How many companies are in Hafar Al-Batin?
Active commercial registrations in Hafar Al-Batin by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Eastern Province.
33.2K
active commercial registrations — 11% of the Eastern Province.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Hafar Al-Batin has 33,166 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 11% of the Eastern Province and 1.7% of Saudi Arabia, the 13th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 20,847 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 12,315 are companies, and 4 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
1,094 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (1.6%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 97.6% of companies in Hafar Al-Batin and 43.8% 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
- 33,166
- 11% of the Eastern Province
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 1,094
- 11.5% of the Eastern Province
- Companies
- 12,315
- 20,847 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 5k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Hafar Al-Batin
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 proprietorship20,84762.9%
- LLC12,02536.3%
- General partnership2060.6%
- Limited partnership450.1%
- JSC350.1%
- SJSC4<0.1%
- GCC branch2<0.1%
- Foreign branch2<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 11,890 companies with their main registration in Hafar Al-Batin
- Under SAR 10k10,26686.3%
- SAR 10k–100k1,1499.7%
- SAR 100k–500k3012.5%
- SAR 500k–5m850.7%
- SAR 5m+890.7%
Company variants
Share of all 12,315 companies
- Single-person companies5,39943.8%
- Holding companies4813.9%
- Professional companies390.3%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Hafar Al-Batin?
Hafar Al-Batin has 33,166 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 12,315 companies and 20,847 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Hafar Al-Batin in Q2 2026?
1,094 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Hafar Al-Batin?
SAR 5k. Among companies registered in Hafar Al-Batin, at least half report exactly SAR 5k.
How do I register a company in Hafar Al-Batin?
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 Hafar Al-Batin.
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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