How many companies are in AlUla?
Active commercial registrations in AlUla by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Madinah region.
2,097
active commercial registrations — 2.2% of the Madinah region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
AlUla has 2,097 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 2.2% of the Madinah region and 0.1% of Saudi Arabia, the 65th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 1,863 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 233 are companies, and 1 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
63 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (0.1%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 94.4% of companies in AlUla and 62.2% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 20k, above the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 2,097
- 2.2% of the Madinah region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 63
- 1.8% of the Madinah region
- Companies
- 233
- 1,863 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 20k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — AlUla
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 proprietorship1,86388.8%
- LLC22010.5%
- JSC120.6%
- General partnership1<0.1%
- Foreign branch1<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 204 companies with their main registration in AlUla
- Under SAR 10k7637.3%
- SAR 10k–100k6029.4%
- SAR 100k–500k4321.1%
- SAR 500k–5m146.9%
- SAR 5m+115.4%
Company variants
Share of all 233 companies
- Single-person companies14562.2%
- Holding companies3816.3%
- Professional companies31.3%
Common questions
How many companies are there in AlUla?
AlUla has 2,097 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 233 companies and 1,863 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in AlUla in Q2 2026?
63 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in AlUla?
SAR 20k. Among companies registered in AlUla, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 100k.
How do I register a company in AlUla?
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 AlUla.
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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