierced with loculi, others simple graves, either intended for a single body or having right and left vaulted tombs with arcosolia.

[14] Guérin writes that the houses were constructed from red and white stone masonry, as in Deir Ghassaneh and Beit Rima.

[16] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described a hillside village of moderate size with ancient rock-cut tombs to the east.

[26] Residents of Deir Istiya, Sanniriya, Kafr Jammal, Attil, Annaba, Ballut and Nablus, trace their ancestry back to this village.