How many companies are in Ar Rass?
Active commercial registrations in Ar Rass by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Qassim region.
12.6K
active commercial registrations — 12.5% of the Qassim region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Ar Rass has 12,629 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 12.5% of the Qassim region and 0.7% of Saudi Arabia, the 22nd-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 8,972 are sole proprietorships (establishments) and 3,657 are companies.
401 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (0.6%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 97.9% of companies in Ar Rass and 44.3% 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
- 12,629
- 12.5% of the Qassim region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 401
- 11.4% of the Qassim region
- Companies
- 3,657
- 8,972 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 5k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Ar Rass
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 proprietorship8,97271%
- LLC3,58028.3%
- JSC390.3%
- Limited partnership230.2%
- General partnership150.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 3,462 companies with their main registration in Ar Rass
- Under SAR 10k2,96585.6%
- SAR 10k–100k3008.7%
- SAR 100k–500k1313.8%
- SAR 500k–5m341%
- SAR 5m+320.9%
Company variants
Share of all 3,657 companies
- Single-person companies1,62044.3%
- Holding companies2797.6%
- Professional companies200.5%
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Common questions
How many companies are there in Ar Rass?
Ar Rass has 12,629 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 3,657 companies and 8,972 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Ar Rass in Q2 2026?
401 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Ar Rass?
SAR 5k. Among companies registered in Ar Rass, at least half report exactly SAR 5k.
How do I register a company in Ar Rass?
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 Ar Rass.
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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