How many companies are in Unaizah?
Active commercial registrations in Unaizah by business structure, date of creation and company capital, benchmarked against the Qassim region.
19.3K
active commercial registrations — 19.1% of the Qassim region.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q2 2026
Unaizah has 19,326 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026 — 19.1% of the Qassim region and 1% of Saudi Arabia, the 17th-highest of any city in the Kingdom. Of these, 10,037 are sole proprietorships (establishments), 9,286 are companies, and 3 are branches of GCC or foreign companies.
717 registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end. Unaizah's share of new registrations (1.1%) is above its share of the stock, so it is attracting a growing share of new businesses.
Limited liability companies make up 98.3% of companies in Unaizah and 34.2% 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
- 19,326
- 19.1% of the Qassim region
- Registered in Q2 2026
- 717
- 20.3% of the Qassim region
- Companies
- 9,286
- 10,037 sole proprietorships
- Median company capital
- SAR 5k
- Saudi Arabia: SAR 5k
New registrations by quarter — Unaizah
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 proprietorship10,03751.9%
- LLC9,12747.2%
- JSC860.4%
- General partnership630.3%
- SJSC7<0.1%
- Limited partnership3<0.1%
- Foreign branch2<0.1%
- GCC branch1<0.1%
Company capital
Paid-up capital of 8,796 companies with their main registration in Unaizah
- Under SAR 10k7,76088.2%
- SAR 10k–100k5836.6%
- SAR 100k–500k2833.2%
- SAR 500k–5m971.1%
- SAR 5m+730.8%
Company variants
Share of all 9,286 companies
- Single-person companies3,18034.2%
- Holding companies1,41715.3%
- Professional companies490.5%
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Common questions
How many companies are there in Unaizah?
Unaizah has 19,326 active commercial registrations as of 30 June 2026: 9,286 companies and 10,037 sole proprietorships (establishments), per Ministry of Commerce data.
How many businesses were registered in Unaizah in Q2 2026?
717 commercial registrations created in Q2 2026 were still active at quarter end.
What is the median capital of a company in Unaizah?
SAR 5k. Among companies registered in Unaizah, at least half report exactly SAR 5k.
How do I register a company in Unaizah?
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 Unaizah.
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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