How many companies are in Sakaka?
Active commercial registrations in Sakaka by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Al Jouf region.
9,634
active commercial registrations — 44.1% of the Al Jouf region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Sakaka has 9,634 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 44.1% of the Al Jouf region and 0.5% of Saudi Arabia, the 25th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 8,545 are sole proprietorships (establishments) and 1,089 are companies.
265 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (0.4%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 94.4% of companies in Sakaka and 54.4% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 50k, above the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 9,634
- 44.1% of the Al Jouf region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 265
- 50.7% of the Al Jouf region
- Companies
- 1,089
- 8,545 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 50k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Sakaka
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 proprietorship8,54588.7%
- LLC1,02810.7%
- JSC470.5%
- General partnership60.1%
- Limited partnership50.1%
- SJSC3<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 850 companies with their main registration in Sakaka
- Under SAR 10k27732.6%
- SAR 10k–100k22326.2%
- SAR 100k–500k19322.7%
- SAR 500k–5m779.1%
- SAR 5m+809.4%
Company variants
Share of all 1,089 companies
- Single-person companies59254.4%
- Holding companies585.3%
- Professional companies464.2%
Common questions
How many companies are there in Sakaka?
Sakaka has 9,634 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 1,089 companies and 8,545 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Sakaka in Q2 2026?
265 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Sakaka?
SAR 50k. Among companies registered in Sakaka, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 100k.
How do I register a company in Sakaka?
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 Sakaka.
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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