How many companies are in Qatif?
Active commercial registrations in Qatif by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Eastern Province.
12.8K
active commercial registrations — 4.2% of the Eastern Province.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Qatif has 12,783 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 4.2% of the Eastern Province and 0.7% of Saudi Arabia, the 21st-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 8,633 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 4,146 are companies, and 4 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
326 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (0.5%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 95% of companies in Qatif and 38.4% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 5k, in line with the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 12,783
- 4.2% of the Eastern Province
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 326
- 3.4% of the Eastern Province
- Companies
- 4,146
- 8,633 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 5k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Qatif
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 proprietorship8,63367.5%
- LLC3,93830.8%
- General partnership1351.1%
- Limited partnership360.3%
- JSC190.1%
- SJSC180.1%
- Foreign branch4<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 3,875 companies with their main registration in Qatif
- Under SAR 10k2,99677.3%
- SAR 10k–100k58015%
- SAR 100k–500k1764.5%
- SAR 500k–5m952.5%
- SAR 5m+280.7%
Company variants
Share of all 4,146 companies
- Single-person companies1,59238.4%
- Holding companies2365.7%
- Professional companies190.5%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Qatif?
Qatif has 12,783 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 4,146 companies and 8,633 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Qatif in Q2 2026?
326 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Qatif?
SAR 5k. Among companies registered in Qatif, at least half report exactly SAR 5k.
How do I register a company in Qatif?
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 Qatif.
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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