like a number of other villages in the neighborhood, iqrit was linked to the coastal highway from acre to ras an-naqura via a secondary road leading to tarbikha. there were 339 people living in 50 houses in the census of 1931, and that number rose to 490 by the 1945 statistics; 460 christians and 30 muslims, with a total of of land according to an official land and population survey. of this, 458 dunams were plantations and irrigable land; 1,088 were used for cereals, while 68 dunams were built-up (urban) land.