How many companies are in Madinah?
Active commercial registrations in Madinah by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Madinah region.
69.1K
active commercial registrations — 73.7% of the Madinah region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Madinah has 69,139 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 73.7% of the Madinah region and 3.6% of Saudi Arabia, the 5th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 56,151 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 12,949 are companies, and 39 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
2,775 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Madinah's share of new registrations (4.1%) is above its share of the stock, so it is attracting a growing share of new businesses.
Limited liability companies make up 97.3% of companies in Madinah and 58.9% 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
- 69,139
- 73.7% of the Madinah region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 2,775
- 78.8% of the Madinah region
- Companies
- 12,949
- 56,151 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 50k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Madinah
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 proprietorship56,15181.2%
- LLC12,60518.2%
- JSC1660.2%
- General partnership1100.2%
- SJSC350.1%
- Limited partnership33<0.1%
- Foreign branch33<0.1%
- GCC branch6<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 10,527 companies with their main registration in Madinah
- Under SAR 10k3,18430.2%
- SAR 10k–100k2,79826.6%
- SAR 100k–500k2,17920.7%
- SAR 500k–5m1,0259.7%
- SAR 5m+1,34112.7%
Company variants
Share of all 12,949 companies
- Single-person companies7,63058.9%
- Holding companies6425%
- Professional companies2862.2%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Madinah?
Madinah has 69,139 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 12,949 companies and 56,151 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Madinah in Q2 2026?
2,775 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Madinah?
SAR 50k. Among companies registered in Madinah, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 200k.
How do I register a company in Madinah?
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 Madinah.
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.
Opening a business in Madinah?
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