How many companies are in Abu Arish?
Active commercial registrations in Abu Arish by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Jazan region.
7,738
active commercial registrations — 12.3% of the Jazan region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Abu Arish has 7,738 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 12.3% of the Jazan region and 0.4% of Saudi Arabia, the 27th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 7,340 are sole proprietorships (establishments) and 398 are companies.
241 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (0.4%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 98% of companies in Abu Arish and 58.5% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 50k, above the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 7,738
- 12.3% of the Jazan region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 241
- 10.7% of the Jazan region
- Companies
- 398
- 7,340 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 50k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Abu Arish
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 proprietorship7,34094.9%
- LLC3905%
- General partnership40.1%
- JSC2<0.1%
- SJSC1<0.1%
- Limited partnership1<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 300 companies with their main registration in Abu Arish
- Under SAR 10k6020%
- SAR 10k–100k11438%
- SAR 100k–500k8026.7%
- SAR 500k–5m248%
- SAR 5m+227.3%
Company variants
Share of all 398 companies
- Single-person companies23358.5%
- Holding companies297.3%
- Professional companies133.3%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Abu Arish?
Abu Arish has 7,738 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 398 companies and 7,340 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Abu Arish in Q2 2026?
241 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Abu Arish?
SAR 50k. Among companies registered in Abu Arish, the middle half report between SAR 10k and SAR 170k.
How do I register a company in Abu Arish?
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 Abu Arish.
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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