According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the governorate had a population of 75,444 inhabitants in mid-year 2017.

[2] During the Ottoman period, the region later forming the Salfit Governorate belonged to Jabal Nablus.

With the help of rural trading partners, these urban notables established trading monopolies that transformed Jabal Nablus’ autarkic economy into an export-driven market, shipping vast quantities of cash crops and finished goods to off-shore markets.

Increasing demand for these commodities in the Ottoman Empire’s urban centers and in Europe spurred demographic growth and settlement expansion in the lowlands surrounding Jabal Nablus.

[4][5] In the 18th and 19th centuries, the territory of the Salfit Governorate comprised part of Bilad Jamm'ain.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 the constant competition among local clans for the right to collect taxes on behalf of the Ottoman authorities.”[6] It extends from the village of Za'tara in the east and ends in the city of Kafr Qasim in Israel.

Preservation of primitive playgrounds in a number of communities, a closed gymnasium and a training camp in the city of Salfit.

The Salfit Governorate contains 140 archaeological sites that reflect a cultural diversity that dates back to different periods, such as Assyrian, Roman and Islamic, some of which were destroyed under the wall of annexation and expansion.

The other is Deir Qala in the village of Derblout, Khirbet al-Shajara in Salfit, and Simean monastery in Kafr El Deek.

Badia City: Khirbat Karam Issa and the Jebel Al Ras, Khallet Jarrah and Qurna Ali.