How many companies are in Rabigh?
Active commercial registrations in Rabigh by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Makkah region.
3,270
active commercial registrations — 0.8% of the Makkah region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Rabigh has 3,270 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 0.8% of the Makkah region and 0.2% of Saudi Arabia, the 46th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 2,899 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 366 are companies, and 5 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
88 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (0.1%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 95.6% of companies in Rabigh and 54.9% 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
- 3,270
- 0.8% of the Makkah region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 88
- 0.6% of the Makkah region
- Companies
- 366
- 2,899 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Rabigh
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 proprietorship2,89988.7%
- LLC35010.7%
- JSC150.5%
- Foreign branch50.2%
- General partnership1<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 282 companies with their main registration in Rabigh
- Under SAR 10k3813.5%
- SAR 10k–100k7225.5%
- SAR 100k–500k6924.5%
- SAR 500k–5m4817%
- SAR 5m+5519.5%
Company variants
Share of all 366 companies
- Single-person companies20154.9%
- Holding companies215.7%
- Professional companies71.9%
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Common questions
How many companies are there in Rabigh?
Rabigh has 3,270 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 366 companies and 2,899 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Rabigh in Q2 2026?
88 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Rabigh?
SAR 100k. Among companies registered in Rabigh, the middle half report between SAR 25k and SAR 1m.
How do I register a company in Rabigh?
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 Rabigh.
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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