How many companies are in Taif?
Active commercial registrations in Taif by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Makkah region.
40.3K
active commercial registrations — 10.2% of the Makkah region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Taif has 40,302 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 10.2% of the Makkah region and 2.1% of Saudi Arabia, the 10th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 36,960 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 3,341 are companies, and 1 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
1,216 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Its share of new registrations (1.8%) is below its share of the stock, so new formation is growing faster elsewhere.
Limited liability companies make up 96.5% of companies in Taif and 55.6% of companies are single-person entities. The median paid-up capital of a company registered here is SAR 30k, above the national median of SAR 5k.
- Active registrations
- 40,302
- 10.2% of the Makkah region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 1,216
- 7.9% of the Makkah region
- Companies
- 3,341
- 36,960 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 30k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Taif
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 proprietorship36,96091.7%
- LLC3,2238%
- General partnership560.1%
- JSC380.1%
- Limited partnership17<0.1%
- SJSC7<0.1%
- Foreign branch1<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 2,629 companies with their main registration in Taif
- Under SAR 10k72327.5%
- SAR 10k–100k89233.9%
- SAR 100k–500k58222.1%
- SAR 500k–5m2128.1%
- SAR 5m+2208.4%
Company variants
Share of all 3,341 companies
- Single-person companies1,85755.6%
- Holding companies1303.9%
- Professional companies2026%
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Common questions
How many companies are there in Taif?
Taif has 40,302 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 3,341 companies and 36,960 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Taif in Q2 2026?
1,216 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Taif?
SAR 30k. Among companies registered in Taif, the middle half report between SAR 5k and SAR 100k.
How do I register a company in Taif?
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 Taif.
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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