How many companies are in Al Baha?
Active commercial registrations in Al Baha by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Al Baha region.
4,631
active commercial registrations — 36.2% of the Al Baha region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Al Baha has 4,631 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 36.2% of the Al Baha region and 0.2% of Saudi Arabia, the 37th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 4,140 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 490 are companies, and 1 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
111 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (0.2%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 94.1% of companies in Al Baha and 48% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 25k, above the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 4,631
- 36.2% of the Al Baha region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 111
- 35.9% of the Al Baha region
- Companies
- 490
- 4,140 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 25k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Al Baha
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 proprietorship4,14089.4%
- LLC46110%
- General partnership130.3%
- JSC120.3%
- Limited partnership40.1%
- Foreign branch1<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 364 companies with their main registration in Al Baha
- Under SAR 10k11932.7%
- SAR 10k–100k10428.6%
- SAR 100k–500k9024.7%
- SAR 500k–5m246.6%
- SAR 5m+277.4%
Company variants
Share of all 490 companies
- Single-person companies23548%
- Holding companies234.7%
- Professional companies112.2%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Al Baha?
Al Baha has 4,631 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 490 companies and 4,140 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Al Baha in Q2 2026?
111 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Al Baha?
SAR 25k. Among companies registered in Al Baha, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 100k.
How do I register a company in Al Baha?
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 Al Baha.
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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