How many companies are in Arar?
Active commercial registrations in Arar by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Northern Borders region.
9,799
active commercial registrations — 56.3% of the Northern Borders region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Arar has 9,799 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 56.3% of the Northern Borders region and 0.5% of Saudi Arabia, the 24th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 8,855 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 943 are companies, and 1 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
315 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (0.5%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 79.7% of companies in Arar and 43.3% 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
- 9,799
- 56.3% of the Northern Borders region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 315
- 51.1% of the Northern Borders region
- Companies
- 943
- 8,855 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 10k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Arar
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 proprietorship8,85590.4%
- LLC7527.7%
- General partnership1471.5%
- JSC400.4%
- Limited partnership4<0.1%
- Foreign branch1<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 792 companies with their main registration in Arar
- Under SAR 10k39549.9%
- SAR 10k–100k19524.6%
- SAR 100k–500k11915%
- SAR 500k–5m445.6%
- SAR 5m+394.9%
Company variants
Share of all 943 companies
- Single-person companies40843.3%
- Holding companies495.2%
- Professional companies283%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Arar?
Arar has 9,799 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 943 companies and 8,855 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Arar in Q2 2026?
315 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Arar?
SAR 10k. Among companies registered in Arar, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 100k.
How do I register a company in Arar?
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 Arar.
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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