How many companies are in Abha?
Active commercial registrations in Abha by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Asir region.
19.9K
active commercial registrations — 20.7% of the Asir region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Abha has 19,862 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 20.7% of the Asir region and 1% of Saudi Arabia, the 15th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 16,273 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 3,587 are companies, and 2 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
864 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Abha's share of new registrations (1.3%) is above its share of the stock, so it is attracting a growing share of new businesses.
Limited liability companies make up 96.7% of companies in Abha and 46.1% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 5k, in line with the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 19,862
- 20.7% of the Asir region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 864
- 24.6% of the Asir region
- Companies
- 3,587
- 16,273 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 5k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Abha
Still-active CRs by the quarter they were created. Cancelled registrations are excluded, so earlier quarters read lower.
Business structures
Active registrations by legal form
- Sole proprietorship16,27381.9%
- LLC3,47017.5%
- JSC900.5%
- General partnership170.1%
- SJSC6<0.1%
- Limited partnership4<0.1%
- GCC branch1<0.1%
- Foreign branch1<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 2,938 companies with their main registration in Abha
- Under SAR 10k1,55252.8%
- SAR 10k–100k72524.7%
- SAR 100k–500k40213.7%
- SAR 500k–5m1354.6%
- SAR 5m+1244.2%
Company variants
Share of all 3,587 companies
- Single-person companies1,65246.1%
- Holding companies1313.7%
- Professional companies1103.1%
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Common questions
How many companies are there in Abha?
Abha has 19,862 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 3,587 companies and 16,273 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Abha in Q2 2026?
864 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Abha?
SAR 5k. Among companies registered in Abha, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 50k.
How do I register a company in Abha?
Foreign investors first obtain a MISA investment licence, then the Ministry of Commerce issues the commercial registration (CR), followed by municipal licensing, Chamber of Commerce membership, ZATCA, GOSI and Qiwa registration. Alpha Consultancy runs the full process for companies setting up in Abha.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 30 June 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 30 June 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
The Ministry's extract is dated 30 June 2026; it was taken at the start of that day, so registrations created on the reference date itself are not included.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
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