How many companies are in Buraydah?
Active commercial registrations in Buraydah by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Qassim region.
47.3K
active commercial registrations — 46.7% of the Qassim region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Buraydah has 47,341 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 46.7% of the Qassim region and 2.5% of Saudi Arabia, the 8th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 33,919 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 13,415 are companies, and 7 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
1,734 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
Limited liability companies make up 93.8% of companies in Buraydah and 47.1% 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
- 47,341
- 46.7% of the Qassim region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 1,734
- 49.1% of the Qassim region
- Companies
- 13,415
- 33,919 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 5k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Buraydah
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 proprietorship33,91971.6%
- LLC12,57926.6%
- General partnership4370.9%
- JSC2660.6%
- Limited partnership890.2%
- SJSC440.1%
- Foreign branch7<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 11,602 companies with their main registration in Buraydah
- Under SAR 10k7,40363.8%
- SAR 10k–100k2,48021.4%
- SAR 100k–500k1,0739.2%
- SAR 500k–5m3052.6%
- SAR 5m+3412.9%
Company variants
Share of all 13,415 companies
- Single-person companies6,31247.1%
- Holding companies8246.1%
- Professional companies1991.5%
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Common questions
How many companies are there in Buraydah?
Buraydah has 47,341 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 13,415 companies and 33,919 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Buraydah in Q2 2026?
1,734 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Buraydah?
SAR 5k. Among companies registered in Buraydah, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 20k.
How do I register a company in Buraydah?
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 Buraydah.
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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