How many companies are in Safwa?
Active commercial registrations in Safwa by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Eastern Province.
2,496
active commercial registrations — 0.8% of the Eastern Province.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Safwa has 2,496 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 0.8% of the Eastern Province and 0.1% of Saudi Arabia, the 60th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 2,272 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 223 are companies, and 1 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
92 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
Limited liability companies make up 94.2% of companies in Safwa and 48.4% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 6k, above the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 2,496
- 0.8% of the Eastern Province
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 92
- 1% of the Eastern Province
- Companies
- 223
- 2,272 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 6k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Safwa
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 proprietorship2,27291%
- LLC2108.4%
- General partnership90.4%
- Limited partnership20.1%
- JSC1<0.1%
- SJSC1<0.1%
- GCC branch1<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 180 companies with their main registration in Safwa
- Under SAR 10k9150.6%
- SAR 10k–100k3921.7%
- SAR 100k–500k3117.2%
- SAR 500k–5m137.2%
- SAR 5m+63.3%
Company variants
Share of all 223 companies
- Single-person companies10848.4%
- Holding companies135.8%
- Professional companies41.8%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Safwa?
Safwa has 2,496 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 223 companies and 2,272 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Safwa in Q2 2026?
92 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Safwa?
SAR 6k. Among companies registered in Safwa, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 100k.
How do I register a company in Safwa?
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 Safwa.
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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