 In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yazur had a population of 1,284 residents, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 2,337 inhabitants in 419 houses.According to the 1945 census, Yazur had a population of 4,030, mostly Muslim Arabs with a small Arab Christian community of 20 people.Agriculture constituted the backbone of the economy; in 1944, citrus was planted on 6,272 dunums and 1,441 dunums were allocated to cereals.