How many companies are in Hail?
Active commercial registrations in Hail by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Hail region.
34.8K
active commercial registrations — 77.6% of the Hail region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Hail has 34,792 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 77.6% of the Hail region and 1.8% of Saudi Arabia, the 11th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 28,512 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 6,274 are companies, and 6 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
1,301 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Hail's share of new registrations (1.9%) is above its share of the stock, so it is attracting a growing share of new businesses.
Limited liability companies make up 97.8% of companies in Hail and 52.7% 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
- 34,792
- 77.6% of the Hail region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 1,301
- 78.8% of the Hail region
- Companies
- 6,274
- 28,512 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 5k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Hail
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 proprietorship28,51281.9%
- LLC6,13517.6%
- JSC560.2%
- General partnership420.1%
- Limited partnership230.1%
- SJSC180.1%
- Foreign branch4<0.1%
- GCC branch2<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 5,769 companies with their main registration in Hail
- Under SAR 10k4,00469.4%
- SAR 10k–100k98217%
- SAR 100k–500k4117.1%
- SAR 500k–5m1803.1%
- SAR 5m+1923.3%
Company variants
Share of all 6,274 companies
- Single-person companies3,30952.7%
- Holding companies97915.6%
- Professional companies721.1%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Hail?
Hail has 34,792 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 6,274 companies and 28,512 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Hail in Q2 2026?
1,301 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Hail?
SAR 5k. Among companies registered in Hail, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 10k.
How do I register a company in Hail?
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 Hail.
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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