How many companies are in Riyadh?
Active commercial registrations in Riyadh by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Riyadh region.
582.8K
active commercial registrations — 87.9% of the Riyadh region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Riyadh has 582,837 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 87.9% of the Riyadh region and 30.5% of Saudi Arabia, the most of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 277,998 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 302,172 are companies, and 2,667 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
19,351 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (28.7%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 96.7% of companies in Riyadh and 50.1% 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
- 582,837
- 87.9% of the Riyadh region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 19,351
- 87.6% of the Riyadh region
- Companies
- 302,172
- 277,998 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 5k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Riyadh
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
- LLC292,10650.1%
- Sole proprietorship277,99847.7%
- JSC7,2091.2%
- Foreign branch2,3330.4%
- General partnership1,3700.2%
- SJSC1,1650.2%
- GCC branch3340.1%
- Limited partnership3200.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 265,733 companies with their main registration in Riyadh
- Under SAR 10k136,73751.5%
- SAR 10k–100k58,50222%
- SAR 100k–500k37,09514%
- SAR 500k–5m17,6736.7%
- SAR 5m+15,7265.9%
Company variants
Share of all 302,172 companies
- Single-person companies151,47750.1%
- Holding companies18,6996.2%
- Professional companies5,0541.7%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Riyadh?
Riyadh has 582,837 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 302,172 companies and 277,998 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Riyadh in Q2 2026?
19,351 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Riyadh?
SAR 5k. Among companies registered in Riyadh, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 100k.
How do I register a company in Riyadh?
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 Riyadh.
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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