How many companies are in Khafji?
Active commercial registrations in Khafji by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Eastern Province.
4,640
active commercial registrations — 1.5% of the Eastern Province.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Khafji has 4,640 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 1.5% of the Eastern Province and 0.2% of Saudi Arabia, the 36th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 4,136 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 489 are companies, and 15 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
159 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
Limited liability companies make up 92.2% of companies in Khafji and 55.2% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 25k, above the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 4,640
- 1.5% of the Eastern Province
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 159
- 1.7% of the Eastern Province
- Companies
- 489
- 4,136 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 25k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Khafji
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 proprietorship4,13689.1%
- LLC4519.7%
- General partnership270.6%
- GCC branch90.2%
- Limited partnership70.2%
- Foreign branch60.1%
- JSC2<0.1%
- SJSC2<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 384 companies with their main registration in Khafji
- Under SAR 10k12031.3%
- SAR 10k–100k13234.4%
- SAR 100k–500k8221.4%
- SAR 500k–5m328.3%
- SAR 5m+184.7%
Company variants
Share of all 489 companies
- Single-person companies27055.2%
- Holding companies183.7%
- Professional companies61.2%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Khafji?
Khafji has 4,640 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 489 companies and 4,136 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Khafji in Q2 2026?
159 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Khafji?
SAR 25k. Among companies registered in Khafji, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 100k.
How do I register a company in Khafji?
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 Khafji.
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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