How many companies are in Al Kharj?
Active commercial registrations in Al Kharj by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Riyadh region.
18K
active commercial registrations — 2.7% of the Riyadh region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Al Kharj has 18,040 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 2.7% of the Riyadh region and 0.9% of Saudi Arabia, the 19th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 14,974 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 3,062 are companies, and 4 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
535 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (0.8%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 96.8% of companies in Al Kharj and 60.1% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 10k, above the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 18,040
- 2.7% of the Riyadh region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 535
- 2.4% of the Riyadh region
- Companies
- 3,062
- 14,974 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 10k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Al Kharj
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 proprietorship14,97483%
- LLC2,96316.4%
- JSC640.4%
- General partnership190.1%
- Limited partnership9<0.1%
- SJSC7<0.1%
- Foreign branch4<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 2,614 companies with their main registration in Al Kharj
- Under SAR 10k1,26648.4%
- SAR 10k–100k57321.9%
- SAR 100k–500k42816.4%
- SAR 500k–5m1766.7%
- SAR 5m+1716.5%
Company variants
Share of all 3,062 companies
- Single-person companies1,83960.1%
- Holding companies2056.7%
- Professional companies371.2%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Al Kharj?
Al Kharj has 18,040 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 3,062 companies and 14,974 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Al Kharj in Q2 2026?
535 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Al Kharj?
SAR 10k. Among companies registered in Al Kharj, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 100k.
How do I register a company in Al Kharj?
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 Kharj.
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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