How many companies are in Muhayil?
Active commercial registrations in Muhayil by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Asir region.
9,147
active commercial registrations — 9.5% of the Asir region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Muhayil has 9,147 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 9.5% of the Asir region and 0.5% of Saudi Arabia, the 26th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 8,594 are sole proprietorships (establishments) and 553 are companies.
207 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (0.3%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 97.3% of companies in Muhayil and 38% 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
- 9,147
- 9.5% of the Asir region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 207
- 5.9% of the Asir region
- Companies
- 553
- 8,594 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Muhayil
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 proprietorship8,59494%
- LLC5385.9%
- JSC90.1%
- General partnership4<0.1%
- Limited partnership2<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 384 companies with their main registration in Muhayil
- Under SAR 10k9625%
- SAR 10k–100k8020.8%
- SAR 100k–500k14036.5%
- SAR 500k–5m4511.7%
- SAR 5m+236%
Company variants
Share of all 553 companies
- Single-person companies21038%
- Holding companies122.2%
- Professional companies50.9%
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Common questions
How many companies are there in Muhayil?
Muhayil has 9,147 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 553 companies and 8,594 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Muhayil in Q2 2026?
207 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Muhayil?
SAR 100k. Among companies registered in Muhayil, the middle half report between SAR 10k and SAR 100k.
How do I register a company in Muhayil?
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 Muhayil.
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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