How many companies are in Jeddah?
Active commercial registrations in Jeddah by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Makkah region.
222.6K
active commercial registrations — 56.2% of the Makkah region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Jeddah has 222,646 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 56.2% of the Makkah region and 11.6% of Saudi Arabia, the 2nd-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 147,810 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 74,262 are companies, and 574 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
7,680 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
Limited liability companies make up 95.5% of companies in Jeddah and 48.2% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 100k, above the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 222,646
- 56.2% of the Makkah region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 7,680
- 50% of the Makkah region
- Companies
- 74,262
- 147,810 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Jeddah
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 proprietorship147,81066.4%
- LLC70,89931.8%
- JSC2,0260.9%
- General partnership6190.3%
- Foreign branch5200.2%
- SJSC4800.2%
- Limited partnership2380.1%
- GCC branch54<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 55,770 companies with their main registration in Jeddah
- Under SAR 10k7,60813.6%
- SAR 10k–100k16,90930.3%
- SAR 100k–500k14,66926.3%
- SAR 500k–5m9,20816.5%
- SAR 5m+7,37613.2%
Company variants
Share of all 74,262 companies
- Single-person companies35,82648.2%
- Holding companies2,8973.9%
- Professional companies2,0702.8%
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Common questions
How many companies are there in Jeddah?
Jeddah has 222,646 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 74,262 companies and 147,810 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Jeddah in Q2 2026?
7,680 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Jeddah?
SAR 100k. Among companies registered in Jeddah, the middle half report between SAR 20k and SAR 500k.
How do I register a company in Jeddah?
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 Jeddah.
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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