According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had an estimated population of 2322 inhabitants in .

[5] In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it in the distance, as a small village on an oblong mound.

[6] In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.

[7] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Ezbuba: "A village of mud, of moderate size, with wells and cisterns.

It stands near the foot of the hills, and is probably an ancient site, having a sarcophagus, and a wine-press to the south.