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According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics ( CBS ), as of the end of 2009, the city had a total population of 46, 200, making it the largest Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

The city had an annual growth rate of 13. 2 percent in 2009, due to new home construction and natural population growth.

An estimated 80 percent of the population is under age 30, and in 2006 the city's median age stood at 10, the lowest of all Israeli municipalities.

There are many immigrants, mostly from England, France, Switzerland and the United States.

The entire population of Modi ' in Illit are observant Jews.

Most residents are Ashkenazi Jews in the Lithuanian tradition, but there are also Sephardi Jews.