How many companies are in Afif?
Active commercial registrations in Afif by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Riyadh region.
4,316
active commercial registrations — 0.7% of the Riyadh region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Afif has 4,316 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 0.7% of the Riyadh region and 0.2% of Saudi Arabia, the 39th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 3,923 are sole proprietorships (establishments) and 393 are companies.
145 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
Limited liability companies make up 100% of companies in Afif and 36.4% 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
- 4,316
- 0.7% of the Riyadh region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 145
- 0.7% of the Riyadh region
- Companies
- 393
- 3,923 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 5k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Afif
Still-active CRs by the quarter they were created. Cancelled registrations are excluded, so earlier quarters read lower.
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 362 companies with their main registration in Afif
- Under SAR 10k18350.6%
- SAR 10k–100k14038.7%
- SAR 100k–500k215.8%
- SAR 500k–5m92.5%
- SAR 5m+92.5%
Company variants
Share of all 393 companies
- Single-person companies14336.4%
- Holding companies4912.5%
- Professional companies00%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Afif?
Afif has 4,316 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 393 companies and 3,923 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Afif in Q2 2026?
145 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Afif?
SAR 5k. Among companies registered in Afif, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 25k.
How do I register a company in Afif?
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 Afif.
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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