Demographics
Tubas had a population of 3,349 in 1922, while in the 1931 census, taken by the British Mandate of Palestine authorities, Tubas, (including Kashda and Jabagia) had 773 occupied houses and a population of 4097, all Muslim except for 29 Christians. In Sami Hadawi's 1945 land and population survey, Tubas and nearby Bardala had a combined population of 5,530. In 1964, Tubas alone had a population of 5,880. About 1,100 residents fled Tubas after the 1967 Six-Day War mostly to the Souf refugee camp in Jordan, while 260 emigrated there and in 1981 its population was 5,300.
In the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics' (PCBS) first official census in 1997, Tubas had a population of 11,760 inhabitants. The gender make-up was 50.8% male and 49.2% female. Tubas has an overwhelmingly young population with 52.7% of the city's residents below the age of 20. People between the ages of 20 and 34 constitute 24.7%, 17.7% between the ages of 35 and 64, while people above the age of 64 constituted 4.9% of the population. The census also revealed that refugees made up 6.1% of the total residents.
In the 2007 census by the PCBS, Tubas had a population of 16,154, increasing around 33% from 1997. The city represents roughly a third (33.4%) of the Tubas Governorate's total population. The city's modern-era founders—the Daraghmeh clan—constitute 70% of Tubas. The clan has several smaller branches including Mslamany, Abd al-Razeq and Abu Khazaran. The Sawafta family make up 25%, the Husheh make up 3% and the Fuquha represent the remaining 2%. The inhabitants of Tubas are predominantly Muslims, but there is a community of approximately 60 Palestinian Christians, all belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church. The Christian community worships at the Holy Trinity Church in the city and are serviced by a priest from nearby Zababdeh.
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