How many companies are in Khobar?
Active commercial registrations in Khobar by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Eastern Province.
44.9K
active commercial registrations — 14.9% of the Eastern Province.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Khobar has 44,895 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 14.9% of the Eastern Province and 2.3% of Saudi Arabia, the 9th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 26,238 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 18,304 are companies, and 353 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
1,498 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (2.2%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 94.5% of companies in Khobar and 48% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 50k, above the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 44,895
- 14.9% of the Eastern Province
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 1,498
- 15.8% of the Eastern Province
- Companies
- 18,304
- 26,238 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 50k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Khobar
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 proprietorship26,23858.4%
- LLC17,29338.5%
- JSC6101.4%
- Foreign branch2820.6%
- General partnership2290.5%
- Limited partnership1200.3%
- GCC branch710.2%
- SJSC520.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 14,343 companies with their main registration in Khobar
- Under SAR 10k2,90320.2%
- SAR 10k–100k4,58332%
- SAR 100k–500k3,35523.4%
- SAR 500k–5m2,39316.7%
- SAR 5m+1,1097.7%
Company variants
Share of all 18,304 companies
- Single-person companies8,77948%
- Holding companies8314.5%
- Professional companies4682.6%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Khobar?
Khobar has 44,895 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 18,304 companies and 26,238 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Khobar in Q2 2026?
1,498 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Khobar?
SAR 50k. Among companies registered in Khobar, the middle half report between SAR 10k and SAR 317k.
How do I register a company in Khobar?
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 Khobar.
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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